Sketching at the shop

While I've been manning the Montage shop, in the quiet times I've been drawing a bit. I really like these, it's a bit different to what I normally do.







I used a ballpoint pen and crayola markers.

January Sketches

Sketchies

So far so good, I've been drawing every day :)




Went rollerskating with Lauren and Ali yesterday. That's me petrified (but I did manage to not fall down and in the end could do one round of the rink without touching the wall!), and them being awesome.

Sketchbook peek

I have a bit of an aversion to showing people the inside of my sketchbook. It's full of unfinished ideas and things that don't quite look right. This is something I need to get over but being such a perfectionist it can be hard! So here are some pages from the past few months, enjoy :)

In Harmony

I've discovered this new online drawing program called Harmony and I think it's my new favourite thing. I drew this girl using my mouse in a couple minutes, I love the sketchy look!

Kitty #2

Here is kitty number 2 in what I've decided will be a series of sketches of cats. It's not the greatest sketch but by drawing more cats I endeavor to get better! This cat lives in my friends barn where she keeps her horses. I'll probably use a lot of her pictures since she has a million cats, thanks Tegan!

Here kitty kitty

When I saw this cat I just felt like I had to do a little sketch. And you know, it felt good to do a sketch! I haven't been drawing because I didn't really have any great original ideas in my head so I think this is what I need - just some mindless sketching. I'm thinking maybe I'll do a big series of cat illustrations. It would be cool to get people to email me a photo of their cat I could draw instead of picking random photos from the internet. Would anyone be interested? Otherwise I'll just use my cats :)

Insomnia

I was hit with insomnia last night and thought I would doodle a bit to wait for the sandman to come. Makes me want to draw Spock more hehe he's fun to draw.

Blossoms

Love/Hate Zine

Myself and other Australian illustrators are putting together a little black and white zine with the theme of Love/Hate.

I got such a complex doing this! I haven't drawn properly in so many months I feel super rusty and after seeing the others work I felt like crap. But then I thought to myself, "It's a zine. It doesn't have to look 'beautiful'." Love I sketched during uni class when I should have been listening to a presentation about...something, then I fiddled with it on Photoshop. And Hate I sketched as quick as I could, I felt dirty drawing it haha!





Have a look at what the others have done:
Penny
Sam
Emma
Helena

It's so cool everyone's look completely different, in style and subject :)

(OMG EW a small spider just jumped on me...)

What girl doesn't love mushrooms?

Mushrooms are cute....and tasty too :)

I've been feeling a bit sick since morning it's annoying! I woke up feeling deathly tired, my throat all sore with coughs, joint pain in my knees and my leg muscles kept cramping...gosh I sound like some old woman! Haha I'm only 22. So I didn't get much done today. Enough to hand in an assignment tomorrow but not as much as I would have liked to have completed. Hopefully tomorrow is a better day, fingers and toes crossed!

Oh and before I forget, a big thank you to everyone who has left comments so far :) I love reading them and if I don't reply it's not because I don't appreciate it! I'm just not sure whether people come back to read the comments for the reply or have subsequent comments sent to their email, so if I leave a reply would you notice?

Night all, I'm off to bed!