The last day and the new start (Marathon - Day24; Worn - Illustration Friday)

I'm a bit too sleepy to be writing a new post here but I want you to know what's happening and what I'm doing and why it's been so long since I showed you something.

First of all, I have about 4 hours to sleep before taking my luggage and getting to a railway station and on my journey to art camp, about 6 hours of it if I remember properly... It will be a very long, very boring and very sleepy journey but I'll manage - what other options do I have? ;3

Because of this art camp I won't be available to show you what I did for the A Piece A Day Marathon but no worries, I'll show everything as soon as I come back - 10 brand new works. But you can be sure I will make much much more of them and show them all (or almost all) here.

About my very own Creating Marathon - Day24 is the last day I've managed to do without too many delays. I would make the rest of them - till number 29 but because of few circumstances I was unable to:
1. On Friday 26th of June I was out of town getting my Bachelor of Arts. It was quite easy actually ;) but the whole day went so fast and when I came back home it was too late to do anything :/ But look what a pretty picture I will have on my diploma :3


2. On the next day, Saturday, my whole family went on my Grandpa's Nameday party and we were back on Sunday evening! I have a lot of time in-between but while picking strawberries I've hurt my right thumb and I was unable to hold pencils, pens and even my tablet pen :( It was shitty. So I've started reading my Because-You've-Got-That-B.A.-At-Last present:


I've went through the first book in one day. Incredible story, better than the movie but I still like it, though. However, my sister Kate told me it's a very very bad thing to read good books that quick so now I'm not even in a middle of the second part and I'm taking only it ('New Moon') on the art camp so I will have limitations in daily reading to not finish too quick. Reading good books is complicated. You want to know how everything will ends so you read all day long without any brakes and when you read four books in 2 days you feel like shit because you've read them too quick. So you want to read them again, in a slower pace, but it's not the same when you are already aware of the ending. Uh! I had that when I read the last part of the Harry Potter - I was devastated and so unhappy that I've read it. Not because it was bad - because I would like to read it again and again and always feel the same anxiety and curiosity.

3. It's a lame excuse, I know... I was spending a lot of time with my <3 now, before the art camp, just to make it less tragic to not see each other for 10 days. It sounds melodramatic ;P

Here is the last piece of my own marathon - Day24.


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Pink Clouds (Marathon - Day23)

It's been a while since I used watercolours but it's great to hug them again and have a nice conversation :3

The piece I did today has it's little story behind but not of what is on the picture (you can clearly see that) but of how was it made. You see, I've been preparing my portfolio for a while and I've even written down the things, certain themes or ideas, that just have to be there - the images that may give me job because they can be easily connected with popular themes or their style can be adapted to other illustrations without any problems. So on my list are few typical children's book illustrations; designs of adult characters with specific jobs, like a fireman or a cook; there is an illustration with a birthday cake; with a little town and it's inhabitants. Also one of the works-to-do on my list is a piece similar to something I've already done but better. The piece I'm talking about is 'Party Goddess' which shows a nice idea but the way it's done leaves me with a not-that-broad smile.

Therefore, I decided to cross this image out from my to-do-list today. Half of the idea was done - a very slim lady in a big dress.

For another half of the idea I checked my 100 Themes Challenge and read all those themes that are still undone. It's a good way to complete ideas that are floating in your mind, almost ready to be created on paper but there is still something lacking in them. I decided to use the 'Lock and Key' theme and I at once had the idea of the lady's dress changing into a river and a boat with a fishing man with a key on his rod. I had no idea where to put the doors (I knew there will be some doors somewhere) but ideas never stop coming to me so I knew this one will come sooner or later :3

So I started sketching with a pencil (no doors here), adding details with a pencil (still no doors), inking the outline (doors will come soon for sure), colouring with watercolours - first layer, second one, third... And when I finished I realized I have totally forgotten about this key and those doors :D It's a bit of shame since it would look lovely but it looks nice anyway - theme spared for another time ;)

So now we have something like... let's see... Mother Earth?

Checked the themes once again in pursuit of something fitting to this image but, I think, Mother Earth will stay :3

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Red flowers (Marathon - Day22)

As I've said - five is enough. So here is the last fashion illustration I made and there will be no more of them for now :)

This dress is a bit Gothic in my opinion, not that you can see it but I just feel like it :3 I like those gloves, I was wondering where can I put them in all those designs I've already done but they did not fit anywhere perfectly and here they are just fine. It would look too sexy too be true if it was a real dress <3

I should use softer pencils for drawings because those hard ones I'm using are too grey and then I have difficulty in making them look dark when scanned and not darkening the colours in the same time. Bye-bye H pencil *waves goodbye*

Here you have a not coloured version and the coloured one, which one is better?



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