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Really excited to get a graphic designer job soon :) There was meant to be text on this but it disappeared and I don't know why technology is so ignorant to my needs.
'Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.'
Malcolm X
A gradient scarf created to highlight how gender stereotypes are forced on us since birth when children are dressed in either blue or pink according to their sex.
2013
Hand knitted natural wool
15x5 inches
Melly Loves Gradients BIG SHOWBIZ NEWS GOSSIP UPDATE SNEAK PEAK INTO THE LATEST EPISODE OF ‘KREEPING UP WITH THE KARDASHIANS’! I emailed E! to ask for some footage for the upcoming series of KUWTK in order to write a piece for the Guardian’s TV and Film section. They of course complied and sent me a juicy slab of reality TV low fat, zero flavour, quorn meat!!!
First off, I did some background research about North West by heading straight to the Daily Mail website. The first result was entitled ‘North Korea may have technology to fire missile that could reach the U.S. West Coast, says South Korea’. Make of that what you will; this is a gradients blog not a conspiracy theory forum, godammit.
After researching in vain for hours and hours, I watched the episode where were treated to glimpses of Kimye’s domestic bliss. Around the 8.08 mark, however, things turned sour when the kamera kaught footage of KANYE WEST KISSING A MAN. I screenshot the clip and placed it in the northwest corner in front of a gay pride gradient in order to show how totally OK I am with this and not at all surprised. I thought of a joke to express my fake surprise though-‘ Sorry Kanye I didn’t realised you were affiliated with Cock-a-fella records?!’ Kanye then goes on a tirade, exclaiming how he was Bound 2 be gay and that he wrote ‘I am God’ as his coming out song (God being an acronym for Gay, Oh Damn!).
Over in Melancholy Korner, we have Kim Kardashian, krying about this dire state of affairs. Mid way through the episode Kim kries to the kamera, and expresses her overwhelming grief about the affair, her extreme weight gain and inability to kare for something without a spray tan or ability to pout. She takes North into her arms and proceeds to EAT HER whilst instagram videoing herself. She writes the kaption ‘if thers no babie, thers no babie wait, write!?’ In her hormonal state, she konvinced herself that she could quite literally get rid of her baby weight by ingesting the poor child in one fell swoop. Klassic Kim. I chose to use a klip art baby instead of a real one because as an artist and general kool dude, I don’t kondone the photographing of celebrity children. These angels shouldn’t be subjected to limelight without konsent, regardless of who there parents may be. I did try googling ‘half Persian, half black baby’ only to be faced with kopious photos of kats. K’mon google mate, its not that hard of a job. Then I only bloody realised that Kim is half Persian herself so I googled ‘half black, half Persian baby’ and found this little nugget of joy which I placed in the left hand korner. Then I only bloody realised that Kim is actually Armenian which I think is the same thing (think is the same thing being a euphemism for NOT GIVING A SHIT).
There was a lot more to the episode including a bit where they managed to finish paying off all the actor who played papparazos in the Kanye walking into a sign stunt. A bit where Kim gave herself a placenta facial, followed by the realisation that she had fact eaten a child. Without getting the exclusive OK! photos shot first.
Komment is free.
Working on a project that will single handedly get me every job in the world! And it has nothing to do with this gradient so think again if you're thinking of stealing my work and passing it of as your own, you Steven Stealgal! You Jamie Thiefsten! You Phony Blair! You Plagiari-sir Paul McCartney/Alex Ferguson. You Emulater With Jools Holland! You Burgle Sharkey! You Robber-to Cavalli. You Imitate Moss/Kimitate Kardashian! You Tim Pinchin! You Nab-bi Hyman Krustofsky! You Copycat Deeley!
Ok, I'm just so embarrassed right now. I'm blushing. Some put an egg on my face and watch it fry cos I am REDDD!!!!! All this because today's masterPEACE is about...
ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AKA your 2nd favourite tumblr artist but your 1st favourite tumblr artist (ethnic/under5 foot 5 catergory) .
This self-portrait originally started off as a response to the quote:
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."-Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968).
Don’t think I chose this certain quote because Helen Keller talks about looking despite being blind (I did but I don’t want you to think I’m blind-ist!! My reputation would be in tatters!!!) I analysed this quote for hours and came to the conclusion that we are looking the world straight in the eyes when we bend our heads down….but we are looking at the UNIVERSE when we look up so Helen’s comment is unfortunately invalid(I reiterate…I am not blind-ist. My favourite show was blind date!!!).
