Keeping myself busy

Well hello lovely readers!

I totally didn't realize that more than 2 weeks passed by! Ever since I decided to end my studies, I'm trying to get into this new routine and I've been drawing a lot, meeting with friends & organizing administration work and well...more boring stuff. But man! It's really strange not to have the pile of college work on my desk anymore. Sometimes I still feel something is missing, because up till now I always studied something. So whenever that happens, I just add a pile of art work on my desk. Problem solved hehe.

The plan for me now is to focus on my illustration work now and get a part time job on the side. Also I will open an online shop within the next few weeks. Hooraay!! That way my illustrations shall be more available to all of you and you can decide what you want to get for yourself. Of course if you want something customized, just let me know. I got a bunch of themes waiting, but I'll show you two in this post.

First theme is: Mermaids!!I shall show you two illustrations. They are in the ink form now, but I will colour them somewhere this week.

Who doesn't love mermaids! Okay second theme is: Halloween! Halloween is on it's way!! I know maybe some people don't want to think about the holidays that are located in the darker & colder months of the year, because it's still Summer. But ever since the summer holidays ended in Holland, the warm weather also went away -_-. I just love Halloween and it's funny because I never had a proper Halloween party, mainly because Halloween wasn't known in Holland when I was little. I have several illustrations on this theme, so I will show 2 from them, because this post is getting huge already hehe.

So what do you think? I think they turned out pretty cool. Have to say, the sky was a pain in the #$%^ to paint. I added at least 4 layers in it and every time I looked at the painting when I had just 1 or 2 layers in it, i want to start all over again, because in my mind it looked like crap. But my sisters kept telling me it already looked great and I just had to continue painting. So I did just that, even though it was a bit difficult at times haha. Sometimes you just have to pull through and believe that the end result will look great!

Tattoo news!! My aunt got the tattoo! I only have a one slightly good picture of it. It was in the evening and she had to put vaseline on it, so the flash got in the way -_-.

Looks pretty neat huh?!

Next to that, I and several other bloggers got an honorable mention on mr. Konway's blog. You can find the post here and the links to the other cool blogs as well.  His blog contains news on lots different subjects. So certainly worth to have a peek on. Thanks Konway, for the Konway Approval stamp! I'll also add it on the Awards page.

I think I will wrap this post up! I'm working on a lot of small projects and a pretty large painting for a good cause, but I will tell more about this in the next post ^_^.

Have a great rest of the week!
Ciao!

Draw on Me

Would you?

Well not on my skin, but on yourself and then not by your own hands (so no pen doodles...), but a tattoo artist?

Tattoo artists are incredibly skilled (Miami Ink anyone?) and I don't think I would have the courage to do it; to actually put a tattoo on someone. I mean, the skin is your canvas and mistakes can't be fixed. Of course they have their amount of training and practice, but to throw away a cotton canvas is much easier than your skin. Okay disturbing image in my mind how someone would throw away his skin...moving on!

A while back my aunt asked me to design a tattoo for her. She really likes unicorns, so I got sketching and out of the bunch of rough drawings, I made a more clear drawing of the ones below:

Placement of the tattoo, will be on her shoulder blade, so in my opinion I liked the one with the head & wings the best. Without telling her this, she liked that one best too. So I will make a final drawing of that one. She probably get it done next week, so if she's fine with it, I'll post a picture of the actual tattoo on her skin. Pretty cool to have someone walking around with my design on her skin.

Personally, I was playing with the idea to get a tattoo in the near future, but I'm not sure. If I would get one it would have a story to it and one I designed myself. I like to change things up way too much and we all know that once you have a tattoo...it's there forever *echo*. So not sure if I ever going to get one.

To stay in the unicorn theme! My mug for my lovely & sweet friend Ashley, finally arrived at her home! She loves unicorns too. Admit it people, unicorns are pretty awesome. She wrote such a sweet post for me! Thanks so much Bella! It was my pleasure and remember...do use it once in a while. It is a mug afterall hehe ^_^

I added this card for her too:

Final thing before I go: Most of you know that I didn't participate throughout the whole Zero2illo challenge. I got till like week 5, before things got too hectic for me. You can find posts about this here, here and here.
Now there is a mini Zero2illo challenge, to complete a few portfolio pieces. The Tea Party illustration shall be finished and I have a few others in mind! I will combine this week's piece and next week's piece in one post, somewhere next week. So stay tuned for this.

Oh I got a new "Contact me" button too. I will adjust the size later; it needs to be a bit bigger. I actually wanted to put this one first:

Who doesn't like to fly ^_^?

So back to the tattoo part. Do you like tattoos? If you have any and want to share it; what do you have? If you don't like it, why is that? Feel free to share your thoughts.

Have a great weekend and till next time.
Ciao!