I had a great day on Twitter today indulging in a game of 'quickdraw' with illustrator James Brown. It's a game he and another illustrator devised where we are challenged to draw something. The first person to finish and post to Twitter wins. It was thoroughly enjoyable AND a good way to break out of the illustrators 'block' I've been having a bit of this week (too much staring at a blank page and then thinking of a hundred different ideas at once, loosing patience and not exploring any of them)
Anyway, I challenged James to draw a pirate, and in return I had to draw a mermaid.
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| I got in with my Mermaid first (taking a break from reading her '50 shades of blue'!). However, I didn't add any colour. |
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James on the other hand seemed to produce a whole mini story here complete with colour, so he had to win.
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We next had a go at doing the same thing - 'Raining Cats and Dogs'. It's always interesting drawing the same thing as someone else as the ideas are so different.
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| James's fantastic cats and dogs. Some of them look really alarmed. |
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My cats and dogs. I really enjoyed this. I think it has echoes of my daughter who has been nagging constantly this week about us getting a dog. It isn't going to happen. Maybe it's her dream on one just landing on her?
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Really enjoyable exercise. Please have a look at James's work here on his blog http://jamesbrownillustration.blogspot.co.uk.
2 comments:
Lots of fun in these images... and what a great warm-up for Saturday! I hope you don't get block then! :)
Love the style! You're character's are brilliant too! - Advocate Art
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