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52 Weeks of Composition - Week 3

52 Weeks of Composition – Week 3

Sorry I’m late! It’s been a crazy week so far, what with the States descending into a chaotic tire fire and the Rossland Winter Carnival taking place this weekend. Luckily, I finished my illustration earlier in the week – I just forgot to write and post a blog post! Anyways, here we go! Two Dominant Focal Points This illustration is an idea I’ve had for a series for a while, which is the story…

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#52 compositions #52 weeks #animals #raccoon break-in

52 Weeks of Composition - Week 2

52 Weeks of Composition - Week 2 #52compositions #kidlitart

Single Point of Interest This week things flowed a little bit smoother than they did last week. It was a bit easier for me to think outside the box and push my own boundaries. I started with an illustration that I had already started to work on, the idea being that I could take something that I wasn’t feeling satisfied with and adjust the composition so that I felt better about the illustration.…

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#52 compositions #52 weeks #childrens #rabbit

52 Weeks of Composition - Week 1

52 Weeks of Composition - Week 1 #52compositions

3 to 5 Ratio/Golden Mean Week one of the challenge went pretty well, I tried to keep it pretty simple so I could focus on the 3-5 ratio. I was originally wanting to have the focus on the rabbit’s face, however the moon had to be bright and would take the main focus. I decided to roll with it and try to have them both placed using 3-5 ratio with the moon as the main focus and the rabbit as a…

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#3-5 ratio #52 compositions #52 weeks #golden ratio #illustration #moon #rabbit

The 52 Weeks of Composition Challenge - Intro Post

The 52 Weeks of Composition Challenge – Intro Post

One of the things I tend to struggle with most when it comes to drawing is putting together a great composition. Where does everything go? How can I deliberately draw attention to a certain element? How do I put together a pleasing looking landscape? HEY, WHERE ARE YOUR EYES GOING? GET BACK HERE AND LOOK AT THIS THING! I know a lot of the theory and most of the rules but I really feel like I…

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#52 weeks #Challenge #Composition #Intro Post

r/sketchdaily - H.P. Lovecraft

r/sketchdaily – H.P. Lovecraft

The theme today is H.P. Lovecraft so I decided to draw Business Cthulhu. He’s just a simple businessman, living his life under the sea in the big city.

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#cthulhu #sea #sketchdaily #sketches #underwater

r/sketchdaily + r/redditgetsdrawn - Free Draw Friday

r/sketchdaily + r/redditgetsdrawn – Free Draw Friday

Practicing a little bit of colour and still trying out some of my new brushes. I’m really liking some of the new inking brushes!

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#dog #fall #reddit gets drawn #sketch daily #sketches

Comic - Dinner Party

I’ve been wanting to do some short comics about things for a while, so here’s a kind of weird and short comic about dinner last night.

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#alpaca #chickens #comic #story #wolves

r/sketchdaily - Urban Fantasy

r/sketchdaily – Urban Fantasy

Today’s sketchdaily topic is Urban Fantasy. I’ve been talking with BF a lot lately about what the future will look like when AI takes everyone’s jobs which I figured would be a perfect illustration for this topic. NOTE: the future will definitely look like star wars type droids serving humans coffee at Robotbucks and using a current style of espresso machine to do it.

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#coffee #dystopian future #robot #robotbucks

r/sketchdaily - Snowbabies

r/sketchdaily – Snowbabies

The sketchdaily theme for today was Snowbabies. I’m still fooling around with some of my new brushes and figuring out what I like.

