midsummer night

Owl & Pussycat II

I made a vector version of the picture of the owl and pussycat.

I've been wanting to make a Threadless design for ages, so I put this in the critiques section.  People were really nice with their comments - they pointed out that the cat didn't have a tail before!  It seemed so obvious once they pointed it out but I had been oblivious until then.   So that was good.  I'm not sure if it is worthy of actually submitting,  but I enjoyed making the attempt.  I think I will keep working at it and wait until I get a better idea.

soaked

This is a picture of Stinky the Blue Rabbit taking his biannual bath.  

Owl & Pussycat

I've been doing a short course about children's book illustration.
This week we painted a watercolour picture from The Owl and the Pussycat
(or else our own story).  I did the bit where they danced by the
light of the moon.

I'm pretty new to watercolour so I learnt some new techniques.
One was to use a candle to make the stripes on a cat.
The other was to use a dip pen to do the outlines because you can
do it wet-on-wet to make it go fuzzy.  So that was fun and
I'm pretty happy with it.  I'm not sure now whether I want to do
the rest of the story now or else do my own (a love story between traffic signals).

lesson

I haven't submitted an Illustration Friday picture for over a month now, because I was having trouble thinking of good ideas.  So this week I decided to just draw the first idea I had - an old toy rabbit teaching the new ones about life as a toy rabbit.