More of my doodles (not all poodles) for the 52 Week Illustration Challenge here.
I am not a toy!
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The Bird Lover (take 2)
Here’s the same subject in a very different style. I couldn’t decide on the two skirt patterns you you can make up your own minds :-)
Bella will even be able to tell me what the fabrics are called. Is my girl a soft autumn Bella? I started off going for warm autumn and then my colour palette morphed…. (obsessively drawn to soft autumn it seems)
The fashion derives from circa 1840 and the applications of partial derivatives in differential and integral calculus.
Happy Friday!
The more demure, blue skirt print.
The lighter floral print skirt echoing the snowy overlays elsewhere in the scene.
The Bird Lover
Okay, this post came down. Now it’s going up again because I hear some people have linked to it. Sorry about that. Decided I wasn’t keen on it. But here it is again. Have posted plenty of warts-and-all experimental doodles before now, so why not this one?
Strange little doodle fellow with a Tove Jansson Groke nose…
For my bird loving Mum. (I know your nose doesn’t look like this, Mum.)
Furthermore… (in for a penny, in for a pound) here’s the earlier version of this pic. Which I decided was too dark. But it has a different, more raw and slightly spooky quality. Kids could have a go at something similar to this combining scraper board techniques with collage.
Revenge in 4 stages
Dog performs psychological punishment.
Cat demonstrates turning the other cheek.
The 52 Week Illustration Challenge theme this week is TOY.
Happy Wednesday.
Week 32: PSYCHEDELIC
Cat trouble again
I don’t know if the cat is directly responsible for this little dog’s trippy bad dream, but she is certainly doing her best to mozz him.
still busy
Me, my work and The Undrawn Pug, hiding under the drawing table
Arty Birthday (and more dog tongues…)
Soooo busy here this fortnight! Just time to post a happy birthday post to my eleven-year-old dog-loving, art-loving boy, Arthur.
Happy Birthday Arty!
The front of the card. Scott had the hard job of adding the lettering as I had not left much space!!
The back of the card. Also lettered by Scott with a range of things suggested by both of us.
Back to work now.
I finished another spread yesterday! Hooray! Getting closer.
Continuous line drawings in French
The 52 Week Illustration Challenge theme this week is LINES.
These are some line drawings done in the car during a rainy soccer training session in half darkness. I am quite pleased with them because they were done from the imagination and without any visual reference. I let the words of the french lesson lead the direction of the doodle. I tried to do them almost completely using a continuous line, except where my pen fell off the page. And above, I did some rather crude scribble in the speech balloon as well.
And below is one of my Calculus Fashion ladies with a bit of colour added. I am quite liking the effect on the parchment and print. 
Sometimes I draw quite complex continuous line drawings in my mind, while lying in bed at night. It’s very relaxing, and the resulting drawings take up very little storage space.
Occasionally I forget where I put them, because I fall asleep :-)
Calculus Doodles in Bed
These were all done using a historical fashion book for reference and a differential calculus book as a canvas.
I first looked for interesting mathematical lines and diagrams, then found fashions that seemed to meld with them. The rest was a bit of swift improvisation. The women in the fashion book are (deliberately) bland and faceless. I added some life to the people, and altered poses, and fashion to suit the squiggles of my pen.
I do seem to find this kind of squiggling very relaxing. And it can be quite suggestive of all sorts of things… Astrakhan, embroidery, hedges…
Busy
I need another cup of tea.
My bottom is becoming chair shaped.
Judy Watson 