working on portolio B&W

I been quite for a while, I know. Life changes have caused me to try to take up illustrating more seriously i.e for money, and amazingly I had a couple of book illustration job over the last 6 weeks, and this morning I finished (I hope) my third book illustration job and have started to work again on my portfolio.  So here is a cute black and white I did. I hemmed and hawed about grounding her with some grass but in end I decided to leave her hanging.
Cheers

A Healthy Creative Tuesday

Well for some reason when I think healthy I think apple and that is what stuck in my head the whole week, so I hope my submission past muster :) . I actually had an apple a couple of days ago and now I am sick LOL. So here is an errant for Mr. T's  topic - creative Tuesday a very healthy apple held by a not so healthy girl :)

out of the pencil on a Sunday

Ahh this is a case of what I thought I wanted to draw and what came out of the pencil not matching up. I had hoped to draw a boy next to a candle. Well technically I guess I did but not the type I would put on a card for my son :)
Hope you have a great Sunday and hop by Sunday Sketches to see what the other artist have been up to this  week.

April showers

ahh a little late for Creative Tuesday but I thought I would put it up anyway.
A mum is out in the rain with her two daughters. As they say a picture is worth a 1000 words :)

a blog flyer on Sunday

 I thought I would share with you something I did for my other blog using some line art I drew ( some may look familar :) ), it was quickly coloured via photoshop.  Hope you have a great Sunday and hop by Sunday Sketches to see what the other artist have been up to this  week.
p.s Ack I see an  error!

Creative Tuesday - Thumbprint

Okay this one had me stuck until about an hour ago, and luckily I only realised after I did it, it is foot print and not thumb print ( yikes that says something) LOL. So here is my entry to Mr. T's  topic - creative Tuesday. It's a digital one.  Hope you all had a great Tuesday. 

Rainbow painting

ACEO - rainbow painting

I just felt like painting and had no real idea of what do so I just had a little fun and experiment with Wicked Wednesday's topic - over the rainbow.

Tuesday and finished I hope

I just wanted to share with you the fished version of the painting. It took much longer than  expected and I came down with the cold yesterday so I hope this is not a drug induced finished :)  In the end I exed the flowers and had to redo the turtle for I end up having him looking like a night turtle and the bird day.  I think I got him day in the end.
Off to bed with a box of tissue.
:)

WIP on Sunday

Here's a  little something I am working on today. Ran into some trouble with colour choices LOL. May x the flowers a bit as they look a bit too sci fi  :).
Hope you have a great Sunday and check out our friend at Sunday Sketches.
hugs

a head banding morning!

Original

Print

From about 4.30am I have been trying to get my darling printer to print what was shown on the screen. After umpteen sheets of expensive epson archival matte paper, I decided to try to ignore using photoshop setting and work with the printer settings since my printer is obviously not professional enough to work through Adobe:(  Well the end the result was not like the original but workable, I think. 
I had planned to do an original art card but alas  I did  the illustration on the wrong side of the paper and the result was it was folding backward.  Ahh it seems to be one of the days LOL.

Thinking of Easter

 Just thinking of Easter and preparing and playing with line art which will eventually end up as digital stamps. Here is one which at present a little boy who is at present an ACEO :)  He is coloured with yummy prismapencils blended with turpentine. During the colouring I had to repeat to myself one of the Jane Davenport's mantra - Trust the mess - as the egg was not doing what it was supposed to. In the end it came out okay and I found a use for the newspaper's black ink that likes to come off on my fingers :)
Hope you have a great day :)

a fairy tale creature on a Sunday

 For Sunday sketches this week here is a little needle felted gnome I made. He is a busy little guy gather wood. 
Hope you have a great Sunday and pop by Sophia's Sunday Sketches to see what the others are up to.
hugs.

Preparing a portfolio on a Sunday

One of things I have had on my to do list for at least 2 years now, which I hope to do over the next couple of weeks is to create an online portfolio. Here is a little Photoshop illustration I did yesterday and in the wee hours of this morning, which I am thinking of using, and yes it is aiming at children's book illustrations.

Below is last week's sketch completed. It was originally conceived for Mr. T's Creative Tuesday  but was not finished in time - it is meant to be a very partial view of a mermaid.
Hope you have a great Sunday and pop by Sophia's Sunday Sketches to see what the others are up to.
hugs.