DLP Catchup

Here is my catchup post for weeks 5,6 and 7. 

First up, week 5. Add a doodled border. 

Not much to say about this one, I didn't take step by step photos. Basically I wanted a light page, but with interest behind, so I randomly added paint and stencilling and then covered most of that with white paint. I added my doodles using a sharpie pen

Next is week 6, for this week we had to look on pinterest and be inspired by something. I saw this painting, and followed it to find out who the artist was. The artist is Stanislav Sidorov , visit his site here... His series of 'Umberella' painting caught my eye. See them here... 

I had no intention of trying to copy one of his painting, I merely wished to capture the feeling of the movement in the rain and the drippy, merging colours. 

I began by adding strips of patterned paper, this was never meant to show at the end, I just needed a starting point. 

Next I tore up some used/dried baby wipes, and glued those in. 

I now had texture, I needed more movement and colour. So I added lots of drips of acrylic ink. 

as I heated the page to dry it, some of the ink bubbled..LOVE THIS...

It was feeling good, but it needed a shot of 'light' so I stencilled in white, using an Andy Skinner stencil

I outlined each number in black, and then added some dots, first in pale blue then when that dried I added white dots on top. 

I really like this, it doesn't really look much of a finished page. I did think at one point it needed a title or a quote, then I decided I liked it as it is. 

Now for week 7, for that week we had to use a repeating pattern. i did this page while I was away for the weekend, so the photos aren't great as the lighting in the room was a little dim. 

I started by gluing book pages and patterned paper to the page, I then used neocolours mixed with gesso to fill in the gaps. 

I added black stencilling through a Ranger alpha stencil. Then I draped some string over the page and held that in place with strips of washi tape. 

Next I used a bottle cap to make black circles, and a smaller cap to make white ones. 

I chose a small tag as my repeating shape. I coloured each one with neocolours and gesso, and added a little stencilling to each one. I edged each tag, mounted them onto graph paper and stuck into the journal. 

I had some wordfetti already cut out, and chose this quote. I glued one or two words to each tag and doodled around the words and the tags. 

I am still 3 pages behind *rollseyes* I do have excellent intentions of keeping up, life just gets in the way . I hope you are all having fun in your journals. 

Darcy x

Doodled Hair

I often get asked how to draw faces, and sadly there is no quick way, it takes a lot of practice. But this does not mean you have to create faceless art, here is a simple but very effective way to create a doodle portrait without having to draw the face. 

First grab some magazines and look for medium sized faces..

Select the one you like and cut out just the face, only the skin and ear if it is showing...no hair, no clothes.. Glue to a piece of smooth card. The piece I used is 160gsm. Use a pencil at first to sketch in some clothes and hair, they do not have to be like the original...Go wild, invent a fabulous new hairstyle...be a fashion designer and give her some great clothes. 

Now take your markers and colour in the shapes. What you are creating at this point is just a background, so it does not need to be super neat, or even well blended.  I used 3 pinks for the clothing, 3 blues and 3 turquoises for the hair. Always work in 3's, a light,mid and dark tone of the same hue. 

You can see I outlined the magazine area, on the side near the hair I used a thicker line, and on the outer side of the face I used a narrow line. You really don't want a thick black outline on that side of the face. I also took a blue-grey and outlines the whole image, and then using black I added a border to the edge of the card. 

The ideal pens to use for the outlines, and for the later doodling are the LETRASET FINELINERS

I started my doodling, varying the thickness of pen, from a 0.1mm right up to the 0.7mm, this gives me delicate areas and thicker darker areas. 

Think about  the area you are filling in, for clothing try and think of patterns that will make the area look like fabric. For the hair try and find curvy, round patterns.... unless of course you give your model spikey hair in which case use straight lines in your doodles.

For the background I used a very simple cross hatching pattern. Once that was done, there was too much white still showing so I added the grey circles into the background. 

Here is the finished piece, an easy doodled portrait, and no tricky faces to draw..

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Mandala.

So, I signed up for the free mandala class over on WILLOWING... the class is being taught by the beautiful GUADALUPE...

you should check out the class, it is so relaxing watching her work. Making mandalas is very much like tangling, and you can combine the two.

I drew my mandala first in pencil on watercolour paper...

Then I coloured using Inktense pencils...

I went back in and added some shading with Graphitint pencils...

And finally added some doodling...