This month I managed my greatest illustration achievement to date, and that was to be one of the editors picks for the week for the Illustration challenge. I was truly chuffed, you can see my picture amongst the other picks for week 9 – watercolour of the illustration challenge blog.
Below are my 5 entries for March, as usual with me some of these I think are good, others were rushed token efforts. But I am still on time and have not missed a week and I am duly impressed with myself. The prompts were as follows: Week 9 – Watercolour, Week 10 – Animal, Week 11 – Mother, Week 12 – Non-dominant hand and Week 13 – Movement. I am without a scanner at present to the images aren’t the best.
Week 9 – Watercolour. I haven’t attempted watercolour in many years, and as luck would have it I don’t have any watercolours to hand, so I went more with coloured water. Black and white gel pen and some cheapo pencil crayons. Based on a photo I found online. Delighted to be one of the picks of the week for this prompt.
Week 10. Animal. Pencil crayon and gel pen, the usual for me. This does have a pale blue background but the scanner is too harsh to capture it. The quality of the entries this year is immense, quite intimidating really
Week 11, Mother. A mother is one who teaches you to ignore the recipe. Gel pen, felt tip and a touch of crayon.
Week 12, non-dominant hand. Well this was harder than expected, I’m usually quite handy with my left, apparently not for drawing. Gel pen and pencil crayon. Tip for you all, don’t try and write in gel pen unless you are in control, it slips and slides everywhere; I had to switch to biro for the writing.
Week 13, Movement. Once a physicist always a physicist I guess. Gel pen and pencil crayon. I do love a pendulum wave.
