Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

I've been enjoying spending time doing a lot of fan art recently, but it's mostly been of 90 Day Fiance cast members.

Today I started working on a piece dedicated to J Pop artist Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, I really love her creative and crazy music videos, particularly this one, so I decided to make a print of her vomiting rainbows.

You can see a preview of the print below, as well as free background downloads for you all and some merch available at my redbubble shop.

To use the backgrounds below, simply save the images to your phone/laptop & use them as your background.

Free 90 Day Fiance Backgrounds

Hi Everyone, It's been a while since I've used this blog - but since I've been furloughed I've had the time to work on a few creative projects recently. I've updated my instagram @ponychops and created new instagrams for my footwear work (@chantallavender_footwear) & illustration (@chantallavender_pattern)

90 Day Fiance has quickly become a favourite TV show of mine, I've basically been binge watching it for months, there are some brilliant quotes and really interesting people on the show. Last week I started working on some prints based on the show of my favourite favourites and villains.

I've turned them in to free phone backgrounds for everyone to use - please don't use them on anything else or to sell as I've worked on these to give people a little cheer up in hard times.

Let me know your favourite 90 Day moments and characters below - or even other reality TV shows I should check out.

Simply just download the photos below and add them to your phone wallpaper :) if you do download them it would be great if you could give one of my instagrams a follow @ponychops or @chantallavender_pattern

You can find some more of my designs available to buy in my redbubble shop.

Desk of the Day - 27/02/2014

I feel like I've been so absent from blogging lately! My uni schedule is a little be crazy due to deadlines next week. So I thought I'd share with you a little something I'm working on today.

This pattern is going to be printed onto some leather for the inside of my final shoe this term. I've gone for a rock/geometric theme for the shoe so I wanted the theme to continue on the inside.

CAT Competition entry

Earlier this year CAT footwear launched a footwear competition to redesign their Colorado boot. Being a bit of a boot enthusiast I got a little excited at the thought of designing for such an awesome brand. I love that CAT are now branching out from their famous work boots and collaborating with young designers and I feel so lucky that I had the opportunity to meet the designers and the creative minds behind CAT when they visited my uni.

There's just something about a chunky, work style boot that screams camo at me. So my main influence for these designs was camo with a twist. Don't worry though guys, I threw some kawaii pizzas and hot dogs in for good measure. I've seen a few fashion bloggers styling the Colorado boot perfectly with crazy, colourful fashion choices, so it seemed natural to pull some of that energy into the boot design too.

The design I actually submitted to the competition was the third one, as I think it's a good middle ground between my usual garish, busy, colourful style and CAT's more reserved designs.

I'm still awaiting the competition results and have all my fingers and toes crossed. I'd love to work with CAT some day in the not so distant future.

Remake & Remodel - Bacteria Pattern

Leading on from my post a few days ago, after a couple of days catching up on crazy dog and fat cat cuddles, I'm feeling up to going into more detail on my current project!

This project is called Remake & Remodel. Our brief is to be inspired by a shoe we were given to deconstruct (pictures of this to come!). Deconstructing my shoe got me thinking about what goes into a shoe and what isn't shown. So, inspired by designers that use functioning parts as design features, I started thinking about what is inside us that dosn't show. I ended up looking into DNA, viruses and bacteria, all of which have some fabulous visuals to inspire a project.

Pattern has been a large part of the shoe designs I've been working on for this project, I wanted to add some fun and bright PonyChops style to these shoes. Here's a pattern I've designed and decided on to be in my final shoe design. I'm really pleased with how it's turned out, and think it works well with the style of shoe I've picked.

Remake & Remodel - finally a catch up!

Hey guys, long time no speak! I'm sorry last week was a little empty on the blog. This term at uni is whizzing past and I feel like I haven't even shared any of it with you yet! I'm hoping to organize my time a little better this next couple of weeks so I can share some more work and London life with you.

This term I have two big projects, one named "Remake - Remodel". I'm not going to go into any crazy detail with it yet as I've been sat at a computer for 12 hours today! So here's some dodecahedron patterns that I made for the project. Hopefully I'll get to explain the project to you some more in some future posts, but for now I'm off home to sunny Preston! I can't wait to finally get some fat cat and crazy doggy cuddles! Can you believe I've been away from them almost 2 months now?

High Top Bootception

Yo dawg, I heard you like boots, so I put boots on your boots so you can wear boots while you wear boots. Before you class me as insane from reading the last sentence, read this.

These designs are based on my High Top Boot pattern, because who wouldn't want shoes with shoes on?! They're inspired by Dr Martens, my fav kind of boot. I did these for my portfolio when I found out I had an interview for London College of Fashion, I also got the opportunity to show them to the lovely people at Dr Martens when I had an interview for their factory internship. I'm really happy with how these turned out. I love combining classic shoe designs with busy patterns. I think the lilac ones are my fav but I am a little bit biased towards anything lilac.

You can see more of my shoe designs here.

High Top Boots Pattern Design

A few months ago I had an interview at Dr Martens for an internship. I knew I wanted to put some docs friendly designs in my portfolio, so I designed some fabric with high top boots on it.

I'm really happy with how these turned out, my original intention was to put them on some boot designs (I'll post these at a later date). But I like the way these turned out as just a pattern.

I'm thinking of making them available on Spoonflower soon, what do you think?

More of my illustration work.

Parents & the City - Blog Design

Well guys, It's finally here! The design of Parents & the City is finished and live. This blog design has taught me so much. Mainly that I need to try out wordpress before designing the blog, oops! But it's been one of the most fun projects I've done in a long time.

Since I'm passionate about bright and colourful patterns, I was stoked when Diana gave me free reign to design a New York and baby themed pattern! I was even more excited when she wanted to have a statue of liberty themed logo. Baby Liberty is definitely one of my fav things about this design.

You can find my work in progress on this design here, here and here.

If you would to contact me about blog, logo or pattern design email me at ponychopsshop @ gmail . com

Here's some more details of the new design: