Nyan Cat Quilt Top

In November 2013 I found a Nyan Cat quilt a long on a site by an amazing textile artist Choly Knight. I decided having just finished my first quilt I would take it upon myself to undertake a second (technically 3rd as The Art of Quilting Magazine I collect started a Homestead Quilt in issue 91) 

I made the first block on November 11th 2013 because I had some Dark Blue Fabric and left over white from my patchwork quilt and decreed the Nyan Cat Quilt would be my project for 2014. 

The Next day whilst doing blocks for my patchwork Homestead quilt I realized I still had a sizeable amount of Blue left so I though what the Hell I will attempt the Second section of the quilt and I did..

I did the Third and Final part (for 2013) of the Nyan cat quilt a few days later and it was left untill Monday the 13th of January. When I decided to kick start the project again! I had planned to do one section a month and leave it at that......this was not the case! between Monday and Friday I got the fabric I needed and whizzed through the quilt top in No time. making all 8 small sections to sew into 3 big sections that were then sewn together to create the entire body of the quilt top

So here is the quilt top for my Nyan Cat quilt. 

Choly's method and pattern for this top made the process extremely easy and simple rather than cutting out a shed load of 2" squares pixel by pixel (which is what I originally intended to do) this method bunched pixels together in varying squares and rectangles to make the whole thing a lot easier 

My nephew who loves Nyan Cat also as seen it and wants one. I may consider making another one for him not sure yet though LOL..

If you are interested in creating your own Nyan Cat quilt I seriously reccomend you check out Choly's quilt a long pattern here: http://cholyknight.com/category/free-projects/quilting-free-projects/nyan-cat-quilt-along/ 

Paper Piecing

As you all might know,I enjoy quilting and sewing Its a very far off branch of the design family but its still part of it. Recently I found out about a method of quilt blocking called Paper piecing.

Its basically a paper pattern that you sew over. it allows you to create much more detailed blocks. I mainly wanted to try out this type of sewing because of some brilliant patterns I had found on a great site for all things sewing and fandom related Fandom in Stitches. They have a small selection of Hunger Games blocks based of the 12 districts and the Mocking-Jay seals from the covers of the adult versions of the books.

Below is my first attempt at paper piecing, it is the Hunger Games Block

As you can see the block was a bit of a disaster very wonky but you can still tell what it is if your a Hunger Games fan and if not you can pretty much tell its a bird carrying an arrow.

I was not going to let this outcome deter me though, Fandom in stitches has a great selection of blocks mostly paper pieced and a fair selectionof Hand embroider patterns also on my searches I found something I knew I had to make...The Rocky Horror Picture Show Lips!! Being a huge Rocky Fan I got pretty excited about finding this design rushed to print it off and get sewing. below is the result 

The pattern was a 7" long Rectangle so I added strips to the top and sides to square it off, I still have no idea what I'm going to do with this but I am very impressed with myself this time round. Their is hardly any issue with lining up the pieces and I only made 1 mistake that I wont tell you about lol...

So onto todays sewing. I decided to continue with the Hunger Games series (having all 3 patterns ready) and make the Catching Fire block, I technically finished today after starting yesterday and getting very angry with my self for making mistakes. But I persevered on today and finally finished the Catching Fire block. 

Their was again a small problem matching up the pieces for a perfect alinement and I again misjudged the size of fabric hence the white spot on the top of the Mocking-Jay's head but over all I am again pretty satisfied with the results here so much so that I decided to carry on sewing and make this into a cushion! 

From the start my plan had been to create a set of 3 Mocking-Jay cushions for my self so I figured I had better get a start on things as you can see below the cushion looks rather awesome if I do say so myself. 

Only problem with making this cushion is that I used up  a fair chunk of my stash of Black fabric so I'm pretty short on it now and not sure If I can make the final block 

Quilts again & Model Kits

Well it was my Birthday 2 days ago and I got lots of awesome Doctor Who bits (god bless the 50th Anniversary being in November) I also got an INCREDIBLE War of The Worlds Alien Tripod model kit from the 2005 version of the movie that despite working on for two days I am making rather fast progress.

