I'm a farm girl from Appalachia raising a pile of boys in the big city. I drew my way through all the messy days of toddlerhood but hid my drawings in a box. One morning I realized I was turning 40 and all my ideas were in the closet. So I opened the door, dusted off the box, and now I'm trying to find my way.
I’ve still been illustrating Vikings. This is my seventh iteration and I think my favorite:
Here’s a closeup:
And if you want to see all the other versions in the order I drew them you can check out my Skillshare Project:
https://www.skillshare.com/projects/Viking-Tales/196985?via=user-profile
Last night to relax I watched Stephanie Fizer Coleman's newest Skillshare class - Develop Your Style Draw One Illustration Six Ways.
So far I've only drawn two ways but it was a nice way to spend an evening:
@LisaF I did get the emails but was unable to attend because of a prior commitment. But please communicate my hope to the SVS team that the replay is made available to subscribers - it's just not always possible to attend live.
@Susan-Marks I think your solution was much better on this exercise. I studied it again after finished mine. I may repeat this one!
Here’s my Emphasis using value exercise. I have a feeling that this wasn’t supposed to be a lighting exercise but I had a hard time seeing another way to use value. Would love to see more examples of this exercise.
Today I had time to just play. I decided to use a small watercolor sketchbook I have to just experiment with shape, color and texture. Here is my usual watercolor and colored pencil but I decided to add some graphite. My erasing shapes was difficult - it's a small sketchbook and I don't have a tiny eraser. But I just ordered a Tombow micro eraser that should arrive tomorrow!
This was lovely to flip through! Thanks so much @Chip-Valecek !
