Day 19: Gingerbread Christmas Food Illustration

 

With apologies once more to those people who may feel that it's waaaay too early to be posting a Christmas food illustration...Believe it or not, I'm actually late for this year with this, and need to work on it now.

And The Computer Man just took a look and declared himself to be feeling hungry after looking at them. Which is good enough for me if I'm ever to get this finished and onto a place where you'll actually see it.

Hope life is treating you well.

More tomorrow.

Day 18: A Silly, But Irresistible Dog Pun

 As you'll already know if you've read many other posts  here, I love to pun when writing.

Then I realised had never really carried this over to illustrations.

Which somehow  combined with the idea of *finally* "working in a series" in a proper *arty* way as is advised by loftier types than me (that idea was cute dog drawings, since you ask).

And this was the result.

Hope it brings some joy. 

More tomorrow.

Day 17 Sketch: Fern in Pen and Watercolour

 

This fern is my Day 15 sketch, and also day three of the Inktober challenge, via the challenge list given by "They Draw and Garden" on Instagram.

Luckily for inner-London living me, it doesn't mean I have to garden, but just produce nature art :-).

More tomorrow.

PS If anyone hs any tips on how to make my photos and scanning look anything like as good as they seem in the actual sketchbook, please let me know. Thanks!

Day 16: The Finished Fish Pattern

 Hello again. Remember those fish motifs from yesterday? (And my commitment last week to show you how long things really take?). Well, both of those things combined mean that Day 16 involved me simply making and finishing the fish pattern, including-eventually, finding just the right background colour.

As you might expect for a fishy pattern, it looks great on a shower curtain..

But it also makes a fun and whimsical floor cushion, 

and very cute on pouches (in various sizes-great by themselves or to act as a "wrapper" for other gifts).

Have fun with this-the full selection of items bearing this design is here.

More tomorrow.

Day 15: Fish Motifs and the Start of Inktober

 

Day 15 involves more fish, but this time co-ordinating themselves a bit better, colour-wise, and hopefully looking more goldfish and koi-carpish, for an upcoimg pattern.

In case you're thinking there's something really fishy going on here (yeah, pause to groan, that's fair :-) ), I'd been thinking about a fish pattern for a while, but was spurred into action by it being, not just Day 15 of my own minnow-like daily sketch challenge (OK, time to call the pun police...) but day one of the huge online art challenge that is Inktober. And Day One's prompt for that challenge is/was "fish".

And if you're thinking, "Isn't there some controversy around Inktober this year?", yes, you're right, But as I don't know the ins and outs of it and only want to enjoy pen and wash as normal, my thinking this year is simply to enjoy it, and to take advantage of the very many prompt lists for the event as and when they sound fun, as a way of being able to travel alongside more artists and designers, and so make my own 100-day daily challenge feel less daunting.

(And yes, for the purists, I know that some people tut at the idea of adding colour to an Inktober sketch. But art without colour? I won't say it *never* happens here, but it's rare).

Does all that make sense? I hope so. In any event, watch out for these fishy folk on a pattern near you soon.

More tomorrow.