bloowabbit: marker

Thursday, 1 February 2018

February the 1st...

Well !! It's been quite a day. What do you do when someone else decides to run an art challenge on Instagram using the same hashtag you've started using 6 days previous? To be fair the other artist told me she'd thought of it in Jan and put it up on her facebook page. However, when I tried it out on Instagram and found that nobody else was using the hashtag I reckoned the path was clear and so I adopted it.

I know, I have no ownership over the hashtag. But when challenges are involved two artists using the same hashtags then chaos ensues. What pops up are my instructions for my challenge...and her different instructions for her challenge, a tad confusing.

I had the brass neck to suggest she use a different hashtag. I think that was heretical of me. I shall light a candle to the great god Insta. Anyhow, to be clear, here are the instructions for the bloowabbit #februdoodle challenge.

That's all there is to it...happy doodling! And if you choose to share it online please use the hashtag #februdoodle and add @bloowabbit

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Monday, 11 July 2016

Mother of Bats

I posted another in the series 'Mother of ...' on my facebook page Bloowabbit, entitled 'Mother of Bats'. I had an idea of something more gothic in mind and the result was this piece coloured in markers with added coloured pencil.

First colours laid down in the line drawing were Copic Ciao Milky White and Chafford PB71. Boston Board was used.

Bat images found online were used as a resource, including a flying fox.

The piece was coloured and shadows added.

Coloured pencils, Mars Chromo, give more depth to the marker layers. Spirals of purple, blue and green marker were used to break up the flatness of the background.

A final outline of black pen followed by a line of white gel pen helps the image to pop. More white gel pen was used to add spirals of white to give a feeling of mist.

I'm unhappy with the left eye, didn't notice it was too far to the right until I was about to apply the coloured pencil layer. I like the stance of the figure, her tattoo and her sombre expression.

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