Quote

"Yesterday is history, Tomorrow a mystery, Today is a gift"

A good philosophy for life, funny to hear its from Kung Foo Panda!

Childrens Book Illustration: Kate Toms

Lewis loved this book when he was little and recently Freya has been going a bit crazy over it. I love the fact that it is a hand stitched fabric collage and the rhymes in the text are beautiful.

Designer Faye Parker

 

I love these pictures there is something about the colours she has used and the mixed media style. Its also intresting how she has created something beautiful out of the process of decay. Found Faye Parker through the pattern observer website, you can see her work directly here. 

3D update - Squwarky

It got a little busy at work with handin deadlines approaching before the christmas holidays but here is where little squwarky has got up to. Below is a little evaluation note for me, might not be very interesting to read for anyone else!!

Ok he hasnt got an awful lot further but there has been a lot going on behind the scenes. It has taken me a while to decide whether I would be better off to model the seams or to displacement map them. Then it took me a while to decide how to unwrap him to get the best uvs. I have pelted him at the moment with a split along the belly and straight up through the top of his head which is ok for the seams but for the patchwork texture I think he could do with seperate projections to help avoid the stretching so a whole new set of uvs might be needed, this will also help with creating different shaders for each type of fabric so is probably worth the effort. Then the problem comes with the overlapping uvs which could I suppose be fixed with transparency on the texture but again I think it might be worth remodelling the bird around where the seams will be. I think his head needs to look more seperate and I would like it to be able to turn without stretching the neck and I think the same should go for the wings. Not sure about the tail yet but the seams are not working as it is. Colour wise I just really quickly put together some patterns but looking at him the only ones that really go are those on his head. I could go on but I think that is enough for now!

Craft - Garland

 So I have been away for a while getting into the christmas spirit! But I have still been inspired and a little creative here is a festive garland that I have made for our house.

 

  

Time Lapse - Little Teddy

This card was for my nephew's christening. Really didn't know what to draw/paint for a christening card, so played it safe with a little teddy bear :)

Time lapse - Owl Birthday Card

Another timelapse, this time I'm drawing and painting an owl on a card for my friends birthday.

Unfortunately, I did this in the afternoon and did not have a light on, it gets dark so quickly at this time of year!