#colour_collective - it's a Twitter thing

I have really gotten into the colour collective (@clr_collective) community posting on a Friday night at 7.30pm - although being on time at 7.30 is pretty much impossible for me. 

I love all the colour names and some of them really challenge how and where to use that colour. You have to check out the Twitter feed and all the amazing responses to the challenge. Inspiring stuff

Here's a few of my own with varying results but I’m just pleased to be involved. 

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The Snow Queen and Handmade Lettering

There are certain stories that are told to you as a child or maybe an adult about human behaviour that just stick - The Snow Queen was one for me. Whether it’s the version with the ice in Kai's heart or eye or the determined Gurda travels to find the boy she loves or just her best friend it just lovely. I've seen it adapted quite a few times once years and years ago when I did works experience with a Scenic Artist at the end of Art College. It was one of the sets that told me I had made the right decision to apply for Drama School to do Set Design. All it took was expertly placed electric blue ladders and marbled tiles and I was a goner. Illustration for heart felt projects are always easier as you can get pulled along by something other than the desire to do a good job and a deadline and inevitably your touch is lighter and less contrived.    

Hand made lettering is something that interests me as I imagine most illustrators. Once you have created your artwork for commercial use it often feels a shame to have clumsy bog standard lettering on top. It’s a product to engage an audience and supply information in the end so I understand the need for type. Handmade lettering, for me, just softens the blow.

Mystical Creature Dating Profiles - Creature Collective

So the last push to get all the creatures ready for Halloween worked and the final flourish of demons were thrust upon Facebook just in time. Thank goodness for that. 

I very much enjoyed myself making up the profiles for these wee fellows. Twelve was a bit of a push but ,as always, on the home straight I thought of loads more I wanted to do - Godzilla for instance.

If you are following me on Facebook or Instagram thanks for your support.

x Happy Halloween, Merry November x

Don't Listen To The Critics

 

Putting other peoples opinions of your work before your own is often the start of an existential crisis for a creative type. Especially when you have just come back from another crisis and are finally feeling happy about your process.

Sometimes you just have to say ‘this is the way that I draw’ and

I like the way that I draw

Thank you please go away dear

I very nearly abandoned this drawing after a mediocre critic suggesting it was ‘nice’

How dare they?

Glad I stuck with it. I really like my Welly Warrior.