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Day off today. Off to London to watch Cabaret with my youngest daughter. I worked about 10 hours yesterday, possibly more. So today is very welcome. Although, I suppose if I weren’t off today, I might have woke 5 hours each day.
I really enjoyed drawing this morning. The last two days, I have forced myself to be quick. I didn’t hate them, but I absolutely do prefer taking my time and drawing for however long I feel like it and for however long the drawing wants to keep going.
I know I have a lot of favourite things to draw, as well as going through phases of drawing a tonne of one thing, but ogees filled with flowers is very high on the list.
I have a few versions of spots for my mushrooms illustrated recipes. I am really wanting to embrace ways of bring my fountain pen drawings into my finished work, so playing around with that. It may take me a little while, but it will be fun to experiment.
The third one is 100% digital, and I haven’t drawn all the elements and that kale was a pile of shredded kale, rather than full leaves.
Would appreciate any thoughts. I have some other ideas of ways to incorporate colour with the ink drawings, so will share them, too, when I try them.
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Personally I love your ink drawings and they they’ll stand up well on their own in an illustrated recipe. But here’s an idea: what if you made super-loose watercolour paintings of each item too, and then layered the ink linework on top digitally. Everything would be misaligned but I think it would look nice!