The Seventy Second Doodle

Goes without saying really, this is (quite clearly I hope) a wee Easter illustration. Gotta love a long eared bunny, they are just so ridiculously cute!

Now I am not a lady of religion, I couldn't give a flip about any of it. But I like the original ideas behind Easter as a joyful Spring celebration, the beginning of new life. Now if only we actually had the Spring weather to go with it. Darn.

Check out my Easter Bunny illustration along with some other fab Easter themed art work on Amelia's Magazine here

The Seventy First Doodle

I do love colourdy pens. Very often I find myself drawing something in pencil, sitting back and looking at it for a mo, then redrawing it with coloured pens or markers.

 Take this lady here. As a pencil sketch it was nice, but she didn't really pop till I redrew her with coloured pens. You can also use the colour to imply certain areas rather than stick to solid outlines, overlapping and mingling. Basically, you can go a bit nuts!

 

The Seventieth Doodle

Fist things first - Happy St Patrick's Day! Hopefully you will remember tomorrow how you celebrated!

So the doodle today is about something most (but not all) artists despise. Self portraits.

ARRRRGGGGGG when you have to look in the mirror and dissect what it is that makes you look like you...CHRIST, what a grim task. The more you look, the weirder you look. Your features start looking completely bizzarre, you wonder how on earth you walk down the street without babies crying and people throwing cabbages at you.

It's like when you say one word over and over and over, till it sounds so odd you're sure it's not actually a word anymore. Window. Window. Win-doww. Try it. It's weird.

But I suppose, the dreaded self portrait is good practise. The problem is, you will always find it hard to be completely objective when it's your own face. If you're too artistically mean, it won't look like you. If you're too generous, it won't look like you, and people will think you're a twat.

So how do you get around it? You don't really, but I did manage to finally produce a self portrait for my website. I'm buggered if I want an actual photo on there, so it's the lesser of two evils I suppose. I decided to keep the features very simple and focus on my hair, it's what people notice first anyway. I still look at it and think 'Is that really me?'. But essentially it doesn't matter; it's me done in my own illustration style, and that is what is important. 

Bloody self portraits. God I'm weird looking.