Mirror, Mirror

This weeks #colour_collective fit in nicely with an illustration I did yesterday.  

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Final image.

I finally finished some pieces I'd been working on this week, had a tidy and decided to have a day drawing whatever I wanted.  And I had no idea what to do.  What do you draw when you can draw absolutely anything?  I usually revert to animals I like the look of, or things I've sketched before but never explored properly.  I find I think best when I start drawing.  I remembered a badger I'd drawn a long time ago so I drew badgers until I had an idea to make an image using only black and white animals.  

I liked that it looked like a Rorschach test.  I've been playing with Procreate lately and there's a symmetry function I hadn't used before and it's a lot of fun.  It's also so much faster to only draw half of an image.  I usually draw my outlines onto paper.  This is the first time I've really drawn everything onscreen. 

Procreate has a time lapse function so you can watch all the decisions being made in real time.  I finished the image in Photoshop so you only see up to a certain point here. 

Here's the original sketch.

What do you draw when you can choose whatever you want?  Do you have too many ideas or have to work them out on paper like I do?

Panda pick up

I've been really busy lately trying to get my panda book done.  I'm finally at the clean up stage (aka the boring computer bit) and this the one I'm currently working on.

Caught!

Some new panda work I've finally gotten round to posting.

This fellow below was posted previously but I've now had time to screen print him.

Same with these penguins.  Photoshop no more!  Look how proud they are to be hand printed.

Escapology 102

I've been busy lately screen printing at home with all the silly timing issues and things it throws up but below is one of the prints I am working on.  It has been photoshopped however as my rebellious scanner refuses to acknowledge the colour grey.

For those intolerant to it the penguin parade is now digital free.

                                               

The 2pm Penguin Parade

Having safely recaptured the pandas after their decoy I attempt 

I can now sit back and enjoy the daily 2pm penguin parade.

Nobody noticed the pandas were gone

and you can see why.  Panda decoys.

Polar pandas

This crafty little fellow is a work in progress.  

I am still sadly photoshopping them together with my sad face on but that will change soon.

Until then beware polar bears looking suspiciously like pandas.

A panda or two

 A panda I've been playing with.  I can't wait to actually screen print them properly.  These are digital dopplegangers for the moment.  I'm currently sketchbooking like a fiend and trying to work out if this will be best suited to a picturebook or a comic..  

If you hadn't already realised it he's a master of disguise.