First of all, I've started sewing looking to make it professional, which is something I never knew I could do in the first place, let alone do on a professional level...

I mean, realisitcally, I only ever made a shitty  skirt during highschool textiles classes, and let's be honest, the sewing machines made Neolithic bone needles with sinew thread look like modernistic technological breakthroughs, and some tote bags for my stall, which were calico squares (well sewn, using my own pattern, but squares all the same, hardly rocket science)

I had my mind changed by thirteenthgrace 's fabulous birthday party this past November. With a lack of funds to buy a nice outfit, I designed and made my own costume using altered patterns, heeding a long ago suggestion by an Alternative designer many months previous. With foolish confidence, I took my ridiculously complicated design, bolts of cloth and fiddly patterns to my sewing machine....

And I loved it.

I'm no great shakes at the basics, oddly enough, but getting my head around the fiddly bits was enormous fun!

Stunned by how effective, i immediately started seeing possibilities. On every side of me I had people telling me the art industry is suffering badly at the moment, I had both of my writers complaining (with perfect justification, I'd like to point out) that i never worked on my comics, and my own passion for my art was being steadily crushed by doing it 24/7 as a job, a hobby, a passtime, extra cash and pretty much anything else you can think of, so some form of distraction and possibly extra income is in despearate need.

I found a sewing teacher absolutely thrilled to have me int he new year, and beside herself to teach me not only how to sew PROPERLY, but  also how to design from scratch.
So... in the new year, I'm starting a new artistic occupation!


Which leads on to my next piece of big news....


Lilly Kitten has split up!

I'm well tired of having a positive mismatch of art. I jump from Pin Ups to Fantasy, back to Loli's with tedious frequency, and I find it's hard to pin down a fanbase, a focus or even a way of catagorizing your art on Deviant Art when it's a bit of too many everythings.

Now that my designing-sewing is starting to kick in, I decided to split Lilly Kitten up again to match the three styles I design clothing for. 
I had it split before, but I confess, it was done really badly. One side was fan art, which I tend to do and only really do for attention, another commercial illustration style, which i also hated and did purely for profit and the last was everything else.
Clearly, that's not the way I'm going this time. Instead, I'm splitting it into my three favourite subjects and scrapping the rest.



postergirl_lka                                              postergirl.etsy.com
For the art I'm known for best- my funky, sassy pin up girls (and boys- there is a special Poster Boys section!) Big boobs, lots of sexy curves, an awful lot of attitude, punk, goth, pink and black, stars and unusual piercings. It's also the home of the funkier outfits I've designed (and will soon make)



thesteamstress                               thesteamstress.etsy.com 
During my "rebellious" teen years, I was heavily into Romantigoth (Neo Victorian Goth). I never could afford much, as the outfits cost more then I earnt from waitressing, so i soon gave up. But the passion for Neo Victorian lingered and in consequence, I have become very much enamoured by Steampunk.
My party outfit was Steampunk, and i find the clothing an absolute joy to design, so I set up "The Steamstress" to cater for this passion. I haven't drawn much steampunk (as I sadly thought it wasn't commercially viable) but now i plan to go beserk!



thelolishop                                                 thelolishop.etsy.com
The last split was to the Japanese fashion, Lolita.
For some reason (I can't remember now) I started drawing Loli's a few years ago, and now I've collected around thirty different drawings. There's something about the design that makes me want to draw it, makes me want to design the dresses, pose them and play with their hair. perhaps it's the doll like factor, a reflection of a girlier me from the past? 
Ooo, Freaudian!
Also, it was my Lolita designs that first attracted GeoMythik, the creator of the Worn Wild event, to my stall and started me thinking about becoming a designer, so Lolita has a fond place in my heart ^^ 

 

So that's my three new sections. Minimal art (which is very contempory, but I absolutely HATED drawing it) Fantasy (Which i only really drew when i couldn't think of anything else) and Fan Art (Which I mentioned above) have all been given the flick. No more for Lilly. Art is now for Comics and fun.

And despite the other Journals, this journal will remain as a more personal, behind the scenes sort of journal and inclue updates on comics, life, reviews and all the funner stuff XD

For the Worn Wild market, I've been going nuts with art. Mostly Lolitas, which I'll post here when I'm done, (There are 26 in total, and I have still 4 to go...) but there are five fabulous new original pieces!

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