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Illustration Friday: Breakfast

Illustration Friday: Breakfast

This week’s Illustration Friday theme is “breakfast”… here is my entry.

I am the weet-bix, the moustached milk carton is my lovely boyfriend Joel. My first take at this illustration was just under a year ago when I made it into an e-card for his birthday… I modified it a bit for my Illustration Friday entry.

Gocco printng… round two

I spent last night printing my second round at gocco. This design was drawn in Adobe Illustrator. The things I learnt this time round were:

1. It’s kinda hard to even out paint in large inked areas (like the squirrels body), I’ll be trying to include more patterned or lined areas next time.

2. I need to my designs a bit smaller… as Mr Squirrel’s tail got a little chopped off this time. I think I actually learnt this in round one… but I forgot.

3. Definitive white lines like those around this paws/leg need to be a little thicker - on some prints they were barely visable.

4. Gocco ink is ridiculously sticky and you need to be well resourced for cleaning your master screen after… have more than 2 pieces of paper towel ready.

Gocco round two

My first round at gocco printing was the kitty on a cloud below, this was freehand illustrated with a carbon pen

Gocco round one

Mr Milk Squirrel

Meet Mr Milk Squirrel… he is my dairy themed Illustration Friday entry this week. He is also going to be put to good use as a gocco print design.

… well… ahem… it turns out that the theme is “Diary” not “Dairy”… bah! Oh well.

12 Month Craft The World Challenge!

So I decided about a month ago I would partake in the 12 Month Craft The World Challenge… June is well past but here is my entry “Babushka Invader”… the theme was “black & white”. I’m actually going to use this as a gocco print design.