Announcing… the launch of precious-little.com: illustration, design and everything pretty! Just click the banner to pay a visit!
Feedback & other comments are more than welcome…
Preview:

Thankyou & goodnight.
Announcing… the launch of precious-little.com: illustration, design and everything pretty! Just click the banner to pay a visit!
Feedback & other comments are more than welcome…
Preview:

Thankyou & goodnight.
Iillustrations 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!
I 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 time! : the theme is…. wilderness.
I 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!
My 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.
In addition, I am currently loving Sketchbook Magazine – they are filled with pretty things!
I 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
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…