If you would have told me that I would have been a costume designer at some point, I wouldn’t have believed you. The project was a fourth year degree film called Surface Noise by Ella Rose Howlett. It is about a girl getting attacked and suffering from PTSD. I was only meant to be a…
Category: First Year
Material Portraiture
The first project at university. It was always going to be one full of anxiety and trying to show what your work is all about. Yet, it turned out to be one of the most random projects of my life. When someone says Material Portraiture to you, you don’t expect you to be making faces…
Selling on Etsy
I think everyone has their time selling things on Etsy. My time was summer 2019. One great piece of advice my brother gave me was, don’t think, just start. Come to think of it, he’s amazing. He’s very clever, hard working, and I really look up to him. He is also very modest. So I…
Artist Books
Being at university has opened my brain up to know what artists books actually are. Once upon a time, I just thought that they were a book that exhibited artist’s work. Little did I know, that they were an art form in its own entirety. So, what is an artist book I hear you asking,…
Data and Pattern
This project was about finding new ways to collect data and how we can interpret it into new patterns. I thought this was a bit of a weird project at first, (when don’t I?), but it really does make a lot more sense as a nearly third year student. I found myself drawn particularly to…
Work Experience: Interning
I hope my fellow classmates remember this time as fondly as I do. We had just finished our first year at university. Hand ins were complete, exams were non existent due to our heavy coursework load and the weather was finally heating up from the cold winters of Edinburgh. But, we had one last obstacle….
Drawing at the Botanics
I can tell you, drawing flowers at the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens is a very nice way to spend a lonely Valentines Day. We were at the gardens for a floral inspired drawing project to get us to learn how to be more creative with our drawing techniques. Before we entered the garden, we had to…
Introduction to Disperse Dying
Disperse dying is one of my favourite techniques. The endless layering leads to so many creative possibilities as well as very interesting samples. The best thing about disperse dying is that you can paint your inks on paper. You can play with them exactly the same way you can do with watercolours and really experiment…
On The Page
This project was one of the weirder ones at university. I think it wasn’t helped by the week six chest infection and the very bad cough that came along with it. But anyway, the aim for the project was about making and being creative with the odd bits and pieces you had and making them…
Thoughts on First Year!
I know it has been a bit of time since my first year, but I think it is so important for other prospective students to know mine and my fellow coursemates thoughts. First year was always going to be a nervous mess where you are scrambling to make friends, start your course and learn how…
Enhancing Scarfs
How can a scarf enhance us? How can they add to our beauty or do they protect our modesty? These are the questions that I have been trying to answer with my recent project on scarfs. I was able to choose from three topics: enhancing, protecting and identifying. When I think of scarves, I think…
Nature Encyclopaedia
One of my many projects from the last term consisted of making an encyclopedia based on natural images. I had to create this piece of work as part of the Natural History Illustration course. Whilst the course was very interesting, this project was running alongside our class projects which made for a very rushed final…
Layla Priya Chauhan 