Wow I am on a roll… I sketched 2 days in a row! I knew I could be consistent. (Now if I can only keep it up) This one here is a sassy girl character. I am going to keep designing the page around her and add more detail but I wanted to get this much up on the blog to show you I’ve been sketching. It’s funny – since I have been down and out with a hurt back I have learned to have patience and my drawing is coming much easier. Perhaps this injury was a good thing this summer. At least I can try to look at the bright side of things right?
Conservative and Still Sexy
Here is an image I sketched today to add to my sexy conservatives collection. Just a pencil sketch is all but I sure had fun doing it. It makes me wonder why I haven’t stuck to my sketch routine better.
My Etsy Creations
With all my new ideas brewing while being injured, I have set up a store on etsy and am selling unique things like jewelry and artwork and sometimes both combined. I really enjoy expressing my art on things other than paper and books. You can check out my etsy store at erinesque.etsy.com I have some fun stuff there.
I have sketched on and colored a wooden box that I will be making into a purse or whatever the buyer has in mind for it. ( It could be a pencil box or even a jewelry box… the possibilities are endless!) I have posted the pictures as I have done them in progression. If this looks like something you or someone you know would be interested in purchasing or even if you think a friend of yours would like this item with different art just drop me a line and I can can custom make you one from my etsy store.
Hello once again. I have spent the past three months in my bed due to some bulging disks so I have not been able to produce much. It has been tough being laid up like this but it also has given me a plethora of new ideas to work on. When I sit physically still for too long my mind doesn’t and I go on these amazing journeys in my mind only to come back to reality with so much new material to work with!
The first sketch in this post is the continuation of a drawing I had posted earlier.
First off here is the continuation of my project I had previously posted ( to the right )
This project is a very exciting one for me because it is actually an illustration of my YA novel I have been working so hard on. I am contemplating on making this book a digital one with an option to order a paperback. It just seems so much more intricate when my readers can virtually enter my made up world. I am not too sure if this is in fact the route I will be taking but the possibility of it is quite good. I do not have a web designer as I do all of the graphics and stuff myself I like to have total creative control so the learning html part is holding me back a bit. Who knows, I may give up and hire a web designer to work with me so I can get it created and out to my readers more quickly because truth be told they have been waiting for this follow up novel from the Charlie’s Head books forever. Feel free to comment and let me know what you think about the direction of this project. Your feedback would be so helpful and VERY much appreciated.
Here is a little more detail. Still working though….
I plan to get lots done this holiday weekend!!!
Yes, it does have something to do with my new novel.
Hi everyone. Yes, still here and still finding little time to work on my own art. Being a graphic designer for a living leaves little room for one’s own projects but that is just the way it is until one’s own projects begin to pay all the bills…lol.
Anyhoo… I am okay with that. I actually enjoy doing both. It gives me perspective when I step away from one or the other only helping me along in my learning processes.
This sketch here is only a close up of a larger one I am working on. I won’t reveal its final form until it is completer though.
A Collision of sketch and computer
This is what happens when your sketchbook meets your computer….
Practicing and Relaxing
Well, its been a while since I picked up an actual sketch pad and pencil. It seems lately all I do is computer vector art. Its great for income but it really makes me miss the feel of the actual drawing process. So finally, I get to relax and re-aquaint myself with my drawing tools. Here is just something I started last night and will continue today. Although there is no purpose for it, it puts me in that nice art zone that I so love to be in.
Still sketching and thinking
You know, it seems like every day I am thinking, dreaming, creating while living my life and I have to say, there is no better way to live. I enjoy and use every second of every day. I have been taking my sketchbook along with me to every appointment or errand I go on because every moment matters. I have found myself sketching mostly in Doctor offices since that has been my main taxi duty this early spring. If one of the kids aren’t sick my cat needs to go for shots. It is unbelievable how much sketching time I am able to pick up just waiting in rooms. Here is a little piece I sketched while waiting and thinking. I have another appointment to go to with someone tomorrow so I will have another for you then. Until then, let me know what you think of this guy. He kinda reminds me of all the thinking, dreaming, and creating while waiting I have been doing.
Although this isn’t a drawing, I had to put it up to show everyone. I went to the beach today with my little girls to search for sea glass only to find this adorable grey seal sunning herself on the beach. Isn’t she gorgeous!!! I love living in Rhode Island!
Erin T. Whalen 