Then I kinda got distracted cos I started thinking about eyes loads and how my eyes have been well weird recently and how I keep blaming it on “hayfever’ when really its because I’ve been going to bed without taking my makeup off. And before you boys stop reading because you’re like’’ URGH CBA, I HATE MAKEUP BECAUSE THERE’S NO MEAT IN IT” I urge you all to persevere. And anyway, some makeup is tested on animals so I guess some animal died in vain/suffered for it if that satisfies your sensational thirst for blood. !!!!!Reblog if you think men are savages!!!!!!!!
I’ll be the first be to admit that this piece is conceptually weak. The way I see it is that everyone is allowed to indulge themselves sometimes. If you would like to be indulged and have your own gradient portrait made by MellyLovesGradients please don’t be afraid to ask!!! I have a long summer ahead of me and cryptically pointing out flaws in your character through the art of gradients would be my pleasure!
I've got a crit tomorrow about a project based on this blog and I'm terrified because I've created some 4/10 work and I'm just well scared because sometimes you doubt yourself which is really weird because why doubt yourself when the only thing you can be is yourself and why even doubt the only thing you can be because that's just so dumb so there's no point even doing it so we should all just stop and reblog this post and celebrate creativity and parents who fund your 25 double g&ts a week habit cos drinking clear spirits provide an excellent juxtaposition to your ridiculously bleak present and murky future.
Sometimes its easy to be surrounded by beautiful gradients but feel more inclined to fall into the black hole of despair inside you. Luckily there is that lil tinge of peach on the edge (refer to g&ts point above) and the fact that if you squint a little (THEN SET YOUR EYEBALLS ON FIRE) a mcdonalds uniform doesn't look so bad and you could deffo get used to the free burgers after you've finished crying into someone's XL diet coke (diet cos tears are calorie free FYI!!!!!!)
BYEE!!!! XOXOXOXO
Someone asked me to create a masterpiece. Of Eddie Vedder wearing a gradient party hat. SO I DID IT.
If you want me to make you something, I guess I can do it for a small fee (100 kisses).
Everyone in pic number one just looks well solemn which is really worrying considering its a wedding!!!!! So I decided to give everyone gradient party hats because gradients are fun, parties are cool and hats are wicked DUH!! Look how excited everyone looks!!!!! Gradient party hats for everyone except ugly people because ugly people just RUIN parties.
Ps if you're thinking you can get your hands on a gradient turban, you better think again sunshine because they are reserved for the groom ONLY.
Apologies for my hiatus, I have been busy attempting to look busy! It's been a busy month, but I'm stopping being busy for one moment to create this and preach my gospel for the month of May.
This is a piece entitled 'being this cute is a hard job, but someone's gotta do it'. JUST KIDDING, I don't need to create art in order to show how bloody cute I AM. This glorious piece is actually named 'Branching Out'. Inspired by recent events in my personal and work life, I have created this to urge you all to go above and beyond, reach for the stars, grab a bull by the horns (then probs run for your life cos u will die xxx). And if death is the price you pay for pushing yourself then so be it cos you'd rather be dead and 50% interesting than be alive and wasting this sweet air by breathing it into your good for nothing lungs.
Don't be that weird little squiggly thing that is so in right now (unfortunately I was unable to craft the trendiest of squiggles because I am surprisingly inept at inDesign). You are a gradient. Your whole body is a gradient. Put your hand to your face and tell me that they're the same colour (which is really weird and annoying when you're buying lipstick and you test it on your hand but it turns out it doesn't even suit you because your face is like 5 shades darker (on a sunny day) and you can't return which just proves lipstick should be free, who is with me?
Back to the topic at hand, branch out. Look at all the gradient boxes flying into thin air!! Look at how much of a laugh they're having!!! Don't you wish you could be a crazy, flying gradient box. Don't you wish you could be an object of my creation? I AM VERY TALENTED YOU KNOW, CMON ADMIT IT. THESE GRADIENTS DON'T APPEAR ON YOUR TUMBLR FEED THROUGH THE PROCESS OF DIVINE INTERVENTION. If God was a real thing, s/he'd definitely take the form of a gradient on this Melly Loves Gradients Blog.
