Last month as part of #CrazyRebelliousArt challenge is posted about my biggest successes so far but today is the other side of the coin: speaking about failure. As someone who is still young it doesn't really seem like I should have many failures in life and truthfully I don't. But what I do have, and what I think most people have at this age, is things...

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again, music is a huge thing to me! I listen to it daily, when I'm getting ready, travelling, doing work and even trying to get to sleep! ...

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Lately, I have been thinking a lot about the whole blogging community thing and how people have been using it, how it aids people and things like that. This post actually originated from one of the #CrazyRebelliousArt topic which was focused about creating a link up, inspired by this I thought it would be interesting to speak about this topic and then share...

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Could someone please explain to me how it is December already?! It feels like it was only January yesterday! Anyway, with it being December I thought I would try hope on the #Blogmas train! So why not start the month with a lil month update... Could someone please explain to me how it is December already?! It feels like it was only January yesterday! Anyway,...

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For today's #CrazyRebelliousArt, I'm meant to share a photo of your studio or workspace. However, currently, this space does not exist. If I'm working or drawing on stuff I can promise you that I am most likely either A) sitting/lying on my bed, B) sitting on my bedroom floor, C) taking up the entire sofa in either the living room or the conservatory...

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Today's #CrazyRebelliousArt is themed about art, or for me including, design techniques that you don't get to use in your own work. So I'm going to share a few of things I would like to do more and things I'd like to try! ...

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Today I'm sharing a little colour palette created with the theme 'autumn' in mind! In the prompt from #CrazyRebelliousArt it does say to include artwork you've created using that colour palette but I don't tend to use colours like that that much so hears a photograph I took with colours taken from it instead! You can also see more photos from this day...

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Today's blog post from #CrazyRebelliousArt is focused around what our blog 'name/tagline' means. I think I've briefly covered it before but can't remember what blog post it's in so I'll just share it again!  So a few years ago when I was nearing the end of my 1st year at College studying Graphic Design, we needed to create a brand identity and 'website'...

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I feel like this challenge is really helping me share new and more up-to-date versions of posts I shared ages ago! And this post is no exception. Last year I shared a post of some Inspirational Instagrams and now I'm back with a new list!  ...

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It's been a long time since my last Recent Inspirations post and thought with today's prompt for #CrazyRebelliousArt being what's been inspiring you this week, what better time to share an updated version of it!  ...

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Woo! I'm back on track with #CrazyRebelliousArt (well just, I have half an hour till it's the 13th). Apologise with there being a lot of back posting this week but at the end of last/start of this week I just wasn't really feeling it! And although I've got a bit of a cold right now I wanted to try stick and get back...

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Oh wow it's been an incredibly long time since I shared a little update about what I'm doing at uni! Actually, my last update was on my first day back at uni this year, oops! Anyway, with today's post for #CrazyRebelliousArt being a Photo Log of a piece of art work created today, I thought instead I would share what I've been up...

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Ahhh! So today's topic is to share 10 of your favourite quotes! I've always been a massive lover of quotes, with ones from books, shows, lyrics and whatever else I can somehow relate to one so this may be a little hard for me just to pick 10 but I will try! List your 10 Favourite Quotes 1. "Feck perfuction" - James Victore...

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Today's #CrazyRebelliousArt was themed about sharing a book relevant to your field, but although I have huuuuuge collection of design books I am still making my way through them! So instead I thought I would share a Podcast that I listened a lot to last month when I was going through all of her old ones. ...

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For today's #CrazyRebelliousArt topic, it is meant to be about whether you feel people should go to art school to pursue their dreams of say being an artist or designer. But since I'm still in my own education I feel like I'm in a mid point where I can see the good and bad sides of the education although I'm not at a...

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For today's #CrazyRebelliousArt the topic is to speak about our process for a current project. I'm still not really in a place with uni work were I want to talk about it so I thought what else can I speak about, and obviously that's my #Create365 project! For today's #CrazyRebelliousArt the topic is to speak about our process for a current project. I'm...

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A few weeks ago I did a little review of my current favourite tools to use in my artwork which was the TomBow Dual Brush Pens but today I'm back to speak about my absolute top favourite that beat these guys out the water! Anyway, these tools are the Sigma Micron Pens and they've been an awesome arty find this year for my #Create365.  A few...

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For today's post for #CrazyRebelliousArt the topic is to speak about 5 people who inspire you. However since over the years on this blog I've written about countless different designers, artists and a handful of photographers, I thought I'd throw in some people just who in my life and generally just inspire me. But through doing this I spoke about my Granda and...

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For today's #CrazyRebelliousArt, the topic is to write about one of your biggest successes and why was it a challenge for you. At first I was kind of struggling on what to do this for because nothing came to mind straight away but after a think I realised that actually my most successful project not just in terms of popularity or sales but...

