Fooled around with a digital sketch. I originally wanted an olive green metal surface that is rusty in places. I’ve used scanned watercolor stains to create the surface.
Fooled around with a digital sketch. I originally wanted an olive green metal surface that is rusty in places. I’ve used scanned watercolor stains to create the surface.
Did some sketches of outfits that I would like to wear but do not dare. I like the way this one turned out. It’s done with coloured pencils in my sketch book. She could be a comics character; killing villains in secret by sending them black boxes with poison gas or spiders or something. The dress is far too nice to be given to a bad character….
I need to improve my robots…
Sketching with colored pencils is better in two ways; I can’t use an eraser; it’s less dirty. I start with a light color and a pencil that’s a little hard and finish with darker softer pencils; Bruynzeel, old and the newer -sakura.
After this, I still need to improve my robots…..
This started out as a sketch in the recycled series but the dress does not look as if it’s made of old rags at all. So I played around with the background making it into a foreground instead. It’s drawn with pencils and promarker for the skin and some colors of the dress.
I’m glad that I spend it doing this… I like type. I like fashion. Why not combine that into an A dress or maybe a pregnant B? So I sketched this up digitally.
I like to visit the second hand clothes shops. Sometimes I’m lucky like when I find a silk scarf from Moschino, no problems with size there, but usually there’s a lot of clothes that are not old enough or modern enough. So what should we do with all this stuff? That’s what I try to figure out when I do my “Recycled” drawings.
There seem to be a huge surplus of mini skirts. One way to make them a bit more useful would be to add more pockets and make a “wear-bag”.
Had some fun doing these sketches today. I’m planning to draw on T-shirts with textile paint and pens so I wanted to get down some ideas for designs on paper for me and my girls..
I’ll attack these with digital color some other day…
When I saw an article in my local newspaper about Qadhafi and his gold I couldn’t help thinking that he looked like a real troll. This is probably very offensive to all you real trolls out there. So I had to do this quick sketch to prove my point. John Bauer would have done something like this.
So instead of doing something sensible like updating a comic I have once again fiddled around with a sketch. It is just so rewarding to finish something quickly. So here it is with two backgrounds. 
For the moment I’m very fond of the shape of the small letter a, with serif and a heavy drop to finish the arc 
I wanted to have something nice on my Xperia so I fixed a version of a drawing of Aisha I did some time ago. She’s wearing one of the T-shirt designs I have or had (?) in the shop.
Inked with pens and then digitally colored.
If you like it you can use it too on your phone!
Aisha 480 x 800
