some new designs ★

so lately i've been a bit quiet again, i've been working on new stuff for college


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these new designs are a bit of a mixed bunch! including...

some candy coloured bicycles!

i sold my bike a few years ago and kind of miss it, a lot! i always found bikes particularly tricky to draw when i was younger so i thought i'd have a new go at one or two ones now!

and somehow i ended up producing some funky 'his n hers' bikes

as well as those, i've also been working on two candy character pieces, featuring the Cupcake Princess

 and the Candy Floss Princess

i spotted an amazing Steampunk book in town the other day so after my somewhat failed Steampunk girls (see this post - News and Stuff ) i had a little go at a simple pocket watch instead

and then for some inexplicable reason, i drew a cuckoo clock and created this piece as well

unsurprisingly though, the clock was a lot of fun to draw! 

also, most of these designs are now available on iPhone cases via my Society6 shop 

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in other news, my lovely little cousin Sienna came to stay over the weekend

as you can see, she got her face painted while we were out! it was painted by the lovely Torie at Imagination Station

anyway, once we got home we did lots of drawing and writing, Sienna also gave me a lovely biro tattoo...

other than that, we filled in colouring pages + a Hello Kitty sticker book, we even found some xmas crackers left over from Christmas!

and then there were the wigs... myself, my mum and Sienna spent a while trying them on and listening to music in the kitchen, here's the embarrassing proof!

obviously dyeing my hair blonde or pink permanently is the way forward! :D

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that's it for now, i'm in college for the rest of the week but i have a very awesome Creative Café post to run so keep your eyes peeled for that!

also, in case you were wondering what had happened to the New Year giveaway, i'm saving it for the blogs 3rd birthday next month!

however, i'm only 20 followers away from reaching 1k on twitter! AND when i reach 1000, i'll be holding a special little 'EXCLUSIVE to Twitter' giveaway!!! you can 'follow' me here - @jadeboylan

so until next time, that's all folks... ◕‿◕ ★  xX

News and Stuff ★

so i've got a few things to share today, firstly... i won a t-shirt design contest last week!!!

this is the second time i've entered a design into the weekly contest on All Tropical and i still can't believe i won!

the prize is to get your design printed up and sold in the shop (+ some prize money which has gone straight into my 'iPhone fund')

you can see my design up as the 'winner of the week' on the All Tropical site here - All Tropical

my 'CMYK cupcake' got the highest ratings of the week! which is AWESOME and i still can't believe i won!!!

massive MASSIVE thanks to everyone that rated my design (+ extra special thanks to all the friends that i badgered and nagged via facebook and twitter to vote for my image!)

the design will be printed soon (so i'm told) so i'll let you all know when it's availble to buy via the All Tropical shop

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in other news, i've been working on some lovely vintage themed commissions lately but like always, i get distracted while i'm drawing and often end up coming up with something completely different (aka useless!) 

yesterday, having spent the morning trawling through gorgeous Steampunk websites, i ended up drawing a few Steampunk themed girls based on some fab outfits from Steampunk Couture

these were the results...

Abby Addle - Airship mechanic + goggle repairer

Lady Lorena Kingsford - Anachropologist

Hattie Lewis - Dirigible technician

Miss Constance Wickham - Aerial Buccaneer and apprentice Aerophonotologist

anyway, i know that they're very different to what i usually do and i'm not sure if i like them or hate them!!! 

i'm pretty sure i hate them since i can't draw noses to save my life and for some weird reason i never drew Lorena's hand in but oh well!

i'll let you decide...

ps: in case you were wondering, an Anachropologist is someone who studies Anachropology, the practical study and observation of periods of time in the past. and an Aerophonotologist is a researcher of randomly occurring sounds from the aether. some Steampunk jobs sound so marvellous! 

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also, the August Giveaway closed last night at Midnight 

big thanks to everyone that entered! this time there was a record number of entries, 257 to be precise!!!

i drew a winner this morning using random.org 

the winner was number 5, Caroline Crossley from Weston-Super-Mare, UK

she's the blogs first Europe based winner seeing as the last two were won by people in Canada and the USA

so big congrats to Caroline! i'll be posting out all the lovely prizes to her first thing tomorrow!

but don't worry if you didn't win THIS one... i'll be holding another super duper Giveaway around Christmas time!!!

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not much else to report on today, i've spent the week cooped up inside busily working on commissions

no plans for the weekend... as per usual!

but i have a few more Creative Café posts to get through so i'll do one of those either tomorrow or Saturday

so until then, that's all folks... ◕‿◕ ★  xX