Kat Johnston

Tag: sketchbook

  • 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.

  • My first real sketchbook… done.

    Kat Johnston Sketch: This is one of the pictures from my first fully-completed sketchbook… I’m thrilled.

    This morning I did the final few sketches in what is my first real completed cover to cover (though I do only draw on one side of the paper) sketchbook. Yes – good, bad, inbetween, from rough to refined, it goes from cover to cover with sketches by me and I haven’t torn out one single page. How’s that for progress?

    Its funny, you know… I can’t wait to get into the next one. I have another little sketchbook the same size and make as the first, but with green pages… and I have a green pen… it hasn’t had one thing drawn in it yet and I am itching to go. While I have started in other small sketchbooks like the first, I haven’t yet completed them. One has a focus – I have to come back to it. Another I started to draw in, but it hasn’t taken off yet. This little green one though, it hasn’t been touched, and is therefore just full of ready-to-go potential.

    I’m really happy with the little sketchbook… I have to say, some of the pages are just pure ‘bleh’ but going through it as a whole, it has something special. Perhaps it is just because it reflects the meandering trail of my thoughts – I actually find my flittering thought patterns to be interesting to map throughout it. Cherries here, berries there… a rabbit over here, then another further along… one thing fascinates me, then as quick as its come I am onto something else… though believe me when I say that when one thing is dropped away, another is taken up just as quickly and the first never strays all that far.

    When I get a chance, I am going to go through and scan it for you all, and post it up on Flickr. I really have to through and put up all the images that I have put on this blog there as well, scan in some other things, put up photos of dandelions I promised ages back… I will get around to it, I promise.

    In the meantime, enjoy this one extra page from the little sketchbook… I’m sure there will be many yet to follow.

  • Carrots, plz, kthxbai.

    Carrots, plz, kthxbai. Translation: Excuse me good Sir/Madam, would you be so kind enough to pass the carrots?

    Today I have been playing away in second-life, creating a trillion and one little bits and pieces – mostly virtual jewelry, but also just fun little things, for the heck of it. Umm… that means bunnies. Bunnies holding signs. I like bunnies. They’re cute!

    And deeeevious. They’re taking over the world one Easter-egg at a time. Just wait until that fateful day comes – and remember that I warned you first.

    Anyhow, I almost feel as if I should be writing something especially poignant these days, on this blog. I’ve started the big job-hunt now, so if people search for me online, this is what they’re going to find. I know that, and I do stand by each word I type, from the most nonsensical, to the odd attempts at humor, the silly to the serious. That said, I do wonder how it could be perceived by someone who wants to see me on a purely professional level.

    Well… I guess we’ll see. Cross your fingers for me, will you?

  • Half way there, don’t look back.

    Half way there… half way through an actual sketchbook… I feel special.

    This is the middle pages of the little sketch-book that I have been posting the most pictures of recently. I’ve made it my goal to get it all full of pretty little pictures, and be happy with it just as it is, as a rather random, odd little assortment of somethings flung together by whatever cogs and wheels happen to turn in my silly little head.

    So! This is the half way point… that funny little section where you can go ‘ok… it’s all downhill from here’ or alteratively ‘oh god, the first half doesn’t look that bad.. I’m nearing the end.. what do I do now if I somehow create something horrid in those last few pages?’

    I’m actually feeling good about it. You see, I haven’t thrown up all the images drawn in the first half of this little sketchbook onto the blog – there are one or two in there I probably wouldn’t even show James unless he pointedly asked to see. But for some reason, I’m ok with it – its just one page, here and there… it’s nothing to be worried about because ‘tadaa!’ you can just turn the page and the one after just has to be that much better to make up for the one before.

    Perhaps on a more positive note, I’m actually starting to see this little sketchbook as a place -just- to draw… for me. Screw everyone else – and don’t take that at offence, I just mean to say that it is for me, not anyone else. Don’t get me wrong, I’d like to be able to show something brilliant and worthy of admiration, but, well, it just isn’t that important for this particular sketchbook. Another, that would not be the case – this, however, is different. Perhaps it is a good thing then that I’ve picked up these little cheapies for sketching in – far less pressure.

    Alrighty, that is me over and done with for the night. Over and out!