This was one of my favourite Victoria Stitch images from the book I created on my degree. I was pleased with this book at the time and I showed it to quite a few publishers, but I was always told that Victoria Stitch was too mean, too adult, too spiky for a children’s picture book. Poor Pink Rabbit! (He is much happier with Isadora Moon now but shh don’t tell Victoria Stitch that!) You can see she was still quite an angry, spiky, mean character – because that’s just who she was by then. Victoria Stitch evolved over time into this second incarnation. I had cured myself of the pink hair phase (by dying my own hair pink for a while and then getting bored with it) so Victoria Stitch had also got bored of the pink hair! (Obviously I’m back to loving the pink hair now!) She now had black hair and, instead of traditional fairy wings, she had black bat-like wings. By that point she had changed quite a bit and grown with me. Three years later, on my degree, I redid my Victoria Stitch book. I ended up writing and illustrating a picture book about her on my foundation course for my final project. She was (and still is) very special to me. So I channelled all these energies into Victoria Stitch and she became like my alter-ego. Well, I was a teenager! I also remember feeling very free and excited during that period in my life. Personality-wise she was a mean, dramatic character, probably because I was feeling quite angsty at the time. Victoria Stitch combined my love of fairies with my love of Gothic style The Character of Victoria Stitch …And so Victoria Stitch was born, along with her Pink Rabbit sidekick. Especially if it was juxtaposed with something sweet. Everything I drew/owned had to be a fairy. I had pictures of cupcakes stuck all over my walls. I was obsessed by the idea of having pink hair. Alternative people who I had discovered on myspace – especially girls with pink hair.I was eighteen at the time and I remember the kinds of things that inspired me back then: The story of Isadora Moon begins with Victoria Stitch She was a naughty fairy type creature and she had a pink rabbit who went everywhere with her. She first came into being during my Art Foundation course ten years ago. That name may sound familiar if you’ve checked out my Blogspot. Victoria Stitch is one of my favourite character I have ever created. The story of Isadora Moon begins with a character called Victoria Stitch. I can’t believe there are now six Isadora Moon books available! The story of Isadora Moon starts about ten years ago! It seems like a good time to retell the story of Isadora Moon and how she came to be. I can’t believe there now are six books in the Isadora Moon series. It’s only four days until Isadora Moon goes on a School Trip is officially out. What is the story of Isadora Moon’s creation?
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