I just started a new job on Monday, so I’ve been away from blogging for a few days (and I’m really tired!). I wanted to post the result of the kitty cartoon I wrote about a few days ago. I did the final and created a card, which is now listed in my Etsy shop. Thanks to those who critiqued the early images! It really helped.
And by the way, the message in the balloon is something my cat actually typed on my actual laptop.
I occasionally like to jazz up my birthday cards with fun drawings. Here’s one I included in a card that I recently sent to a young friend of mine who just turned 9. The heads are from photos of my dogs, Henry and Diesel (who my friend loved). I added the goofy bodies to give her a giggle.
The second image is a drawing that she did and sent back to me inside a thank you card. I think it’s hilarious with those little “French” fries saying “Bon appetite!”
I’m working on a design for a new card, and I’ve drawn the front image of a cat typing on a laptop over and over again to the point of insanity. I’ve narrowed it down to three. Which if any, do you like best: top, middle, or bottom? I won’t give away the text or what kind of card it will be as of yet. I just want to see which one stands out. Thanks!
Last week I did a post called Disco Cat for Illustration Friday. I created a lot of sketchy doodle drawings to figure out how I wanted the dancing characters to look. There were lots and lots of ballerina cats before I landed on Disco Cat. I thought it would be fun to put some of the rejects together on the dance floor like one big party. And here it is.
Like millions of other people, I am crazy for the Masterpiece Theatre series, Downton Abbey. I am now going to jump on the bandwagon with lots of other artists who cannot resist drawing the cool, reserved Lady Mary, played by the marvelous Michelle Dockery.
Letter Playground is a fun site where people draw letters in really fun and creative ways. I have a small collection over there. Below are two that I’ve posted. The letter G (the cat) is my most popular, and I’ve included a couple of others too. If you like to draw, stop by and have some fun with letters.
This bunny is very annoyed that he gets pulled into all the Easter merriment each year. He doesn’t care about fertility symbols or ancient pagan rituals or anything like that. He’s just tired of the whole thing and wants to throw it back over the wall to Jesus.
Have you noticed that, these days, people no longer change? Instead we evolve. Everything we do involves evolution. Our eating habits evolve, our taste in music evolves, our paper products evolve. We’re evolving so rapidly that soon we’ll devolve into single-cell organisms with no sense of fashion or etiquette, and then we’ll be back on the evolution fast track again.
This is my nod to what has become one of the most overused words in the English language, “evolve.” Presumably this is happening because it’s a sciencey sounding word and everyone thinks that’s cool. Personally, I’d like to stop evolving and just go back to changing and adapting. All this evolving is giving me a headache.
I recently added this cute to do list to my Etsy shop. Unlike the other note pad in my shop, I included lines on this one. I’m wondering whether that’s a good thing or not. So my question is this:
Do you like your note pads/to do lists lined or unlined?
