'The inspiration can come from anywhere, i find beauty in most things. A lot of my work is generated from fashion imagery, but i love to create my own ideas from other areas of interest such as music, film, the natural world, past fashions, dreams and utopian worlds.' Abbey Watkins is a young illustrator, from England. She is studying in Textile Design for a Fashion degree at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Inspired largely by fashion imagery, Manchester illustrator and designer Abbey Watkins creates fantastical figural images and kaleidoscopic textile patterns. Combining pencil drawing with digital coloring techniques, Watkins' images of beautiful women with mystical curiosities or dreamlike disfigurements look almost like excepts from one of Alexander McQueen's fashion shows.

INeedAGuide put us onto the works of Abbey Watkins this morning, a really great mixture of Native American inspired illustrations and the multiplicity of personality. We focused on her Confuse the Spirit series, but we also wanted to show other sketches and completed works of the Manchester, UK based artist.

'The illustrations were inspired by the myths and legends of  Native American culture; confusing the bad spirits by not being able to pin point the body to infiltrate the mind. I was also inspired by their use of peyote and transcendent spiritual visions.' Abbey Watkins on her Confuse the Spirit series.