The favorite beverage of the season isn’t just plain jane old coffee and tea. No. It has to be dressed up with frills, flavors and a lot of calories. Every time I go to Starbucks, or I go to the app to do an order for coffee, I think of Tom Hanks in “You’ve GotContinue reading “Pumpkin Latte”
Category Archives: Editorial Art
Inktober, Drawtober, Artober, TheyDrawtober, Drawlloween…whatever
It’s October…again…and that must mean it’s time to do art! Ink, pencil, paint, digital. You name it, you’ll see it this month. I am not sure who really started the whole October challenge. Inktober was started as a way for one artist, Jake Parker, to challenge himself and his friends. Drawlloween was a way MabContinue reading “Inktober, Drawtober, Artober, TheyDrawtober, Drawlloween…whatever”
P is for Pretzel
I belong to an illustrator’s group and we recently had an A-Z challenge. I played with all sorts of lettering… I thought of all sorts of ideas, notes jotted, ideas written out…. but couldn’t get anything on paper until we did a Zoom last week and a pretzel was one of the objects for usContinue reading “P is for Pretzel”
Lemons and….
I belong to an illustrator’s group and a couple of times a month we get together to draw or learn a cool trick or tip. The guest this week was Jennifer Orkin Lewis and we were working in our sketchbooks, drawing a collection of objects that she had assembled. I drew mine directly from gouacheContinue reading “Lemons and….”
Flower lady
Not everything I “find” on a page is an animal. The other day I found a rose, and on this page, I found a lady with flowers, her expression showing us that maybe stopping to smell the flowers and taking that moment for a quick meditation, just may be what the “doctor” ordered.
Albert
Albert was used to being on his own, living free as a bird with no worries in the world. Then he met Esmerelda.
A rose unlike any other
I still have a bunch of prepped blobs waiting to be turned into something. This blob screamed flower. I kept trying to find a creature but this flower kept saying “me me, draw me!” So I did.
Georgie is about to have a bad day
I have a few “prepped” homemade sketchbooks with patterned backgrounds that I use for characters. Sort of like a staged background. Today I used the background to randomly “find” a character. This guy almost jumped off the page. But then he looks very terrier-ish so that would be normal for a terrier. Georgie is aContinue reading “Georgie is about to have a bad day”
Happy Labor Day
We are less than a month away from Inktober and that means the return of the Little Witch and her Dragon. They are taking a vacation at the shore and are enjoying their Labor Day on the beach. Dragons love the sun on their hides. The laughing gulls are wondering if there are any handoutsContinue reading “Happy Labor Day”
Morning routine
These sketches are part of my morning routine. I do these every morning for my daily warm up, which is similar to the drills that soccer players do everyday for ball control with their feet. My drills are for eye/hand aka “seeing” and the boxes are thinking creatively and drawing spontaeously. I use the SktchyContinue reading “Morning routine”
Gina Lento: Fine Art and Illustration 