Here's my sketch for the month of May in my calendar.
I was trying to be oh-so clever...by combining many different projects into one single sketch.
i want to submit a wrapping paper for this year's frinton press call for entry. (and do it right this time!) And also make a spring drawing for LDH. And, obviously, colour this into my month of may page...
UH HUMMM. i just dont like the image anymore. I dont know why...but this has no mojo at all.
you know when a teeny-tiny thumbnail looks heavenly, and everything in that really too tiny image seems perfect. even the features in the face, which are clearly just hinted, seem so beautiful...only if they where bigger and better drawn....NOT.
I guess another problem was that i needed to clean it with a pen, since the frinton press image needs a black-white-no-grey-tones look. (i was then going to make it into a nice pattern....lots of work, ect. But, i dont really like the look of clean pen lines, (or messy ones in this case) compared to pensil lines. So, im kind of facing the fact that i might not use this sketch for any of those things, making this morning a total loss of time!
still, i was up early so its not a big deal. and mojo cannot happen each time. right? I'll move on to images i need to finish for this week...and just leave may for later. it'll be waiting for me in at the back of my brain i guess.
*** UPDATE***
Okay, breathing steady, and not loosing controle, i managed to make this image into the wrapping paper for frinton! Im pretty happy with this good-attitude-self-of-the-year-of-the-white-tiger. See? What a little perseverance can do?
If any of you would like to send in something, check out the links i put up at the top of this blog post. or check out frintonpress.blogspot.com in general, for the spechs and details. Making a successfull repeat pattern is kind of a pain in the bum if you never-ever did it before. But i think they linked a couple how-tos on their blog, and you could defenetly start with something simple. Go check some of their prints from last xmas and you'll see what im talking about in terms of coolness.
xx
paule.