Kicking (in) a Habit

Its easy to get caught up in the everyday work-eat-sleep cycle, before you know it, the day's over, the month has passed and the year has flown by. I picked up my coloured pencils today and decided to put them to paper. Because there's always time in a busy day for a little scribble...

A Month of Drawing

SpoonFlower have set a 30 day drawing challenge called 'A Month Of Drawing' which I've already gotten stuck into. (Unfortunately I came across this a little late and missed the first weeks's theme which was Open Spaces). 

This week's theme is 'Type', encouraging us to incorporate hand drawn lettering into our illustrations. They send out a prompt via email every day, which makes it super exciting checking my emails!

I'd encourage any creative to take up this challenge. Its been great for me, as I always tend to turn to the same methods or sources for inspiration, so to create something from a single random word, or 'prompt' is really refreshing. Here's my week so far...

Week 2

prompt 6 - Lemon

prompt 7  - Book

Prompt 8 - Arrow

Stuck for Inspiration

I was stuck today, really stuck, so I went to the park, set down my blanket on the grass, and just lay there, cleared my my head and looked up. 

Doodle Of The Day

Mark-making with fine-liner pens to create a simple design. 

Pattern Making

As frustrating as it may be, I'm gonna need to be a ninja in Adobe Illustrator if I want to make my own fabric designs. I spent the whole of today learning how to create seamless repeat patterns from an original design, which was helped a hell of a lot by a range of free youtube tutorials (some better than others!) But I got there in the end, starting with a simple doodle design.

Here's the home-style tutorial I found most helpful by Barbara Ignatiev: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR8esZ4nn6c

 Custom font made with a fill from my pattern swatch

basic pattern made with paintbrush tool and freehand squiggles

Watermelon Slices

...or pink pizza slices?! You decide, a new recipe idea perhaps!

Sail Away

I wish!