Ive been a busy busy bee! After much grumbling and throwing my pencils out the pram, I ended up coming back to PS to create this years Xmas card design -or should I say designs!!!
I had so many problems last year with printers and not being able to get the depth I wanted from the carefully hand drawn prints I think I ended up hand drawing a select few, and then buying a pack from a retailer of some sort. So this week, with 12 days off work, the aim was to crack on and get at least one design completed on paper! Yup, I think I'm a digi convert now. And, after 6 days, and 3 all nighters and I mean all nighters, here are this years Christmas Cards. They've just been sent to the printers, and I cant wait to get them back. I hope you like them and can see the humorous take on this? I have to say when I sat talking with my good buddy Miss V we discussed what I should base my design on. She purred 'Snowman' - So this is for you hun! A fully fledged Snowman photo shoot complete with front cover designs! Enjoy! x
IF entry, Stripes.
Had my first major PS hiccup today!Had spent some hours doing this little piece for IF, finished and the lost it!!!! Have no idea where it's gone, but after myself, the kids and my techno whizz looked it was decided I'd obviously pressed the 'eject' button somewhere along the line! Ooooh I could have cried :( - so after a mini break of sitting on my hands through shear frustration I salvaged what I could. This isn't exactly what the original piece looked like, but the gist is there.... note to self this week. Save and triple save
I didn't want to miss IF this week, so quickly put this one together. Work this week and last means I've missed out on quality time to spend on IF. Avoiding all temptation to submit the already completed Halloween cupcake, sort of along the scary line, I came up with one of my biggest scares!!!! Spiders!
Enjoy. x
This one has taken me a while now.Take a closer look as there is some delicate detail on the cake stand. I'm hoping this will form a series of cake inspired pictures. And this is the first one I shall be sending off to the new printers, so fingers crossed the quality is pleasing. If you look closely there's a full recipe in the background, although most of it is hidden by the stand and cake. Anyone who wants to try the full recipe just inbox me, and I'll gladly pass it on. x
Another little PS collage. This time trying to get to grips with selection tool and puppet warp. I'm sure at some point I'll look back at these and want to alter them in some way, but that seems a long way off right now.
A quickie on PS to practice again. Still trying to keep a rustic, painterly feel, with a twist of collage. I keep asking myself what inspires me most, and funnily enough I always come back to cooking! I'm currently working on another cupcake, Another passion of mine :)
Again, practising PS..... I just cant put it down!
You cant tell I've been fiddling around with PS again can you! lol. This was a quickie to practice some more buttons........ there's still so many more t go :)
So here it is!... My very first digital post!!! And for all you digiart-tech's out there, this is my first full PS painting after 3 weeks of self teaching. I am pleased with it, but I think I've scrambled my brain with all the tutorials. All I'll say is I've learnt a hell of a lot, and yes I could have sat for another 3 weeks tweaking and warping, but its time to move on with what I've learnt so far and create another one. Her face is hand drawn and part of a much larger project, but I need to fill the gap between working on a monstrous sized piece and getting a handle on PS. So there you go! I certainly know what I'll be asking Santa for :)
I haven't done IF - Illustration Friday for yonks! Just one of those things. But I was researching the web and came across IF, and low n behold the piece I was working on fitted perfectly. Its good to be back!!!
This is my first post that features some digital tweeking... I'm trying to get to grips with PS5. I'm getting there, but you'll have to excuse the crude basics of my efforts. Whilst its great for adding layers that would take an age to do manually, I'm still an old fashioned girl at heart and love nothing more than a fresh piece of paper and a selection of pencils. Give it a few weeks and I'll look back at this effort and think OMG!!!!
I have mixed feelings on this one! Its taken a lot longer than I could have anticipated, but, its an area I haven't done before! I've contemplated animal drawings before but think I'd need some classes from a master in the field... At the end of the day this has been created for charity, a worthy charity, so I hope someone looks past the 'first time' effort in creating this and digs deep to help towards such a wonderful cause. I shall be sticking to animated animals for some time now! -
This piece will be going for auction towards Norpop! Final Piece measures 25cm x 22cm, Polychromo Pencils on White Archival 210gsm Paper, mounted and framed. Please support the fabulous efforts of my colleagues who are raising money:-
http://www.justgiving.com/norpop
Second part to the fab Four! Its been nearly 2 months now since the girls arrived, and it never ceases to amaze me how they each have such different personalities. Bangles is certainly the most inquisitive and crazy. She doesn't walk anywhere, she RUNS! The minute she see's someone she runs at you like she hasn't seen you in years, funny. Obviously they'll all need tidying once they're all complete, but for now....... a taster!
It was inevitable with my new editions that a little sketch would arise. New editions I hear you say? Four Chooks - Lotty, Dotty, Bangles and Blousey! They are hilarious in their own right and definitely inspiration for sketches....... So here's the first, Lotty!
Finished! And I'm pleased with this little one.... I think the expression on his face says it all really. Enjoy
If I remember rightly this one was done when I was recovering from first Op. I couldn't sleep and need a distraction, so sat up in the wee small hours of the morning splurging water colours and salt on paper.... it was quite therapeutic at the time, watching the colours run into one another. Although it sounds simple, it's all too easy to get slightly carried away and end up with a muddy pool of mess, so trying to get it to resemble a vase of flowers did take a small amount of skill, Honest!
