Illustration Project: Week 1

Decided that for this project I'm going to do a week by week thing. So this is my first week from Tuesday 13th to Tuesday 20th....

On that Tuesday, we had a guided studio session where words were thrown at us and we had between  6 - 10 minutes to draw each word. The ones I've decided to keep in my sketchbook were: somewhere from home (I chose the park), a fry up, holiday memories, your bedroom, afternoon tea, fairy tale castle and a bike. Done some close ups of my favourite ones - 3 guesses as to what my favourite media is.

Then we were to chose from a list of themes to base our whole project on, and rather than go for Fashion or Films which I was drawn too, I chose to go for Famous People, in particular Albert Einstein...just cuz he has crazy hair and a moustache. I rarely draw men so thought he was a good starting point as he had an interesting life, some interesting quirks and characteristics. These were just quick drawings based on his love of the violin and his pipe.

Then I illustrated good ol' Albie. Aint he cute. You've got presentable Albert, Cardigan Albert, Jumper Albert and Sailor Albert...cuz he likes sailing! Wahey.

Then I whacked him into Photoshop. I think I prefer the watercolour version, just because it looks friendlier. He looks a bit boring all block coloury.

Oh where will next week take us oh ho ho.......