Merry Christmas

Mermaid

My attempt for this week’s Illustration Friday theme.

Mermaid Illustration Friday 25 September 2015

 

Gratitude Calendar 2014 – Day 95

I sometimes forget that I can do this.

 

 

 

Gratitude Calendar 2014 – Day 3

What can I say about clouds?  They give us water and shade.  They are all kinds of different pictures to help you pass the time.

Gratitude Calendar 2014 – Day 2

They are a great source of vitamin C and fibre.  And they are like little natural heart sweets!  They are great!

Gratitude Calendar 2014 – Day 1

Trying to develop a character… Meet Mooi-Mooi

I read in “The encyclopedia of writing and illustrating children’s books” by Desdemona McCannon, Sue Thornton and Yadzia Williams that you should base your character on a child you know.  My brother has a little girl who’s nickname is “Mooi-Mooi” (Pretty-Pretty).  These sketches is an attempt to develop a character based on her, even though the character looks nothing like her.

I started with some pencil sketches, in different positions.

This was my second attempt, the first looked more like a teenager.  After correcting this (and several months or may be a year) I enlarged the frontal view and inked it.

Then I enlarged the front view on watercolour paper.

When I finished this I painted the illustration with watercolour paint.  I am not very happy with the end product but don’t know how to fix it.

I coloured the illustration with watercolour paint.

I added some shadows.

A little more rounded.