Winter Wildlife Designs: Work in Progress

Winter Wildlife Work in Progress,
by Clare Walker, BoundingSquirrel.Com

Hello there, and hope you're doing OK out there.

This week's post is a short one...And one of the, "this is how it really is", variety.

In truly organised design-land, I'd now be presenting you with all of this year's winter designs (which, I'd probably have finished, oh, around last Christmas sometime, at the latest :-) ).

Please understand, I have the greatest respect for people who can work like that...I'm just not one of them.

Instead, my head, and the PC, is still full of mostly finished wildlife paintings, almost-there motifs, lots of backgrounds, and a stag who currently can't quite decide whether he wants to be here for this year or not.

So, I thought I'd 'fess up to the reality of that in this post (as well as giving you a sneak peek of at some of the cute creatures who've made an appearance so far).

I'm going straight back into into now, but am still wishing you a good week.

In haste-but thank you so much  for checking in here.

More soon.

PS. If you are looking for winter wildlife designs right this minute, how about these birds, or cute winter  mice on a printable for crafters?

PPS and update: You can see what became of at least two of these creatures, here

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Free Winter Snowberries Illustration for the In-Between Time...

Hello there

Hope you're doing well, even if we have now gone into that strange time that isn't quite Christmas, and not quite New Year.

Which, by the way, gave me me the idea for illustrating and popping up these snowberries. The Computer Man looked over my shoulder as I was picking out an image for this post, and agreed that it was "wintery, but not Christmassy". So it should be perfect if you need it, to drop a hello or thank you to someone, online or off. Just click, right-click or tap to download it, and feel free to use it in any of the many ways you can under my angel policy.

Thanks so much for being here this year. More soon.

Update and PS: These snowberries are now available to buy as a printable card front at CraftsuPrint. Click here for details.

Whimsical Rainbow Winter Birds In Birch Trees Pattern (and Day 95/100)

 Following on from yesterday, it turns out that those rainbow birds did have a little more adventure to go, but not in quite the way I had thought.

I didn't add more to the picture, but I did turn it into a pattern. Which ends up looking like this... in my Redbubble shop...

And the nifty thing is, they're a lovely way to treat yourself and brighten up the winter, rather than being just for any festive season.

Update 22/12/20: The design is now also available on fabric:

Rainbow Winter Bird Fabric
by BoundingSquirrel

More tomorrow.

Day 94: Whimsical Rainbow Birds and Winter Birches Digital Painting (Work-in-Progress)

Day 94 and these birdies were inspired by my watching a "squirrelly" video on Youtube (oh, I know how to live...oh, yes...;-) . In one "background" shot, there were also snowy Scandinavian birch trees, full of birds. 

The birds in the video were not of course, anything like these colours, being mostly small and brown, bless them. 

But watching that made me think about what it would be like if they *were* rainbow-coloured, (like my robin from Day 85)...

Which was just a hop, skip and a jump (or in this case, flutter) away from adding in rainbow  splats too, and more snow, twigs and trees, And before you know it (really fast, by my standards) this digital painting in Krita was the result.

Am still calling it work-in-progress though. Am leaving it here for now, but suspect there's something more to come here.

More tomorrow.
 

The "Winter Festivals" Collection Is *New*...

 Today's offering is my "Winter Festivals Collection"...

( Click here to see the collection on Redbubble .)

This "Winter Festivals" design is  a first for me because it's much more modern in design, and came about in unusual way. In a nutshell: I dreamt about this pattern. True, my recreation of it is not nearly as complicated or ornate as the one in my dream. But the idea of it, being the essence of all winter festivals, has somehow still come through. And gives you the chance to have décor  and gifts that work for a longer and wider winter and festival season than just Christmas.

As ever though this is still part of the "100 day" project...Day 87, to be precise. And there'll be something different  tomorrow.

Day 69/100: Look What Turned All Christmassy...

 Day 69/100...And in a surprise turn of events, these motifs became Christmassy. (I was expecting an Autumny colour-way to emerge, but these motifs were having none of it).

More tomorrow, when with luck, there may be a finished design.

Day 68: "Cosy Cartoon Pattern," Stage One Sketches (Work in Progress)

 Remember a while ago I promised honesty about how long things take? Well, here it is again.

This is just a collection of drawings and sketches  of outline shapes and ideas. They're for a possible pattern featuring cosy motifs, but in a cartoon style. Which is all I can offer up today, as have also got some other projects going on that are still under wraps.

Watch this space. More tomorrow.

Daily Illustration #29: Crow Experiment in Digital Charcoal

Not sure about how this experiment with digital charcoal in CraftArtist 2 turned out. Not as upbeat as normal, that's for sure.

Still, you live and learn.

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New Illustration: Winter Woollies

"Winter Woollies"

Winter woollies. They might or might not be the start of the "small-amount-of-art-every-day," I've promised myself since ever.  (It's so good for muscle memory, for one thing).

 But *have* signed up to  the "Creative Every Day" 2016 challenge as an incentive.

"Creative Every Day 2016 Logo

Though am thinking that as am planning just to draw, 100 days might be a better target.

We shall see...




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Winter Berries Digital Painting

Yes, it's another digital painting, "Winter Berries" this time.There are enough images for a calendar, now...

But in the meantime, it's also available on gifts and products like this one:

Red Winter Berries Phone Case & Laptop Skin Design by BoundingSquirrel
Browse other gift ideas designs on Zazzle.