I’ve decided to begin a year of creative challenges! The theme will be gnomes, because I love gnomes.
We’ll see how long I can keep this up – I’m going to do my best to stay on top of the challenges.
Day One: Make something that fits in the palm of your hand
My life has been a smidgen crazy recently. I’m at the beginning of a lot of great things, and I haven’t had much time to draw as a result (I will be fixing that soon!). I found these creature doodles in a notepad and felt they warranted a post. I drew them last year during the before-school reading program I ran at an elementary school. We had a volunteer reader come in on Wednesday mornings, which gave me a bit of time to draw. Of course, the kids always wanted to see what I drew at the end of the session. Sometimes they tried to draw the same thing. It was pretty cute.
I have more of those early morning doodles stashed away, so I’ll scan them in at some point.
I love the crazy-eyed vulture-looking guy at the bottom of the page.
This doodle makes me very happy. It is the most Quentin Blake-ish thing I’ve ever drawn. (Quentin Blake did the interior illustrations for the majority of Roald Dahl’s books, for those of you who don’t have an expansive knowledge of children’s book illustrators).
These were drawn with some felt-tip pen I acquired at school. I think I pilfered a few of them from the supply cabinet because I really liked making lists and drawing with them.
So after having this blog set up for ages, I’m finally going to start posting on here regularly. Probably.
To kick things off, here are some drawings of monkeys. They were for a high school graduation card for my brother. I should have gotten a picture of what the card looks like, but I’m a terrible archivist of my own work, so you’ll have to wait on that.
The enthusiastic fellow above is on the front of the card…
…and party monkey is on the inside of the card. You don’t mess around with party monkey. He parties hard.
Materials used: colored pencils, Micron brush pen (love that pen!!)
Whew. That wasn’t too terrible. More will come soon, I promise (pinky swear).
Erika Schnatz 