Phew! It’s been a busy few months. I have lots to share with you but today I
thought I’d show you some of my recent work.
These are the images from a lookbook I worked on for new fashion brands,
Runaway88. The spring/summer 2013 collection
effortlessly combines hard, structural lines with more fluid, free-flowing
elements. The designers, Jade and Naomi
took inspiration from nature and history, in particular, Ancient Egypt and
ripples in the sand caused by waves.
I have started drawing a face chart for every job I do now,
so that the client has some idea of the look I am planning to go for, and so
that I can continually test myself on how effectively I can get the ideas in my
head down onto paper and then see how well the look translates from paper onto
the model’s face. I have never been much
good at drawing, but I am practising and eventually want to be able to just
sketch my own facecharts rather than using pre-drawn ones.
I really enjoying working on this shoot, and it was a chance
to take my make-up in a stronger, darker direction. I think my work in the past has been more
beauty and I really wanted to push this and make it more editorial and
edgy. I also got to try my hand at some
art directing, which I really enjoyed and actually think I have a bit of a
knack for!
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Photography: Kay Simpson
Model: Erika
