A pistol with one shot

The beginnings of a full sleeve I am designing... any guesses what the theme is?

And if you need it, here's another hint:

That's right, I'm designing a Pirates of the Caribbean themed sleeve. I have it all worked out in my head. It's gonna look cool. These two drawings are just some practice ones. I decided that I would stick to "Curse of the Black Pearl" for the images, rather than combining all the movies. It's going to feature the Black Pearl, Jack Sparrow, the pirate's coins, the pistol with one shot, and possibly a few other trinkets from the movie.  Still trying to decide whether to do it in colour or black and grey. I am leaning more toward black and grey tho.

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Bengal Tiger

I pulled out my colouring pencils tonight and decided to try my hand at another tiger, using this photograph as a reference. That is all.

Tavi Script

Can you believe that my son, Tavi, is 3 months old already!? Where did the time go? I've had this onesie sitting around for 3 months waiting to draw on it, but I haven't really had a chance. But I'm on holidays this week, so I had a day to myself to play my guitar, draw a logo for a friend and draw a picture for Tavi.


His name is based on a font called "Blackletter Shadow". I like this particular script because it is a bit more modern than the Old English type script fonts.

The picture on the back of the onesie is based on a traditional Harley Davidson logo I saw once, with a few personalised touches.

Once I've washed the onesie, I'll post another photo of him wearing it :) Hopefully it will fit him for a few more weeks before he grows out of it. If he does, I'll just simply have to draw him another one.

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Naketa Script

It's been a while since I've done any drawing. Starting a new school year kinda takes up a lot of time and head space. But it was my niece's birthday, so I took the opportunity to draw her name in script for her birthday card. And here was the result.

 

My amazing wife also sewed me a pencil roll for valentines day. Jane is getting really good at sewing. It's kinda like a pencil case, except there's an individual pocket for each pencil. When you want to draw you simply unroll it and all your pencils are laid out nice. And then you roll it up when you're done. It's awesome! Up until now, my pencils have been living in an old Whitmans chocolates box but they are feeling much more cozy now. Thanks my love ;-)

And just to show off how amazing my wife really is, here's a photo of the doll Jane made for Naketa for her birthday. Talk about talent!

Hopefully I'll start doing some more drawing again soon. In a few more weeks, I'll have the best, cutest, most adorable little model sleeping in the crib next to our bed, ready to draw. I'll be taking a few weeks off work when he arrives, so I'll hopefully get some time to do some drawings of him then :)

New Year... New directions

Happy New Year to everyone out there! Hope you had an awesome night last night, and were not regretting it this morning. Jane and I went into Mooloolaba for new years eve. We sat down on the beach watching the fireworks, and also saw Josh Pyke play. We had a really great (and really late) night.

Anyhow, here's the last of the portraits that I've drawn so far. This one was commissioned by my friend's daughter as a Christmas present for her Dad. It was probably my favourite one to draw so far because, being such a close up photo, I could put so much detail into it. If you want a portrait drawn, please email me at summertimeink@gmail.com for a price list.

Mum and Dad Portrait

So here we are. Christmas is over. The ham and turkey have been finished off and the mountain of snack food is slowly getting smaller, eclair by eclair, pretzel by pretzel. This drawing is the one I did for Mum and Dad as part of their Christmas present. They recently got back from a trip to Europe and this drawing was put together from a few photos taken somewhere in France:

Drawing a full length picture is so different to drawing close up portraits of faces. I had to get all the details and folds of the clothing for starters, and then trying to fit all the detail of a face into the size of a 20c coin is much more difficult than having a whole page to do it in. But here was the final result. Drawn in 2B pencil on paper.

 

Faces for Funding

Hey all.

I can't believe it's been over a month since my last post. Work has kept me pretty busy and the only drawing I've been doing is some portraits for the Faces for Funding funding project. Most of these are Christmas presents for people - so I can't publish them online before Christmas. I will, however, put them up on the blog after Christmas. Here's one that I can post now, of my parents-in-law, Liam and Helena.

 

I'm on holidays now whoop whoop! So I can get back into a bit of drawing. I have a few more faces to draw and then I'll start experimenting with a few different styles of drawing. I think I'll go back to Japanese style art for a while.

If you would like to buy a portrait to support Faces for Funding, it's not too late... but it IS too late to get it before Christmas. Any money raised will go to support Peter and Wendy (and family) to go to Cambodia to work in community development.

I nearly forgot the movember update! A big thank you to everyone who donated to Movember last month. $130 was raised in total to help find a cure for prostate cancer and to provide support for men who suffer from depression. It was fun growing the mo but alas it was time for it to go. Here was the final product.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading :)