24 Hour Comic (oops)

So I posted about the 24 hour comic I did in my other blog by accident... oops... not sure how to change it over so please check it out here!

Heres a couple of the edited pages which I have been Photoshop-ing today:

If anyone knows a good place for printing black and white comics cheaply let me know! Hoping to sort out getting them done for Bristol Artists Book Event

London Drawings

I went on a research trip to London with my friend Jess a couple of weeks ago, we did a lot of drawings in the V&A and Tate modern, was really nice to chill and do fun drawing for a change :)

We are planning on making some kind of book/zine with the sketches we like to sell at Bristol Artists Book Event in April so I have been playing around with sets of images, heres a little preview, let me know what you think, am wondering if some of them might work as t-shirt designs!

You can see some of Jess's lovely drawings over here

Zines preview

This is just a little sneak preview of some things I am working on right now. We are going to Bristols Artist Book Event (BABE) later on this year so I am preparing some zines to be screen printed in all different colours!

The first is of a group of men made up of body parts, haven't decided what this will be called yet!

The second is a little book of carnivorous plants.

Let me know what you think :)

shrink charms for sale!

So over the past few weeks I have been experimenting with making jewellery charms out of shrink plastic. I have tried various drawing and colouring methods and have found a method that works so I have been making lots and lots of things!

The main things I have been making are phone/bag/key charms, I chose to make these as they are simple and can be used in lots of places. I have some silver chains in the post too so soon I will also be selling them on necklaces! 

Comment on here or drop me an email at josie.maskell@students.plymouth.ac.uk if you want anything! Alternatively, these will be on sale in Roland Levinsky this thursday as part of a craft fair :)

Silver plated charm bracelet-£12

Small charms £3 each or 2 for £5

Double flower charm £5

I dont really know what this is

But I might like it...?

Wanted to draw some things on top of photos I took in the Lake District to see how it would work. I ended up making the photo a bit more strange and fantasy-like.

What do you think?

The Sketchbook project

I feel like I haven't posted enough here recently. This is mainly due to it being christmas and me having no access to a scanner or much internet!

I generally put pictures of drawings I like on instagram as soon as I take them, give me a follow over there if you are interested @josiethejump. 

Over christmas I decided to do the Sketchbook Project as something to do aside from my uni work for a bit of fun. I chose to draw peoples dreams because the things people come up with are so much more strange and random than what I could come up with just making things up!

I ended up using a different style to what I have been recently. I kept with using black line and the odd bit of brush pen with quink in, but I used a graphite pencil in different ways to add shading and add a bit more dimension to the pictures compared with the way I usually just use flat shapes. 

Here is a few to start off, let me know what you think, I love reading peoples comments! 

I had a dream a polar bear chased me through my house and when I came downstairs he was eating the laces from my favourite shoes.

I had a dream I was pregnant with my friends baby.

I had a dream I dropped my new phone off a bridge into a river.

Dont Drink and Draw

Smoke and fly? 

So before christmas I had an evening with nothing to do and decided to do something I had wanted to try for a while, drawing under the influence of alcohol. I had a bottle of cider (ok not that much alcohol) and sat in my bed with a lovely book my friend Hayley had given me to draw in!

Armed with an Alex Walker wonder pen (something all illustrators should make) and my book I made these images, which I only just re-discovered and photographed :)

I don't know why I drew a topless woman, the influence came from somewhere I am sure...

I wonder how wishes are made?

Experiments from a sketch I did in London.