Hi everyone! We’re back for theme 32, which tasked us with drawing a self portrait in an unflattering light – first thing in the morning! Su’s Piece Materials: fineliner Self portrait in the morning I wanted to use the negative white space of the paper as positive space. I also built up the crosshatching in the… Read More Week 32: Morning Self-Portrait
Hey everyone! So this week we had a theme suggested by a co-worker of Su, who asked us to create an image using pastel colours, floral imagery – think Marie Antoinette! As always, we love themes suggested by visitors of our blog so it was great fun to work on this one! Vicki’s Piece Materials:… Read More Week 31: Let them eat cake
Hey everyone! Week 30 got personal and asked us to dig deep down into our daily lives and expose the contents of our bags. What will they reveal about us as individuals and artists? Let’s take a look! Vicki’s Piece Materials: Watercolour, pencil, pen I feel like two things happened to me when I moved… Read More Week 30: The Contents of My Bag
Hello everyone! Week 29’s theme was a challenge to design 3 dresses inspired by different drinks. Let’s take a look at what we made.. Vicki’s Piece Materials: Watercolour, pencil I decided to base my drinks off of 3 different dress styles and theme the dress and the drink appropriately! My chosen dresses and drinks were: A… Read More Week 29: 3 Dresses inspired by Drinks
Hello everyone! It sure has been a while – thanks to the busy Christmas period and all it’s festivities, and me getting sick just in time for the New Year, I’ve certainly been slacking on the upload for which I am sorry! We’ve most definitely been drawing though, and if you’d like to see our… Read More Week 28: Favourite word in a Foreign Language
Hi everyone! And we’re back! After the Pokemon in Human form post, I had the JLPT coming up so had a good solid chunk of study time. But that hasn’t stopped us drawing, and here is our latest post. This week’s theme was to challenge us to re-draw an old piece of artwork that we… Read More Week 27: Re-creating an old art piece
Hi everyone! The weeks seem to have flown by – and now we’re officially half way through the project! Week 26 was another reader suggestion which was to draw a Pokemon in a human form. Vicki’s Piece Materials: Coloured pencils, watercolours This is our second Pokemon inspired theme, each one encouraging something different and yet… Read More Week 26: Pokemon in Human form
Hello everyone – we’re almost half way into an entire year’s worth of themes – I’m pretty impressed with that and proud that we’ve stuck with the blog so far. Week 25 was a suggestion from a mutual friend of ours – she suggested movie stars from the Black and White film days! Let’s take… Read More Week 25: Black and White movie stars
Hello! After last week’s traditional theme, Week 24 brought another illustration based theme with the topic of designing a character for an existing franchise or universe. A seemingly limitless theme, this one at least gave some parameters in that we had to think about the aesthetic of our chosen franchise. But choosing a franchise itself-… Read More Week 24: A Character for an Existing Franchise
Heeey everybody! Recently down in Japan we’ve had a crazy few weeks again with weekend work and events – but we’ve got another theme covered and here it is! This week we recreated an existing Book, Game or Movie cover in our own style. Let’s take a look! Su’s Piece Materials used: Watercolour, fineliner Dvd… Read More Week 22: Recreating a cover
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