Day 110: Bring on the Toys!

Lately I've been trying to figure out what I should be drawing while I'm catching up with these illustrations. Finally, today I have my answer: TOYS! I know it's a silly thing, but I work better if I have a theme of something to work on. Especially a theme that I know I can continually create. Also, these toy images will be good because some of them may end up in future illustrations. Yes I'm being overly excited like this, but I've had too much coffee today and I'm in a good mood!

The first toy drawing is a top. I was going to go in and shade it, but I like how it looks now. Not sure yet what I'm going to do for tomorrow, but I have lots of ideas.

Day 109.5: Angel Fish

I love the colours of the Angelfish. They are so bright and beautiful. If I had a big aquarium it would be filled with these little guys.

I created a new page on Facebook mostly for my WIP. Not a lot of action there yet, but take a look if you're interested: http://bit.ly/cRLa4t. If you prefer Myspace you can find me here: http://www.myspace.com/daniduckart. Right now I prefer Facebook, because most of the people I know are there. If I get to know a lot more people on Myspace I'll be sure to spend time there, too.

Day 108: An Annoying Cat

It may seem at first glance that I did almost no work today for my blog. Most of my work has been done on the illustrations I need to catch up with. I was about to work on a drawing when my cat jumped on my lap (she rarely jumps on my lap). So for the past 10-15 minutes she's been rolling around purring on my lap (probably wants something). I decided to do a quick drawing of her. She absolutely refused to stay still and now I'm covered in her fur. She's so annoying sometimes, but I love her.

It's been a while since I've posted any group sketches so here are the sketches from weeks 12-14:

Hopefully I'll be able to post the Ladybug final Illustration soon. The Ant and the Grasshopper, and the Spider and the Fly are underway as well. 

108.5: Princess

I had hoped to finish this painting today. The thing that the little girl is carrying is Humpty Dumpty. I did the drawing some time ago and I wanted to finish it in colour. I didn't finish it partly because I had to set up the Wii so my husband and parents could play his new Wii resort. A couple of hours went by and now I'm too tired to work. In any case the hair is almost done. ^-^

Day 107: The Tattoo

I created this tattoo I really liked for a friend and I realized I never really shared it with anyone else. The colouring is pretty basic because I used the dodge/burn tools for shading. I'm not big into creating tattoos but I think I did a fair job. My friend wanted it to reflect who she was, so this is what I came up with:

Day 106: Leafy Outlines

Now that I have my new computer I can finally start working towards catching up on my illustrations. Today I did some sketches of plants I wanted to incorporate into my ant and grasshopper illustration. They don't look like much now, but soon I'll get them looking good.

Day 105.5: It Was A Ladybug

I meant to post sooner today (April 14th), but I was so busy. It was my husband, Peter's birthday. There was cleaning today, last minute shopping and dinner at the keg. He got a game for the computer, so that cut my time a little short as well.

My drawing today was a bit unexpected. I started out drawing a ladybug. The drawing didn't want to be a ladybug. Far be it for me to make a drawing be something it doesn't want to be. So now he's a fairy bug. He's kind of cute, but not quite what he was meant to be!