Throwback Thurday: Book O' Doodles

ALRIGHT. So this isn't really a throwback....its more like Oh My Lanta, what did I do!!! WHAT HAPPENED!!! LET ME FIX THIS QUICK kinda moment.

In the recent past I accidentally deleted my Youtube account - well, half intentionally because my playlists were getting out of control and I wasn't really doing anything with it besides hoarding videos about EVERYTHING so I might as well start a fresh. Since I didn't do anything with Youtube on regular basis, I totally forgot about the two videos I had on there, both I really was rather fond of making - and I wouldn't have noticed had someone not asked me about the missing videos ....!! I managed to find one of two - my favourite thankfully.

This was awesome fun.
 In 2012, I discovered bunch of talented people that gave new meaning (at least for me) to doodling and I was uber inspired and HAD TO TRY IT SOMEWHERE..... smallish in case it turns out badly. I had a tiny 3.5 x 5" ish Moleskine planner a thoughtful friend had gifted me that I didn't know what to do with(it was just such small space), and tried my hand at copying some of the awesome artworks, mostly from Maykel Nunes. This took sooo much longer and so much more work than I thought it would!! It is true what they say; the best way to learn , is to try to copy the work of one you admire.

Although I don't think doodling is quite for me - this was an excellent experiment and I love having a little record of discovering doodle art!!!

Freebies - mermaid

Okay.
I cannot beeeeeliiieve this isn't on here... I came about this mishap when I told a friend of mine to check out the blog for a line art I made a whilllle back following and incredibly well written and WONDERFUL BOOK by J "Neondragon"Peffer called "How to draw fantasy charecters" which I borrowed from the library;my  drawings are all a modified version of her pieces which makes me feel that I can distribute my version as I see fit. In general, I like to give my characters unrealistic amounts of hair because I like working on them and because I, personally, have unrealistic amount of hair according to my hairdresser.

This book was such an inspiration for me to start drawing again, that I would highly recommend it to anyone who  is pondering about picking up that old art kit your parents got you for art class way back when.  Just look at it - it's so pretty I love the colours, the background and the composition.

Although I made a few of the linearts I only ever got enough gull to try to color the mermaid - I coloured it in markers (crayola mostly - the one to the right), water colors and pencil crayons(one to the left). You are welcome to use the line art and have a ball with it as you see fit , like Lynda did here .

Just click on the picture for the lineart:)

Cinderella - Major project #2 - Grimms brothers

Whoa!
This was a tough little project - mainly because I had to work with little or no colour and that is just not something I've done before.
This is the 2nd piece of a three part series I am making for an illustration class I am taking - the first explored the Cinderella story by Disney and this one was based on the Grimm brother's version = they really are a set of grim dudes, let me tell ya! While reading this story it came to me that this is probably one of the few versions of the fairytale which deals with the idea of being punishment and I really wanted to show that through. I wanted to create a grim piece of black and white with a shocking statement of punishment by blood; where a dove is the deliverer of punishment and a bush is the source of magic - and this is what came out.

the writing says "As you sow, shall you reap" in Hindi.
You can see the working process here: http://youtu.be/20S1yYyTaHo

Major project :Cinderella - Disney

I am SUPER excited to post this here... it feels like the very first well thought out and completed piece straight out of my brain even though I have made a few other pieces in the recent. This one is definitely the biggest size I've worked on so far.

I enrolled in an illustration class recently to keep myself sane and busy during the chaos of my life. We have to pick a theme of sorts and make 3 illustrations of it - after pulling my hair out and driving my instructor insane I settled on the theme of Cinderella. One, because to me, the story demonstrates the all-so-easily-forgotten lesson of "good things happen to good people." I feel that this is particularly easy to forget in today's society where we see all around us someone who cuts corners and yet gets to the top while you try to stand by your morals.

We were given free reign except that there should be a reason for any colour used...

Because I am a greedy and tend to bite off more than I chew I envisioned this grandose series which  incorporated Art Nouveau, stained glass colours and still telling you the story of Cinderella in to a tiny 15 x 20" board...which was not quite possible from where I stood. Either way I managed to poop this out:

Unfortunately you can't REALLY see the glitter or the metallic paint but it's there... :(

This is about 15x20" with pencil crayons and watercolours. Thank goodness the watercolour paint came from the dollar store because it has about 7 layers of paint on this thing. I didn't plan out the media as carefully as I had planned the line art and with each layer I made an error which could only be saved by painting the whole thing again.

I wanted the shape to look like a grandfather's clock from afar, with the  each circle depicting a scene from the movie and the characters. There is a light border around the piece done in pencil crayon which gives it a nice frame without being intrusive.

The whole thing - I'm not going to go through each element - leads to that if you keep your chin up, keep your eye on the goal and work towards it honestly, miracles can happen.

I may do a little vid to shoe the glitter. XD OR maybe, the video will have all 3 pieces...?

Due to the many layers of paint the poor illustration board became severely warped, so I decided to paint the back with leftover acrylic paint to compensate or cancle out the warping -which failed. I learned later that if you put a huge "X" and a "+" on the back with gesso, it helps with the warping (actually I hate to mention it but my teacher had mentioned this helpful tip, and like a good student I wrote it down, but like the genius I am forgot all about reviewing my notes filled with tips from my instructor when I was working on this pieces)


Hope you like! there are two more to come so stay tuned!

XO

All alone

2013 is the year where I start completing some of my projects....

Here is one I started a while back - in water colours. I really liked the way it came out and I wanted to try it out in various medium like acrylic, markers and pencil crayons to see how each differ.
However I wasn't able to re-create it in paint which was discouraging and the project sat on the back shelf of my mind.
I mean this piece...depicts for me the moment where you're so into what it is that you are doing that everything else just fades away into the void and it's just you, your idea and the paper, floating in space with light which is just bright enough to help you with your cause but nothing else. It's the moment when you realize a good chunk of time has passed since you started working on your piece, even though it feels like only minutes has passed......

Time Flies when you're having fun....you know?


Anyway I finally got around to redoing this piece in markers....
which turned out to be rather nice :)
I MAY attempt to do it in paint again but my ego has taken a beating from the last time I tried (particularly because in high school I considered myself a painter than anything else...)

This is done on some random marker pad  I had lying around that I bought eons ago- it's not quite student grade, I think it's more like kids' grade marker paper(it was $3) and Crayola markers...

Not a fan of the planet being so DARK but oooh well.

Hope you enjoy!