I had some time to kill yesterday, and spent it paging through the notebook I carry in my bag. My memory is not the best (I blame a nasty blow to the head that may or may not have happened – I forget), so it was great for me to look at some of my …
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Sketchbooks: people
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Cat animation
I’m really enjoying the animation feature in Photoshop, which is an easy to make your own animations. I made one this morning, using these 8 cat cutouts I made a while back. I used the single shot I took here to chop up into separate elements, put them into sequential frames in Photoshop in an …
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Animation WIP
Stop-motion animation is painstaking, back-breaking work. I did know this when I embarked on making a little promotional animation for my Flower Dreams launch (coming up 18 April), but I can be very blind to the facts when convenient. So, in marvellously gung ho style, I made a start. And, of course, once I’d started, …
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Hair by Pinterest
The advent of Pinterest has introduced an unprecedented deluge of fashion and style images into my life, and it’s undoubtedly influencing the way I dress and style my look. And I’m not alone in this. I was at a rather nice and rather hip bar last week, and found myself identifying ‘Pinterest hair’ on the …
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Sketching at the market
I was manning my stand at the Neighbourgoods Market this weekend, and although it was a pretty busy day, I managed to snatch a few minutes to sketch the passing parade. I sacrificed one of my blueberries to colour in the girl who had fallen asleep in the sun while wearing her sunglasses 🙂
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Bottles of…
After a weekend of cleaning, I found myself drawing bottles. They’re definitely bottles filled with cleaning products, not booze, which says a lot about my weekends, these days. Below, a blueprint type repeat of the same. It has a more medicinal feel, don’t you think?
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Downward-facing Cat
Our cats are usually pretty elegant beasts, arranging themselves picturesquely in order for us to see them and go “ahhh”. But sometimes I catch them contorting themselves into shapes that would leave most yogis scratching their heads – all unlikely-directioned legs sticking out at ungainly angles. I made some sketches of Nanook in one of …
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Inspired by Ping
Via Friday’s post on Design*Sponge I discovered the work of illustrator Ping Zhu, and I swear, I pored over every drawing in her portfolio. I luff, luff, luff it all. Inspired by some drawings on her blog that used photos from The Sartorialist blog, I pushed the keyboard aside and spent the rest of my …
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Making Friday: Sat 26 Feb
Another Friday rolled around with no Making included, apart from the nice straight line I helped make at the tax office. However, as Friday was swiftly followed by the second of the Saturday morning monotype workshops I’d signed up for at Warren Editions , all was not lost. This week we were doing watercolour monotypes, …
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