Here’s one of today’s illustrations.
Baby Coloring on Newspaper
Here’s one of today’s illustrations.
Category: Images
Did Anyone Catch My Mistake?
Alright, I made a mistake on my last illustration. The one I posted yesterday. Did you catch it? I did and it’s been bugging me.
Her palette. I drew it completely wrong. That’s not the proper shape or the proper way to hold a paint palette. My mistake came from trying to draw something when I wasn’t sure what it actually looked like. Although I do paint and have used acrylics (but not oils) I’ve never used the traditional shaped paint palette. Mostly I used paper plates. So, I didn’t know how you actually hold one. After I drew it, I knew that the little girl’s palette didn’t look right, but I wasn’t sure why.
So I looked it up online. Isn’t the internet great? And, sure enough, I had it all wrong. For your information, the following is an illustration of the approximate shape of an artist’s palette and how you hold it.
And here is the corrected illustration.
I feel much better now.
Tween Painter
Here’s my second in a series of illustrations depicting tween issues and activities. Here’s a tween oil painter. I haven’t put it up on the website yet, so this is a bit of a sneak peek.
Sing a Song of Sixpence Illustrations – Version 3
Way back in high school I had a Commercial Art project to illustrate a nursery rhyme. I chose to illustrate Sing a Song of Sixpence and it turned out really well. My teacher even went out of his way to compliment me on it, which didn’t generally happen because he was more of a fine arts sort of person. Cartoon work was beneath his notice.
Anyway, for several reasons that I won’t go into here, those illustrations never made it home with me and I always regretted losing them a little. So, about a year ago, I re-did them from memory. It wasn’t exactly the same work, of course. But I remembered the unique elements of layout and style that made that first version work so well.
The new version was composed of two line drawing in black ink colored with colored pencils. I liked it really well when I first created it. However, as time went on, I liked it less and less. The line drawings were great. It was the coloring I didn’t like.
So, this week I redid the image once again. I had a version of the line drawings from before I colored them, so I opened up Photoshop and started from there. I just put the finished version up on my website. This version is the best one yet.
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 