I can't do much else after working on the hips & legs because I am planning on lighting the head as since I am a complete newbie to this Its going to take some time, Below is a photo of the Progress I have made so far.

Whilst I am talking about crafty projects I am very proud to say I have completed The Art of Quilting, Well the first 90 issues, they have expanded it on an extra 50 to make a 2nd quilt that I am working on, I have only quilted about 10 blocks so far just to get a feel for stitch-in-the-ditch. My partner doesn't think I can do the entire quilt as my sewing machine isn't very wide. I think I agree with him and are only quilting 4 blocks in each corner of the quilt. 

Finally, My Nyan cat quilt is coming along nicely I have gotten together 4 sections of the quilt and waiting a fabric delivery before I can start on the 5th section, I laid out 3 pieces along the top that I have completed to get a feel for the size, I got to say its not as large as I thought it was going to be. See you next time 

Quilts

Over the past 2 years I have been collecting a Part Work magazine from Hachette called The Art of Quilting, It consisted of 90 issues (now 150 issues) to make a patchwork quilt. The First 90 Issues created one and the additional 60 issues will make a second.

I finished the quilt top about a fortnight ago and I have just started to quilt it, Its going to take a long time on my little sewing machine haha But I'm glad its finished.  Below is a photo of me trimming it and of it in the machine closing the edges of the 3 layers (quilt top, wadding & quilt back)

This quilt has been a good journey and mega fun, Through out the process of it, I have planned several other quilts that I wanted to do (mainly pixel art quilts) and I have made it my New Years Resolution to complete the two I want to do the Most. Nyan Cat & Yoshi! I found a brilliant site that had a series of tutorial posts to create a Nyan Cat quilt. Its spread of 12 weeks. Below is the Week One tutorial. I will be posting each fortnight when I create the next patch I dont think I will be doing the 2nd part untill 2014 though but that being said I do have a fair bit of white/blue fabric so I could make the space parts over the new few weeks

If you are interested in the Nyan Cat Quilt Along  you can find it here: http://cholyknight.com/2013/09/10/nyan-cat-quilt-along/

The Day of The Doctor

With the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who fast approaching I thought I would contribute some fan art to the event and have a play around with the poster for the special using Springfield Punx amazing characters.

#SaveTheDay

I also have something new from the Lisa goes GAGA collection, its been a while since I got my teeth into that project I know but I'm back on it and theirs only 6 more left...This one is titled Touch The Skies!

Check out Dean over at Springfield Punx: springfieldpunx.blogspot.co.uk 

Chow for now Dah-Lings

Feedback

pretty self explanatory post, made a nice little piece that has feedback from some of my clients.
Enjoy x

Big Announcement

Hey Guys,

As you might know I am on the prince's Trust programme at the minute, and part of it is a 2 week work placement, and The team leaders Tracey & Lorraine have worked really hard to secure mine.

I am happy to announce that I will be on a two week work placement at Meep Meep.
Meep are a Graphic Design & Advertising agency is Gainsborough that specialize in Marketing Graphic design. I'm super excited to see were this leads, and have an interview tomorrow with them, least Tracey says its referred to as an interview when its just a risk assessment and a meet and greet.

I am also working on something crafty, I have been learning to crochet, and have only got the hang of Granny Squares so I am making a Pixel art blanket for my other half. Its going to be Yoshi from Super Mario Bros ^^

Happy Hallow, he he he heeeen..

Good Evening.. afternoon or Morning..when ever you are reading.

Again, Long time so see and I am very sorry for that thing have been VERY busy for me last few months and I have lots to share with you .

