creativity boot camp, finally finished; hush, smooth, and smile
Waaaayyy back in June I participated in the Creativity Boot Camp. I lost my momentum when I got stuck on the 11th theme, "hush". I had a really hard time coming up with an idea of what to draw (obviously). Finally I thought, "well I could just do something calm and muted".
The "water" might be a little too choppy, and the outlines might be a little too strong for "hush", but it's a pretty pattern, so I'm happy with the results.
The 12th theme was "smooth". I already had this one worked out as a sketch, but I wanted to post the themes in order, so I held off finishing it until now.
I first drew the lines, and then *smoothed* out some of the angles with a curved line and shading.
The final theme was "smile" and I was pretty much dreading it, truth be told. Every idea I had seemed terribly cheesy and made me cringe a little bit. Lucky for me, I watched Alice in Wonderland this weekend.
As you might imagine, the Cheshire cat inspired this pattern. Maybe it's still a bit cheesy, but I also think it's a pretty cute pattern.
Today I gathered up all the finished drawings and arranged them on the wall above my desk. In all there were 13 themes, and I completed 20 drawings in total.
For reference, here is a list of the themes that correspond to the image above, top row to bottom row, left to right:
ivory, ivory, picnic, picnic
picnic, picnic, picnic, multilayered
multilayered, heavy metal, heavy metal, grow
fluid, fly, ornament, drizzle
full bodied, hush, smooth, smile
If you click through to flickr on the above image, you'll find that it's tagged with the various themes with links to the original full-sized drawings.
All of the drawings were done on 6 in x 6 in bristol. When I started the challenge, I had decided to use only pencil and/or Prismacolor markers. A few minor exceptions that snuck in were a silver sharpie that I used for the silver and pink "heavy metal" drawing, blue ink that I used for the outlines of the "ornament" drawing, and black ink used for details on two of the picnic drawings. For "full bodied" I used black ink and watercolor. I really don't know why I used watercolor. I'm sure I could have colored it with marker, but I probably just wasn't thinking!
It took me a while, but I'm so glad that I followed through and finished all of the themes. It's going to feel great to cross them off my to-do list!
The "water" might be a little too choppy, and the outlines might be a little too strong for "hush", but it's a pretty pattern, so I'm happy with the results.
The 12th theme was "smooth". I already had this one worked out as a sketch, but I wanted to post the themes in order, so I held off finishing it until now.
I first drew the lines, and then *smoothed* out some of the angles with a curved line and shading.
The final theme was "smile" and I was pretty much dreading it, truth be told. Every idea I had seemed terribly cheesy and made me cringe a little bit. Lucky for me, I watched Alice in Wonderland this weekend.
As you might imagine, the Cheshire cat inspired this pattern. Maybe it's still a bit cheesy, but I also think it's a pretty cute pattern.
Today I gathered up all the finished drawings and arranged them on the wall above my desk. In all there were 13 themes, and I completed 20 drawings in total.
For reference, here is a list of the themes that correspond to the image above, top row to bottom row, left to right:
ivory, ivory, picnic, picnic
picnic, picnic, picnic, multilayered
multilayered, heavy metal, heavy metal, grow
fluid, fly, ornament, drizzle
full bodied, hush, smooth, smile
If you click through to flickr on the above image, you'll find that it's tagged with the various themes with links to the original full-sized drawings.
All of the drawings were done on 6 in x 6 in bristol. When I started the challenge, I had decided to use only pencil and/or Prismacolor markers. A few minor exceptions that snuck in were a silver sharpie that I used for the silver and pink "heavy metal" drawing, blue ink that I used for the outlines of the "ornament" drawing, and black ink used for details on two of the picnic drawings. For "full bodied" I used black ink and watercolor. I really don't know why I used watercolor. I'm sure I could have colored it with marker, but I probably just wasn't thinking!
It took me a while, but I'm so glad that I followed through and finished all of the themes. It's going to feel great to cross them off my to-do list!