Fall has arrived and a touch of colour

It is official. Summer has ended and Fall has arrived! This means...a new header!

EDIT: The people who already read this post, were staring at the Summer Party header. Well it has been changed to a header with a touch of Fall & a touch of Halloween. It is a Witches Playground, where young witches practice their magic skills. Hope you like it!

Also, my apologies for the lack of posting! Lately, I've been staying away from my laptop quite often and picked up reading and (unfortunately) cleaning around the house and my room.That's why I didn't post sooner.

The thing is that I'm just kinda annoyed by sitting so long behind the laptop every day. So I need a break and I used most of my time to create a bunch of illustrations and I experimented with several things.

One of them is adding an extra touch of colour on the drawings. I experimented with skin tones! Here you see a few of them, but I got a lot more ideas for future illustrations! Yes. my brain is working non stop these days...I kid you not. Even when I go to sleep I see little characters dancing in front of me...

You know, there's no reason behind the fact that the characters are always with out skin colour. They just turned out that way and I used other elements, like eye shape, hair colour, hair type & clothing, to give a specific feeling to a character. 

I do think that adding a skin tone can change the entire vibe of an illustration. It's a nice change and good to know that I didn't find it difficult to do so haha. You won't know how things will turn out, unless you try it! I won't be adding skin tone on every character now though, but it's good to know that I can do it if I want to.

Do you prefer the characters with or without skin tone? Or doesn't it really matter to you? Feel free to give tips/feedback. It's always lovely to hear from you all!

Have a great weekend ahead everyone!
Ciao!

Capturing colors, creating something new, showing something old

Don't you guys just love the Fall!? Well I do ^_^. The changing colors, the falling leaves. It's not too warm nor too cold. Well I just love it! So I decided to make a new banner! What do you think? Perhaps I will alter it a bit though.

Anyway moving on!

When I first decided to start making cards and needed some material, like organza bags and ribbons and so on, I searched the web. By doing that, I stumbled on a very nice web shop, NICX. This web shop is owned by sweet lady named Nicole and she had everything I needed! Even cute little cards with the text; 'This One-Of-A-Kind piece of art is a unique Impression of the artist inner life....'. I just love that sentence!

So I ordered quite a lot haha. Either way a couple a weeks ago I placed a new order and I noticed that she had a new item...Stamps. They are very cute and easy to decorate, for example a card. We got in contact again and she asked if it was possible to turn a chibi into design that she could use as a stamp. An interesting idea.

So I sketched up a few drawings and she choose one AND she turned it into a stamp! How cool is that!

Tadaa! Hmm maybe I should have switch the images.
The design first and then the stamp....I'm too lazy to change it hehehe

Pretty cool huh! Nicole also has a nice blog, featuring the items she sells in her shop. Do have a look on it when you have the time! Her shop is in Dutch, but on her blog you can find English translations of what she has written about the items!

Only a note to myself; I need to work on more straight lines. This can be quite difficult, because I more the type who draws in many lines haha. So if anyone has a tip, instead of practicing (which I keep doing of course), I would be happy too hear them! Also is there an option in to do this easy in Photoshop?

Another thing! I found a bunch of old sketches, by old I mean really OLD and filled with mistakes hehehe. But perhaps its funny for you guys too see...not the mistakes, but the drawing in general ^_^. here ya go!

I have this one on my DeviantArt. But I rarely use that anymore.

Till next time!