Illustration Friday - Bicycle

I want to ride my bicycle. I want to ride my bike.

This is my bicycle. A really bad drawing of it.

Ironically I brought it from a guy who had no time to ride it due to training for marathons - I thought it would be good when training for a marathon, but there is no time!! It's all running!!

Will have some more time for you post-marathon bikey!

Illustration Friday - Journey

A street scene in Palata, Italy from my sketchbook. All these old Italian men sitting across the street at a cafe, was too good of an opportunity to not snap a photo. We were on our way to gatecrash an Italian wedding whilst in our daggy travel clothes. Funny.

I take the photos first, then sketch. Thought it was fitting to scan it exactly from my sketchbook for the topic this week. I could spend the rest of my life drawing street scenes from travelling. So interesting.

Hand drawn in lead pencil, colour added in good ol' photoshop.

My overseas beverage diary and Illy Friday (Bottled)

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FINALLY got to putting this baby together as a poster. Not entirely sure on the colours yet though, but I really, really, really want to print it on fabric and make a cushion as well. Great keepsake of last years overseas trip.

Why Illy Friday too - well the word is Bottled and some of my drinks were bottled!

Some hand drawn goodness for you

I have been pretty snowed under this week, and feel the tinge of guilt for not getting an Illy Friday out, but here is a pic a put together a few weeks ago with ink and watercolour. I did in wonky on purpose, so it looks hand drawn. Uh... yeah. I liked the look of it in grey as I was scanning it too. Blue Lake Paper is fantastic for watercolour. Is making me excited for my new letterpressed business cards arriving next week which will be getting a douse of watercolour from me. Hooray!

Illustration Friday - Cultivate

My favourite part of gardening is possibly the herb garden. All the awesome smells. Above is a selection of what Toby and I have recently cultivated!

Lead pencil drawing - digitally coloured. Went with earthy tones, then decided a bit of pink livens things up a bit. It's my trademark!

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Save the Dates - all done now!

Here is the final product of the work in progress I posted a couple of weeks ago. Nice, simple postcards. Quite happy with the cute style of it - all done on the computer this time with the mouse too. Too lazy to use the wacom!

Illustration Friday - Stir

Things I stir with. Maybe I whisk with a whisk, not stir, but I wanted to draw one. It is kinda stirring.

This all started with a coloured pencil background I drew, with intentions of using it as it was, but it was quite terrible once I scanned it so I popped a few photoshop filters over top. The utensils were drawn with black pen around my notes I have in front of my keyboard.

Wanted to try some different colours as I have a habit of leaning towards pink.

Illustration Friday - Warning

Man, I just cannot draw boys! I started this as doing a pic of Green Day (one of my most favourite bands EVER) because of their song - Warning. Which is not my favourite song of theirs - Basket Case is by the way..), but was the first thing stuck in my head while I thought about this weeks Illy Friday topic.

So I started to draw, badly, real bad, then scribble. Then I nearly screwed it up but remembered as a Graphic Designer I can make any absolutely shithouse image look cool by adding some colour and stuff. So I did.

It still looks more like Elvis than Billie Joe, but whatever. I will never get this past 30 minutes of my life back....

Work in Progress

Started this pic tonight for a dear friends Wedding Save the Dates.. Doing it all in Illustrator - thinking of even doing the type in a hand drawn style too. Have a little bit more work to do on it, but was nice to play in this different style. And to at least make a start... always feels good to make a start!

Illustration Friday - Swarm

First thought when I hear the word swarm is bees. These bees and scribble were drawn on my scrap paper while working away on a couple of jobs today. Went for a totally different colour palette from usual to have a bit of a play. Nice honey colours :) Seem to have a bit of a thing going on lately with insects too.