Editorial Art – Page 44 – Gina Lento: Fine Art and Illustration

Found Objects

I found that making up stories about objects is fun….Here is a close up of one page and the full spread.

Making up stories about the objects

I took the objects and made separate sketchbook pages with them. On some of the pages I made up stories about the objects….

Week 2 mini assignment – Objects

We were assigned to sketch these objects…this is round 1 of my object sketches, ink on paper.

Illustrations in color

Here are the versions with color added. These are just assignments for the Make Art That Sells class, these are not for sale more will they be sold:

Monochrome Sketches of People

Here are more sketches for the MATS class. These were done on the iPad with a Sepia color.

No, they are not. Sorry. Please don’t bring your dog/child over here. The other evening, we took Chloe and Mack down to sit by the Indian River. There was a gorgeous cooling breeze and we were relaxing with the dog children. Of course, here comes the dithering older lady with her dog and her maskContinue reading “Are your dogs friendly?”

Drawing people

I have a daily practice of drawing people. If no one is handy, I use the SKTCHY app for reference. I do two types of sketches. A five minute timed sketch and a Cheater Blind Contour sketch. I use brush fountain pens for the the timed 5 minute sketch. This helps with my brush skills.Continue reading “Drawing people”

Sketching with my iPad

I was the biggest skeptic of digital “art.” It seemed too easy to draw over photos. Every time I saw a digital portrait on Instagram, I passed because I thought it was too perfect. Then I joined the SKTCHY app on the iPhone and I saw more digital portraits. Some looked way to perfect, butContinue reading “Sketching with my iPad”

Sketchbook fun

It was a wet stormy day the other on Independence Day. Usually we get hit by a passing storm in the evening. Sometimes we just get “heat lightning.” Other days we get the whole kickass “boom- booms- light- show” and then no rain at all. On Independence Day, we got the whole show and weContinue reading “Sketchbook fun”

Twinkle Twinkle Little Bee…..

What? What happened to star? A prompt from Carla Sonheim’s “Best of 365” was to come up with new lyrics to “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” but you have to include the words “Giggle, Dizzy, minty, bee, sour.” Here’s what I came up with: