May 9th:
The finished map. I used a paint pen and the stencil created yesterday to stipple the white continents on black cork board.
Daily Art: World Map Stencil
May 8th:
What was a map is now a stencil. That was a lot of cutting...
Daily Art: Nathan's Dragon
May 7th:
A little more work on the page of my cut-up sketchbook that my nephew drew the initial image on.
Daily Art: Card #15
May 6th:
A little drawing of a fennec fox on a playing card.
Daily Art: World Map - Stage 1
May 5th:
I am painting a map of the world on cork board for my sister. I grabbed a free map image off of the internet, blew it up to an appropriate size, then cut it up into individual images sized to print on a standard printer in Photoshop. The above image is of the map printed, trimmed, and taped together. I plan to cut out the continents and use the map as a stencil for painting on the cork board.
Daily Art: More Textures
May 4th:
More progress on the Mother Nature's body textures. I suppose I should start showing these views of her more closely since I'm no longer working so much on the whole spread of images as I am focusing on one angle at a time...
Mother Nature: Body Textures
May 3rd:
I started adding some textures to Mother Nature's front-facing body.
Daily Art: Nature Hair
May 2nd:
Mother Nature has hair now. I'm still just playing around with my ideas for her a lot...
Daily Art: Getting Back to Nature
May 1st:
Back to Mother Nature for May Day. Not a whole lot of progress today: just some side-view dress outlines and layer adjustments.
Daily Art: April
Daily Art: Card #14
April 30th:
This is another playing card that I am supremely happy with. Also, I finally figured out which type of ink works best on the playing card surface: Prismacolor marker ink. Who would have thought it? I certainly would not have imagined that Prismacolor markers would ever have worked better than India ink or permanent Sharpie on such a slick surface, but it absolutely does...
Daily Art: Outlines
April 29th:
I outlined all of my foliage from yesterday to define it and pull it out from the background a bit. I also added a wash of watercolor to the foreground.
Daily Art: Foliage
April 28th:
I added another mushroom and a bunch of leaves, as well as a wash of background color, to my sketchbook page.
Daily Art: Little Blue Mushroom
April 27th:
I drew a mushroom. I really wanted a place to practice drawing some of the details that I want on my Mother Nature character, and I decided that my Cut-Up Sketchbook was the perfect place to do it; so I referenced one of the many inspirational photographs that I've collected on my Mother Nature board on Pinterest and put this little mushroom on the page.
Daily Art: Cut-Up Sketchbook Again
April 26th:
I decided that I wasn't particularly happy with the "finished" version of this page, so I used my white opaque marker to tone down the dark colors in the background of the image.
Daily Art: Silhouettes
April 25th:
I put down some basic color on the character and her clothing. I'm not working very quickly on this character because I'm planning to make her quite complex and I still have a few too many ideas bouncing around in my head to nail down all of the details yet.
Daily Art: Mother Nature Begins
April 24th:
I started the digital work on my Mother Nature character today, but I didn't get very far. I was kind of having an off-day where nothing felt like it was working right...
Daily Art: Mother Earth Character
April 23rd:
My only real work today was a little bit of photo adjustment and layout. I drew these basic turn-around outlines of a character that I've been working on designing for awhile last summer, and now I'm feeling like I want to get back to it.
Daily Art: Card #13
April 22nd:
Back to cards again. I'm extremely happy with this one.
Daily Art: Party Invitations
April 21st:
This is probably the most basic graphic design that I have ever done. My sister is throwing my nephew a Minecraft-themed birthday party, and she asked me to put together these simple invitations. I grabbed the images off of the internet and laid them out with the text in Photoshop. (This project was so simple that I didn't even bother with InDesign, which I normally prefer for projects combining image with text.)