First off, I have been enrolled on The Princes Trust Programme,  its basically something to help me gain skins for employment and gain confidence etc. I'm in Week 4 of 12 at the moment and its been fun, The Next two weeks we are doing our Community Project were we will be doing up a local park. What I'm really looking forward to is the Two Work Placement in weeks 7/8 I am tentatively being placed at a Graphic Design agency called Meep Meep and I am extremely Excited!!

Anyway...ON TO DESIGNY THINGS ^^

First things First... NEW GAGA!!! Its been 5 months since I last updated you on this project, I have 4 new pieces to display still not finished with all 18..

From left to Right, Top to Bottom they are named, Got Fish?, Monster Army, Take of some Clothes & Still not Tall enough, Give them a little click to see them in their high  resolution glory, next on the Agenda is my progressing Bane Cosplay, not much of a design aspect but it has allowed me to flex my creative muscle a lot..Below is a photo of my Bane Mask.. 

When Gotham is in Ashes, You have my Permission to Die...

And FINALLY...Last but not least, here is my latest project that I just finished, Zombie Skinhead...I drew him on the table at a Prince's Trust Team meeting, Everyone really thought it was awesome, it was just a sketch for me but I decided to take it all the way and digitally Ink & Colour it. I present it here in two formats, Modern & Classic Horror....their basically the same image but one is in Black & White :-P 

Going Gaga for GaGa!!

Even with the house move I have been on a roll with these images, the episode aired on the 20th and it was AMAZING!! I have another 4 outfits of the 18 done so far....After seeing the episode I feel rather cheated of outfits because she only wears about 15 different ones, and 3 variations of the same one the only thing changing being the shoes..but here are the 4 newest ones...I will admit to saying Lady Jawa is my favourite of all the outfits and images so far..

Eau de GaGa

Incognito

Lady Jawa

So Happy I could Die

Might Meaty Mother Monster

PAWS UP BABY!! GaGa 4 is completed!

Mighty Meaty Mother Monster!! 

This will probably be my last one for a while as I really want to wait for the episode to air and I have been very busy packing for moving house

Simpsons goes GAGA!!

So.. May 20th The Simpsons season Finale will air featuring the ONE the ONLY..LADY GAGA!!

She will apparently wear 18 different outfits which is beyond amazing :-D I have decided to take it upon my self to draw her in all 18 different outfits. Ive only been going about 4 days, and I already have 3 completed.

GaGa Wants you 

Haus of GaGa 

4 & 20 GaGa Birds 

Enjoy ^^ 

Supreme Dalek Princess

Good News Everyone!! Heres a site update.

Posting this alot earlier than usual thanks to an abismal nights sleep and a toothache that just wont quit! So a few dasy ago one of my friends Bexi asked me to do her a few pieces of simpsons art. She wanted a caricature of herself and her Original Charecter Supreme Dalek Princess, which is an expantion of her charecter The Dalek Princess. (a female human kindnapped and raised by the daleks to become the ultimate weapon against the doctor because of his love of humanity)

Below is what i came up with in less that 24 hours which i was quite impressed with. Everything in this piece is my original work apart from the Daleks in the background that have been taken from Springfield Punx who you can find here: http://springfieldpunx.blogspot.co.uk  i really suggest you check him out he is really talented :D

Jobs Jobs Jobs

Long story short..their arnt any lol...well not unless you have years and years of studio experiance. How am i supposed to get a break into the media industry if no one will give me a chance. Anyway ive decided to retune my CV/Portfolio as i dont think its very impressive it was done really quickly and its not very good at all..

on another note i was having a file clean out and i came across a bunch of artwork that has gone left unfinished. so over the next few days im making a point of finishing it. Here is the first piece a drawing of Roger from American Dad in leather gear, from an episode were he was meant to be going hiking with Stan...its quite an old piece so doesnt really do my skills justice but i wanted to post something new so this place doesnt seem dead to all you imaginary readers lol

Its mostly fan art that is yet to be finished but i still feel its plausible to display it here as it is after a fashion digital artwork and showcases my illustratative skills. I will have some original work coming soon i would imagine i have a pretty cool idea for a duck super hero (Thunder Duck) thats kinda linked to my own Roller Derby Team (Lincolnshire Rolling Thunder)

