Kittys Drawings

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!!

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

Soooo it’s been a while hasn’t it? Almost a week. Well – I am in a bit of a creative slump at the moment. I’m currently working on a piece for Art Jumble which is now going to be late. The idea started off fun and now it’s just becoming a chore. Don’t you hate that?

I think I need to loosen things up. Just sketch. Stop diving into projects that take more than a little research to complete. Blah. I’m finding it hard to switch between sketch and colour blocking. I spent HOURS trying to draw a nice line drawing for the Space Girl theme (Art Jumble) and then last night I thought: “Why the hell am I trying to get the line right when I gotta colour it in anyway – just block the colours in you dimwit!”. So I started that today and then its all more MEH cos I can’t be bothered now. Over it. One redeeming feature which I’ve attached below – spent a few more minutes making this a piece on it’s own.

Actually – I kinda like it now. Hehe. The paper effect is very cool don’t you think? On the weekend I had the chance to drop by Mag Nation in the city (LOVE that shop!) and bought myself a copy of The Complete Guide to Digital Painting. It’s full of tutorials on what you can do with Corel Painter. It features mostly photo manipulation in the sense that the base of the paintings is always a photo. They look great so I will have a go at some of the tutes on the disc when I get a chance. One thing I was reminded of is the paper effects you can add at the end. There’s lots of materials like different kinds of canvas and even wood grain.

So I guess in the space of writing this post I went from being very un-enthused and not feeling very creative, to redeeming a crappy piece of art with a cute kitty cat. See – kitties can always save the day!
I feel much better now!