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#holiday #sketchdaily #sketches #snowbabies #winter

r/sketchdaily - Cityscapes

r/sketchdaily – Cityscapes

Experimenting with some of the new photoshop brushes again! The theme today is cityscapes so here is a city scape of Rossland. :D

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#red roof church #Rossland #sketchdaily #sketches

r/sketchdaily: Reflections

Reflections Today the r/sketchdaily theme is Reflections. I just bought some new photoshop brushes that I’ve been eying for a while (the Megapack from Kylebrush.com) and was testing them out a bit. It’s more of a sketch than a finished piece, but I quite like it so far. I might have to take the time to finish it. :)

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#raccoons #reflections #sketchdaily #sketches

Happy New Year: 2017 Goals

Happy New Year It’s time to toast new beginnings and holy cow do I have a lot of them! In 2016 I saw a monumental amount of change in my personal life. I moved to a new town, got married to my favourite person, became a homeowner, and quit my day job to focus on my art career full time. Woo hoo! But also I think maybe I need a nap. 2017 will definitely be a year to focus on replenishing energy. …

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#2017 #goals #raccoons #sketchdaily #sketches

At the Rossland Mountain Market!

I’ve been quite the busy little bee lately. About four and a half months ago we were living in Vancouver and out land lords told us that they were going to need to reclaim the suite to have room for their growing family. We took a look at what’s been going on with real estate and the rental market in Vancouver and decided to take the opportunity to make a lifestyle change. Two months later, BF…

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#rossland mountain market

#rosslandlife

Gardens, Great Views and Walks around the reservoir. There has been some really big (and exciting) changes since January! Some of you may have noticed that my Etsy shop has been closed for business for the past couple of months and that it’s been quite a while since I’ve posted. There has been A LOT going on. The most recent of which is probably the biggest change, a move from Vancouver, BC to…

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#Etsy #oil pastel #Rossland

Happy New Year - 2016

Happy New Year – 2016

Happy New Year! I’ve been thinking a lot about my goals for 2016 and quite a few of them include drawing goals this year. I’m challenging myself to another daily draw year this year. So far, I’m 2/2 which I think is a great start to any type of challenge. I’ll be posting my daily drawings and sketches on twitter everyday, which you can follow at [btn text=”@aprilestyle” tcolor=#FFF…

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#bird #digital illustration #experiments #photoshop

Putting the Fun in Fundamentals.

I like to have a New Year’s Resolution every year and I usually take them pretty seriously. A couple of years ago I decided to get better at at digital art and joined the reddit community r/sketchdaily and managed to post almost daily. Last year my focus was more fitness focused; I wanted to run a half marathon and did so back in August. I also wanted to be ready to sell my soaps, and I opened…

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#fundamentals #resolutions #still life

I love Christmas. I try to keep it under wraps most of the time because Christmas is only one day a year, but I feel like basically as soon as Halloween is over we are in the official “Christmas/Holiday Season.” I love the Holiday Season for several reasons, but probably the number one reason is that it’s a Makers Paradise. Every year, even people that don’t usually make things throughout the year buckle down and start baking or cooking for their loved ones, making little ornaments, and helping their kids with crafts. In my family this is tradition, for as long as I can remember my sister and plan an ornament to make and then give those as a gift to family.

Possible Contenders For This Year?

There is something that feels really good about giving away things you make to people you care about, and now with Pinterest being so popular, there is a ton of options and tutorials for every skill level, like the tutorial found at the photo link above. I’m not a person who is very big on gifts, but I love giving people stuff I make.

Lately, for me, the holiday season also means its soap making season. Making soap is my new(ish) hobby and because of the curing time for soaps, it means that in order to have my soaps ready for Christmas, I have to start them 6 weeks out. So far this year I’ve made a soap loaf for a friend for Christmas and I’m hoping to get down to some serious soap making business next week.

I’ve already posted some of the Christmas cards I’ve made in the Etsy Shop, here’s a taster of what’s available:

I guess what I’m trying to say is that from now until Jan 1st, it’s all Holiday Season, all the time. NO REGRETS.

Is It The Christmas Season Yet? I love Christmas. I try to keep it under wraps most of the time because Christmas is only one day a year, but I feel like basically as soon as Halloween is over we are in the official "Christmas/Holiday Season." I love the Holiday Season for several reasons, but probably the number one reason is that it's a Makers Paradise.

#Cards #DIY Ornaments #Etsy #Holiday Season #Soap

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