Announcing… the launch of precious-little.com: illustration, design and everything pretty! Just click the banner to pay a visit!
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New Website Launched!
February 9, 2010 by Precious LittleSketchbook Magazine – Tavi Gevinson illustration
February 6, 2010 by Precious LittleIillustrations created for Sketchbook Magazine’s Fashion Blogger issue (part II) to accompany an article on young fashionista Tavi Gevinson.
These were fun to make – and I’m looking forwards to seeing them properly in print!
Precious Little – new logo & self-portrait!
January 26, 2010 by Precious LittleI know I’ve been threatening a new website launch and it hasn’t happened yet, but life has been a busy place recently! Also I set out a whole new website design, thinking to get in some new branding, and then decided that it just … doesn’t quite work.
But I’ve finally taken the time to sit down and think more carefully, put pen to paper and Wacom to Photoshop and made myself my first real logo:
Not to mention my first self-portrait since I was ten and was made to for a school project. It’s for my ‘About’ page (and is here for you in glorious technicolour just in case you wondered what I look like with my face almost entirely obscured by a cup of tea):
The new website will include a bunch of design work that didn’t ‘fit’ on my old site, including some real live published books! Awesome!
Illustration Friday: Wilderness
January 21, 2010 by Precious Little
Illustration Friday time! : the theme is…. wilderness.
Illustration Friday: Confined
January 14, 2010 by Precious LittleConfined:
Also, as if there was any doubt, I love doing all that line-art -creating organised chaos!
Tiger Time! // Illustration Friday: Renewal
January 7, 2010 by Precious LittleI know that the Gregorian (our calendar is the Gregorian calendar, right?) new year & Chinese New Year are not one & the same, but… in my head that doesn’t matter.
Come Feb 14th, it will be Chinese New Year – the year of the tiger. I am a tiger (Rowr!), so hopefully it’ll be my lucky year! Plus it’s my birthday just 2 days later. Woooo.
Also though this fitted in nicely with Illustration Friday’s weekly topic: Renewal.
Anyway, there is never a wrong time to draw tigers eating cake:
Also, may I take a moment to remind you of the awesomeness that is The Tiger Who Came To Tea by Judith Kerr?
And, as a final note: follow me on Twitter!
Grandma
December 1, 2009 by Precious LittleMy grandma died last week. She was 92. She’d had 3 husband and a number of adoptive families throughout her life, was taken in by nuns at one point, and went by 6 different names at various different times (most before her mid-20s).
I took some poor photos of photos from her old album, something about the added fuzziness of the copies seems apt – memories, identity, loss – all that.
Something she left behind: a book of poems, written in perfect copper-plate hand-writing, in a way more personal than any photo. Or maybe i just think that because I am a ‘book person’ and have pile upon piles of sketchbooks from over the last dozen years?
So long, grandma. We miss you.
new artwork
November 17, 2009 by Precious Little
In addition, I am currently loving Sketchbook Magazine – they are filled with pretty things!
Precious little
November 4, 2009 by Precious LittleI am working on re-branding myself, getting together a new portfolio of work, updating my website and generally becoming awesome. I’m not sure yet whether to begin a new blog, but keep your eyes peeled and I’m sure we’ll all find out soon enough!!
Some sketchy ideas for a new brand identity – Precious Little / illustration & design:
I’ve also joined the world of twitter – it can get lonely working from home some days, after all! Go ahead & add me if you’re interested, I promise I don’t bite (hard): www.twitter.com/precious_little
The Big Draw – photo time!
November 3, 2009 by Precious Little
Saturday involved helping to run a Big Draw event that involved making a version of London that bought together the past, present and future… delicately hand-crafted from cardboard, tape and felt-tip pens, largely by the under-12s. And in the afternoon, I made zoetropes.
Unfortunately, my phone-camera didn’t do justice to the scale of this piece of art or show off the amount of detail that some 8 year olds (only some assisted by their very enthusiastic parent/s) can get onto a scale model of the HMS Belfast…
