Perfect day..

....Supercell.

Well...This blog will be about things I have found to inspire me out of this god awful brain dead creativity block I have had recently.

I have recently had an idea but not known how to present it or progress it - but I have now decided to make a mini graphic novel from it. I have already storyboarded it this morning and it has...12 pages of narrative then obviously add front/back cover and inset pages but it should be..good I guess. So I will be working on that for the next few days. I started up my FB page https://www.facebook.com/AnaMaiArt and found some awesome artists:

My top 10 inspiring artists are: (new and old)

1. Camilla D'Errico 

2. Range Murata

3. Loish

4. Saejin Oh

5. the team of Studio Ghibli

6. Junko Mizuno

7. Asano Inio

8. Audrey kawazaki

9. Amy Sol

10. Barbara Canepa

What I love about all these artists is that they are all so different but still amazing in their own ways and incredibly inspiring because of this, it made me realise that I didn't have to be like any of these artists to  be successful or good but I could take what I learn and like from each and try and incorporate little sections and from doing this I will create something in my own style.

There have also been other artists with different looks that I wanted to look into with my comic strip and practice with. I wanted to give the impression of age - like the images are really old by using some textures and filters or layer changes and colour balances to mess with the colours and what not so...yeah should be interesting. 

All this maybe-in' and suppose-in' is making me want chocolate - I got a long day ahead of me so I better get crackin'. ....Was there anything else I wanted to add.....hmm....dunno, if there was I'v forgotten it now and will just have to post a random blog about it later.

Cheers guys - ^_^ - I'll leave u with another influence of mine - Alexia Sinclair - fine art photographer from Australia - my biggest influence when I did photography back in school, but also still now, I was thinking about maybe doing illustrations of powerful women over time..maybe...maybe not

*Peace*

Smother..

Hey! Yes, I am listening to 'Daughter' 

It has just occurred to me that my last few blogs haven't really had much to do with my Illustration, so maybe I should get on that really. 

So far, the plan is: Work hard, send work off, social network the hell out of the net and try my damndest to get any PAID work I can so I can run like the wind out of retail.

My boyfriend is losing his job as his HMV is the only one in the area to shut down *sigh* however I am hoping every cloud has a silver lining and this means he can seriously take some time off and hammer his Illustration (yes, we are both Illustrators) we met in our first year of uni on our course and now live together in my home town.

If all else fails we will save from whatever jobs we are in and travel maybe to New Zealand and try and get some work out there or if we get some money we could travel the world. 

I have even written what times of the year are best :) especially Japan is the hardest as they seem to have a lot of festivals, which I want to go to but its picking to right ones, but I also want to be there when its not as busy so its easier to get around. Think it will prob be May sometime, I want to be there for Golden Week and see the cherry blossoms!

Anyway, back to Illustration. 

Today I will be doing some more silhouette practice and Online presence stuff. 

Omg, my sites are annoying me, I can't manage them all and I am usually so organised. Right...Ok.

Right, This is my workspace, my main influences are Loish, Range Murata, Camilla D'Errico and Saejin Oh. I also surf 'Deviant Art' as there are some amazing artists on there. 

Here's a pic from 2011 - well I took it today but it was published in 2011:

My first publication in Neo Magazine when I was just starting out in digital:

 So to show a yearly progression I made this:

There's quite big steps there - so I hope to keep striding! - or maybe I'll even start to strut all cocky and confident-like.

I should probably start to concentrate on one thing at a time. I have been social networking at the same time as writing this and I haven't even had breakfast or coffee WHERE'S MY COFFEE! That's it, I'm getting one brb:

^_^ that's a good cup of Joe! Nescafe Cappuccino's are amazing - However - they don't do the chocolate sprinkles and I have to say quite frankly - that's bull.

*peace*

http://anamaiillustrations.deviantart.com/

http://instagram.com/anamai89

https://www.facebook.com/AnaMaiArt

http://anamaiillustration.wix.com/annawardle

https://twitter.com/Anna_mai89

The Blower's Daughter

Yay my new phone!

So, I have officially upgraded. I have joined the new generation of technology and am now consistently paranoid that something terrible will happen to it!

I want to get it a cover and I was thinking along the lines of this:

Rilakkuma! Unfortunately, its hard to find something for a Samsung as everything seems to be iphone *angry face*

However, I can get this and therefore I might. I downloaded a few apps - Instagram being on of them also angry birds seasons, bubble mania, Otaku Camera, twitter and a barcode scanner. My friend recommended me Jurassic park so I might go and find that.

I chose to get the Insurance in the end just in case that whole toilet thing occurred.

So far I have managed to personalize my boyfriends contact - an angry picture of his face and Woodkid - I Love you - as his Ringtone :) and Niki has what I thought was a Totoro theme but realized it is actually Laputa....oh well. I also have Utakata Hanabi by Supercell as my default ^_^

Right, I have played this Candy saga game and Bubble mania too much now and have run down my battery....now what do I do...maybe I could actually finish this Blog I started like 2 hours ago.

As you can probably tell, I have done no work today. But I do plan to do something, maybe some silhouette crafting...I did do this yesterday. Some rough practice stuff...

They were just me practising flow, I'm still not brilliant at all, really should practice more than I do but I get too carried away with making pretty pictures I need to focus more. 

