Work in Progress: Elliot the Dragon

Today we went to see the remake of Pete 's Dragon and we really loved it so I decided to paint a tribute to the original movie. It's still a work in progress and I hope to finish it soon.

Drawing My Favourite Series Characters

I have a small Moleskine notebook where I stick in my cinema tickets and I give a quick description of the movie and how I felt watching it. So far, I have mainly done this for movies at the cinema, probably because I come out with a ticket and I feel bad about throwing it, so I need to keep it and keep a record of it.

I have decided to expand on that idea and I have made an A6 notebook where I'm going to record my favourite series. Since I don't get any tickets for watching the series, I have decided to draw some of my favourite characters. It's going to be a great practice for me as I always struggle with drawing humans.

I had started drawing some of the characters from Stranger Things and I paused to do the characters of Merlin because this is what inspired me. I will go back to drawing more characters from Stranger Things as soon as I manage to re-watch the whole series, I will continue.

Here is what I came up with for now.

This is still a work in progress although I was very tempted to just live it like this. I'm going to colour it and use some watercolour on it.

Falling in love again with my A6 Captain America TN

I have constantly been struggling with choosing the right size for my TN and I have gone through many changes through the years: from Field Notes to LMC to A5 to A6 and finally to RS. I have now gone one step back to A6.

I have reviewed my A6 TNs and my Captain America TN was housing my Hobonichi. I moved it back to its original cover and I created 2 brand new notebooks.

It's really difficult for me to find a shop that stocks some really nice scrapbook paper that I usually use for my covers. So I had to get creative and I found a good way to make my covers pop. Since the notebooks were going to be used for specific purposes, I decided to google some pictures that I could later print and stick on the covers and it worked like a charm!

I am really pleased with the results!

Still husband... I mean, still life!

Doodling on the go

Long time no see (again)!

Since the last time I posted, I went on holiday, came back, went to see a specialist for my lung problems and became a devout yogi. In between, I drew and I painted, mainly in my traveler's notebook (the gorgeous caramel coloured one that I presented in a previous post from Lady Falcon), one of my Hobonichi planner and a regular sketchbook.

When we went on holiday, we took our lady cat, Furryosa, to a cat hotel. She's not the most sociable cat there is so I was concerned that she would not get along with the other cats. While we were away, I kept thinking about her and I kept imagining what she was up to. I started drawing and painting her adventures there and I somehow got overboard with it all...

(Note to self: dedicate a complete page to the painting and do not write at the back, especially not with a fountain pen...)

And here is a random flamingo on route to visit some relatives and looking for his way through the Everglades...

And here we are, back in kitten mode and back with my trusted black markers...

Rock on, black metal kitty!

When we came back home, the weather was rainy... as expected. Still, we spent a day at an amusement park and managed to find some sunshine later in the day...


                                                


And here I am dutifully practicing yoga. Who would have thought I would love it as much. I have dedicated a notebook to studying the practice of yoga. And of course, any good books worth his salt should have illustrations, so I have been practicing drawing people (me) trying out different yoga poses and working on my breathing.

My yoga teacher: Furryosa

I'm hoping that, now that the new routine has been established, I will have more time to update this blog. In case you cannot wait and are dying to see what I'm up to, feel free to check out my Instagram account @wynterblackarts!