Getting Creative For Christmas

Hope that you all had a fantastic Christmas. I had an excellent one and am lucky enough to have the whole 2 weeks off work so am enjoying the relaxation.

I always think that it's a nice touch to give something personal and creative for Christmas (or birthdays) and although I have gifted a number of framed pictures, photo mosaics, etc over the years sometimes you can't beat a hand drawn picture.

As it was my good friends baby's first Christmas (featured in a previous post), I decided to create a drawing from one of the photos that I took from when she was 2 weeks old.

A few months back, I dug out and dusted off a drawing pad then set to work using fine liners. A long long time ago, back when I was at school, I created a series of portraits using just dots on paper. This is a very time consuming method but I like the way that you can get the required shading just by increasing the consistency of the dots and you can't really go wrong - Well, that's not strictly true but it is easier to cover any mistakes!

Anyway, 2 pens and thousands of dots later, here is the resulting picture....



As usual, click on the image to enlarge and I think this looks better if you view from slightly further away from the screen ;-)

Graffiti

Came across some old Facebook Graffiti of mine and noticed that you can now embed the replays. Here are few of my Star Wars inspired graffiti pictures...

Digital Hands

Going through some old boxes the other week I came across some old pen and ink drawings that I did when I was back at school.

I took some snaps of them and then had the idea to add a digital touch to colourise them a little.

Here is the original


After some colour was added - I quite like the whole pop art look


After playing with layers and blend modes here in the finished piece with some subtle colouring.