this is me...kind of, it wasn't supposed to be a self portrait...but i needed a model and had no one to hand..so i had to draw my self! ugh.

for the benefit of my poor tutors i made the eyes slighlty bigger, and the nose a touch smaller, as you do :)

A first mock for my uni project based on the ycn ted baker brief...I've adapted it to suite my negotiated project, so it's not exactly the same. Needs a lot of work!

new cushion cover design at http://www.envelop.eu/shop/designers/p/detail/jennifercostello

http://bluebirdisaliar.blogspot.com/

Have a look at this blog, the creator is a textiles design/management student and I cant wait to see what she comes out with! I love the black and white designs...

This is a mock-up for a uni project to make in store illustrations and installations for paperchase...this would probably go behind the till, and would be large scale. I want to put some paper mobiles above it, suspended from the ceiling. I need to work on the typography, but it's a nice quote:) William Wordsworth. I used neon paint but it doesn't show up :( I think I'm going to have to make it a bit less sickly looking ...

I used the pattern bellow for the kleenex 'design your own cube' competition. It closes on saturday so be quick! This is a link to my design but you can enter here somewhere too.

http://www.mykleenexcube.co.uk/cube/DLedXpZM2VJBxu13c

making patterns ( or procrastinating maybe...)

I've just uploaded this new design to www.envelop.eu . It's a bit graphicy but I like it. Looking forward to doing some really nice stuff and making a collection when I've eventually cracked uni work. Anyway...have a look on the site there is some really lovely stuff...my fave designers are KEROZEN, Jackie Bos, Sretan BOR, Sally illustration and Laura Lamoratta

a note book design maybe......

a work in progress maybe..

http://negprojectjennifercostello.blogspot.com/

A new blog for my negotiated project, any comments are very much welcomed, I might be updating this one more regulary for a while.

napkins

loads of nice 'illustrated cotton basics' at http://www.envelop.eu/

you can become a member and upload your designs for bags, cushion covers, aprons etc

a bit of testing/try outs for uni stuff

colour problems again..Original on flikr or myspacex

my dog / Perranporth beach in Cornwall /business cards

some work for a zine...fingers crossed

this could do with a background..dont know what! there are some really nice shoots in the asos men magazine that's just come out so thats where this has come from, the photographer is Donald Christie. The Prints are really nice so I might do some more

Have a look at cut click, an online magazine. They have been nice enough to put a couple of pieces of my work in the 11th issue :) and there is lots of good stuff in there

www.cut-click.co.uk

tea party, inverted again! actual image on myspacex

another party hat cat from a while a go. its actually yellow....:( you can see the actual version on my myspace illustration page. myspace has some of my work on because nothing gets altered during the upload. blogger alters everything for some reason....

Brixham

peacocks :)

work from first year, same thing really. image was based on the song lyrics, ''hold your colours against the wall'' by pendulum

twiggy. this was from about a year ago. her ears are wrong lol but i thnk i was trying to work out how to do bold colour and pencil together.

going to see blur

mickey

a bit of scrap, brown paper has come through luckily..pastels and pen

everything i do on brown paper goes blue....??!!

new banner... which is going to change so excuse the crap photo!

jewels. i don't know how to colour this? I want to do it all in monoprint like lightblue lines and then use a bit of paint or chalk..don't know..

party hat cat

purse, all in pencil.

finished work for ycn style brief....

sketch book stuff

New scanner!

puggy

This was work for a ycn brief, but changed my mind about the concept...loads of bags and loads of shoes basically.....

currently awaiting a scanner so no more photographs!

mug

Perfume

shoe

soap

another bird....they don't get boring....