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tortoise

This one is on the same lines of the previous duck but this time its a tortoise. I love working with so much colour and find it so much fun. With inktober coming up, I'm going to struggle using a lot less colour for a month so I'll use lots of colour until then I guess. 

little duckies

I started by creating a load of colourful shapes when bored and started rearranging them and they turned into ducks so I ran with that. I liked this random shape duck and will create more animals using a similar technique. I hope you enjoy this and this type of thing as its a technique I want to expand and develop a little further. 

peacock

Was watching telly and saw a peacock and just wanted to draw one so I did. This is probably the realistic digital drawing I've done and I love this piece. Some of the textured brushes on autodesk sketchbook looked so fluffy and feathery so they worked so well. Peacocks are very interesting animals and very pretty. However I am pretty scared of them as they tend to get very close to you which I really don't like. Peacocks don't know how to social distance..... A few years back me and my family were at Nunnington Hall near York and having a picnic and this peacock was getting very cocky and trying to eat my cheese sandwich from me. Now I'm like joey from friends and CHARLOTTE DOESNT SHARE FOOD!!!! so I wasn't having any of this nonsense from the peacock and have disliked them ever since and have tried avoided them. I hope I'm not alone on the peacock disliking but they are pretty so can appreciate them from a distance...

marshmallows by the campfire

Its been a funny old summer this year. Since flying and going abroad is almost out of the question for most of us this year. Lots of people have opted to go camping this year especially since they can't do festival camping. Sadly I haven't had chance to go camping myself this year but sitting by the fire with marshmallows and smores while singing campfire songs. And yes when I say campfire song my mind goes to one of two songs- 1 the campfire song from spongebob Squarepants and 2 this song we sang that the last girlguiding camp I went one and when sitting round the campfire we sang the song 'da moose da moose' which me and my sister sing whenever I eat a chocolate moose (is that even how you spell moose as in the fluffy chocolate pudding? Who knows, I can't really be bothered googling it right now....)

 I really tried to make the fire glow along with the stars to show the darkness in the air. Hope you enjoy this post.

dancing in the rain

Dancing in the rain is always one of my favourite things. Its a bit of a weird hobby but it makes the grim British weather slightly more enjoyable. For this piece I really tried to focus on texture. I played around with loads of different textures and brushes on autodesk sketchbook and I think it worked well especially with the messy dull rainy sky, I hope you like all the textures I added to this on. 

Rockpool crab fishing at the beach illustration

Crab fishing in the rock pools at the beach were one of my favourite things to do as a kid. The rock pools are always so interesting to look into to see the creatures and plants that live in them. I've not been crab fishing in many years since the frightful day, probably aboutn10+ years now, where the hook got caught into my knee. I was OK, don't worry! It was more of a shock to get stabbed by a little hook meant to hold on to the shell bait to catch the crabs. But after a thornton's mint crumble and a lemonade I was back to my usual happy self on holiday in the rainy East Coast of Yorkshire, our favourite holiday spot as a family when I was younger. I hope you like this scene drawing of a character with full landscape and scenery. I like the texture I made in the sand and the white foamy-ness of the end of waves in the sea. Sadly haven't been able to go to the beach in over a year but its a bit  far away to get to at the moment with the world being a bit... well you know... I want to do more drawings like these with full scenery so I can continue to improve and trust me I have and I will never stop improving as long as I practice so look forward seeing them and watch as I improve. 

2 little cats

This pet portrait was a very belated birthday present for my big sister. After doing my previous painting of Tizzy and loving how it turned out, I wanted to do another. Since I owed my sister a late present, I wanted to give her something special and from the heart. This one is of Tizzy who is our current cat and the other cat is Kiri who was our previous cat who we sadly lost to heaven in 2017. These cats are so different in look and personality but i think that is what makes having a pet so wonderful as each one is so special and they all have their quirks like every human. This again was done on watercolour paper and its pretty much A3 but a little smaller. It was done with watercolours and pastel pencils. I used a green watercolour wash in the background as both their eyes are quite greeny so I feel like the green background makes their eyes pop. Luckily my sister loves the piece and that made me very happy and it is making me feel more confident with more realistic work and I  really should do much more as it definitely does make my stylised work better and I hope you all can see that too.