Tag: Coloured

  • Physics: Its More of a Guideline than a Law…

    Kat Johnston - No matter how big the sub, I can consume it.

    Just a quick sketch today, drawn because I felt like relating a little story about last night. Yes, very rough sketch, with even rougher colouring, but it is the way I feel like drawing today *laughs*.

    Last night, my partner and I went and got Subway for dinner. His sub is usually consistant of a meat of some variety, onions, jalapenos, olives and perhaps capsicum (bell peppers, for the unintiated) or pickles. I tend to get a meat of some variety, then everything but the carrot (can’t be greedy now, can we?).

    We were watching as the guy was making our sandwiches – James’s as usual, was rather slim… mine needed a crane to get the top part of the breadroll shut. What can I say? I like to get my money’s worth, and I adore lots of salad on my sub.

    When we got home, James tucked into his as I struggled to work out how to get the darn thing into my mouth. He went for his usual banter along the lines of ‘That is huge… I’m surprised the guy could even get the thing closed. It goes against all the rules of physics. I’m surprised the world didn’t implode when he was finally able to lever everything inside there enough to get that top bit of bread down.’

    My response? ‘Well… Physics isn’t all that much of a rule really, is it? More of a guideline than a law, when you think about it…’ *grin*

    Thought that was the end of it, but I got home today to find that he had changed his msn messenger by-line to say “Physics: Its more like a guideline than a law!”

    FYI: I am aware that physics is really not all that guideline-ish. I just like pressing James’s buttons because he is an old science geek.

  • Requested: Its not a mess… Its art.

    Kat Johnston. Don't you just wish you could do this to a room? So much fun!

    Tara gave me the word ‘clean’… here is my response. Its not a mess. Its art. Or is it? Well, I guess that is up for interpretation! *laughs* Let me just say that if I did this one in my studio, I think I’d get rather a rap on the knuckles for it… but wouldn’t it be nice? Just to be able to go completely nuts once in a while and toss paint around wherever you wish? Ahhh, thus are the limitations of renting…

    So I’m going to leave open this idea of people leaving requests alongside comments… I’ve even created a new little page outlining this oh-so-difficult process. So come on, give me a word, or a set of words… a passage from a book, a quote, a link to a photo or a cartoon… anything. I’ll throw together a picture in response, and put it up for your viewing pleasure, along with whatever other piece of sketching goodness I do throughout the day in another post. Any comments, leave a request along with it… and perhaps I’ll do it! Isn’t the internet great?

  • Felicity.

    I may actually take this one further than I currently have, as there are some things I wouldn’t mind adjusting a little further… and there is certainly scope to experiment with more colouration, in those delicious muted tones that I do so love and adore… but for now, I thought I’d throw it up in its current state and work more on it later. She was a great break from writing my project proposal today, I’ll tell you that. Originally done in blue ball-point pen (what a surprise there… seems I can’t get away from it…) on paper, then minimally digitally recoloured.

    This is Felicity and I am not sure whether I should be telling you what I think of her, or if I should just leave that one up to you… I think she might be better off, perhaps, with that air of mystery rather than having me reveal all of her secrets.

    Thank you to Katy for this one, for giving me the inspiration to draw her.

  • Bunny in the Moon.

    \'Bunny in the Moon\' by Kat Johnston

    My little dead bunny in the moon. A rough pencil sketch, then traced in black ink pen, coloured then in photoshop because I had nothing incredibly much better to do. Yay for my dead bunny!

    I will state that after the fact, I thought that it would be a good idea to give the bunny a rice-cake to hold… but I decided not to alter the picture. Different people see different things in the moon – in Japan, rather than seeing ‘the man in the moon’, the traditional image is that of a rabbit making rice-cakes.

  • An Iron Rose.

    \'Iron Rose\' by Kat Johnston

    Ok, so another friend of mine has been on my back for weeks about creating for him a purple rose. Here is the result. Its still just a pencil sketch at this point, but I will rework and refine it further when I have a little more time to turn it into something just perfect for him… I hope. Yay for coloured pencils and a black pen on paper! If the reworked and refined version works out well, I will probably throw that up at a later point. Ok, that’s all for now!