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For today's #CrazyRebelliousArt the topic is to share photos of your city and tell us what you like or don't like about living there. I'm not going to lie, I've had troubles with my hometown over the years- Stonehaven, but I think in recent years I've grown to love everything it has to offer. Even if not everybody I may know there is...

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The topic for Day 2 of #CrazyRebelliousArt is "How did you get into your field?" but I kind of covered this topic a few weeks ago when I shared the Creative Journey tag so I feel it's a bit repetitive to speak about it again, so instead I'm speak about how I've been getting into hand lettering recently. ...

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Hello! I can't believe it's November now! It doesn't seem real does it? Anyway this month I'm going to be attempting (again) to do a blog challenge for the month but this time it's the first year of this challenge. Set up by Judia of A Crazy Life and Brittany of Rebel Lux they have aimed to create 30 prompts that are more directed...

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Last week I headed up to see my Nannie and Granda with my mum as she was off with it being the Scottish October holidays. I love going up to see my grandparents but don't get to do if often enough! When I was younger we used to go up a lot and whenever my mum and my Nannie would go to the...

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So today I couldn't really be bothered writing anything proper but still wanted to post something since I guess I'm trying to do #blogtober... Ignore the fact that I've missed a week of that anyway! But yeah I've had this tag saved for ages and thought it was about time I did it! I originally came across it on Gemma's blog and loved it!...

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Last week Darren and I had a little overnight trip to Glasgow again. Our trip was pretty similar to our one back in July so I don't have a huge amount of photos from different places to share this time- instead I have photos from the Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum and a typography exhibition at 'On The Corner'. I'm not going to...

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Today I'm back with a little kind of post about things I'm doing or thinking currently! So anyway... Currently I am... Reading: The Assassins Blade by Sarah J Mass. I've so far read the first book in the series (Thorne of Glass) and plan to finish the next 4 soon which will follow with a review on here! [Buy here] Listening: Set It...

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Monday has rolled around again and I have to say I'm not even the slightest bit bothered by that. I know a lot of people have Sunday night/Monday blues due to it being the start of another working week but I don't really have that.  ...

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Today I'm back with another photography post, you guys know I love doing these! Anyway, throughout 2015 so far I've taken a lot of photos and many of them have never seen the light of day so thought I would share them! In this post there's a few from a different day trip to Aberdeen's Winter Gardens and then a handful of photos...

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For most of year I've had the black dual brush tombow pen in my pencil case and have loved using it! It is great for doing simple line work with the standard nib and even better for using the brush end for typography purposes! But the main reason I love my tombow pen is because it works soooo well with water! Half the time...

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It's obviously now October and it means Autumn is really swinging into motion! It is really my favourite time of year but I've already spoken about that so instead here are a few things that I are my perfect Autumn Essentials: ...

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On Monday I had a little bit of an unusual but lovely experiencing with a man on a train. If you read yesterday's Creative Journeys Tag post you would have seen that I said I used to be really self conscious about speaking about my work and stuff but I feel like it's becoming better. And on Monday? I feel like I pushed...

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Last year I was tagged in the Creative Update Blog Hop and I've been thinking recently about wanting to kind of create my own tag that would connect creatives again! So this is where the questions (and my answers) below come in! I thought it would be fun for us to all speak about how we started and where we want to go. ...

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Today Lauren and I had another trip to the DCA planned to have a visit of the current Exhibition by Hideyuki Katsumata which has been brought to the city of Dundee as part of the Discovery Film Festival. The whole exhibition featured around Katsumata's illustrations that have been produced into prints, painted onto the walls as large murals and animations. Within his illustrations some of the...

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So today I am back with a long time favourite post of mine to do but one that I haven't done in over a year and a half! I used to post my free font favourites monthly from July till December 2014 but never ended up carrying it on after that point. However, I am back now with some of my favourite fonts...

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So it's been just over 10 months since I started my #Create365 project and within these past 10 months I have learned sooo much! I have learned about ways I enjoy working on projects daily, how I use certain tools and way more. I thought it would be awesome to share some insight on the things I've learned and add a couple of the...

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It's been a really long time since I've shared or spoken about anything related to music in a while but I've been refinding old music loves recently that I felt needed to share some of those -as well as some new finds- that I feel are underrated in the music! ...

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Obviously it comes to no surprise that I am a big lover of all things inspirational. If you've been following this blog from near the beginning you may remember my old "Weekly Words" posts that I would share on a Friday and would have some quote that I had "designed" up on Illustrator then some words about why they were important to me....

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Today is the first of October and to me, it means it starting to really feel a lot like Autumn! ...

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On Saturday afternoon once I had finished work, Darren and I had a little trip up to Dunnottar Woods. I've obviously had a few trips up there, including this one from last year but Darren has never been up there before so some serious exploration was on the cards! I'm pretty sure over the years I've had numerous visits to the woods and...

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