My Favourite Copic Colours

I love art supplies but I hate buying things and then not using them or finding out that they are the wrong colours. I thought I'd make a video of all of my favourite Copic shades for you. Think of it as window shopping for art supplies :)

Blind Drawing - Doodles and Things - Cartoon Characters

I live far away from my family and that can really suck so recently my sister and I decided to do something fun together and record a drawing session. Since we are both artists (not that you would be able to tell from this video...haha) we thought it would be fun to draw some classic cartoon characters from memory.
We had a fantastic time and I can't wait to do it again with her.

A Few Things About Me...

Hello lovely people.

I love Youtube. I love watching illustrators and animators talk about art and the way they work. I enjoy it so much that I thought I would contribute something to the 'illustuber' community. I have tried a few times to get into the world of Youtube but with a full time job and an addiction to animating and drawing at home it has always felt quite hard to add in editing and making videos. Then I had an epiphany and thought of a way to make videos that would be a little less time consuming (and involve less of my face....very important to me). This is just a little intro video but I am hoping to start releasing a video every two weeks and then once a week if it goes well. Let's see how what we can make :)

Have a lovely day everyone and happy doodling.

Art Supplies Galore

I got an amazing gift from the fabulous Kakibot so I thought I'd make a video and test out some art supplies:

Things I Can't Draw

This Feb I started drawing my travel Zine. I had the notes and the ideas, but I had one major problem. I didn't like the drawings. I draw a lot these days but I draw very similar things. I never push myself so I thought I'd use March as a warm up month before I start drawing the zine. That is how I came up with the 'Things I Can't Draw' challenge. I made a list of all the things I hate drawing or never draw and set myself the challenge of doing one a day. 

So far it has been going well. I have found that most drawings go into one of three categories; 'This is more fun to draw than I thought', 'I can draw this if I spend time thinking about it' and 'I need lots of practice'.

Hands are something I draw every day but I always rush them and pig-headedly draw them without getting some reference. When I spent some time on them I was happy with the results. 

Scenery turned out to be really fun. I love how scenery drawings always come together when you ink them. The colours can be really expressionist and then the inked lines and details add life to the sketch. I'll definitely be doing more of them. 

Feet. I hate feet. I hate my feet. I don't like drawing feet. I will practice them more and hopefully grow to like drawing these weird mechanical yet organic objects. 

I'm only 10 days into the challenge but it has been fun so far. I have some hard days coming up but the results are pushing me through. 

What would be on your list of things you hate to draw?