Let’s Imagine How You Will Draw in 2019!
Let’s imagine the end of January: a simple line, then a simple shape, a simple bee or a butterfly. When you decorate its wings, your heart begins to flutter too: Where does this play take me?!
Let’s imagine your heart leads you to February, to Valentine’s day when you want to give something special to a friend. You doodle a cake with a bird, a bird carrying your heart, a bird that no one has ever twitched before.
Let’s imagine, the bird flies over a clear water. There are fish and glittering jewels, all hand-drawn by you.
Let’s imagine it’s March, and you realize how feathers and scales are not so far away from fur. Foxes, wild cats, squirrels … the furry wisdom enters your playful world.
Let’s imagine you want to take a ride in this fantastic hand-drawn safari. You draw a deer or an elephant, anything that can carry you, dress it with tassels, woven blankets, and knits, and let your imagination hop on.
Let’s imagine that despite all the seriousness that the word “art” has, you discover the power of play, and get hooked on what you can create for your Animal Inkdom!
Play with …
… Books: Embellish a notebook, an art journal, or make the prettiest bullet journal.
… Gifts: Make a set of greeting cards and be a shopper of your private gift shop.
… Collage Art: Draw collage elements, animal paper dolls, scrap pics …
… Style: Draw minimalistic animals with a blank background.
… Color: Make colorful drawings that are full of elements, enjoy the overwhelm!
… Design: Have fun drawing motifs and patterns and seeing animals as canvases.
Start the new year by drawing and playing!
Notebook Drawings and Hand-Drawn Collage Pieces
While preparing for a new class, I took an empty notebook and started drawing. My first idea was to decorate some notebook pages but it went further and I had a lot of fun.
Bees and Butterflies
Birds and Feathers
Whale Chasing a Star
Fish Swimming Fast
Owl and Hearts
Drawing Collage Pieces
As a child, I loved paper dolls and die cut scrap pictures. So after drawing the many notebook pages, I thought I could make some additional elements as separate collage pieces.
Here are a wolf and a fox, and a delicious piece of cake! I made a cut on the cake and on the fox so that they fit together.
Playing with Notebook Drawings
I had even more fun when I realized that I can set the collage piece on the top of the drawing so that the animal becomes even more imaginative.
The combination of wolf and owl is so cute, and I also like how the fox and the cake could fit in! I think my word for 2019 is Play.
Have some cake, and then get your notebook and start drawing!
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