Happy as Aimee Illustration: 2010

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hello friendly followers,

you've probably noticed there's not been much action around here of late, and i do apologise for that!

I've started using my new more up to date blog! you can follow it to just by going to

http://happyasaimee.tumblr.com/

please check it out! I'll keep this blog up to date with big news and events, but for up to date sketches ideas and love, that would be the place to go.

Thanks for the support guys.

Aimee x x

RED Exhibition

Exhibiting for Rookie Arts in the Sauce Gallery at the Custard factory!!

It's running from Saturday until the 16th. Lots of real awesome work, by some very lovely folk. so go check it out. :) Thank you x

CIB 2

Couple of pics from my stuff at Created in Birmingham!!

I think it's only open for another couple of weeks, so everyone should get down there soon and check it out! :)

More pictures at my Flickr page

Bird Print

Another little bit of a play. For this image i used the paper to to create the outline of the bird. It's also only A5 size, which i thought worked nice with the image. The Bird is a bit too cutesy to be blown up real big.

You can see more at my Flickr page

Bear Clowns

Since working in the print room, i've been experimenting a lot more. This particular Print was created with two colours, but using those two to create a third. So in this image, I'm using the red and blue to create a purple.

The image its self is from my new book I'm working on. It's a book of circus animals, and is very close to completion now! (though its taking longer than i would've liked)

I'm happy with how the image turned out, but there were a few problems with the screen which meant a few of the prints didn't turn out as well as the others. This is how it turned out.

you can see more at my Flickr page

MinoGORE!

This is the minotaur logo i drew for Gnargore. If I'm honest, the idea came from Boys brain. The drawing was inspired by mainly by taxidermy and Arnie.

I printed the image up as a kind of poster too. The boys like it, so that makes me happy.

It was really cool drawing this, it was a nice change from what i'd usually draw, and its probably encouraged me to try out some different things.

You can see more images at my Flickr page

My Centaur

It is perfectly ok to draw a picture of your boyfriend as a Centaur for his christmas present if it's what he wants!! This is what i came up with...

PS. Of all i got him... I think he was genuinely happiest with this!!

The Unicorn :O

This is a little sketch i did. It's set to be the inspiration for a book i'm gonna work on soon, an adventure book with lots of odd characters... including this guy... The Unicorn.

What a bandana eh?...

Created in Birmingham

Some of my books are on sale at Created in Birmingham in the Bullring (opposite the Apple Store) books start from £4. Bargain!! Please go check it out if you haven't already!! :) There is also lots of amazing Work and Prints by some lovely beautiful people. Thank you x x

Muchuu!

A Friend of mine Tom, a photographer, approached me and asked me to do a kind of collaboration with him. He was doing a photo shoot for a new band called Muchuu. He wanted some illustrations to accompany the photos he had already taken.

The images were very dark, so i decided that the illustrations would be better done in white. They were also taken outside, which gave me a lot of ideas of what I could do with them. I played with idea of nocturnal animals, day time/night time, but in the end i went with the theme of outside/inside. Using basic outlines created by the 'outside' objects i drew some 'inside' objects and lay them on top.

See the rest here

Origami Catalogue

This is a folding Catalogue i Made for Mouldy Loaf. It works like one those origami folding games you'd make as a kid. i wish i knew what the official name was! haha.

feel fee to print it out, and try making one for yourself. :)

Urban Outfitters

At my Final Degree Show i was approached by Urban outfitters, they asked if i'd like to have some of my work up in their store! To which i replied.. "Of Course!" They'd asked my friend James too (he's a phtographer), and it went really well! I used my 'Inspirational Hair' Images, but played around with the colour schemes, made them brighter and such, to fit in more with the Aesthetic of the shop.