love makes a family
Australians: don’t forget to vote.
illustration + science communication
love makes a family
Australians: don’t forget to vote.
I finally set up another online shop! I’ve heard lots of good things about inprnt so I decided to go with them and thus far the set up has been super easy and nice.
I’ve only got two pieces up at present but if you want anything else just let me know and I’ll upload it 🙂
Overseas Australians: time to vote!
Local Australians: if you haven’t got your survey now, it’s time to notify the ABS to request a new one.
Aussie Artists: Wanna make some art for rainbow families? Maxine Beneba Clarke suggested using the hashtag #lovemakesafamily over on twitter but it’s pretty empty atm 😦
This was… meant to be a much bigger entire complex book cover, with character included. And I’ll probably re-use the idea, and the rest of the sketch. But given that I’m trying to improve I also know that it’s important for me to just move on. Quality over quantity and whatnot, even though the skill I’m learning requires patience and concentration.
So here, I drew this with real live pencils 🙂
I’ve been working more and more digitally lately. My sketchbook has really only been used for roughing out vague ideas before moving across to my computer. And I realised that it had gotten to a point where I was struggling to draw in my sketchbook. Without the ability to constantly rearrange and redraw, I didn’t know how to draw a finished piece, or even a neat underdrawing, and it was frustrating because I wanted to be able to take my sketchbook places and just… draw. Even if those places were just the couch.
So I’m gonna be working on traditional art for a while, at least for my line art, and taking baby steps as I work back up to fully rendered scenes with people and perspective. But first: plants and robots!
It’s good timing, what with it being nearly Inktober (though I have no plans to use ink) and I expect I’ll still do some digital pieces in the meantime (I have a few unfinished pieces sitting in my files at the very least). And hopefully when I get through this I’ll have more confidence and freedom in my work. Ideally some more speed too…
EDIT: this is not at all to slight artists who work mostly or entirely digitally. That’s cool, you do you! This is just a thing for me.
have some old art bc the anti-SSM stuff is getting me down.
a middle grade mystery
Wait, you burned our warehouse down? But… but… why??? (3/3)
Oh my, what have I done? (2/3)
please, help me (1/3)