Hello my name is Aaron and I am a designer, illustrator and wannabe glam rock star from north England. I'm twenty year old and I like to draw to and travel. My life has been pretty shitty the past few years, I dropped out of university (I studied graphic design) because I went mad, literally *takes medication* Now I'm trying to 'get better' by having a (some what) break from life and all its shenanigans. Things have really picked up over the past few months and my life and my health seem to be improving, I like to keep myself busy by setting myself little art/design based projects to keep me inspired and creative, most of which you'll see me talking about on here! :) I also like to travel and 'get out' as much as my anxiety lets me, I'm always dreaming and coming up with new little ventures for myself. Feel free to write me a message in my ask, I'm usually good at answering!
I tried to draw Lana Del Rey using her Q Magazine cover photo as reference. I was mainly interested in the style / lines of the hair so the actual drawing didn’t look all that much like her in the end, either way I’m happy with the outcome of
the hair especially.
When I’m old and everyone using Tumblr, twitter and all the other social networks now (inc me) gets bored and leaves. I’ll log on, find everyone I once knew and film my adventures as I try to find/follow you all in real life! Then I’ll be one of them inspiring old people you see making youtube videos. It’ll be featured on Ellen… Even tho she’ll probably be dead.. Uhm it will be made into a film, or so I imagine…. I’m seriously gonna do this if I’m not in an old folks home, splashing around in my own piss.
I have three illustrations/designs shortlisted for ‘Ohh Deer’s’ design contest! If you like the look of my entries above please feel free to vote for them by clicking like on each one :)
here http://alturl.com/fato4 here http://alturl.com/qtw5p and here http://alturl.com/88ihk <3
In light of all this SOPA news, I thought I’d post this… I’m not saying I’m all for illegal downloading and I know next to nothing about this SOPA hoopla but I’m aware it regards piracy.
OK. Music piracy and illegal downloading! - Everyone I know is guilty of such shenanigans but despite billions? of albums being illegally downloaded, artists and record labels surely cannot be hit THAT hard!?
Take Lily Allen for instance, she’s one artist I’m aware of that always spoke about her music being illegally downloaded, infact I’m pretty sure she quit / took a break from music because of it (correct me if I’m wrong.)
I’m not her biggest fan but I know she has a huge fan base. Her singles from years ago are still played daily on TV and radio and it’s a fact that she’s had numerous number 1 and high charting singles and albums around the world. Now let’s take her first album for instance.
Wikipedia tells me it sold 5 million copies worldwide. Taking into account albums cost what?.. Between £10 and £15? Let’s say £10, that means that her first album has made £50,000,000 alone. Then there’s extra income from radio play, tv play, live performances, public appearances, collaborations, tv shows, interviews, personal side projects etc. I know she doesn’t get ALL the money but between her and her label, they must get a fair chunk between them even with the loss of income from illegal downloads.
This doesn’t just apply to her ofcourse, it applies for the hundreds of musicians who have graced the charts even after a lot of their work has been downloaded illegally.
My copy of NME from 2006 got delivered today! No, my subscription isn’t 6 year late, I just bought this one copy specially to add to my Panic! collection. It’s so beautiful :)
A few posts back I spoke about a gift I was making/designing for my sister. Here it is! :) It came out nearly perfect apart from the layering of the ingredients inside the jar. I should have put more layers of chocolate chips to break up the big white area of flour in the middle but it still looks ok, I’ll know for next time.
someone asked if i had any videos but i cant find any to show so here is a new one weh weh weh i explain all this in the video, its an accent challenge :)
For my sisters birthday I thought it would be cute to gift her something handmade for a change, I’ve never done this so I decided on something easy. It’s not 100% handmade but shhh.
Basically it will be two big amazing glass jars full of ingredients to make cookies with. It’ll have all the flour, sugar, chocolate chips etc (not eggs or butter ofcourse) all already measured out and nicely put into the jars ready for her to just mix together.
Above I’ve designed a little tag to hang off the jar/ribbon and that goes with another label that I’ve made to stick on the actual jar, all personalised! - It’s all pretty easy and simple to do and I hope once I finish it completely it will look as good as I imagine it! I’ll post photos once I’m done.
Don’t you wish I was your brother!?!?!…. No?… Okay :(