Here are some of my sketches of trees that I have been doing for a while.
Trees.
Love.
Period
The brief was to pick up five natural and five manmade objects and create a story around them. They had to be two different stories and without text, had to convey what was happening.
My initial attempts were not even close to being successful, but gradually things looked up. The assignment stopped at making just the frames, but I was keen to take it forward, so I developed them into printed picture books. Thats what I think does a little bit of justice to a story!
Here are my final frames of my stories.
The man-made object story is titled ‘Why is Paula Scared’ and is the story of a young girl who is haunted by her imagination but is also surprised by it!.
Oh what fun! and what joy!
Colour for this chappal: Pale shades of watercolours!
Nothing is more refreshing than looking at trees, imagining to swing on them and then drawing just that!I love trees, and they always calm me down. They are full of energy, and every branch has a story to tell. The trick is to close your eyes tight and quickly look at a green tree to get you all charged up!
Trees and their beauty. Ever so refreshing!
I tried my favourite technique of watercolour and pen. So much joy!
Colour for this chappal: Green.
They say keeping secrets is one of the most difficult things to do! But I disagree! As my debut entry for Illustration Friday, the theme being ‘Secret’, I decided to illustrate my favourite secret keeper, Muddles, my six year old Labrador.
The attempt was to show Muddles putting his ear up while I try to tell him my secret(s)!
Muddles is loyal, fun, super duper cute and the best secret keeper! It took me back to all those good times spent with him and all the ‘secrets’ I shared and what all secrets he witnessed! I believe Dogs love like no other and keep secrets like no other! I’m sure all our dogs know all our deep dark secrets!
After I long break, Im back to illustrating and drawing, and I loved doing the Watercolour on this. It was good getting back to the basics. I was hesitant to put it up, but its a beginning and there is always something to learn! Its my attempt at a children’s style illustration, colourful and fun.
What I see going wrong, is the black ink outlines. That is something I need to work on very hard! The smoothness needs to show!
But, what joy in doing this!
Special thanks to Roshini for introducing me to this and helping me oh-so-much!
Colour for this chappal: Yellow!
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