ILLUSTRATOR 30 DAY TRIAL
Every Wednesday morning, my peers and I take part in 'professional practice' where we listen to an esteemed fellow of the design world coo sweet words of design wisdom accompanied by a exquisitely designed power power presentation (PPP to me and you). After each session, we are expected (emphasis on the expected because i'm sure it never happens!!!!!) to produce 300 WORDS reflecting on what we learnt etc etc. This week, I've taken it upon myself to remind you all that we are on an ART course and not an ENGLISH one so all these petty words are in vain. Instead I made a gradient to document my morning, and boy what a morning it was.
*Disclaimer: I won't full names because I don't want said fellows googling themselves and coming across this and feeling well embarrassed about the level of distress they caused me.*
The three shapes in the middle represent our talkers of the day. Zoe, the graphic designer and Alice and James, the illustrators. They sat there, radiating wisdom and life experience. Big Zo dropped the clanger that she graduated like TEN YEARS AGO pretty early on which was good or else I would've assumed she was a jammy little 20 something design prodigy of the world. MY MATE from the house of illustration told us a story of HER MATE accepting a job for £4000 then spotting in a email that the company were laughing their way to the local vodka revs ready to splash out with the excess money they were willing to pay her (NOT HER WORDS EXACTLY). Mr Cardiff in the middle was great, hammering home that extensive knowledge creative cloud was possibly more vital then a right arm.
The black non-gradient object represents me shying away in the corner, flinching at any mention of the word 'job', 'future', 'design' or 'studio'. There was a brief mention of decorating biscuits which offered a brief respite to the torture at hand, but alas, that lasted only seconds. A few precious seconds dripping into what was a huge pool of uncertainty and bad life choices. I turned to a banana and orange I found lurking at the bottom of my bag for comfort but they did nothing but avert my tear filled eyes from the success stories in front of me.
:'(
Merry Christmas from me and my Best Mate. I hope Santa is kind to you this year and I hope that you all make new year resolutions that involve you being less annoying and selfish and I hope that 2013 iS A BLAST even though there is less fun stuff happening ie the Olympics Games 2012 in London and the End Of The World 2012. Keep safe especially at night- just because its Christmas doesn't mean Thieves have a 2 week Holiday. Thieves are always operating in your Local Area because they don't have real jobs and so they must self employ themselves which means working irregular hours (at night).
xxxx
This is a piece dedicated to my little brother and pastel colours x
This is a piece called 'UH OH TIME IS RUNNING OUT'. A lot of people have commented on the ambiguity of this title.
'What does it mean, Melly?' they ask. I tilt my head to the side and smile, partly at their ignorance, partly at my own genius.
'It means what you want it to mean. I am simply the messenger, the newspaper girl, the Hermes of cool tumblr art. My time is running out just talking to you, now see you later.'
You see, time is such a valuable thing. We feel sad at the swift passing of time. We feel anger when it doesn't seem to move by at all. Tick tock goes the clock. Times of sadness, times of gladness, times of madness. The time that you'll never get back after you read this post, will be the time wasted you regret most.
75% bored of this.
My indesign trial ran out a while ago, hence my silence. This a piece to express my frustration, anger and disappointment in the extortionate price of indesign. I'm a talented, hard-working artist. I should get it for free.
Anyway, I had to use OPEN OFFICE, the plebby wannabe younger brother of Microsoft Office (because you have to buy that now!?) and I'm going to admit that I love it. Love it like an old crippled dog with no eyes and no real purpose in life except to fill some boyfriend shaped hole.
SO FUCK CORPORATE CONSUMERISM AND BIG COMPANIES AND THE DAY I DECIDED TO GET A MAC AND FORGOT THAT MS PAINT IS NOT INCLUDED.
(email me if you know any old crippled dogs with no eyes/single boys: [email protected])
The best part of my all inclusive holiday was that I could watch BBC TV whenever I wanted to. I watched a few documentaries about something called the Junebilee- something about the Queen and it being the beginning of June, I think.
Ergo, I created this piece. I wanted to highlight the difficulty of being a female monarch in Britain. From Empress Matilda in the 12th century to Elizabeth now, I feel as if there have always been male oppressive forces at work, whether it be advisors or a Prime Minister and his government. A woman is seen as passive and unfit to rule. When a woman assumes the role of a (often seen as bold, strong willed) male, she is seen as a monster, going against nature.
We may say that we embrace our current Queen now. However this Queen only reigns, not rules.