Week 2 in Sketches 2014

This will get me all caught up then. From here on, I'll post the week's sketches on each Saturday evening. As always, comments are welcomed. 

12th January 2014

13th January 2014

14th January 2014

15th January 2014

16th January 2014

17th January 2014

18th January 2014

pink neon kitties

New illustration just listed in the shop! Playing around with kitty faces and shapes, obviously not necessarily relying on realism. Who needs realism, anyhow? Which is your favourite?

some detail -- MEOW

partial to antennae

Just a little something because I realise it's been over a week since I posted anything. Lots of things in the works this past week, some of which include snails and more snails! A friend of mine has asked me how I feel about drawing them -- with a view to possible commission work. Not having had much practice in drawing mollusks at all, I started in on it! I might be hooked...

Which do you prefer: with colour or without? Of course, the colours can be nicer... this was just a tester.

I always was partial to antennae.


** (added March 27) new colour scheme to reflect Zoe and Kaylea's comments below! 

The Carrot Thief - Part 1

When ideas are coming fast and furious... best strike when the iron's hot, no?

ideas & plant back to life

I'm very much at the risk of having more than a week go by without doing a post here... so forgive me if this is utterly boring, but I've basically grabbed what was right in front of me and took a few snaps! Above is some detail of a little piece that I've had lying around for a while (the plant of fish/plant/book mini-post) and couldn't decide what to do with. Since I've been painting on watercolour blocks, (pads of of paper that are sealed on all sides), when I have a painting sitting there doing nothing it's not such a good thing because I can't get to the paper below it until it's finished! I do have several blocks available at one time, but having anything sitting for too long makes me feel stagnant and unproductive. 

If you have no idea why I'd want to use a block of paper if it restricts me this way, well,  for me it's as simple as this: the sealed block relieves impatient artists like me the hassle and time constraint of stretching the paper before using. They are more expensive for the convenience, but I tend to be much more prolific without the nuisance of stretching, therefor value for money.

So, while I was sitting in front of my computer needing something to do during the multiple time-outs and pauses while watching Syracuse University beat Kansas State in the NCAA tournament, I started filling in dead space around the little plant and berries with pen and ink. I quite like the effect, and I'm now just deciding whether to go at it with watercolour again.

Above are two little snippets from my BBE ideas book -- (the moleskine squared notebook that I carry around with me to jot things down wherever I am). I definitely want to do something with the bunny idea, because it still makes me smile to see that little doodle. The triangle ladies will need some more thinking about, but that was one of those things that came to me in the middle of the night so I wanted to get it on paper.

Haven't gotten quite as much as I wanted to get done this weekend, but there's still time in the day yet!