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I had so much fun last week with paper cutting, here's some more.
I asked my daughter for animals which started with the letters from my name. So, in case you can't work them out they are:
Kangaroo, antelope, T-Rex, hyena puppy, arthropod, rooster, iguana, narwhal, electric eel.
I cut them freehand, with no sketches or drawings.
Each was stuck onto an A4 sheet and stitched together in photoshop.
*edit: this was picked for the picks! Amazed again! There were so many completely awesome animal illos this week too!
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Brace yourselves - it's very sad looking week!
I always intended to do a portrait for this challenge. I didn't think it would be a self portrait, but as luck would have it I had a little bit of bad news this week and it was enough to enable me to pose for a selfie and then paint it.
For my first picture this week I started with one of my little round doodle people hiding under a table with a teddy. I used oil pastels - I have no idea how most people use these, but I am learning they don't layer well and certainly don't cope with lighter colours on top of darker ones.
Oh yes - this week I mostly had trouble with noses.
Up date: my self portrait was chosen to be in this weeks picks. My heart skipped a beat when I saw it was included. See the whole list:
Melancholy Picks on 52 week illustration blog
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So this was harder than it seemed, or at least harder than a carefree prompt would suggest - being deliberately and self-consciously whimsical seems as wrong as telling everyone you are quirky. Surely that is for other people to notice for themselves?
My first illustration is based on a picture I remember from my childhood in the 1970's. It was a small picture, quietly filling wallspace in the background of Mindy's apartment in Mork and Mindy. I have always drawn birds based on this shape. I bet no one else even noticed it when Mork was calling Orson.
I drew the outlines of the sun and the bird and the rest just sort of came to me.
Pencils from WHSmith on A4 copier paper.
This one uses little characters who have individually appeared on my greetings cards in the past, but never together. I wasn't sure what their context was going to be, even after I had finished them. I wanted them to jumping around and clouds just didn't seem to be right and a trampoline would have had too severe edges to it - so I plumped on a bed, which felt like a a mixture of the two.
There WERE ten in the bed - what's happened?
Watercolour paint and paper. A3.
The colours aren't quite right as it's A3 and my scanner is A4. I took the picture with my phone and editted in Snapseed.
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I started with lots of ideas this week but it's the end of term and Easter, so I have had little energy for anything and even less time.
Here's the first: a dandelion seed transported by its own little parachute.
Fine liner on plain paper
*update and cue happy dance* this picture is one of the picks for the challenge blog!
Transport picks #illo52weeks blog
Sticking with the nature theme, here are a family of geese - the parents are transporting their goslings from the bushes along the path and to the lake for a swim.
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I had loads of ideas for this week and pretty much stuck to just one!
So here are some doodles - they started as a range of children's characters I developed a few years ago for greetings cards, t-shirts and bags.
Recently revived, my doodles were used in last week's green challenge showing how they have developed into a type of caricature. They have become children's teachers, wedding couples and families on Christmas cards - here is a range of the characters in their dressing up outfits and a more developed unicorn costume.
