A Piece of Lisa

25 Mar 2010

22 Mar 2010

Lisa Grue Designs

Since I'm into pattern design right now I thought I'd show you some work of another Lisa - Danish designer Lisa Grue. I really like her style and the way she uses colours.

17 Mar 2010

15 Mar 2010

This is how the pattern design I'm working on looks now. It became much bigger that I'd planned so I went to my old university (University of the Arts London) but they wouldn't let me use the A3 scanner. Paying them thousands of pounds in tutition fees over four years doesn't give me the right to use their scanner for five minutes I suppose...

Anyway, my monkey came and cheered me up with a nice dinner and glass of wine so I'm happy now!

14 Mar 2010

The Most Inspiring Space Ever!

On Saturday I worked in this amazing studio/event space in Dalston. Such a cool atmosphere and lots of quirky objects everywhere, loved it!

12 Mar 2010

Pattern Sneak Preview

Happy Friday everyone!

I've been working on my pattern, here is a sketch of the main image that will be repeated in the pattern. I have lots more to draw though, the girl is gonna hold a giant clock in her hand and there will also be poppy flowers and leaves behind her. I'm really excited about this so I hope it will look good repeated as well!

By the way, when I draw images of people that are supposed to look realistic I always have a photo to look at to make sure the body has the right angles etc. When I can't find an image of someone with the right pose (like this girl here) I have to pose for the picture myself. These photos will do the trick but they always look horrendous! Usually it's just me without any make-up, in scruffy clothes and it just looks so silly. With this particular image it was even worse sine I had to put on a big russian-style hat as well! My old flatmates used to laugh so much whenever they caught a glimpse of one. Maybe one day I'll make an album of all of these posing pictures... or maybe not... most definitely not!

10 Mar 2010

Lisa Goes Surface Designer?

I've been wanting to try my hand at surface design for a while now, so today I'm going to design my first pattern! I want to change the blog background so I'm gonna try and make something a little more exciting. I'm inspired by Tim Walker's photographs, Gwen Stefani, cupcakes, Alexander McQueen and "Alice in Wonderland."

Photographs 1-6 by Tim Walker and cupcake from here

9 Mar 2010

Sooo Relaxed...

James bought me a spa-day for two as a gift, and of course I took him with me! We enjoyed the huge jacuzzi pool, steam room, sauna, "experience shower" and a great massage. And afterwards we relaxed and had a nice lunch. Mmm, so sleepy... must relax some more:)