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...
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.
April 28th:
I added another mushroom and a bunch of leaves, as well as a wash of background color, to my sketchbook page.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
April 22nd:
Back to cards again. I'm extremely happy with this one.
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.)
April 20th:
My mother asked me to finish a painting project that she started: this is the bottom portion of a birdbath that she painted the basin of. She also painted the cream-tone base color and flower stems and leaves that you see in this picture; I finished the rest.
April 19th:
I pretty much just colored this card. It was all that I was in the mood for.
April 18th:
I kind of love how the watercolors worked out on this card.
April 17th:
Back to drawing on cards. I'm pretty happy with this one.
April 16th:
I finished the couch upholstery in the wee hours of the morning. I love how it turned out. I don't even think that it needs the legs anymore.
Couch: DONE.
April 15th:
Today I drew patterns, cut fabric, and started sewing.
April 14th:
Not feeling up to work on the doll couch today - back to playing cards.
April 13th:
In honor of my niece's birthday, I'm getting back to working on her gift.
April 12th:
Believe it or not, this card is all ink as well - it's just quite a bit of opaque ink.
April 11th:
I just used ink again on this card.