What Emmeline Wore In July - Day 6

I'm heading in to Manchester today to be on the judging panel for the Manchester Creative Studio's illustration brief. Should be a fun day! I can't wait to see what the students have been illustrating.

Dress - F&F

Shoes - Next

What Emmeline Wore In July - Day 5

A simple, lazy Sunday!

Shorts - Dorothy Perkins
Necklace - Aldo
Top - Primark

What Emmeline Wore In July - Day 4

Considering braving the Ikea sale this weekend! It's got to the stage where we've run out of space for our mountains of boardgames and books, so we're kind of in desperate need of storage!

Top - Celia Birtwell for Uniqlo
Shorts - H&M
Shoes - Primark

What Emmeline Wore In July - Day 3

Another Summery day! Maybe it is actually Summer. In any case, there's nothing I want more than to lounge about in a beautiful meadow today. Who's with me?

Top and shorts both from Topshop.

Keep up to date with the project by following 'What I Wore' on my blog, Bloglovin', Google Friend Connect or following me on Twitter or Facebook. 

Frozen Bargains

I took part in Offlife Comic's #QuickDraw challenge again tonight (my second ever week!) and had an hour to create an illustration based on the theme 'Ways I escape from the heat...'.

This was a speedy idea, as I so, so nearly did this exact thing in Tesco yesterday. But to avoid a telling-off and, y'know, a barrage of side-eyes, I settled for wafting my arms around the pizza section acting as if I didn't decide ten minutes ago which pizza I was going to buy. Smooth.

I'm all for the drawing challenges at the moment! If you haven't already seen, I've just started a drawing my outfit on each day in July - it's going to be tough, but exciting! See the first two here.

What Emmeline Wore In July - Day 2

It's still ridiculously warm here today, so I've kept it simple as I take some time out to sketch in the sunshine. 

Today I'm wearing classic Swedish footwear makers Moheda's pretty Betty clogs. The straps remind me of strips of bubblegum from my childhood! They're super beautiful. Pink and aqua and monochrome stripes forever.

Dress - Charity Shop

Shoes - Betty Clogs in Pale Pink c/o MohedaKeep up to date with the project by following 'What I Wore' on my blog, Bloglovin', Google Friend Connect or following me on Twitter or Facebook. You can also follow Moheda here.

What Emmeline Wore In July - Day 1

Hottest day of the year? That calls for ice cream AND ice lollies.

After a string of comments asking if I would make my 'What I Wore' illustrations into a regular project, I thought it would be a great challenge to illustrate my outfit for each day in July this year.

Illustration-a-day challenges are a great way to jump up that learning curve and really hone your skills. After Inktober and Illustrated Advent last year, I realised that they're a brilliant way to stay motivated and productive, even if it is tricky to squeeze in the time!

For this self-set challenge, I'm going to be creating an illustration like this for 31 days this month, and linking to some of the statement pieces in the outfits. I have some great brands on board supporting me with this project (Cath Kidson, Clarks, Moheda, Poppy England etc) and I'm really excited.

Keep up to date by following 'What I Wore' on my blog, Bloglovin', Google Friend Connect or following me on Twitter or Facebook.

Dress - Boohoo.com

Illustrated Life Giveaway Two. Win £20 To Spend At Ohh Deer!

To celebrate the launch of Illustrated Life on the blog last week, I'm running three consecutive giveaways, with over £50 worth of goodies to be snagged each Monday!

Giveaway two is now live, and you can get your paws on £20 to spend at Ohh Deer! Yessss!

Enter via the widget below:



Ohh Deer: the home of illustration & quirky design led gifts. I'm sure you've seen Ohh Deer products bobbing around the internet, design fairs and your favourite shops (or at the very least some of my illustrated peices on my blog!), their products are stocked in the likes of the V&A, Tate, Urban Outfitters...among so many others. Big stuff! They launched in 2011 and I was lucky enough to jump on board near the beginning as one of their first selection of illustrators. So go and see what you'd spend that £20 on! www.ohhdeer.com

Remember, you can keep track of these rolling giveaways and new Illustrated Life posts by following on Bloglovin', Google Friend Connect or through the #IllustratedLife hashtag!

Overly Critical Music Snob Cat

I've been meaning to take part in Off Life Magazine's quick draw challenge for a while, and luckily for me they fired it back up a few weeks ago and I jumped on board.

The basic idea is: they tweet a theme, and you have one hour to respond to it with an illustration. This week, the theme was 'weirdest thing I've seen at a festival', and I ran with it, creating overly-critical-music-snob-cat. 

I just loved the idea of this little guy roaming around the festival stages, in full pretentious snark mode. I think we've all heard someone making comments like this at one point or another...

I do love the pressure of a timed drawing challenge, and it's always so satisfying when you realise you've sprouted an idea and created something that might never have happened if you hadn't taken part. I'm even feeling inspired to write a story now!

Join in with next week's quick draw challenge by following Off Life on Twitter (Thursdays 8pm GMT!)

*Slightly larger version of the illustration available here.

Illustrated Life - Busy B Sticker Set

You may have seen me post about Busy B earlier this week with the launch of 'Illustrated Life', my new blog section celebrating my very favourite illustrated products. 

Well, to kick everything off in a bloom of gorgeous stationery, I have this sweet little tin of floral stickers to decorate my notes.

I'm a little bit addicted to cute tins...and illustrated stickers..and floral patterns, so this was perfect for me. 

I've been trying to get back into the habit of letter writing (nothing's nicer than getting a sweet letter through the door as opposed to bills or spam!), so I might surprise a few of my far-away friends with little notes this month.  The colours and patterns are really, really lovely and once I've used them all up I'll still have the tin for my trinkets or smaller art supplies!

Busy B have really been on my radar recently, I bought this calendar from them a few weeks ago (yes, it's June, but I'm finally getting organised!) and it's a beaut.

So, If these pretty bits take your fancy you can find them all on the Busy B website, and until Monday 29th June I'm giving away £10 to spend at Busy B to celebrate the launch of Illustrated Life! Hurray! 

Enter the giveaway here and remember to let me know if there's anything you'd love to see featured.

Illustrated Life Launches Today!

Today's the day! Illustrated Life has officially launched! Keep up to date with all the very loveliest illustrated prints, homeware, fashion, books, games - all of it! - right here.

Now, I told you I'd be giving away some amazing prizes to celebrate, and the first is go today! You could get your mits on £10 to spend at one of my very favourite stationery companies: Busy B!

It's easy to enter, just follow the instructions in the widget below (comment, tweet and/or subscribe to enter) and you will be in the running for a treat! This giveaway will run until midnight Monday 29th June, and I'll announce the winner then! The NEXT giveaway will be launching that Monday as well, I'll be keeping you on your toes!

Please take a second to read the Terms and Conditions (notably this is a UK only prize, but don't worry worldwide friends, there's an international giveaway coming up next week!)

If you like the idea of the new blog section, do spread the word and make sure you keep up to date via BlogLovin.

Note! Giveaway two is now live!

Good luck, buddies!

Kissing

Happy National Kissing Day, lovebirds. This was just a quick ink sketch inspired by the theme, with a dash of digital colouring. I really love drawing coiffured, tattooed, leather-jacket-donning biker-rockers, so I had a lot of fun with this!