Saturday, 9 July 2016

Looking into Craft

The main thing that I would like to achieve within my practice is versatility, i.e. having lots of creative skills to offer and not just being a one trick pony. 

Now that I have a tiny bit more self confidence within my work, I feel the need to experiment further with different ways of working as opposed to limiting myself with the generic pen and paper stereotype. Every consecutive year for about five years now I have put 'LEARN TO KNIT' on my new years goals list...and I still haven't properly learnt BUT it is something I aim to pursue in the near future along with a whole list of new exciting creative skills.

I have recently made a pinterest board entitled 'Personal', for my own personal interests that don't relate directly to illustration. At the moment it mainly contains different DIY craft 'how-to's and a few recipes etc (for those of you who don't know that I love food and never shut up about food). The food thing may seem irrelevant and totally off topic, but like my other hobbies such as running and music etc it is important to have interests outside of illustration, and on the other hand they can be used within illustration e.g. to illustrate recipes/educate others about different interests.

Anyway, here is my board that largely contains ideas and inspiration for my Etsy shop that I hope to set up by the end of this month/early August. I'll have an upcoming ETSY blog post so please have a read if you'd like to see what I plan to sell on my shop! 

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