Focus

 

Bit of a late entry for Illustration Friday last week. 

"Focus"

Laser eyes!!!

ATCs

 

Some cards I painted a couple of days ago. Gotta keep up the watercoloring skillz. Nothing amazing yet, I've spent the last couple of weeks doing some hardcore studying so I'm trying to get back into the swing of things.

WIP

A WIP for a mini-illo. Kind of having a love/hate affair with the orange.

House Pattern WIP

Another WIP of a pattern, this time featuring cute little houses.

I also want to mention that my site is down so I can redesign it and fix it up a little. The blog will probably be updated a little bit too. Someday I'll be able to code flawlessly but until then it's just me, a glass of limeade, a long night and an undo button.

Pattern WIP

A quick WIP that I'm working on; my first repeating pattern! Still color tweaking a bit but I am going to start working on details.

Mandala

Not sure what this is, but it was fun!

Frenchies

Some sketches of Frenchie puppies!

Cupecoy

This is my clock!
Happy New Year, everyone! I'm not dead, just cold.

Pixels

Just practicing some on my pixel art skills...I'm sure some crazy fans would criticize my color use or something like that but I just enjoy messing around!

My hair still has that yellow splotch in the front but it's hard to translate here so I might end up taking it out. Looks a bit odd...

Samurai

Quickie experiment with a limited palette (which I didn't stick to anyway haha)

Bags

I have some cute fabric so I threw together some quick little bag designs so that I might have a new bag for the spring. :)

I love designing things like this.

Mini Me

Playing around some more in digital. 

Kabuki

Testing some watercolor PS brushes I found. They're a lot like regular watercolor brushes, i.e. can't go over with white, colors will get muddy if you layer too much. I just miss the happy accidents you get with water flow and regular watercolor paper!

Sketchbook Month

Yay!

Graphic design practice.

Instead of NaNoWriMo I'm doing this instead!

The other day I got a lovely Toulouse Lautrec postcard. I think soon I will make my own postcards so I can start sending them out to my lovely friends. :)

Windmill

Reference

Trying to get back into painting daily again...I always feel like I overwork paintings. My process is always to be super spontaneous for most of it and then go back and refine it, and I don't think it's really working for me anymore. Watercolor is a tough medium for my tendency of work-stop-work-stop-work, but it's my favorite medium, so I'm determined to make it work.

Another note: I hate masking fluid so much.

Here are a couple of watercolor artists I've been looking at:

Jack Tia Ke Woon

Ng Woon Lam

And here's one of Ng's videos:

I will just have to keep practicing. I really love watercolor so while not getting results instantly is always frustrating, I enjoy the journey. Being a watercolor teacher is one of my many many art related goals. That's something I love about being an artist; you can do so much. If you have some kind of boring career, people feel like they're limited to just doing that. But anybody can do stuff they love...they just have to remember they don't have to be boring and stuffy for the rest of their lives.