Kitty's Drawings

Just a quick post today to say…I WON SOMETHING!!!!!

Eeeeeeee!!!

A lovely blog that I read, by Twila at The Mysterious Life of a Metropolitan Housewife recently had a competition to celebrate her first blogging anniversary. The prize was a gorgeous aqua repro 50’s dress by Shristi Studio on Etsy. And as with many contests, I enter and then promptly forget about it….but today I saw on Twila’s blog that I had WON. Woooo!!!

So without furher ado, here is my prize…picture courtesty of Twila & Shristi Studio of course.

I can’t wait for it to arrive. Yay!! SO HAPPY!

A non-drawing related post.

Let’s talk about (and perve on) SHOES.

Check out these babies!!!!!!! I don’t usually spend my last cent on frivoulous purchases. Really.
But this time I just *had* to have them.
Just look at them. The brightest shade of electric blue. Pretty sequins. Flowers. The cutest rounded toe. The right height with a perfect, not-too-skinny heel. Soft suede. Plush pink velvet interior. *sigh*
And all for $100 including postage. Yay!
From Schuh in the UK. They arrived in less than a week too.

Excuse my fatty feet – the mercury reached 43C today (108F) hence the swollen feet. Blergh.

I think I am in love with Irregular Choice.

Quick late night posting today…..

I just squeezed an entry for ConceptArt.org CHOW this week…the topic was Steampunk Harem. Mixing two conflicting styles. Ripper topic! So many entries. And I bit off WAY more than I could chew! The way I envisioned this was so different. I’ve learnt a lot from this exercise…mostly to plan even the tiniest details from the beginning. I wish I had more time…but I’m thoroughly over this…but I like one of my original sketches, so I might paint that in PS just for play and to see how I go.

Hope you like! Even though I am very MEH about it.

Night!

Hello Everyone! Today I have a new Art Jumble drawing for you. This week’s topic is “Emo girls” – a super fun topic actually they are fun to draw! Lots of peeps on Art Jumble seem to be happy about it too as there’s quite a few submissions this week. I had a rough sketch for this but it wasn’t what I used as the base – haven’t had time to get to the scanner at work lately. So I drew this entirely on the computer instead. It’s turned out pretty good I think! Emo always makes me think of bright, punky hair. And I know I didn’t add any accessories etc but thats not really my thing. Hmm. Took me about an hour and a half. While drinking a beer. Hehe. Anyways, this was quick… I need to start pushing my limits a bit. Have a couple more drawings planned so I should get onto those next week. Bye bye for now!

Hi all!
If you’ve been reading this wee blog for a while you would know I was nominated for the Lithographic Institute of Aus, Graduate of the Year award. Last night was the dinner for the announcement of the Victorian winner….sooooo…..
No use beating around the bush – I didn’t get tha big prize last night

BUT not all is lost! I got a heap of great contacts…the sales manager for Heidelberg Aus. gave me his business card so I could call him about letterpress parts. My friend’s father who owns a couple of newspapers said he has a bunch of stuff for me down in Franklin which isn’t far from Dover where my press is. He’s got a heap of type and even a man who can teach me to use the press! How convenient! So stoked. Everyone was mighty impressed that I had an interest in such an antiquated form of printing. Keeping the dream alive I hope to be!

Now I just have to get cracking and make some calls!

So who won? There were only two girls nominated out of seven and my friend (who’s father has the newspapers) won it. The same girl I mentioned in my original post about this comp who I hoped that if I didn’t get it, she would. And she did! I’m very happy that a CHICK won it, in such a male dominated industry! She is very deserving too – very accomplished and super motivated.
It was kind of obvious she would get it, being a fifth generation printing family. And little ol’ me always the underdog in a way…I wasn’t going to tell lies about what I want. I don’t want to take over the printing industry – or be some big wig going to lots of meetings. That’s not me at all.
I’d rather do my own little thing, and do it well.

And that’s that! Got home last night and today back straight into work. I got a plaque for my efforts and a cheque for $100 which is wonderful. It’ll pay for the lovely vintage dress I just bought. I should really try and get some photos of my awesome new clothes I’ve bought lately to show you all. Must hassle Jonny!

We’re really really busy at work right now. One of the women has left our end of the office to do more admin work. The other has been sick the past week so despite being two people down, no one minds because it’s been beautifully quiet!

About today’s drawing….This one is an unplanned piece. It started with me trying to draw a picture out of my LittleSnapper inspiration folder (fantastic app by the way!) which wasn’t working in the slightest. So I started again and just drew from the top of my head and this is what came out I’ve been wanting to draw a girl with her eyes shut and chin turned upward for a while and it never really worked. Think it might have been the hair issue – but that dilemma was easily resolved in this drawing. This choice just seemed logical.
This took about 1.5 hours. I made dinner in there somewhere so I’m not sure of the exact time

Until the weekend…ciao!!

Hello!
Another drawing for you all. This one took a bit longer. About 6 hours or more. Lost count. Not sure if I’m 100% happy with it. Seems I get bored of a drawing much too quickly and I lose interest in finishing it. But I struggled through with this one. A little Paris Hilton inspired??? Teehee

Guess I’m still not happy with my drawing skills. Or I haven’t perfected my technique. I think I really need to develop stuff more. More details and a story behind the image. Though I do get over stuff very quickly. It’s always been my downfall – there’s always a new and better idea that I need to get out.
Sometimes it feels like my hands let me down – I can sketch easily on paper but working on the computer can still be frustrating. It’s hard to get the lines right and I’m particularly fussy about lines! Converting them to vector would be the solution but then I find those lines too harsh! Think I really need to experiment more with different techniques.

Whinge whinge. Please excuse me. Just feeling incredibly critical of my own skills. *sigh*

Anyways – what do you think? (I’m not trying to host a pity party here either guys so be critical )

A little close up…

Meh.

More birds! Not ugly ones this time

Today I took the day off. One of my final rostered days off (RDO) before my apprenticeship finishes. That’s right – this time next week I will no longer be an apprentice!! YAY! That’s been almost 5 years in the making – I started at my work in January 2005 at tender age of not quite 21 hehe And now I’m finally finished! Not that that will be the end of my education. I’ve still got my Cert IV to finish and who knows, I might consider a diploma or a degree (part time) to round off my graphics/prepress knowledge.

Anyway – the reason I took the day off was so that I could finally catch up on some drawing! Jonny needs a few things done for his Cult-of-Pop website…I’ve knocked one of those down – click the link to see the Featured Article graphics I did. Just a quick one in Illustrator.
We had breakfast in the cafe downstairs and brainstormed the other art I need to do for him. I sketched a cool looking crow in the process which all of a sudden took precedence and I HAD to draw it properly. Tehehe.
So here he is – a bit plump and round and soft looking. But look at his beady beady eye!!

Details:

Now I’m off to do some of the Cult-of-Pop stuff before Jonny gets narky at me hehehe