how sweet it is to be loved by you.

Mon 13 May 2013 @ 14:44  •  66 notes  •  View comments
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a new personal project: natural beauty. a comment on the concept of “natural beauty” being something you have to strive to achieve, rather than simply embracing what you’ve got. also an opportunity to use illustration as a means of saying something, which i don’t do often enough (this is something that’s been on my mind a lot lately).

you can see the rest of the series & read more about it on my website.

Sat 11 May 2013 @ 16:59  •  59 notes  •  View comments
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experimenting with gouache in the least experimental way possible.

Thu 2 May 2013 @ 0:07  •  12 notes  •  View comments
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Mon 22 April 2013 @ 19:11  •  253 notes  •  View comments
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i’ve barely seen my favourite person over the last week or so & i miss him, so i guess i’ll just look at this mediocre portrait of him instead.

Sun 21 April 2013 @ 23:04  •  40 notes  •  View comments
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Sun 14 April 2013 @ 11:04  •  48 notes  •  View comments
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we went walking around some forests looking for birds & waterfalls today. clambered around pathways, listened to rushing rivers, saw nesting peregrine falcons. it finally feels like spring.

this image is from 2009, but it rings true once a year.

Sun 7 April 2013 @ 22:12  •  4 notes  •  View comments
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the concept of flying, through the sky, to the furtherest possible country on earth is a strange thing when you start to think about it. the first weekend of this month saw me travel for over a day to get to new zealand (losing several hours of my birthday in the process, wah), & it’s a long journey to mostly stay in one place for. towards the end of our second flight, all i could think of was how glorious it would be to lie down. i sketched haggard self-portraits, a woman embracing a cloud. as someone with only the options of sitting down & occasionally standing up on a crowded plane, the next best thing to freely frolicking around that i could do was draw it.

in short, that’s where the above ladies came from. flailing around, naked, carefree. drawn at a way higher altitude that almost all of my work. & now they’re one big romping dance party that you can use (in two colours: one, two) to decorate your desktops. enjoy.

(for personal use only, please. remember to download rather than hotlink).

Thu 21 March 2013 @ 22:56  •  49 notes  •  View comments
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currently waiting on a flight in christchurch so thought i’d share this; i’ve got a couple of things in issue two of sad girls. much thanks to lovely leah goren for having me.

sad—girls:

Jen Collins in Sad Girls Issue 2

Fri 15 March 2013 @ 22:10  •  145 notes  •  View comments
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