The Sixty Third Doodle and a Happy New Year!

 

I am not a big fan of New Year's resolutions, as, well, I am rubbish and I never keep 'em. ROFLCOPTER.

HOWEVER. My 2013 resolution is something which seems silly to not do, as it is something which brings me endless joy. Draw more and experiment more. UMM< YES PLEASE.

Soz for the capitals. I've drank a lot of coffee today, and yesterday I ate some Skittles. Bad move.

Anyway my attention span is failing me. Today is, the, um, 2nd January? Yes. I have drawn up 3 illustrations so far today. That is cool. The lady above was a sketch after flipping through some trashy ladies mags (how good is YOUR orgasm? I don't have any sort of scale system so I do not know shiney magazine, but I'll be sure to get back to you on that one). Ignoring the nonsense (of which there is a lot. Like, a lot) I looked at the photos and models and fashions. I am not fashionable or even remotely cool, except in my head, but I am interested in it, and in portraying it in my own unique way.

So I doodled this lady and thought 'She's funky. She needs tattoos.' So I added a few and had a look at her. Boom. Lets paint.

Now I blimmin' love watercolours and I am a faithful lover usually, but for her, I wanted the intensity of ink-

 

My personal fave is Windsor and Newton Black Indian Ink as it rocks my socks, and their stuff is on a whole other planet. Put the ink on the paper and it goes 'WHAT THE BLOODY HELL DO YOU WANT ME TO DO, I'LL DO IT, I'LL DO IT SO DAMN WELL YOU SILLY WENCH.' And then it gives me a slap. JOKING. 

Basically, the ink is well good.

So kids, here is my final illustration. A mixture of hard black lines, watercolours for tattoos, a bit of scruffy pencil and a big dollop of style. If 2013 holds more of this fun stuff, come on then mate, let's get started.

The Thirty Fourth Doodle

Quite often I will do a design for one of the Creative Allies competitions, mainly as it's good practise, and it's just another way of getting your work out there like.

So this one came from my doodle of the lady with tattoos (see the Thirtieth Doodle) and I worked on it for this longboard design for the band My Darkest Days. Blue and purple seem to be rocking my world lately, so I'm going with it. I sat staring at this for ages once I had the line drawing in place, wondering what to do. Full colour fill? Just a background? If so, what? Space is limited, and I hate fussy and cramped. So I started experimenting, and almost fell into this design. The overlapping colours with obvious brush strokes and watercolour effects (because they ARE watercolours) seemed to compliment the hard drawing of the girl and her tattoo, and you're never quite sure if the colour is over or under her. I like that slight confusion. I LIKE TO BAFFLE YOU.

This piece was also featured in the Editors' Picks Gallery (cool), see it here - http://creativeallies.com/galleries/1w6-Editors-Picks-My-Darkest-Days-Sick-Twisted-Affair

The Thirtieth Doodle

 

God, I do love the nakeds. And the tattoos. So basically, this sketch is my combination of two of my greatest loves.

The Twenty-Seventh Doodle

Oh my word, I am obsessed with tattoos. I love them. I mean, probably not all of them, I do know someone called 'Crap-tatts'. Unfortunate nick name.

But I do love them. And I love hair. And I love blue. So I drew this picture.

Shortest version of that story.