Christmas postCards (wait, what?)

For the first time in my life I made my very own Christmas cards!  Well, to be exact, Christmas postcards.  I know postcards, what an unusual way to send a holiday greeting.  I'm a real pioneer woman, a trailblazer....a maverick (thanks Palin & McCain for making that word 10x more awesome).  Not really, I'm just a woman who should always wear her glasses.

But, this was a lot of fun and here are the materials I used to create my cards.

 Picture 1 from left to right: Porcelain palette (for mixing ink), small & large white eraser, Strathmore Watercolor Postcards, Dr. Watson India Ink , 2H pencil & cheap acrylic 00 brush (for inking).

Picture 2: empty margarine tub (ink contaminates water pretty easily, so when I have a lot of inking to do, I like to have a large tub of water)

Not pictured: Watercolor paints!

Drawing with my nephew Tyler

It was so much fun!  I went home to help my family and I got to spend some time drawing with my nephew Ty (age 8).  Here's the picture he gave me.  I love the trees!
 

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I have an announcement!

If you're not able to view the video, here is the Youtube Link (it's an unlisted video, so you can only access it from my blog).

And, if the hyperlink doesn't work, here's the web address:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq9qvmd3IMQ&list=UU7m0S30uwXIdnB0GoCPNFzQ

Mr. Bojangles

After all of my redrawing and practice with 30-90 second gesture drawings, I thought it was time to make an original character design that played with everything I've been studying.  It was so much fun!

Re-draw Thursday #4

I found some random images during a Google search and I thought it was the perfect opportunity to play with Prismacolor markers.

 

Re-draw Thursday #3

So, this re-draw Thursday is from Fancy Nancy and Toon Box Studios.  I must say that I'm enjoying re-draw Thursdays and I'm learning a lot.  My line art and ability to see form are improving.

Redraw Thursday # 2

So, for this Redraw Thursday I decided to play with Prismacolor markers and who better to redraw than....Will Terrell.  Six hundred years ago, I bought 25 Prismacolor markers with a Groupon from Jerry's Artarama, but I never used them.  Up until now, the only markers I've ever used had Crayola written on the side and were NEVER used for coloring (as a kidI strongly believed that pretty, pretty princesses could only be colored with crayon).   So, thank you Will Terrell for making markers look easy!

As for the woman with the cell phone, I'll probably practice line art and ink her later.