Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

 

 

Pandas at play

 

Pen and ink with watercolor also acrylic white

Elephant Birthday Wishing

Elephant Birthday Wishing

 

Reworked this image several times

 

 

Too Blue

 

Much better

 

 

We need Heroes

We need Heroes

 

First attempt

 

 

Decided to use my mistake as a color chart

 

Second attempt watercolor washes over pencil

 

Ink and washes of more watercolor

Finished Artwork

 

Chasing Butterflies

Chasing Butterflies

 

 



Panda in Lifeboat

 Panda in lifeboat
Watercolor and India ink
 

 

One of several sketches and finish pencil with new fox on tracing paper  

Working on my line today

 

 

 

 

 

 



Strawberry Kraken

Finished Strawberry Kraken

 

 

one of the many sketches

 

Wash of India ink & watercolor

 

Additional washes of color

 

 

Almost done

FOX from sketch to finish

Sketch/ pencil drawing with washes of India ink 

Washes of watercolor

added ink line waiting for color and ink to dry

used eraser to remove unwanted pencil lines

 



Finish

HOMEWORK?

I got the call!
 

Well not "the" call but a text message from my niece, "Hi uncle Steve do you have time to talk?"
I called
Me: Hi
Her: what are you up to? Doing any projects?
She wanted to know if I had time to do some artwork for her as part of an assignments for one of her college courses.
Me: How many?
Her: Only 20
Me: By when?
Her: I need them by cousin Marks wedding
Me: That's two weeks away
Her: I know
Me: What class is this for?
Her: Picture book writing (something like that) 
Me: Okay this is what I can do for you


 

So I started...

 I decided to treat it like a book dummy I figured it was the only way it will get done on time.  I broke down her version of Pandora's Box into a storyboard format and picked a handful of sketches to do as finished artwork.

 

    Then I added the text I am no graphic designer so I make no claims that I understand fonts and what works best with illustrations; I did the best I could with what I had to work with.

 

It was a lot of hard work but I got it done on time.
I personally think it should of been an A+ but her school does dot give them out.