Elm Street House Complete

Well the house is offically 100% completed, And im pleased to say i already have some interest for people wanting them. I currently have 10 slots open for these houses, and the average turn around on an order is about 3 weeks. Their £110 including shipping all come with batterys and lights I can also do a dereclit version for £80 with our with out a light your choice (although i dont have a prototype for that yet)

progress on the Elm Street House

Most of my materials arrived  on monday, so i was really able to sink my teeth into this project. im still waiting on delivry of my mini hack sac before i can continue glueing the lolly sticks to the sides of the hosue, then everything needs a good coat of paint.

here is a pic of the 4 sides of the house, the roof hasnt been cut yet but its all maked out ready.

Elm Street Houses, Job Hunting & Freelancing.

I just though i would take this time to let all of my watchers or just visiters in general that i am now officially open on commisons for Elm Street House Replica models as soon in Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3.

I have been contemplaiting pursuing this project for the last year after having quite a few people on Youtube Message me about the house i made for myself nearly 3 years ago.

I currently have 4 options in mind for houses these beings
-Derelict Half Finished version as seen in the opening of the film
-Derelict Complete Version (not seen anywere)
-Neat Complete version (as seen as the end of the movie, this also comes with the extra option to have it light up)
-Neat Complete version with Bars on the windows as seen in the Dokken Video Dream Warriors

the houses range from about £90 - £150 depening on which you have, the most expensive obviously being the light up on.

Im excited to say that i have had my first commission for a complete elm street house that lights up and i recently recived the deposit to get started so hopefully this could be a good buisness venture for me

Next on the Agenda is my abismal Job hunt that is getting closer and closer to ending in tragedy as i am going to end up stuck in A4E, A4E is a shitty scheme set up by the job centre, were you get patronised about your job search and baby you with CV skills etc.

Im always open for freelancing as a graphic designer and illustrator i also would like to offer my services as a digital inker/Colourer. message me for rates or we can work something out on what you want to pay (with in reason lol)

I will update my progress on my first elm street house commission in a few days once my materials have arrived

Oh and on a last note as i leave you all.. To acompany my Indigo Leauge Gym Badges i recently make some Johto Leauge Gym Badges too :-D If anyone is interested i am contemplating setting up a little online shop for these badges as i will eventually get on and make a complete set from all the regions in the show (bar the orange islands)

Pokemon Gym Badges

Just recently i have been re-watching Pokemon and its still AWESOME!! (well the original series is) i had just finished the first season (indigo leauge) and i decided i wanted some Gym Badges of my very own ^^

so having an abundance of Fimo lying around the flat from my partners collection i decided to have a go at making some and below is the final result. My hands hurt so much from kneading it because its been over a year since we used it so it was very hard.

Roger The Alien

So a few days ago whilst browing Deviant art i came across a brilliant image some one had done of Roger the alien from American Dad dressed up as them, it inspired me to do something similar being a huge fan of American Dad.

If your dont know, American Dad is an animated sitcom by Seth Mcfarlane about a man named stan smith who works for the CIA and his family. Part of their family is an alien called Roger who has fun creating charecters and dressing up as these charecters to disguise his identity as an alien and to be allowed out of the house.

Rats

Sorry its been a while since i posted i have been desperatly seeking work and having the most rotten luck! Hopy you all had a good new year here are a few rat drawings that i wipped up whilst trying to keep myself in practive lol.

CH Cross

 So Just recently i have gotten really heavily into cross stitch, i havent actually started doing any yet as i havent had the money for supplies. 

whilst  roaming the internet for patterns i came across this amazing forum CH Cross, its primarilay based in japan but it has a massive community of cross stitchers all willing to share patterns 

is is "A very beautiful and pretty cross stitch forum with huge repaint patterns download" so check them out at the link Below

www.chcross.com/?fromuid=17723