Pages 25-26 of my Cut-Up Sketchbook:
Daily Art: Grass, Tail, and Wings
May 13th:
I fleshed out the dragon just a bit.
Daily Art: Scales, Horns, and Claws
May 12th:
More work on Nathan's dragon drawing cut-up sketchbook page.
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: April
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: March
Daily Art: Another Sketchbook Page Down
March 21st:
I unofficially finished page 25 of the Cut-Up Sketchbook.
Then I colored this scene in a Disney coloring app on my sister's iPad:
I unfortunately do not remember the title of the app in which I created this image, but it was one of those officially licensed Disney products. They provided the outlines and pattern design: I just colored it in and told the pattern brush where to go.
Daily Art: A Bit More Color
March 20th:
A bit more color on page 25 of the Cut-Up Sketchbook.
Daily Art: Skunk Tail
March 19th:
A few more doodles to fill in some space.
Daily Art: Drawing, Drawing, Drawing...
March 18th:
Further progress on page 25: mainly tracing the drawing that I did last night in the semi-darkness without realizing that the pen I was using was navy blue rather than black and coloring in some of the images.
Daily Art: Doodles
March 17th:
Out of town: back to pages 25-26 of the Cut-Up Sketchbook.
Daily Art: Clouds
March 1st:
More work on pages 25-26 of my Cut-Up Sketchbook.
Daily Art: February
Daily Art: Tornado
February 27th:
More work on page 25 of the Cut-Up Sketchbook.
Daily Art: Weird Body
February 26th:
Page 25 of the Cut-Up Sketchbook.
Daily Art: Nathan's Drawing
February 25th:
Just before Christmas of 2014 I visited my sister and let my niece and nephew each draw on a page of my cut-up sketchbook. I left it entirely up to them what they wanted to draw. My nephew, Nathan, drew a dragon and my niece drew what I can only assume is a fanciful galaxy of some sort. She wouldn't really tell me what she was drawing: just that she would make it pretty. The drawings are located somewhere between pages 30-40 of my sketchbook, so I won't officially get to them for some time, but I couldn't resist doing a bit of work on them on a day when I was thinking a lot about those kids.
My strategy regarding the pages with the kids' drawings is to leave all of their work untouched, but to do my own work on every bit of white space they left blank on the page. I want to incorporate their drawings into my own designs in a manner similar to that in which I incorporate the existing patterns on the patterned pages of my sketchbook, but with the intention of respecting the integrity of their drawings much more than I do the printed images.
My work in the above image is all of the tiny patterning set between the marker strokes in the head, arms, and torso of the dragon.