Traveling Art Case.

Progress on making the portable art cases is slow but getting there! I made the first one from denim, with it being the first there was some snags like the sewing machine getting stuck, the case not being quite straight and bits of thread sticking out of random places. 
But after the long grueling process of sorting all that stuff out, the second case was made much more quickly and looks a lot neater!

Here is the better case in 3 stages, the first is when it's rolled up and fastened.

 This is the pattern on the back of the case.

This is the inside showing the 3 small pockets and the 1 larger pocket.

All in all I will be selling these at the Ella Street festival this year, not sure how much yet but they will be relatively cheap and in many colors. I have yet to stick on the labels and may even come up with a better name for them rather then 'traveling art case' ... my next idea is to do them in plain white with your own custom designs on them!

Back To Business

After a nice two week holiday in Turkey and a beak away from phones, the internet and tv, it's time to start with some fresh idea's.

To start with i'm gonna remind myself to find photo references to draw from every time it's a detailed picture. The second thing is i'm taking part in the Ella street festival this year with some friends.. having no new immediate artwork to sell, i'm helping my fellow artists by making my own batch of roll up travel cases for pencils, pens, paints ect for the artist that always on the move!

Right now i'm still at the cutting material out stage so i'll have some photo's up soon.. if they are popular i might sell them on ebay or something yah never know!

~ bex

p.s gonna design a new label for tags.

..and so it begins.

Following my latest attempt to be noticed I re-designed an image for an album cover for a heavy rock band, after hearing they already had an illustrator lined up to draw for them.. I carried on anyway. The Theme was 'and so it begins' being the scenario of some one starting to go worse then crazy in a mental institution.
Because the original goal had changed slightly I skipped drawing a background and drew the main image on it's own.. which I think works well.

This is the finished image! hope you enjoy.

 

Traditional and Digital.

Phew I've been busy again! Taking a break from the world of digital drawings I went back to my roots and dis a huge A3 water color! It was so bit that my A4 scanner died of fright.. so in the end I had to scan it in as two parts and 'knit' them back together again. Below it the finished image.

Then after another little break and a push of inspiration from some of my friends, I decided to design a t-shirt... which can be bought in black or white on my zazzle.com page. http://www.zazzle.com/serious_gamer_t_shirt-235226438848745323 
Below is the image i'm talking about. 

Practice and Experiments.

I managed to color in the sketch from the previous blog as a water color practice piece, what do you think of it?

 Also did a little experimental piece by merging textures and photo's together.

In the mean time I've had an idea for a big water color picture, if it turns out good or not we'll find out.. but it should be fun to drawn and paint!.

Break and Refresh

Had a little brake from art while I was ill.. it was well needed for a fresh perspective! I'm gonna practice more with my digital painting and water colors, so I'm doing two pieces of artwork at the same time on the two mediums.. lets see what happens!

Below is the inked version of the water color.

 

Watch this space to see what happens!

Frogs Frogs and Frogs

As a side project for another competition I thought i'd have a go at drawing some frogs, Something I've never really drawn before. I looked at the present entries and found that lots of people had drawn pictures with one or two frogs in them and I drew 5 ( plus a girl dressed as a frog ) Giving them all attitude and individualism. Frogs can be scary, cute, funny, cool and just plain old so to show all that here is my entry!