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
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! 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
Hi everyone! Sorry for the delay in posting.. Everyone’s been pretty busy again lately including myself! But regardless of this business.. I’ve been doing my best to continue painting almost every day. Which includes this week’s post – a landscape! Vicki’s Piece Materials: Watercolours, Gouache Recently I treated myself to some new paints and colouring… Read More Week 23: Landscapes
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
Hey all! After last week’s challenge of drawing a movie scene, we moved onto a more traditional-based theme. This week the challenge was to pick an artist we are inspired by, and to imitate their style while creating our own original piece of work. Maryann’s Piece Materials: poster paint (the really sh*tty kind) For this… Read More Week 21: Imitating an Artist’s Style
Hey everyone! It feels good to be back and working hard on our weekly themes again. Now that the holidays are over, it’s certainly nice to have some more focus on productive things. This week, we worked on a theme which asked us to draw our Favourite Movie Scene. Since it is such a personal… Read More Week 20: Favourite Movie Scene
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