Brighton Street Style - Fashion Illustration

Last month I was asked to collaborate with Brighton Girl Mag and writer Hermione Berendt of Revival Collective to illustrate the vibrant and diverse street style looks found in the city of Brighton. I was super excited to make some work for the project, as Brighton is so dear to my heart as a safe haven of eccentricity and free self-expression. I can't decide which is my favourite look. Immaculate historical re-enactment of that one scene in a 1960's French film?  Middle-class trust-fund krustie? Cultural appropriation 101?  You can find the fun article written by Hermione HERE. (FYI, She's not spitting up bile like I am.)

Brighton Street Style - Goth. Hand drawn Fashion Illustration.

Brighton Street Style - Hippie. Fashion Illustration Ink Drawing.

Brighton Street Style - Retro. Ink Drawing Illustration.

Brighton Street Style - Hip Hop and Street. Ink Line Drawing.

A Wintry Sunday Walk on the South Downs

My little family and I went on a gloriously gloomy walk up at Chailey Common, Sussex. We saw lots of burrows and mole hills and an excellent man-made hide, and we walked through the kind of mud that squelches and tries to claim you. I find it inspiring to find life blooming in places, even in deepest winter. *Joy Division plays.*

It will take me approx. four weeks to even get round to maybe starting the process of cleaning them.

If you think I resisted singing Wuthering Heights, you do not know me at all.

Blooming shrooms that look like pencil shavings. Also, the moss seemed neon IRL.

I bet there's an app for tree identification.

Such delicate flowers in the sunshine-iest yellow, and yet those black spikes were such utter bastards.

Quite a big'un. Definitely been googling what animal it might have belonged to. Might tweet Chris Packham as I'm still not sure.

Withered ferns. Still poppin'.

He *insists* I walk at least three meteres behind him and never speak unless directly addressed.

PEEP!

Trying to imagine a happy family, or maybe some scouts making this, and not a serial killer.

Would a real photographer have flicked off the rabbit poo?

So that was Sunday. Managed an enormous veggie roast as well, but did conk out at about 8PM. Why don't humans hibernate? Where is the crowd-funded petition for 7 and a half months of uninterrupted sleep? Links in the comment section, guys.