Spring is getting closer! A few warm days have brought the bees and butterflies to my yard, and provided inspiration for reworking an old doodle of a bee fairy.
While the real bees are hovering around the few brave dandelions in the back yard, this cute bee fairy prefers a mushroom and some little white wildflowers. She is ready to help spread the pollinating magic. Get it on a sticker in my Zazzle or Redbubble shops. (just click images below to visit either one.)
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In today's tutorial, I'm going to show you how to draw a St. Patrick's day doodle of that ever popular pot-of-gold-at-the-end-of-the-rainbow. It's a little more complex than some of doodle tutorials on here, but I promise it is still easy! There are step-by-step photos, and doesn't require fancy or expensive art supplies. Drawing Supplies You Will Need:
Note: I use one of these white acrylic pens to highlight over marker in my drawing. I also use it to line the handle. If you don't have one on hand, that's okay! You could also use a white gel pen, colored pencil, white charcoal, chalk, or white paint and a fine tipped brush. Or just lightly mark off which areas you want to remain white and color around them carefully. Got everything you need? Great! Let's draw! Time to pop in here with a new sticker design. This one is freshly added to my Zazzle shop. As you can probably see from the image, it is a quirky flying saucer, piloted by smiling stars, and emitting a rainbow beam. What more can I say? Oh yeah! That while this was drawn with stickers in mind, its also available on a few other products too! And, Zazzle lets you easily transfer a design you like onto tons of other products. The text, background color and font can all be customized by you as well! Here are the products I have made so far with this funky UFO. Clicking a photo will take you directly to that product in my Zazzle shop. It is also available as a sticker, or as a magnet on my Redbubble account.
Want to see more stickers? Check out my sticker gallery here. In this new doodle tutorial, I'll show you how to draw a cute Valentine doodle. You don't need any special art supplies or a lot artistic skill. Just some grab some basic drawing tools and follow the step-by-step instructions and pictures.
What You Will Need:
Got all that? Awesome. Let's draw... Just a quick, happy Santa doodle this year for Christmas. Carrying on with my theme of "holidays in glass", (bottles, snow globes and gumball machines!).
My favorite part of this one is the cookies instead of snow. I wish it would snow cookies... Well, until that happens, Merry Christmas! Other holiday drawings: Halloween Gumball Machine Easter Gumball Machine Valentine' Love Potion Bottle Tutorial Ghost Bottle Tutorial Snowman Gumball Machine Art Every year I try to make a drawing or doodle for most holidays to share with family and friends on social media along with a greeting.
This year when I asked my kids to give some ideas for "what to draw for Thanksgiving", they said "a gumball machine to go with the others". Drawing bottles, snowglobes and gumball machines with holiday themes is turning into a sort of tradition. It took a while to think of how I wanted to make it look. ( I did not want to have to draw a turkey!) Next was hunting down acorn hats to take a reference photo. All in all, it turned out to be a fun drawing challenge. Happy Thanksgiving! Supplies Used:
Similar Drawings: Halloween Gumball Machine Art Easter Gumball Machine Art Valentine's Love Potion Bottle (Art Tutorial)
Its ALL DOTS!
Stippling, or dotwork, is one of those art techniques I absolutely love. After I get started, that is. I like to throw a little stippling into many of my pen and in drawings just for texture, but it can be a little bit daunting to plan and begin a full stippling piece. Mostly because the bigger the drawing, the better it looks. Only that means a LOT of dots! (The more dots, the more realistic it looks.) This hen was done on 9x12 Bristol, and took a total of three 005 pens to complete. Some people keep track of how many actual dots there are in their drawings, but I have no clue. Once I get started, I like to just go, and tracking all the dots would be kind of slow and boring. So I will just estimate that there are about a "gazillion" dots in here. Haha. (You can see another stippling piece I did here: "Sasquash, Inktober Drawing" ) This very dotty hen took about three months to complete, but I was working on a few other drawings (for art contest entries) at the same time and was switching off. If you scroll down, you can see the WIP progress photos I took as I worked, and the full finished piece at the bottom: In today's tutorial, I will show you how to draw a cute nail polish doodle. This is an easy and fast drawing that anyone can do.
But what would you need them for? Well, you can just draw them for the enjoyment or practice. But I think they would also be cute in a journal, perhaps as little trackers. You know, color one in for goals met or something interesting like that. Are you ready to try? What you will need:
Got it all? Okay, let's draw! Whew! I wanted to draw a little Easter doodle to share with family and friends on social media. Usually I do these little holiday drawings in a more 'cartoony' way using markers or colored pencils. (or just black ink, my fave!)
This year I thought "oh, doing one in graphite would be fun and different." I didn't think it would take very long, but...it did. In fact, I almost didn't it done in time at all, (thus the incredibly sloppy background pencil marks. Just ignore those.) Even with the rush, it was fun and challenging. And it didn't turn out too bad, aside from the background. Below is a detail pic of the basket weave (which I enjoyed working more than the eggs!) and the carrot 'knob' (for fun). |
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