Drawing Drawing Drawing: Bunny Sketches

The last pic is actually on my iPad in Sketchbook Pro. My first attempt in this app!

I'm making it my goal to post more of my sketches and what I've been dappling with in my sketchbook. I think it might motivate me to draw more. How about you? What do you do to draw more?

Behind The Sketch: Monster Love Notecards

Here are some of the sketches I went through exploring the Monster characters for my Monster Love Notecards I recently illustrated.

I am working on sketching more and really building up each character/drawing I come up with. It's hard to be patient when sketching, especially when you have limited time. But by spending more time on it, forces me to sketch more - which is something I need to do!

The Cyclops

 The Witch

The Werewolf

 The Vampire

Hope you get some inspiration out of this!

Sketching Daily

Hey guys,

I've been doing a really fun drawing course which has been forcing me to sketch daily. For anyone interested in the course, it's run by Stephanie Fizer and it's called INSPIRED DOODLES. We're only in Week 2 of the course, but so far I've learned a lot and been enjoying it even more. The best part of it is that every day, Stephanie sends us a word prompt that we have to do a sketch for and this has definitely forced me to get back into basics and continue to sketch.

Now, I work fulltime in a creative field already so my skills in sketching and drawing as well as my inspiration and motivation for it (not to mention time) has greatly diminished. With Stephanie's word prompts, and group's encouragement to keep sketching, I'm setting at least 15min every day to do a quick sketch! And you know what? It's been so much fun! It's very therapeutic too! After a long hard day at work, I look forward to coming home and doing my word prompt sketch!!!

Here is just a peak at some of the sketches I've done so far:

Library

Sunshine

 

Cat

Kawaii

Delicious

 

 

Because of the excitement and thrill of getting back into sketching, I've been sketching more on my on accord. I used to think that because of my lack of inspiration and motivation, and especially since time was of the essence being in fulltime work, when ever I did have some spare time to spend, I thought I needed to create a masterpiece straight away. But it doesn't work that way at all!! I need to sketch, sketch, sketch, and .... SKETCH! I've found that sketching IS the motivation and the inspiration!

If you guys want to follow my daily sketches either follow my twitter or flickr. I'll be posting daily sketches on those networks. You guys can join me too!!

This is my Illustration Friday sketch, the word was duet. I'm not going to submit these to the website because it's only a sketch, but I thought it was another great way to get into sketching. Might share these with you every week.

Duet

Hope you like them :) Let me know what you think!

Mel xx

What's in my Sketchbook - Ellie

Have a look at what's in my sketchbook this week. Continuing on with the movie 'UP' theme, I also sketched Ellie as a kid. I love how crazy, artistic and imaginative she is. Look at her hair and her clothes! Definitely inspiration for a later character development I think!

What's in my Sketchbook - Mr Fredricksen

I've been having a bit of trouble with my art lately and decided to go back to basics with drawing and sketching more. I want to get back to doing more 'hands-on' illustrating.

Here are a couple of sketches in my sketchbook I did recently. They're inspired from the movie UP, and it's Mr Fredricksen as a little boy, and when he's older. I'm going to colour them too but I'm not sure what I should do with these... (what do you think?)... anyway, for now it's just for me to continue drawing and practicing.

I had a lot of fun going back to sketching and shading with a pencil. I want to make more of an effort sketching so I'll hopefully be posting more of 'What's in my Sketchbook' every week. Let me know what you guys think!

Mel xx

FREE Colouring In - Three Bears

To celebrate the new posting of my Three Bears illustration, which you can buy here in my store, I have decided to give you guys a free colouring in page of PAPA BEAR! Print and use in your classrooms or own home!

DOWNLOAD PDF VERSION HERE

Enjoy!

Mel xx

p.s. Lest We Forget - remembering the ANZAC diggers who fought for us and made our lives possible.

My first Treasury!

I've always seen many talented artists and Etsy sellers get their items added to certain treasuries. I've always wanted my items to be a part of something like that too and guess what? Now it has!

My Alice in Wonderland pastel drawn postcard item has been added to WonderlandShop's Go Ask Alice treasury.  But it's only up until Feb 15th! I'm so happy to see so many other Alice In Wonderland fans out there!

Mel xx

Recipe Card

Keep your recipes organized with these lovely recipe cards designed from my own chef girl pencil illustration.

You get 10 of these lovely elemental, chlorine-free Ivory Tinted Board printed cards with a cute patterned cut edge and blank back.

You can buy this lovely Recipe card set here.

Mel xx

Illustration Work

Hey guys!

I told you I'd be back soon! I've put the polymer clay jewellery making on the back burner and have wanted to concentrate on drawing and illustrating more. I've always wanted to do more stationery work but have put it off as it does require a lot more work than the polymer clay jewellery (and with a full-time job, it's hard to find the time!) But I LOVE drawing and illustrating too much to avoid NOT doing it any longer.

This year I intend to do more illustration work and bring it more to my store. I love how it looks and also that people are able to use them (in all different kinds of ways). I plan to make writing sets, notecards, envelopes, lists, planners, party favours, stickers, prints etc with them! We'll see how it goes.

So here is the beginning of the first project. The 3 bears. So far I have been experimenting my illustration style on Papa bear. The one on the left has no inking and is purely on shading while the right has a defined black ink outline. I have asked everyone around me which they prefer and so far it's 50/50! So I have an important question to ask all of you... which do you prefer?

pencil shavings and smudges,

Mel xx

Hello, my name is...

Here's something else I've been working on. This cute dark haired little girl. I'm not sure what I've got planned for her yet but she needs a name...

What do you guys reckon?

Also, keep checking back because I'll be posting my very first giveaway soon!

New art

Hey bloggers! As promised, here are a few pieces of finished artwork for my new stationery set. The stationery set includes notepaper, matching envelopes and stickers. It will soon be available to buy at my store.

I finally got my printer to work properly so I've printed the set myself and hand-made the envelopes for a more personal touch! It was so much fun making, designing and seeing the final thing printed!

Oh and I almost forgot! Do you guys remember ages ago, I designed a page for the 2010 diary project? To refresh your memories, go back here. Well, the lovely Lucy has printed and sent me the final product! It's absolutely stunning and I love all the other artists' work. Each page is unique and different, there's nothing like it. And now I get to flick through and will eventually visit every single artist's website. So much fun! To have a look at the artist's inside the diary or to purchase one go here.

Sweets and candy,
Mel x