Personal | Busy Bee

First off, I'd like to apologize for the major hiatus Oh, Kenzo has undergone. I'm not dead, but I might be dying from lack of sleep and an oversupply of work, seeing as I'm currently writing year-end exams. I think this is a pretty good justification to my absence, so please forgive me. (I'll be done in just under a week from now, hollaaaaa!)

With that said, I thought it would be a good time to show you some of what I've been up to. If you don't know, I take art and design as subjects, and so my hours are dedicated to working on my art, and although I'd like to say that this is the reason behind my non-existent social life, I doubt I'd have one without all the art to do... *laughs awkwardly*

For our exam, we were asked to research (through photography and experimentation) different viewpoints/perspectives and media. Basically, aerial views, worm's eye views etc., and media like pen, watercolour, colour pencils, etc. I've used colour pencils for the majority of the art work below, graphite pencils, black pen and watercolour for the minor sections. My hair, which was mostly cut off when photocopying the reference, was done with chalk and charcoal.

As you can probably tell from the bottom section, it's not finished, but I had to hand it in for marking nevertheless. This project pushed me to my limits, because using a bunch of foreign media in such a large piece, for me, (A2) is very daunting. I'm quite surprised by the way it turned out, considering that I've never attempted anything in colour pencils before... Anyway, blah, blah, fish paste. *rambles on forever*

Tell me what you think!

xo,

Mr. Photographer | Mattias Tyllander

Here's a truth for the day: The only thing better than finding other brilliant photographers to cyberstalk is re-visiting some of your favourite photographers whose work you haven't seen in a while, and going through all their latest works. The excitement of seeing the artist's growth, combined with the familiar nod to their prior works is an incredibly wonderful feeling.

When I first joined Instagram, I had an account under a different username (I would post the name, but it's far too embarrassing - it stemmed from a song on the Twilight soundtrack - enough said.) I abandoned that account for my current one after about a year or so... The account was entirely aimed at photography, and so, my following list was loaded with photographers and similar creatives to my heart's content.

Recently, I logged into the old account in search of visual inspiration, which I managed to find on Mattias Tyllander's page; He's a 15 year old photographer from Sweden, with a feed filled with intense and seemingly effortless photos. I've been racking my brain for months now in an attempt to recall his Instagram username, so finding his page made my lack of creative stimulus worth it!

Now that I've gotten far enough down memory lane, here are some of his gorgeous photos.

(image source: flickr and tumblr)

If you're just as fascinated by him and his lovely work as I am, and would like to see more, you can do so on his Flickr or Instagram (which is probably better regarding posting frequency.)

Cheers to the freakin' weekend, I'll drink to that! (this is my gesture to the fact that there are only 9 days until the Rihanna concert! Eeeek!)

xo,

Lovely Links | 21.09.13

(image source: IMAXtree)

• I am literally obsessed with these suede and rubber wedges (above) used in the gorgeous Tommy Hilfiger Spring 2014 runway show at New York Fashion Week. Colour-blocking, eat your heart out!

• The newest addition to my iTunes playlist is Lorde, a 16 year old Kiwi singer whose music is a sort of electronic take on Lana Del Rey. She's becoming pretty popular right now with her incredibly fresh, electro-pop music. You can listen to her first EP, The Love Club, here.

• Tyra Banks has taken the challenge upon herself to transform into some of the most elite supermodels, including Iman, Cindy Crawford, Twiggy, Kate Moss and Cara Delevingne to name a few. The photographs (taken over the course of a YEAR) are just mind-blowing!

• I recently downloaded the most fantastical overlay design application which has had me hooked for a good couple of hours over the past few days. It's very versatile, professional-looking, and so much fun! Download the Studio Design app here.

• Typography a day keeps the creativity block away... Well, that's what comes to my mind, at least, when seeing the 365 Days of Type by Sabrina Smelko. Check it out and be inspired by typography, 365 days of the year, or what's left of it.

• I'm in love with this bright and colourful brand identity and package design for Trig jewellery by designer, Olivia King. She's created the Trig application, which is used by customers to design their own trigonometric jewellery (custom shapes, colours and materials), which is then packaged in the loveliest boxes and shipped off. I love love love it!

The internet is such a brilliant place filled with such brilliant things that sometimes I just wonder, what would we do without it?

Anyway, I wish you all a great weekend.

xo,