Another Critter

Ummm... oops. Almost 2 weeks. Naughty me >.>

Here's a doodle to break the doldrums. Just another critter:


Thanks for reading.

~Colette

Critters

Time flies .. haven't exactly been having fun, but time still flies. I don't want this blog to become a project that I just let fall off & never "finish" (not that a blog is ever really finished), but it's been over a week, so I dug up a couple of old critter doodles from the sketchbook:


Kind of look like they could be little Pokemon =) Thanks for reading.

~Colette

Profile Doodle

Well, I've been digging through old sketchbooks when I'm not making new doodles, looking for stuff that I still like enough to post, and I came across this little doodle of a profile. I think I was using something for a refernce, a picture or another drawing, but it's from 3/18/02 & I don't really remember.

Sometimes I'll decide after I've drawn something or someone that it lines up with one of my characters, but I don't really do a good job it seems like if I set out to draw a character. So this is just an anonymous profile:


Thanks for reading =)

~Colette

Lotus Inspired Knot

This started off as a little doodle & I "forced" myself to develop it into a finished piece. First time in probably about a year a doodle has evolved into anything more LOL so I guess the blog is working =)


Lucy, my one & only follower (although I do know I get other people peeking in here, thanks to the Stat Counter), you'd asked about how I come up with my ideas, so I took a few pics with my camera (the finished product above is scanned in) of the process.

It started with a doodle that wasn't even worthy of a pic, that evolved into this line art:


Line art gets expanded into the final design:


Uhm, I'm not very technical, I don't know how to explain the next step other than I just start erasing stuff & darkening other stuff, making the overs & the unders. This is where I remembered that if I have lines that don't connect to anything, they need to end outside of the design, rather than inside:


Start adding some color:


Finish the color & add shading, and ta-da! The finished product above. I draw stuff other than knots sometimes too, but a lot of the time I'm not very pleased with it. Knots are fun & relatively easy & I'm usually very happy with the end product. Thanks for reading.

~Colette

Green Spiral Knot

Also from about August of 2007:


~Colette

Pink Star Knot

Hmm, found this looking through some of what I already have scanned into the computer. I want to get some more up here before I lose my nerve LOL. Looks like this is from August of 2007:


Thanks for reading... well, looking I suppose, but there were a few words involved =)

~Colette