Let's talk about...Jewellery

Today's post features the final Goth-ember Sunday design - Vampyre Brooch! There can be no Halloween without infamous bloodsuckers - vampires; and the search for inspiration started with all time classic Dracula. How many of you have seen film Bram Stoker's Dracula from 1992? If you haven't - you should definitely check it out, if only to see some of the coolest costumes put on screen in a movie about vampires, like in this blood-chilling scene.

As promised today's post will focus on the process of rendering my design for Opal Auctions Jewellery Drawing Awards.

I've been mentioning recently an entry for the competition that I was working on, and today I'll finally explain about the competition and share with you, my design development.
Jewellery Drawing Awards is a competition organized by Opal Auctions and Gem Rock Auction, and rules are really straightforward - you simply needed to look through opals or any other gem on the website and design piece featuring your chosen gem/s. So you can see why I decided to enter!
As all my projects this one started with phase 1 - research.



 After looking at opals themselves, I've looked at some existing opal jewellery.




I've actually had a good idea of what I wanted to base my jewellery theme on - during summer holidays I was working on a drawing featuring Queen Titania from Midsummer Night's Dream, therefore I've decided to make a necklace inspired by it.



 After deciding on a theme I just started to do a lot of drawings.

It's third Goth-ember Sunday, and finally, a time to introduce one of Halloween symbols - Witches!

As a bit of side note, as much as I like witches in fairy tales shown either as terrifying hags, or enchanting sorceresses, I feel like pointy hats and broomsticks is slightly overused stereotype of what a witch should be. I like to lean towards different type - a witch that is respectful of nature and lives protecting harmony and balance of life on earth. This lovely music video to track by Grimes- Dream Fortress was very inspiring - you should definitely check it out!

Today's Goth-ember Sunday features one of most feared in everyday life creatures - spiders! I'll start off by sharing my inspirational illustration and poem...

Hello, hello, hello! I’m back!
I know it has been a long time, but it’s been some crazy times – I’m currently in between job search (in fact I have another interview tomorrow, so wish me luck!), designing for competition and home stuff, so finding time to write the new post was really tough. 
In fact, I planned to write a new post for Halloween, but… I had no Internet! Yeah, you heard right. I’ve decided to be clever and change to Fibre Optic Broadband two weeks ago, everything was fine for like two days, and last Saturday – no Internet at all, no amount of resetting, unplugging router and checking cables helped.