Kat Johnston

Category: Sketch-Book

  • Sketch: Just one of those days.

    Kat Johnston Sketch – A poor little bunny, discarded to the corner. Oh what days we have, hmm?

    I actually meant to do this post last night! Eep! However, what with having to do a trillion other things, it kinda just slipped by the wayside. No matter – it is up now, and that is what counts.

    So as you can probably tell (yes, two in a row is telling), I’m back on a bunny fix. I stole out one of the ikea sketchbooks I bought the other week and I’ve been drawing a bunny on each page – see, you can even sneak a peek at a disgruntled bunny using his ears as a comb-over on the next page if you squint at this one. The pages are fairly thin.

    So far, I’m up to 27 bunnies, only two of which you see here. Perhaps I will dust off the ole Kat Johnston flickr account and get to posting the entire sketchbook up there when it is completed. So far I don’t have a page in there that doesn’t have at least a few redeeming qualities.

    The only rules I have set myself are these: at least one bunny per page, and the colour of the pens used cycles in this order: pink, purple, blue, green, orange. Because I bought more of the coloured bic biros, and despite the fact that they are leaky little bastards, they’re also very fun to play with – if only for the fact that I might turn around later and go ‘are there any trends in what I do based on the colour I draw with? Does it influence me more than a little?’ I guess we’ll just have to see – only finishing off the sketchbook might reveal that one, and that might be a little ways away. I feel as if I’ve barely left a divot yet!

  • Sketch: Something is missing… poor bunny.

    Kat Johnston – It’s a bunny. A bunny with a patch where her heart used to be… I wonder what happened?

    Yet another sketch-book started… this time one that I picked up from Ikea. It currently contains – you guessed it – bunnies!

    Its going to be a short post today… I have Chasing Amy to go watch. Its just past the ‘What’s a nubian?’ part, which just happens to be my favourite part of the entire damn movie. I’ve watched Clerks and Mallrats in the past couple of days – time to watch the rest through.

    Ok… off I go!

  • Sketch: Ahh, Orientation. What could be more fun?

    Kat Johnston Sketch – look what I drew in the orientation lecture for a biomedical degree? Fun!

    So I had to take my sister into the city yesterday – she is such a smart little cookie she got herself accepted to a Bachelor of Biomedical Science and this is her first time at university! As it so happened, I stuck around to check out the introductory lecture covering a little of the course stuff… mainly to show her where the building is, but hey, I got a free baggie out of it too, and a chuppa chup.

    Because I, for one, don’t actually intend to take a degree in biomedical science (lacking the basic skills in anything remotely biomedical), I spent the lecture doing a few sketches of people around the room in a brand new little sketch-book I grabbed the other day at Ikea. Again, I have to say that these packet of 30c pens have just been far too fun for words… they’ve made me bounce over to a style I usually neglect, generally opting instead for a finer, shaded, measured approach. Having but one tone to offer, these pens are fairly unforgiving in the matter of sketch-marks… its go and be damned if you get it wrong, because there’s naught way to fix it once the stroke is made. Its fun!

    And that, my friends, is my final word for the night. Its time for me to head to my slumber, to dream of pixels and prims and other things that make me go ‘ohhhh, pretty things!’

  • Aww… its a bunneh… again.

    Kat Johnston – Its a bunneh with a flower and it is cute cute cute!

    If I were standing in front of you right this second, I would sigh and say ‘I’m sorry’… followed soon after by a ‘not really, actually, but I feel I should say it anyway.’

    You see, these guys are really really fun and full of bunny-like goodness, so I can’t help but put them up. They make me smile. They may not be incredibly deep and meaningful, but I like them anyhow. Perhaps all together they tell a story – I haven’t gotten far enough through this little book to see yet. I guess we’ll just have to see, huh?

    So, no apologies and no false regret for me. I’m putting up another bunny, and I am more than happy to do so, at least for now. Next picture though, I really do need to try something without any green at all!

  • I’m starting to notice a trend

    Kat Johnston Art – bright eyed and bushy tailed is this little bunneh.

    And not just with my late posting of late. I think that this green sketchbook is going to contain bunnies… mostly. Perhaps other characters drawn in the same style, but probably mostly bunnies. I think I need to start throwing up other sketches again, from other places… because lord knows, you’re probably sick of these little sketchbook posts by now. After all, there’s not a huge amount of variety, I guess, when each post has a bunny on it, even if bunnies are quite adorable!

    Anyhow, this is today’s bunny. He’s bright eyed, bushy tailed, and just too cute for words. Actually, there are probably a lot of words to cover it, but he is rather cute nonetheless, no?

    I’m really enjoying drawing this way at the moment… its as if they are made of delicious fluffly marshmallow with all the distilled cuteness sprinkled on top to taste. And that makes for one tasty little marshmallow indeed.

    Alrighty, that is all for tonight – I think I’ll try to make tomorrow’s picture a little less of what I have been giving you over and over for the past few weeks and onto something a little new. Or perhaps I can show you a little sneak peek at the painting I am working on… who knows? I’ll have a think on it and see what I can come up with in the morn.