Oh yeah, I have a 'Twitter' https://twitter.com/Anna_mai89 : I'm not really sure about it, but I am trying to boost my online presence and heard this is they way to do it. It does make me feel awkward tho, talking as though someones listening about my life that no one cares about...?

Oh, well, I guess if your still reading you might be slightly intrigued as to the life of a struggling illustrator...who ever said you NEED a degree. Especially one in art unfortunately. Although it does help with personal needs rather than actually getting you some sort of future - so I guess that's something.

Well, to end this blog I shall leave u with INSTAGRAM! Yes, I am now one of those people that everyone despises always thinking Im a good photographer because I have put a cool filter over my crappy image.

This is hail. It was heavy and now I hear thunder....what a fabulous day.

 

Peach..

..Ai Otsuka 

This song always reminds me of summer:

This blog is about my top ...15 Asian songs.(in no particular order as that would be just too much hard work) - and these are non-soundtrack (as far as I'm aware) If I could I'd put all Shakalabbits and Ai Otsuka on.

1. IU - Mia 

2. AI Otsuka - Daisukidayo 

3. Shakalabbits - Ladybug (unfortunately couldn't find a video for it :(  )

4. Shakalabbits - Pivot

5. Gollbetty - I'm still lovin' you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsJv6RAjGZ0 - it kept saying it couldn't find the video, so this is the link

6. Miyavi - selfish love

7. Judy and Mary - Motto (could only find live)

8. Anna Tsuchiya - My Fate 

I have posted it live as its brilliant and sounds exactly the same

9. Aural Vampire - Darkwave surfer

10. Ayumi Hamasaki - marionette - not sure if its a soundtrack to Sailor moon?

11. IU - Good Day

12. Girls generation - Dancing Queen ( I love the Duffy remix) It really make me dance haha

13. Ai otsuka - Sakuranbo

14. Ami and Yumi - Planet Tokyo

15. Judy and Mary - Music Fighter - couldn't find anything that wasn't a remake :(

Hope these give some sort of interest. I'm also going to do a top something of anime, soundtrack and foreign film.

Whoop whoop! Enjoy

Skinny Mean Man...

....I'm going to label every blog with the song I am listening to...why?...because I want to.

I have finished Snow White:

Think the resolution or whatever, is slightly off but whatever. I'll be uploading it to my website and junk now-ish.

The digital piece I did yesterday was....

'Bunny Love' - Easter Themed - have tbh I didn't really have the season in mind when I did this, it's just a coincidence.

However, this is the kind of stuff I do. Hopefully will be attending the London Comic Con sometime, probably October, to sell things, aiming to just attend the may one, if I do I will be there as Yuffie so that would be fun - just need the funds - eep!

Tomorrow I should *oh crap just got chocolate on my keyboard - ok sorted* be getting a phone upgrade :) most people have had angry birds on their phones for years, I on the other hand, have not. I really want the Samsung S4 - I think that's the one..? Well, actually what I really want is a Samsung Galaxy camera :

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/samsung-galaxy-camera/z-samsung-galaxy-camera-beauty.jpg

It's amazing, everything I picked up after that just seemed so inferior I felt like smashing them on the floor. But it's expensive and I'm a bit of a 'Bridget Jones' and would probably end up flushing it down the toilet or something. Why I would have such a thing by the toilet is beyond me but that is just typical of me, I wouldn't even bring it there but somehow ...there it is....

Anyway, I think that was it.....

Mission..

....wow what effort that was!

Well, I have had to change my blog because I forgot the email address I used, but when I checked and managed to sign in it turns out I have a realllly old account that was used while I was at Uni to set up my dissertation :O who knew!?

Anywho...yeah, I'm Anna and I'm a freelance Illustrator based in Bournemouth,UK. I have lots of websites because I insist on sticking my nose in everywhere and shoving my crap all over the net. 

So..what have I been doing with myself...

Well, I'll tell you....absolutely nothing. Well, I set up a few more sites : http://anamaiillustration.wix.com/annawardle

http://society6.com/Annalisa

http://anamaiillustrations.wordpress.com/

I also have a few more but I can't be bothered to find them. 

hmm...hobbies.

Well, I like to paint on photoshop, movies, music, shopping...the basics.

I work in retail atm to get some money in which is alright but I could never stand having it as my career.

I'm really into anime and the Japanese culture and will one day storm Japan with my presence and it will be totally worth it! 

The anime I am currently watching is Toradora - I have only literally watched the first episode but I am going to carry on today I think. 

Today's plans are:

- Read some more of Michael D. Mattesi's 'Force' to help with my inability to have great flow through my work.

- Finish my picture of 'Snow White'

- Clean my pig sty I call my room

- Watch some Toradora

- Eat chocolate - I have already started this one so I'm already off to a fantastic start.

- and maybe start a Line art piece.

This is a picture of me so you know who I am, wouldn't want to read about a complete stranger now would you.....would you?

well anyway, here I am...Hi!

haha ...nah this is me (well, that is also me, but I think I took it at a funny angle..?)

I'm the one with the fringe stuffing my face with marshmallow. It was lush marshmallow actually, it all looked like different food aswel and tasted slightly different, I have had it for like 3 weeks it's still in the corner of my room all wrapped up like a pig in a blanket. So yeah, check out my site and like it and love it also find my on facebook, I would very much like that.

Cheers

^_^