Fuel

This is for Illustration Friday!

I thought it was quite hard to tackle this theme without producing something really obvious (at least for me), so I decided to go with something that is a bit obvious for me anyway. OH WELL.

I had a guinea pig when I was a kid and my gran used to breed them (she probably had around a gazillion of them). They really are EATING MACHINES. And anything of plant origin is their fuel. From grass, grains, to banana peels and carrots. Anything goes. And you're lucky if all this will last for more than half an hour... But at least they produce lots of fertilizer.

At least not only bad things came about when my brush pen decided to dry up a bit and split ends. I was so irritated and desperate that I chopped of the splits and just ended up with one very fine brush bit - I like more and more drawing with it, although it is a bit trickier. And colors came about digitally, I was going to leave it black and white but started coloring as an experiment and just kept going. I like it. At least leek looks like a leek!

Jam, baby!

I am thouroughly regretting not making any jams this year. Although last years delicious strawberry-rhubarb was a bit of a failure, as it never sealed properly (so I had to have lots of strawberry rhubarb jam within 3 weeks, which was best before time suggested by my jam master - granny J).

Instead I painted some... I really like the colour scheme in this one.

At Home

This is part 2 of the earlier mentioned project. It was to illustrate 3 phases of making a meal. Middle image is my favourite, could live without the others...

Frames are a result of the fact that I recycled old unfinished painting as a ground for the new ones - that's basically where the masking tape was. I really like that effect!

Eat This

Part one of 3-part project for college (Eat This, My Room, At Home). This part was to illustrate a recipe and every person got a random different one. I decided to draw the Mrs Sandbach instead of the actual food, as this would be most likely boring. The requirement was to do it a5 in black and white. I did some preparation drawings of known (and not) chefs/cooks (below). I think I'm more happy with those than with actual fnal image.