This is a recent sketch that I am working on - for a client. I begin by drawing fine lines to form the shapes in pencil. Step 2 is to use a micron pen ever so lightly and then add a wash of color. I "look" then draw and "look" some more until I feel that I have captured it. I often give myself a time limit as drawing takes a looser approach rather than one that was belabored for hours. For me, my artwork after all is a true labor of love. Now off to do the fill in with the water color wash! Can hardly wait. Do drop me a line and tell me how you go about creating your work.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
fine lines
This is a recent sketch that I am working on - for a client. I begin by drawing fine lines to form the shapes in pencil. Step 2 is to use a micron pen ever so lightly and then add a wash of color. I "look" then draw and "look" some more until I feel that I have captured it. I often give myself a time limit as drawing takes a looser approach rather than one that was belabored for hours. For me, my artwork after all is a true labor of love. Now off to do the fill in with the water color wash! Can hardly wait. Do drop me a line and tell me how you go about creating your work.
These lines are very fine and precise. Lovely!
ReplyDeleteMy work starts with little seeds of ideas and lots of what ifs, sometimes dreams too. Then I make some notes and go to it. I try and outline, but usually that goes out the window. The finished product often takes lots of unexpected twists and turns as characters take of a life of their own.
kwana,
ReplyDeleteyou make it sound easy, and I thought you had it all figured out in your head!
dreams make stories to take us to better places. dream on...and let those unexpected twists and turns give you ideas for pure drama to thicken the plot and stir up characters. hmm, sounds like real life!
pve
what a beautiful house AND drawing! The sketches I do at work tend to be a lot more just working sketches and aren't as polished as this. I like to work with a super fine sharpie and if a client will see it I do a second layer with a SUPER fine micro to put in furniture, built in cabinets, etc. Generally i work in soul-less autocad though.
ReplyDeleteI love your beginning sketch just the way it is!
ReplyDeleteMy work starts with ideas and visions, inspirations... then I lay down the raw type or image, and see what it tells me to do.
This is such a lovely drawing. I do hope you post it when it's done.
ReplyDeleteI guess the key to my approach, whether I'm working on a room design for a client, a keepsake art box, or a piece of writing, is to be open to any ideas that might casually float by,in order to best grab them from the air. I try not to worry about getting these ideas, but it seems when I finish a project of any kind, I am always quite convinced that is the last good idea I will ever have. Until the next one. I am beginning to learn to relax and let them come. Strangely enough, writing has begun to help me with this, which was not what I had planned at all. Sigh.
I love learning about your process—I always admire your finished products, so it's fascinating to see how you get from start to finish.
ReplyDeleteI'm not an illustrator, so I don't really have anything to share about my working process.
Please DO post the finished product!
ReplyDeleteYou amaze me - I love your style!!!
ReplyDeleteI write--not novels, not anything long, and when I do, I self-edit. I drivel on. Then I stop, print, take a pen to it. Then I type again and correct. Then print and pen. Then type. Jeez, I sound crazy.
ReplyDeleteI wish I was as spirited with it as Kwana!
Oh my goodness, this one is gorgeous too! When I am finished renovating my little cottage I am going to get you to paint it!!!
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Ana
hi.
ReplyDeletejust wondering - how much do you charge for your illustrations and do you do them on request?
so if i was to ask you to draw something would you do so?
thank you in advance
please email me at macca_89@bigpond.com if you would like to write back
thanks
ashleigh mcdonald, australia