Lisa Firke | Wild Keys

Art Every Day Month #8: Illustration Homework

Lisa — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:46:45 +0000

I’m taking Mark Mitchell’s Make Your Splashes / Make Your Marks course on illustrating books for children (info here). Among the very thorough planning-your-work parts of the course, he has students create gesture and contour drawings to prepare for the full-fledged illustrating. This cartoon is probably a frontispiece of some sort, although I can imagine something [...]

Art Every Day Month #7: More Doodles (More Cowbell)

Lisa — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:12:34 +0000

Still traveling. Are you sick of airports yet? I am. More playing with my favorite filbert brush. Line over wash: And, so you know, fingerprints into a partially dried wash look an awful lot like the soft underfeathers on an owl’s breast:

Art Every Day Month #6: Line Studies

Lisa — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:43:14 +0000

On travel days I doodle a LOT. I can’t show you what I doodled today, but here’s some line play I did before I took off on this trip. I’m just practicing here, having fun, filling the page: In the process, I discovered that my slightly damaged little filbert makes this wonderful variegated line that reminds me [...]