Fuel
Books fuel my imagination. I know if I read at least an hour a day, I have better sketch book drawings and ideas. Of course, also if I practice more drawing I do too. This is a drawing from my sketchbook. I wanted to create the look like the books were alive and dancing inside my head.
Scattered
I know that it looks blurry, but it wouldn’t fit in my scanner.
I haven’t done an illustration friday in a while, so here goes nothing.
I just felt that most of us, at one point or another have felt scattered. Sometimes we need directions to help us find all of us and to feel whole again. I tried to make it look like a map. The faces that are all connected are just a way to show that universally we have all felt this way some time or another. And it helps to have someone along the way. Hope you like it. I think that I will try to make a better looking one using this same idea. Enjoy!
Mysterious face!
I have a tendency to doodle faces everywhere I go: in the margins of my journal, on the paper I use at work, and on the grocery list I take to the grocery store. I don’t know why, but that seems to be where boredom meets paper for me, hah. Actually, it might be that’s just what we see all the time. Faces. People I don’t know, or really would like to know, but people are everywhere conveying something on their face. Expression on faces is what I really like! And Isaac says I do that really well. So maybe that’s why I lean towards faces because I communicate through expression. And expressing comes in different forms.
This one, on the other hand is abstract and doesn’t seem to have any expression on the face. But everything around him (the shapes) are expressing color and movement to me. So even when our inward expression is somewhat aloof (or “mysterious” as i’ll use the topic word) the environment around us could be vibrant and could be having an affect on us whether we know it or not!
Origami Disguise!
I know that it has been quite some time since I’ve posted any art onto my blog, and also for illustration friday. I think my last entry was probably my best one I’ve done so far for I.F. and received a lot of great comments! Thanks for everyone who did, and sorry I did not respond to them. For this week, as I try to get my priorities straight (art and drawing being one of them, but sadly sometimes gets tossed aside), I decided to practice with collage, with color, and shapes. I think this helps me start “seeing” creatively again. And working fast, so that I can go onto something else in my sketchbook to help me wake up that part of my brain I’ve been neglecting.
So as I brought out my art box, I noticed that I had some little squares of origami paper which I have been saving and saving because I just loved the patterns on them. In fact, I might just scan some of the paper so you can see how beautiful the paper is. I’m not good at making origami at all, not near as good as my awesome boyfriend. He can figure it out, and I just can’t keep my attention on trying to fold perfectly long enough.
I thought, “hey, I’m going to finally use you paper, even though I don’t really want to cut you up!” and I used the topic this week, “disguise.” I thought that the fans on the paper kind of looked cool to try and hide the mouth (if you notice on the red paper). Well, I hope this helps me create some more collage and also draw some more today!
beautiful origami paper!
Food...a gesture of love
I love to cook, it’s a gesture of gratitude for the ones I love and I want to fill their bellies with delight!
Remedy
The remedy is to draw, when you are feeling low or insecure:
(it got cut off by my scanner because it wouldn’t fit all the way. For Illustration Friday.)
At least, that is what’s helping me these days. Instead of emotional outbursts about fears and jealousies and whatnots, I just tend to refocus my thoughts and draw something that’s going to take me away from those horrid thoughts. I think that it works, unless I get into one of those moods about my drawing. Which happens a lot. But lately, I just draw what I’m thinking about and don’t care who sees it. And that’s the attitude to have. I used to think, “well, I’ve taken art classes everything I do should look up to par with other artists, etc. ” so I would give up when something wasn’t really perfect. And I think that practicing helps and when you don’t practice and give up, then you can’t really be trying. And at least I’m trying. And enjoy my code mushitudes these days instead of insecure attitudes.
Midsummer Night
A Midsummer Night
When all the Jasmine are blooming!
Here is the second Jasmine I did using some acrylic paints/colored pencil and ink.
Midsummer Night Jasmine
Luna the moon dog launches into space
"Shadows"
I just went with it.
This is what came out as I read the topic for illustration friday. Although it started out as the shadows on the ground were suppose to look kind of like roots, so they could be one and the same. But I just kept adding more, and then added colored pencils. And leaves. And it was suppose to be set at night, but that didn’t happen. So, I guess I just went with it. Pretty satisfied with it. I hope to eventually get some watercolors and some better pens. I hope you like it!
Asleep
For Illustration Friday:
Here’s Luna the Moon Dog! When she is not out finding adventures on the moon, she is usually sound asleep, dreaming about…you guessed it, SQUIRRELS! Typical dog you know…
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