Doodle of the Day - Eggy Doo

Illustration Friday's word of the week is "Hatch". I thought my doodle of the day would be a good fit, even though he's not quite hatched. Have a great week.

Doodle of the Day - Boxy Doo

Doodle of the Day - Twirly doo

Illustration Friday - Music

I did this a while back, but it was so perfect for Illustration Friday that I decided to repost. This is done in Photoshop. I used my daughter, a consummate musician, as the model.

Leaf Fun

The prompt for Watercolor Wednesday this week was Autumn colors and kids. I really enjoyed painting a little pile of leaves with my watercolors.



I really liked how it turned out, but it wasn't really an illustration yet. I had to think of a way for that pile of leaves to tell a story. I wanted to be original so tried to think outside the box. I came up with the idea of kids playing in leaves that were HUGE! My next dilemma was that I really didn't want to ruin the leaves I'd painted. I wanted to be able to use them for another illustration in the future. My solution was to scan them into photoshop. Then I used the lasso and delete key to "cut out" the leaves from the background.

I painted a digital background and stuck my leaves on top. Then I painted little children frolicking amongst them. I really struggled with color. I kept changing the saturation and hue of the children trying to make them stand out more. Finally I decided it was good enough and posted it.


It was a good learning piece and I still have my painted autumn leaves, untouched and ready for use in another project.

Halloweeny

Finally finally finally. I actually did a little artwork. These were prompted by the prompts on Watercolor Wednesday, of which I am a part. I guess it took October's magnificent arrival to spur me to action. I just love Halloween. This first image just happened. I had no idea what was going to happen until I saw it come out of my pencil, ha ha. It's okay. The thing I like the best about it is that I actually did a drawing! And then I painted it. Both amazing things that haven't happened to me for a very long spell.


This second image was inspired by the Watercolor Wednesday prompt of Frankenstein in his younger years. Since Joni is pretty tall, and was always on all basketball teams growing up I decided I would turn tall Frankie into a BB player too. I even gave him Joni's number. I'm not sure if Joni is flattered or not. *smile*

Cocoa Beach - in Watercolor