Kat Johnston

Tag: scribble

  • Sketch: Just a quick sketch for today… I’m working on something cute.

    Kat Johnston - a quick scribble portrait in red today. I'm doing up something cool for the site, so this is all today!

    I’ve been working on something incredibly cute for the past day, so I’m going to put up this for now, and save the extra cuteness for later!

    Here… let me give you a hint. It involves a legendary mythical creature, cuteness, scissors and something I’ve already shown at least once on the site.

    Buuuut for today… just a little red scribble-portrait. As I’ve mentioned before, I enjoy playing with different pens and things – a scribble portrait in a traditional ball-point pen is always going to have a different feel from something done in a bright red ink pen. I find it incredible just how much the medium can affect the outcome.

    That’s all for today – there’s cute stuff on the horizon!

  • Artist Feature and Sketch: A tragic clown.

    Kat Johnston Sketch: A proud and tragic clown, looking down with an imperial air.

    The last couple of images I’ve uploaded have been rather… um… sketchy! So time for something a touch more precise.

    I tend to go through different moods – fairly unscribbled here, lots of scribbles there… since I don’t tend to ‘pre-sketch’ for these sketches (ie, do something erasable underneath first before going over the top in pen) scribbles sort of lend themselves to the medium. Even in slightly more ‘precise’ work I tend to work over an area with short, sharp strokes rather than long and flowing ones.

    I know this isn’t a way I always used to sketch. I’m fairly sure that I used to favour more long, sweeping strokes – one stroke to create a line from start to finish. Perhaps it is the tendency of biros to cut out part way through whatever you’re doing (something which is tragically a major annoyance with cheaper brands or pens you have used faithfully for the extent of their life) or the gradual build-up of a line achieved when using a short-stroke style that has caused me to prefer one style of sketching over the other.

    Whatever the reason… It works for me!

    Now for something I’m going to try and do more often: linking to other brilliant artists whose work I admire and adore.

    Artist Feature: Radio Signals.

    I had the pleasure of first ‘meeting’ Miss Radio Signals when the sim my mainstore was located on in Second Life was no longer suitable. One of my customers told her about me, we met up, had a chat, worked out a few things and BAM! Just like that I had found a new home. I’ve never looked back!

    Her store, called Scribble, presents a blend of beautiful products, but beyond her work in Second Life, she is also a talented pop-surreal artist with a great knack for the digital medium. With delicate tones and a style which is all at once both precise and seemingly organic, it is simply stunning. Yeah… I’m a total fan-girl!

    Here’s a couple of my favourites, which can be found for purchase at her Etsy store:Actaeon and Eulogy, though of course more can be found at her website, including wonderful progress shots and a look into the process behind the artworks.

  • Sketch: Oh holy maiden, to grace my page so sweetly…

    Kat Johnston Sketch – Oh holy maiden, to grace my page so sweetly…

    Ahhh, another random scribble-girl. Scribble girls are fun, don’t you think?

    Ok… I’ll be honest… she wasn’t entirely random. If she were entirely random, I’m not sure what would have come out!

    I actually intended her to be a bit more simplistic than she is as you can see her now – but she simply demanded that my pen keep scribbling away until she was quite satisfied indeed. I’ve even kept a larger copy of her aside in case she wants me to do more with her now that she’s been sucked inside of my computer… I have a feeling that she may well want me to continue her for a little longer.

    She did remind me of something though, as I scribbled her down against my page… she reminded me that I should really me drawing her in an actual sketchbook. It isn’t that I don’t want to draw in my sketchbooks – I’ve simply been so decidedly lazy that I forget to fetch it out and dust it off to be drawn in again.

    Anyhow… a rather short post for today. There is absolutely nothing that springs to mind that would be amusing, interesting, or even mildly stimulating to keep you reading any longer!

  • Sketch: Little mister dragon.

    Kat Johnston Drawing: A little dragon sketch – isn’t he cute? Ok… so he might be just a scribble-dragon… but I think he is cute!

    I was doing a little scribbling last night in a sketch book (oh my god! I’m sketching in an actual sketch book!), and this little fella popped out. I was sketching dragons… you know… just coz? Ok, I might have had an ulterior motive. I need to make a birthday card later today because I am too lazy to go out and buy one for someone. I mean, it is really kinda rude to show up to a birthday party without even a card, or so I am told! It won’t be overly fancy, but it should do the job.

    So, later on, I think I’ll get to sketching the actual card. I’m not quite sure what I’m going to do for it – it has to have at least a dragon. Possibly a dragon rolling a D20, swilling a good glass of red while being attacked by a ninja reading a fantasy novel. Well, perhaps not… but it would be a good way to combine a heap of things she loves into one awesome image!

    My apologies… my writing may not be fantastic today. I am writing this blog post while listening to the commentary for ‘Dr Horrible’s Sing-along Blog‘, which admittedly is really as good as the movie itself. So I’m a little distracted. But don’t worry – I’m sure that my posting will be up to its usual fantastic (ha!) standard again soon. When I am not listening to musicals and grooving along instead of paying attention as I should.