Showing posts with label ocean fish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ocean fish. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

deep sea life in willie's book







Lately I've been more into watercolors and figurative drawings - mostly animals of course. I was inspired and blown away by the work in Willie's Mole, and some of the sea life, including Aya's octopus and Ellen's two-page spread really inspired me to try some too. Being into things that are freaky and monstery, I went for the stuff that lives miles below the ocean's surface, and learned a lot in the process. That's what I love about these exchanges and drawing in general - they inspire me and cause me to want to learn about things I might otherwise know little about. Anyhow, it was an adjustment, working back in the smaller Mole again, being I've been spoiled by working in my newer A4 watercolor book, which I love to pieces. Still, it was kind of cool trying to draw so small again. I hope to get this journal out into the mail ASAP.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Candy Collab & Pocket Goodies


Top image: Ash drew the octopus in black & white only.
I colored his fangs as candy corn, then drew his undersea Halloween friends. Candy corn fangs for everyone!
Bottom image: Candy corn "paper dolls" for Ash's Moleskine pocket.
The rest of my effort to be posted soon... still tweaking a few of my entries. I love the watercolor Moles, paper is great! But I confess to being anxious about the latter artists getting shorted pages. The sheet count is so scant in the WC books. I used both sides of the paper, to consolidate my page usage.