Doodling away

More face fun

more digital doodling

More digital fun

Still playing away, decided to add some architecture for a quickie observational challenge. I'm enjoying using a reductive method in digital, kind of a virtual scratchboard!

Is it just me or is The Red Balloon one of those things that bores the snot out of you as a child and then as an adult you totally love it?

Illustration Friday: Prehistoric.

quick and dirty, but may be worth expanding.

More Cat Faces.

I used a pencil sketch as the basis for this again, this time much more digital layering and coloring. I was laboring under the delusion that digital is faster. Digital is not faster - the digital advantage is simply having the world's most awesome eraser at your disposal.

Time Spent with a Cat

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
-Colette.

 

Pencil, digtally inked and cleaned up.

I'm really enjoying this little visual journey.  Yeah it looks different from my other work, but I think it's a logical place to go based on everything else. I'm not done making lots of messes, though.  Wonder if I can make it all make sense together.

Doing the opposite....

I set up a challenge for myself - I don't usually doodle in a way I find visually rewarding, I don't usually use line or fail to use layers, and I don't tend to work in a very graphic way.

So: HB pencil only in my sketchbook.

Scanned, digitally colored - I was going for the look of a poorly registered print, somewhat.

Valentine faces!  Thinking of you (plural) - me plural making art, all my various visual personae duking it out to see whose style will actually win.

Bon Appetit : Digital Collage

Quick and dirty digital collage for the Collage Circus group on Flickr.  The size is smallish, as the images were for online resolutions.

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Collage Circus posts a collage sheet for the group on a weekly basis, and everyone can submit a digital or analog version of what they choose to do with the elements.  Digital collage for me, is a good playtime, just a low-key visual push-up.  Experienced designers will probably find my Pshop skills really poor, but I'm really a rank amateur at this part of things.

 I loved the perversity of the crowned pig right next to the ham loaf recipe in this case.

Credits:

Pig in crown - kellyKautz
Mushrooms - art-e-ology
Background - magpiearts
Hamloaf recipe - sassyarts
Background - magpiearts
Wild roses- t42goller

Rosewood font
Open Source brushes and Custom shapes

Unique Editions: Paperyum @ storenvy.com

I found some wooden shapes with some dimension, and started playing with decorative papers.

Then I started thinking about treating my own art as a collage sheet, using the epson to output different sizes of images from my work and my journals, and treating these as underpaintings.  Wow! This has really had some great results. Deco papers and hand stamping and embellishment, acrylic surface treatment and careful hand alteration and hand painting!

The best part, is that the result is a low cost way for my fine friends and fans to own UNIQUE art that is handmade! Fun!

 

Let's have a look at what's been added:

includes 7gypsies papers, my own art, acrylic, TPC studio stamps.