Christmas Ornament Prototype!!

Here is my prototype for my Christmas card idea. Do you think people would like getting this as a card from me?  I am going to surpirse my family who have no idea I started drawing. I hope they like it!

Christmas Pixieyfied!!

Callenges over at my favorite Line Weaving Website!

   My favorite Line Weaving website is having a year anniversary so I have been having a blast. I thought I would share some of the drawings I have done.

This one was a challenge to draw a pattern by a favorite artist Lizzie Mayne.  I drew it in my lined journal I have that I use when working out patterns and also ideas for pictures.

This challenge was to draw something in my art style or with the Gumball Plant pattern I created, It was really cool to see all the nice things people wrote about my art!!  There is an ongoing joke that I cannot draw anything without color. This is very true...in fact I have missed getting these in on time because I take so long to get the coloring done. This drawing is called "Trippyland" and it took 9 hours.

     I love this website...I go there many times a day.  Lineweaving!!

My One Zentangle A Day Experience

    I thought I would share my experience with Beckah Krahula's book, "One Zentangle A Day: A 6 Week Course In Creative Drawing For Relaxation, Inspiration, And Fun!"  BOOK!!  I am not drawing this each day, but I have read the first pages covering the history of doodling, how Zentangle got its start.  It's about 124 pages long, front and back have thick sturdy covers with folds like with a hard cover. (sorry not sure what it is called besides a jacket maybe) so you can use it as a handy bookmark.  There are three tangles with each lesson so far, with the steps and examples of finished tiles for inspiration. The author has a lengthy list of supplies, but if you are poor like me, you can make your tiles with regular drawing paper and a ruler. I also don't have the fancy paints and such, but I am improvising and maybe later when I get to that section I might be able to afford some.  Don't let that hold you back!

     Here is my first tile. 

This was made with the patterns: Tipple Static, and Crescent Moon.

This one is titled "Bee Blimp"  I try to draw serious things...but I don't think I can!!  The patterns used were: Nekton,  Fescu, and  Knightsbridge

   As I go on I will add more!!  Hope you enjoy, I really am enjoying the book. I think it is well written for anyone, beginners and I think there is plenty for more experienced tanglers.

Drawing Continued....

     Well, after sharing my last picture, it would not let me continue!  How rude! Okay so I started looking on YouTube for more how to draw videos and I found a Tuber named RainbowElephant61 had some videos of something called Line Weaving. It was facinating. I still have this little folded up printer paper with my first drawing folling one of her how to videos. I started looking up more!!

My very first attempt!

     I also found videos on YouTube called Zentangle. I looked it up and went to the official website.
http://www.zentangle.com/ It is a method that teaches you how to use repeat pattern art in a meditative state. Their method says you do not need to draw a straight line, I thought that is great!!  I cannot draw a straight line at all!!  Maybe I can do something with this!  I was hooked!!  I started drawing with the foundations Mark taught and combined it with the many patterns I am learning with Tangles!! 

Mark taught me how to draw the whale, I added the tangle patterns inside!

     What a wonderful art form!! I have found my chronic pain disorder is helped a great deal with drawing. I sometimes hurt so badly that I just want to curl up in my bed and rock the pain away, but I cannot do that, I would become a blobby unhappiness of doom. If I concentrate on even drawing a box, just focus on what I am doing, what colors I am adding, keeping track of how many layers I am using, it helps a great deal.

Fishies everywhere!!

    

http://www.dragoart.com/ is another wonderful site I go to often on how to draw things.

      I wanted to share with everyone my love of drawing. I spend about 6-8 hours each day drawing. I have learned so much. I went from not being able to draw anything at all, to drawing a few neat things! It has been 5 months now. 5 months today actually!  So I decided to add a new blog that just focuses on this!  I do hope you stay and hang around!!
    

Why I Started Drawing....

     I always thought I would be a writer. I wrote my first poem at the age of 3. I was in kindergarten at a Christian school in San Diego, California. It went something like this...

    "God is wind
      wind is sad
       wind is glad
      I like the wind"

     Not one of my best works, but hey, I was a kid..lol. Back then, you had to start kindergarten early if you were awesome, so that is what happened to me. Just as well, I missed a lot of school because of chronic illness and ear infections. Same year I had my tonsils, adenoids and tubes put in my ears. To have this done so young was rare in the early 70's and rather dangerous. I stopped getting sick all the time for about 4 years. I remember to this day the blue tile in the operating room and that big black mask coming towards my face. My mother must have been a wreck.

      Anyway, wow little trip down memory lane! I drew and loved loved loved to color as a kid. The smell of a new box of crayola crayons, and how much I looked forward each year to school starting because it meant new school supplies and wonderful new boxes of crayons for both class and then the biggest box for home! I never thought I was any good though, you know just kid stuff.

      I started to get into modern art and especially grid things with black lines and color all around. I decided in high school to have one of my electives be drawing. I was excited. That was immediately smashed when the teacher informed me to give it up after spending 2 weeks on a project every day after school to get the pastel shading right. He gave me c's and d's, did not really offer any advice or help either. So I dropped the class, drew a few 80's things in my room like outline of mannequins with modern art mini skirts with matching big jewelery. nothing else really. I did color every now and then.

      When my son was about 4, we lived back east and had a great PBS station. A show called "Imagination Station" came on in the afternoons with animator Mark Kistler. I watched the shows with my son and we drew. He taught in such a fun way I bought one of his books and started to learn to draw a bit. I got busy with life and set it aside. About 5 or so years ago Mark had a website I wanted to take the online lessons, but it was a bit expensive, so I didn't until this year. May 5th, I was talking to my son I was thinking about doing this and he told me I should, at the worst I would be out 100 bucks, on the plus side, I could learn a great deal in a year.

I started out drawing the wonderful lessons on his site. I drew for 3-6 hours each day. I was hooked! His lessons are great, they are such fun and I really love the comic feel of things.

This is my first stingray. A bit washed out due to bad paper.

Welcome To The Doodle Blog!!

Welcome to the blog. I am going to post here my journey involving my drawings.