Tag: drawing & sketchbook
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How the humble sketch can become so much more
Okay, so I do get a little distracted today. I started doodling on a care package as a surprise for a stranger who is going through a tough time. It is nice to draw a little something on parcels. It wasn’t meant to be a masterpiece but I started thinking that it could be fleshed…
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This is how to draw something AWESOME – easy!
Have you noticed the flood of attractive patterned doodling popping up everywhere? It has been branded as tangles or zentangles. I guess in some places that is a better term than …well…doodle. Doodle here means…well…a boy’s thingy..you know. I bet most of you have at one time or another doodled on a scrap piece of…
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Illustration – Little girls ready to play – children’s illustration
Illustration: Inktober in ink Today’s illustration is an illustration of happy little girls playing. As I slop around the house in my comfy clothes I frantically flick the white-tail spider out of my hair – it must have crawled in there at breakfast! Glamorous or pretty is the last thing I feel right now but …
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INKtober Facebook group
INKtober Facebook Group – INKtober 31 INKtober is a creative challenge to create an inked drawing every day for the month of October. This theme has been carried into an INKtober Facebook group called INKtober 31. There may be others but I know of this one. We all know I am a sucker for illustration…
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Drawings memories and making cards
It is nice to create cards for your loved ones. For a bit of fun (don’t laugh) I thought I would show you the birthday card I made my daughter from an old sketchbook image. The drawing is of my then little girl holding her favourite bunny toy. I sketched this portrait in 1996. This…