Growing up, Mom had several of these on our mantle. This is one I finished drawing from the Josef Original - The Mouse Village Series....dating back to mid 1950s (Japan).
I acquired the figurines after dad passed and my step-mom found packed away in their attic.
Brushes used were the soft airbrush for shading and gouache for blending.
Eight days from bud just starting to open until four flowers emerging. There may be one additional to follow behind the four but not sure if it will completely open.
This was inspired from a vase of artificial daisies I have sitting on my desk.
First worked with BJD #2B pencil - Brown
Still in the mood to draw people and one I hadn't done yet as far as family portraits, I worked on this one yesterday and the night before.
Gouache brush
My favorite part was working the hair. She has black hair with the ends colored in a light blue.
As I post this, I see areas I could adjust but for now will leave as is. The family loves the results but of course the critic inside me can always find things I could improve on. :-)
One of my granddaughter's closest friends just had surgery and the idea hit me to do up a portrait drawing. I wasn't quite in the mindset for color so I worked her in pencil only. I may return at a later time and do this again but in color.
BJD Pencil #2B and Gouache
Been a busy few months and only now trying to catch up with my blog posts of drawings I've managed to accomplish.
My sister in law's granddaughter, Sophia - couldn't pass up drawing this expression. This little angel is a year old.
A few days ago while walking Lani outside early morning, I saw what I first thought was a leaf on the ground. Then I realized it was moving. When I walked up to it, I thought sure it would fly off but it just remained in place. Not sure if injured or if feeding.
The size of this moth was about the size of my hand with wings spread out as seen here. What looked like brown and yellow is actually a brownish purple color and I tried to capture as close to life as I could.
6B BJD pencil, Liner 1 pencil, and Gouache. Because the moth had a fuzzy look to it, I chose the 6B pencil to capture that look.
To help Madison and I get back into our sketching, we set a challenge for this month using one of our favorite Switch games as incentive.
The challenge was to sketch one of our favorite babies; a mon that to us was unique in shape and detail; and a landscape scene that grabbed our attention while playing.
Madison's Results:
As I watched a bud open over several hours, I worked these sketches to show the progression from bud to open flower.
Sketched on Ipad using Procreate.
It's been awhile since I've done anything in the art department. It's been a busy summer and now that things are starting to settle, I've been trying to get back into my sketching.
Vinca has returned growing wild in our back yard so I cut a stem and chose to work this sketch on my Ipad.
This first is the original sketch rendering exactly what I saw with colors, etc. (or as close as I could come) and then the second is playing with colors adding blue and yellow on individual layers and using the color blending mode.
Techniques used were dropping color into selected areas (the flowers) and then adding shadows and highlights on separate layers. Also used brushing in color (Gouache brush tool) for the leaves for a different texture or look.
After several weeks of not doing any drawing or painting, I was asked if I would draw this puppy. My youngest son's girlfriend, Paige, shared that her sister was here visiting and saw some of my other dog portraits. Paige asked me if I would consider drawing her sister's dog. I thought doing so would be a perfect challenge and a break from other things we've been doing to prepare for my eldest son's family moving in with us next week.
Pencil tool for rough sketch / BJD's Standard Inker for eyes / Gouache for color and blending.
Background was using light and dark pink, BJD's Texture - Scales 1 brush tool stamped around face, and applying Gaussian Blur to blend.
I've worked several little sketches over the last 24 days but actually just taking a break after last month's challenge.
Final pages of the monthly digital journal. All are printed out now and will be placed in a spiral book.
This has been a lot of fun.....especially developing my character in various situations. It is not something I would be able to keep up with every day though because of the design aspect of each page.
The one major plus to working digital versus in a standard sketchbook is the time planning the layout. With digital you can just work individual illustrations and then move around on the page with no problem. In a standard sketchbook............it's a lot more time consuming and work before even starting to sketch illustrations.
So far so good keeping up with the daily. 7 more days and I'll have met my personal goal for the month.
Not much to say outside of what is shown on the pages....except that it's a little easier with page layouts because you can move things around instead of having to pencil and erase on a page. All illustrations and wording are worked on separate layers allowing you to experiment in how you want things laid out.
