Because February 14th is coming up, I wanted to do a valentine.
I found this lovely old sketch in my sketchbook from about 10 years ago that had been waiting to become a painting for some time now. I thought it would be perfect for this week’s Illustration Friday assignment. So I redid it.
This one’s even more mixed media than usual because I actually painted the background in acrylic. I drew the foreground in pencil and scanned it in like I usually do. And for the border, I edited a hand-drawn pattern and made it into little digital “rubber stamp” brushes in Photoshop.
My intention was to do a piece on dance but this came out instead.
Charlemagne loves whipped cream. He communicates that he wants some by head-butting the refrigerator. When he’s all finished lapping it up, he head-butts me and purrs.
“Ella always assumed rules were meant to be broken.”
Sometimes you just gotta take a snowday!
My one year anniversary of doing Illustration Fridays is coming up soon. I managed to miss doing a lot of them mostly because my day job ate a little too much into my life. I’m a little bummed about that because I haven’t really taken the chance to keep up with as many of my fellow illustrators as I would like. Thank you to everyone who has left comments on my blog. It’s really lovely to be part of the on-line illustration community. I’m hoping to get to know more of you in the coming year, just as I hope I can continue to grow as an illustrator through continuing with the weekly assignments!
I had a most interesting request to do an alternate version of this illustration. I definitely need to draw other ethnicities than my own more often.