New Mindbubble Post: Are you ready for the greatest night of the year?
December’s Mindbubble blog post is up, and it’s all about New Year’s Eve! Is it your favourite night of the year, or a terrible, dreaded, let down? Every year is a disappointment in some form or other – House parties getting wrecked, clubs charging extortionate entrance fees, late tubes so you celebrate it 2 miles...
Introducing: Tea & Crayons Illustration Collective!
Very exciting news; I am pleased to announce that I, along with 5 other lovely illustration-y ladies, have formed the new illustration collective, Tea & Crayons. What started as a few offhand comments on twitter turned into a few emails… and suddenly, here we are! It’s been very exciting, and at the moment, we are...
Exciting Happenings: New blog post up at Mindbubble.co.uk
I’m really happy to announce that I now also blog for Mindbubble; an online collaboration community for women aged between 25-50. Mindbubble is a place where women ‘can share ideas, co-create with brands, develop better products and earn cash while doing it.’ I’ve been a member for a while and it’s great, you get the...
Rachel’s Big Website/WordPress Debate: To switch or not to switch?
This is going to a long-ish post so I apologise. It’s one of my rare ‘thoughts spilling out’ posts but I’ll try to keep it interesting. If you’d rather have pretty pictures then…. come back tomorrow. I recently started subscribing to David Airey’s brilliant blog and came across this article: Seven blog mistakes to avoid....
Exciting Happenings: My work featured on CourtesyoftheApocalypse Blog!
I’m having lots of exciting happenings recently. The lovely Laura aka JoiePR on twitter has just started the great Courtesy of the Apocalypse blog (sounds ominous… it’s not! Just full of unsigned bands ~ music & reviews ~ independent businesses/shops ~ art & street art ~ alternative style ~ burlesque and other such awesomeness) and...
Happy Birthday Blog! 3 years old…
I nearly forgot this. My blog turned 3 years old (that’s quite old in blog years, I feel proud) last monday, on the 16th. Hurrah for me! It all started rather inconspicuously towards the end of my first year at uni, here, as a way for me to publish my university illustration work. I then...
Featured: My work on Photo-Nomads.co.uk
A nice surprise the other day was being featured on Photo-Nomads.co.uk. It’s a lovely little blog by Richard & Sue Broom – take a look. Thanks for featuring me guys :)
Nonsensical Spam Project: Bravo
Bonjour! Another nonsensical spam illustration for your perusal and satisfaction. Aha. This one is for the rather wonderfully stupid comment, “Bravo, this brilliant phrase is necessary just by the way”. What brilliant phrase? Bravo for what exactly? and why just? Nonsense, I hear you cry. Well it is. I wanted to do a type-y illustration...
The Daily Ampersand Project: No. 20
I possibly should rename this project as The (Almost) Daily Ampersand project – as I haven’t done a new one for aaages. Definitely not daily anymore. So I’ve taken to numbering them, probably less misleading. So this is number 20, Goudy Old Style Bold in pencil. Lots of strange tendril/hair like things here. This font...
Nonsensical Spam Project: Universal Truth
I’ve been getting more and more nonsensical spam now, which has given me much amusement. The latest comment I got was on This post, scroll down to read it. It literally had me LOL-ing, it’s so ridiculous and yet faintly logical. This is the comment: “The author of rachellewisillustration.blogspot.com has written an excellent article. You...
Green Eggs and Spam
I’ve been getting a ton of spam comments to my blog for a while now: As you can see, it’s mainly in Chinese. Which is annoying. Well, spam is just annoying in general. And, strangely, it never used to be like this. I never used to get any spam comments. (I never used to get...
Blog Revamp!
This has been in need of a redesign for aaages. My last header has been in residence since 2nd year (aka 2 years ago) and was looking a bit…well, 2nd year-ish. Plus, the name of my blog, ‘the illustrated world of Rachel Lewis’ was too long, annoying, and really silly. I don’t just blog about...
