Sketches, Doodles, & Cetera — Art Updates

In this collection, ordinary headwear transforms into extraordinary expressions of imagination. My Fancy Hats series began as playful sketchbook experiments but evolved into a deeper exploration of how fashion can blur the boundaries between humans and nature, each hat subtly influencing its wearer's personality and expression.

I'm back again after another great Victoria Johnson class, this time on the theme of creating collections.

The idea of an illustration collection is that you work on multiple pieces around a single theme and with a similar color palette. This helps make the creation process a bit smoother, since you have set yourself some limitation in the beginning, and it can also make it easier to sell multiple pieces of art to the same customer, since they tend to go nicely together.

I recently took an online course to create some holiday themed art, called Create Christmas by Victoria Johnson. This was such a fun class, full of talented and creative people. The class is set up in a three week structure, with each week having a theme and a color palette. So each week, I would pull out all of my sketching tools in that color palette and explore the theme in my sketchbook. I absolutely love the sketchbook spreads that resulted from these experiments. It was really interesting to me to see how keeping to a specific theme and color...

Every year, I see MerMay drawings in my Instagram feed, and I always want to participate, but I always think of it too late. So this year, I made sure to be more mindful of it, and I had a ton of fun drawing mermaids.

I've been working on figure drawing lately, and I'm struggling in particular with shoulders and necks, so I thought this would be a good way to focus only on the part of the anatomy that I'm struggling with and leave the rest up to my imagination.