Between a couple of ‘meh’ days, busy days with appointments, I’ve managed to colour this particular illustration of mine.
I coloured this one using copics, and the scan has washed some colours out.
Angela Porter
Today’s doodle
I’ve had a couple of days busy with other matters and not much time to spend on drawing. Today, however, I’ve taken the time to relax with pen and paper. I’m feeling a bit out of sorts today. I think that’s reflected in the drawing.
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This mornings doodle all coloured.
Saturday morning ‘doodle’
I could be accused of enjoying myself way too much!
A pal requested more badgers and more squid … so here they are!
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Today’s ‘doodle’
I spent several very pleasurable hours drawing the picture below. It’s got a lot more line work in it that I’d add for colouring templates. It reminds me more of art I did pre-colouring book work.
Now, all I have to do is to decide whether to colour or not!
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An afternoon doodle
I’ve just spent a few happy hours drawing a piece of ‘doodle art’ after having learned much yesterday from mimicking the style of piccandle. I’v managed, I think, to make it much more ‘Angela’. I may have done similar stuff in the past, but not quite like this.
This has a fair number of design elements that are firmly in the realms of ‘Angela’ art.
It’s now been printed on watercolour paper as well as some alcohol marker friendly paper ready for colouring – my next task.
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More things from Hampton Art and coloured doodle art
I had a bit of a surprise package today. Inside were some more stamps and dies that I designed and have now been produced by Hampton Art. They’re perfect for card making, paper crafts, planners, journals and scrapbooks!
I’ve also coloured in the doodle art from yesterday. I used a mixture of Copic Ciao markers, Chameleon markers and some coloured pencils. I’m quite pleased with the colouring, learned some new tricks with the Chameleon markers, which means I’d do things a little differently if I coloured it again.
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Doodle art
At the weekend, I finished all the illustrations for the upcoming colouring book ‘By the Sea‘, to be one of the titles in the Escapes series from Dover publications.
So, over the last couple of days I’ve been doing other things, some arty, some not. However, after watching some videos on YouTube by piccandle, I thought I’d have a go at their particular style of doodle art, and this is my homage to them.
I had a lot of fun drawing this I must admit. It’s full size is shy of A4 in size, and I drew it on squared paper, scanned it in, cleaned it up using GiMP, then printed it out ready to colour, most probably with Copics, Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers and Promarkers.
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More mushrooms!
Just like hobbits, I believe there’s only one thing better than mushrooms and that is MORE mushrooms!
In my case that means more needle felted mushrooms.
So, I’ve learned a fair amount about needle felting in making these mushrooms and I look forward to creating more items as time allows. I suspect my own whimsical, doodly drawings will be a source of much inspiration.
It is, however, much quicker to draw and colour things than to needle felt them.
The large mushroom took around 10 hours to finish. The smaller ones have taken between 4 and 6 hours to create.
Now, all I have to do is to decide what to do with them!
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Needle felted mushroom
The last four hours have been spent happily stabbing – lots of stabbing. All to create my first needle felted ‘sculpture – a mushroom.
The photo isn’t brilliant (it is after 2am here in the UK, and I lost track of time..), and grey isn’t my usual colour of choice; however I used it for the mushroom as I have lots of grey wool and if it didn’t work out, it would be no great loss.
However, it has worked out. It’s been a bit of a learning thing, and I still have lots to learn, learning that can only be done by doing it seems.
I do have a few coloured ‘circles’ to add, and then I’m sure I’ll want to add beads and stuff to add sparkle (that inner raven of mine demands sparkle whenever I can manage it!).
Overall, I’m really quite pleased with the outcome so far!
I’ve not done any sculpting for many, many years, and only then with clay. I enjoyed working with clay, but I don’t have the facilities to do that now, but I can use wool and felt it, and I really have enjoyed the felting. It’s easy on my fingers too (apart from the one stab to my thumb when I missed the mushroom a tad!). It’s sculpting in terms of building the form up, rather than removing material to reveal a form, such as you’d do in stone sulpture. The building up appeals to me far more.
I’ll finish this mushroom, then I’m sure there’ll be more things to be made.
Art is the Adventure 