Speedpainting...

19 . 05 . 2012


 


Here is a sped up video of a recent drawing I did on my bamboo tablet! It took an hour to draw, and it has been sped up to 4 minutes! This is my second drawing done on a tablet and I'm still trying to get used to it! But its awesome to be able to watch my drawing progress! Hope you enjoy :)

Boy oh boy!

18. 02. 2012

My friend is having a baby shower this weekend, so this was the perfect chance to put my design skills into play! I LOVE making cards, ever since I was little I would make cards every chance I got. I even had a little card making business where people would buy my cards for $5! Nothing has changed, I still love making cards!

SO, this card I made for my friend is quite funny. I went to a website called 'Morph Thing', where you upload two images and the website morphs them together to show you what your baby might look like. So I uploaded two images, one of Matt and one of Cara and this is what it came up with, so cute:

Using this image as the basis for my card, I used Adobe Illustrator to create a cute little M.J card.

For the baby shower, one of the games we are playing is called 'Pin the Nappy on M.J.' I bought some thick card and drew a cartoon version of M.J. (As I'm not good at cartoons I used an image online as a reference from cartoon solutions ) I painted M.J. and then outlined him. I even made little blue nappies to pin on.

Colour me beautiful...

13 / 01 / 2012

I never really liked painting, I actually hated it.
Drawing and watercolour were my thing - not painting.

It wasn't until recently that I actually quite enjoy it! For an elective subject at uni I chose to do a painting course because it seemed 'easy.' I was so wrong. We learnt drawing techniques and painting techniques and I really enjoyed it and it was very challenging at the same time.

I started off painting for peoples presents:

I love this one, very simple but effective.
It was my first ever painting on canvas, and was a
mothers day present for Tracy.

This was my second painting on canvas. It was a challenge but
I got there in the end! This was a Christmas present for Tracy.

I love birds, especially toucans - they're so colourful.
This was a present for Rich, he loves Toucans too!

I was then encouraged to sell some. I thought that would be easy, you know - paint something and then sell it! But the more time I spent on it, the more I loved it, the less I wanted to sell it! I now understand why some artists charge ridiculous amounts of money for their work!

My Pelican painting for sale!

So I took my beloved Pelican off to Coffee Grind cafe, with a reasonable price of $250 (reasonable compared to the other painting prices in there.) So hopefully he sells soon before I get even more attached haha!