Drawing and Doodles

Alongside visiting exhibitions to re-ignite my creativity shown in the previous post I have been attempting to draw again. I haven't sat down and given myself the time to draw what I consider as 'properly' in about 3 years - excluding the odd doodle here and there! So I set myself the task of getting back into it and learning all that I have forgot over the years. I started off with a few pencil sketches from a bumble bee to a mouth, they're not great but it's a starting point and practise makes perfect...

Then after scanning the images onto my computer I played around with adding colour and depth using different methods:

Re-printed on paper then drawn over with fine liner and painted with water.

Re-printed on paper then drawn over with fine liner and painted with watercolour.

Colour added using Photoshop CS6.

Re-printed on paper then drawn over with fine liner and painted with water.

Re-printed on paper then drawn over with fine liner and painted with watercolour.

Features placed together in Photoshop, printed and painted over using watercolour.

More Experiments.

Here is another example of my experiments for the day.

 Jessica x

Images: Jessica Gates

Experimenting...

Recently I came around to buying myself CS6 Creative Suite, after many, many and many more free trials I realised it was about time to purchase the real deal. 

I have always wanted to experiment more with digital illustration and, with nothing to do for the day I spent a few hours doing so - playing around with digital illustration and photo manipulation on a few of my own images. Getting to grips with the software beyond my usual perimeters alongside learning how to adapt to my new Wacom tablet (the first I have ever used). Nothing to impressive here, but I'm sure with practise and by incorporating my own hand drawn illustrations I can begin to develop.

Jessica x

Images: Jessica Gates