Graduation!

I graduated yesterday with a First Class honours degree in Illustration. Whilst everyone around me was saying how upset they were to leave Uni, I considered myself lucky, since I now work full time for Wolverhampton University. They really are the University of Opportunity 🙂

Lucky Me!

 

 

 

 

Ok, so a bit of an update time..

I’ve been busy making lots of lovely papercuts ready to go live on Etsy and on Big Cartel – and so that is all going lovely. I’ve also been fortunate enough to be taken on board by an agent for Cherry Red Creative and am currently busy working on my first speculative brief. 

Also…I interviewed for an internship at Wolverhampton University Monday and Tuesday of this week – a job which involves dealing with UCAS, going to schools and colleges and giving talks on University life, organising activities and summer schools and a whole host of other lovely things, and I got the job!

I’m looking forward to being a fully paid up member of society again and not having family members/friends on my back for owing them money or not being able to go out.

I think i’m going to be ridiculously busy, and have to juggle that with family life and seeing my boyfriend etc. Eh, it’s all fun and games, i’m just grateful and feel so lucky 🙂

Degree Classification!

Feeling so happy this morning as I’m now officially graduating with a 1st class honours degree in Illustration 🙂

After everything I’ve been through over the last few years, this makes it all worth it.

Girly Papercut

A papercut for all the horse-lovers and little girls alike 🙂 Not bad considering i’m stuck with blunt blades until I can afford new ones!

 

 

The Owl and the Pussy Cat Papercut

 

The Owl and the Pussy Cat – Handmade Papercut Illustration,

A4 in size, just needs reframing properly now. (It’s in a clip frame to prevent damage at the moment.)

 

Ok, I lied. I couldn’t resist finishing off the cutting. The text took more time than any other part of this illustration, which is annoying, and now my hands are well and truly buggered. I will (honestly) leave it for tonight, and then add the coloured parts tomorrow.

Progress for today

 

I think this is as far as i’m going to get for the time being – although there isn’t much left to do, my fingers feel like they’re broken, and my hands are cramped! I’m enjoying doing this one though 🙂

 

Owl and the Pussycat Papercut

 

Today’s papercut is based on my Degree Project – The Owl and the Pussy Cat. This one is particularly personal since my heart and soul went into designing the characters for that project, and I love them to pieces.

This papercut will be just smaller than A4 in size, and so far it’s taken about an hour. Fingers crossed!

Have a Mini Paper-cut Fox 😀

Paperback has arrived!

Very excited this morning, as the paperback version of my book has arrived, and despite doing all of the layout myself (no templates used), it has turned out beautifully.The colours are rich and the paper is of excellent quality.

This book was printed for £6.18 and cost less than £10 to print and post, so i’m considering releasing this for sale to the public later today. It really is the most beautiful thing, and I was unsure about the quality at first considering it was published using a different company, but it’s just as wonderful as the £25 hard back version (and it’s bigger too!)

 The only negative is that it arrived 1 day after my deadline hand-in, so my tutor’s won’t actually get to see this until the exhibition, but i’m still absolutely stoked about this!