Birthday Boys

My little twin brothers will soon be 5!

For cards this year, I decided to draw them with a few of their favourite things.

So, James; Indiana Jones (of course) and his mega lego police station, complete with lego police car. Toby; Kung Fu Panda and Hot Wheels (naturally).

That is much loved Foxy the dog Toby is cuddling...

More Dachshunds...!

Firstly, congratulations to @CreativeDoodlez for winning the festive Hallmark competition! Daniela's winning artwork was just fab... the colours she used work just brilliantly to create a gorgeous piece of fun artwork - festive, without using the obvious christmasy greens and reds! You can see the winning artwork here.

Today, I have been finishing the latest exercise for the illustration course I am doing. More Dachshunds!!... The idea is to create a page of sketches of an animal of your choice...

Then, another page of doggy doodles, but this time showing more character, more fun and picture book like...

Finally, I had to work on one of these images to create a final piece of artwork...

I think I will change the colour of the background, not sure this works - a bit too waaa! 

This is an exercise which will go with my next submission titled 'The cow who went looking for a friend.'.. It will be about a cow who finds friendship with a little bird and the story reveals what they find out about the world around them as they travel around together.

I have a few ideas, watch this space!

I hope it will not be too long before i submit this piece, as we are about to move back to the UK (wup!) but I will potentially be with out all my important arty things and computer for a few weeks, eep!

Dachshing!

I recently started following Hallmark Creative Studio UK on twitter and was perusing their website when I came across their Festive competition. It closed at midnight that day, so I quickly got to work. I have been drawing Dachshund dogs as part of an exercise for my course so decided one more wouldn't hurt ;) (They are so cute with their long bodies and short stumpy legs aw!)

Et voila, a pastel drawing of a Daschund in a rather fetching Christmas jumper. :-) I also decided to submit the drawing as a repeat pattern for wrapping paper.

Wish me luck!

Their website is great by the way, worth a visit.

#twoodle...Pug to the rescue!!!

Happy new year everyone!

This evening... A very quick #twoodle using 'Pug' and 'Fire truck' or 'Fire engine' to us british folk :)

Pug to the rescuuuee!!!....

It's starting to feel a lot like christmas!

Right, thats it... it's december, tree is up and with my christmas yankee candle burning away and christmas tunes to boot, i've been busy creating this little character...

#Twoodle for today Hippo and Bench

It's been a while, but today's quick twoodle using the words Bench and Hippo! Here you will find more on how to play :-)

Boo... scanner problems so I had to take a photo!

Silly animals - Some Initial Sketches!

Today I have been drawing animals doing silly things! A pig on a pogo stick??.. why not!? There seems to be a flying, bouncing, 'mid air' theme for some reason today! This is for the next exercise for the course I am studying with London Art college.... The final artwork will need to be in watercolour, so having worked in pastels for so long, time to get those brushes out!... for now, some initial sketches...