vickeh

I'm Vicky, 20-something illustration student living on South-East coast of England.

I spend my time drawing and making things, reading, baking, taking photographs, making zines, watching bands and writing a lot of lists.

Music: Broken Social Scene, The Velvet Teen, Cat Power, Cursive, Explosions in the Sky, Adem, The Smiths, Dntel, Pelican, Kaki King, Minus the Bear, .. etc! last.fm

Other: non-fiction, Douglas Coupland, Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Safran Foer, Chuck Palahniuk, Roald Dahl, Ender's Game, Life of Pi, Watership Down. Ones with lots of pretty pictures. Fun how-tos, Keri Smith. .

Films: anything by Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine, Be Kind Rewind, Human Nature, The Science of Sleep), Big Fish, Seven, Amélie, Bad Education, Heathers, The Good Girl, Last Night, The Secret Garden, Studio Ghibli films (Princess Mononoke, Nausicaä, Castle in the Sky) and old Disney ones

Generally: illustration, photography, zines and crafts.

In detail: toy cameras (lomo, instant etc), origami, mix tapes/cds, mixed media, altered books, embroidery, watercolours, Moleskine sketchbooks, printmaking, origami. Traditional art beats digital for me.

General: gel pens, celeb gossip, poetry (I feel like I should, but I just can't get into it), animal print, musicals, cars

Colours: neons, beige, white, yellow, most shades of green

Food: dark chocolate, regular tea, coffee, anything citrus.