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June & Change

So between preparing to return back to essex during my final week of university for the year, and then actually travelling home with my overwhelming amount of belongings, I unsurprisingly haven't been drawing that much. My goal of blogging weekly hasn't materialised just yet, but hopefully now I'm back for summer this can and will now happen. For me, 2014 has flown by ridiculously fast. Not only has my first year of university finished already, but we're almost half way through June too. Mad. June is my favourite month, partly because thats typically when the weather changes for the better, but mainly because it's my birthday month yay. 

summer vibes
I love June
Over the last year I'd say my life, and the majority of the peoples lives around me, have changed quite progressively. I came across a saying the other week which has stuck with me since. This saying was 'If you change nothing, nothing will change'. This made me realise that if you really aren't happy with something, or you have a dream or aspiration, you are the only person that can make that change a reality. Really, the only person holding you back from anything in life, is yourself. This post has gradually become more intense that I intended. Basically, I love Typography and creating art through words is way more interesting when what you're writing has an element of insight to it. After discovering that Typography was a highly popular art form in itself through artists like Sean McCabe (http://seanwes.com) and Christopher Delorenzo (http://www.johnnycupcakes.com/blog/2011/02/christopher-delorenzo/) I realised that it was something that I would strive to become reasonably goodish at. Practise makes perfect, and at the moment I'm still loving using photoshop so I've continued editing around on that too. 

Sketch out in pencil, and played around with on photoshop. Voila.
Slightly less shit that my past attempts, thankfully.


Thanks for reading/looking at my pictures. 

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