Day 84: Mr. Chocolate Bunny

In Celebration of Easter I've decided I'm going to do a few Easter themed sketches over the next week. Today's sketch is of one of the best Easter treats - the chocolate bunny. The chocolate bunny comes in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes he has a jacket. Other times he comes with a basket filled with eggs. Recently I saw one with a cell phone...I'm not going to go into how wrong that is.

The biggest problem is where to start with a chocolate bunny. The ears? The feet? The little tail? I personally like the nose, but sometimes it's hard to start there.

What are your favourite Easter treats? Let me know and maybe I'll draw a few of them over the next week. 

Blue Bear

I had an emergency yesterday and I didn't have any time to do any artwork I decided to do a drawing of a blue bear.  He's kind of skewed and wonkey looking and missing one of his eyes. Despite his faults (or more likely because of them) he's just the kind of bear I'd like to cuddle. I drew him because I needed a bear today to cheer me up.

Day 83: The Kissing Booth

I think I'd like this painting a little better if I could add more details with lighting and shadows. I would like the frog to look a little more feminine. For now it will have to do. 

Day 81: The Old Man in a Boat

Once again I had no idea what I was going to draw today. After doodling for a while and surfing the internet I came across an old Edward Lear poem. This poem inspired my drawing.

There was an Old Man in a boat,

Who said, 'I'm afloat, I'm afloat!'
When they said, 'No! you ain't!'
He was ready to faint,
That unhappy Old Man in a boat.

-Edward Lear

If you want to find out more about Edward Lear and his work you can start here:http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/

Day 80: The Dancer Revisited

After yesterday I decided that I wanted to see what my dancer would look like in colour. This time she's more of an ice skater. After a bit of trouble I arrived at the image you see here. I'm not completely happy with the way it turned out. Photoshop was threatening to crash on me again so I decided to go with this rather than lose my chance to share the ice skater with you.

Day 79: The Dancer

The one thing I hate about being sick is it always happens at the wrong times. Let me be sick when I have to visit someone I don't like. If it's going to be a bad day if I leave the house, then I don't mind being sick. All the pain, headaches and sneezing can and should wait until a tine that's convenient to me. Not the other way around.

I wish I could not be sick when I want to get things done. Doing these sketches isn't so much fun when I'm sick. It's hard enough to think let alone draw when I'm coughing all the time. I don't even want to talk about the housekeeping. To top it all off my husband is sick with the same cold. 

On a lighter note I finished a drawing for today. I couldn't decide if it would look better coloured or in black and white. I decided on the easier of the two and left it in black and white. I guess the one good thing about being sick is the fact that you can make more believable excuses for not colouring things!

Edit: I forgot to mention my dream last night. I received my computer in the mail and it was awesome. Today I woke up and found out it had been shipped! I can't wait until it gets here!

Day 78: I Failed at Math

While lying awake in bed I realized that I mislead myself and others in my last post. Since I've started 77 days have gone by. 77 days / 7 days in a week= 11. Of course I wasn't thinking that I was doing illustrations ever other week, rather than every week, so I should have done this: 77 days  / 14 days in two weeks = 5.5. It's not bad enough that I'm sick, but I'm making myself feel worse with my horrible division skills. 


So I've been pretty sick this week, which makes it hard for me to do anything. I would just like to share with you a little visual story so you can all feel my pain: