Birthday Envelope 2023 design

 Its another one of those "might as well post this even though its not what ever this season is from" post. Since the way it looks it really doesn't matter. It really could look like any season themed stuff. Well, its actually for a fall birthday but then it could be as I said before any season except winter I guess. Its yet more envelope art. Yay! This time we have a teddy bear on a swing theme. Turned out really cute. As usual I drew it quickly with blue pencil, covered it with white acrylic and added some colour with coloured pencil and marker. Very nice! 

 Also I think my slightly secret really big experimental project its at its half way point. I think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. The editing stage will go quite fast depending how many personal tasks are going to get in the way since the yard work is nearing its new season of "must do". That and other things I have to complete as well. Again I hope its not all for nothing since I did put in a lot of time and effort in completing this personal project. Finger's crossed and lots of prayers.

Christmas Envelope 2022

 I thought I post this anyways even though it's Christmas themed....technically.  Its more envelope art I made based on the theme of a card. This one is a few years old but I only recently had a chance to fix it up for display. The theme was penguin friends giving Christmas gifts to each other. One of them had this fish wrapped up in some festive paper. So I quickly made this cute embellishment onto the envelope using pencil and then painting it with some white acrylic. I was trying to keep things simple so it would look like a gift tag. But I think I went a little over board. 

 

I guess it would also pass as some other holiday decorations too, such as Valentine's day. Its mostly red after all and catching a fish can also symbolize catching one's love or giving a gift of love. Sharing or whatever you find highly of value. I guess it would be in the eye of the beholder as to what it means to someone. Over all its nice to look at. Getting a surprise is nice too. 

Oh yeah speaking of surprises, I changed the Twitter/X feed thingy since it wasn't working like it used to. Greedy Elon wants money for that function apparently. So whatever. You can still see the feed but you have to get past the pooping bird button I made and placed in the usual feed spot.  Just watch out for the poop. LOL 😛Just kidding, the button will take you to my feed. Not giving that super rich guy what little money I have. 😏

Spring gnome Easter card 2021

 Featuring another homemade greeting card from a few years ago cause I'm doing the best I can to catching up on my "show n tell" stuff here on my blog. 

This one features a cute spring gnome, not a leprechaun, holding up a lilly of the valley flower stock for you. I know what you're thinking, but its a gnome, all right? 

I made a drawing of my character and then traced it on to a separate piece of specialized paper. I think it was either water colour paper or a piece of card.  I used coloured pencil and markers to add colour. For the background I made that on water colour paper and painted that with water colours and maybe a bit of acrylic as well. They turned out pretty pleasing and gave me that happy feeling like it was meant to. Then cut out my gnome with an exacto knife, carefully gluing and then placed it on to its background. It's been a few years so if I remember correctly I had already cut it into a card before painting? Or did I place that on some other folded card? Oh well none the less I did put it all together and wrote a few nice words of Easter greetings for a good friend. I also decorated a nice envelope to go with my card but I didn't have to make the envelope this time. I guess I had one on hand that didn't get ruined for one reason or another. 

Oh and oh yeah, I came up with the gnome theme since the last few years gnomes seemed to be popular. Thought it might make a fun card for someone. I still see a few gnome themes, just not sure how popular they still are.

Anyways I hope you enjoy it and gives you a bit of joy. 😊 Most things in the world today, do not. 😔

As always will be also be placed in my personal web site in the future for viewing. 

 

 Some original drawings. 🔻

 

 

 

 Inside of card. 🔻

 

 

 Back of envelope. 🔻

Front of envelope. 🔻

 

 Front of greeting card. Saved the best for last. 😉🔻

 

 

An update and a small show N tell

 Now displayed at my personal web site "Homemade Fall birthday card 2021 with leaf characters".

The link can be found in the side menu to your right. Also a lovely whimsical envelope art from 2020 that I just got around to sharing. Didn't need to make a card this time around. Just as well, that's when I started to work on this project that's taking a lot of my time for now. Hopefully not all for nothing.  So this cute little envelope illustration I made to match the theme of the card was just all it needed. 

 Created with coloured pencil, some marker and on an envelope.

Hope you like it. 

 

 

Dreaming Poodle night shirt "The making of" Part2

 Some more lovely pics of my night shirt. They're pretty much done in these pics only some details to be added. Will be show later in the final part of the project. You can see this time there was a lot more airbrushing that was applied. Makes it come alive doesn't it? BTW I'm taking advantage of the colour that's already there for my starting point of the shirt illustration.

 

 

 

 

See previous post for how I started off with this project.  As always hope you like it. 😊

semi-homemade Christmas bells and angel greeting card 2019

 Another homemade greeting card from last season no doubt. Well semi-homemade. I found this old unused card (probably purchased years ago in the 80's) one time while organizing some stuff. It was still in great shape but a little boring in my opinion. So I decided to jazz it up with a cute angel character since this was a Christmas themed greeting card. Since there was a strong theme of bells also, I drew the little sassy angel character carrying a much too large bell on a piece of tracing paper first. I did this so I can make sure the character would fit on the card and not take up too much space. Then as usual I redrew and traced the character on a piece of card stock and as usual coloured it up. I cut it out and, finally pasted it on and there we go. But I found out that there was no envelope with the card. So I had to make one with what ever I could find. I was lucky enough to score some wrapping paper with the theme of Christmas bells on a shelf in the basement, long forgotten too. Perfect! Made the envelope and placed some white paper on the one side so I could write the important stuff such as mailing address and other. Done! 

I will not show it in the usual spot in my personal site but will feature a link to this post there since this card is only semi-homemade. 

 🔺This is the original sketch of the sassy angel character I made on tracing paper with blue pencil. 

A great pencil to use for sketching drawings of all kinds. Makes it easier to erase and not leave too many strong marks. 😊

 🔺While working on this card I remembered the movie "Its a wonderful life" and the part of the little girl's dialogue in the movie. " Teacher says....Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings."  Anyways I used mostly markers, some coloured pencils and a touch of a special metallic marker. The gold one obviously. I used some kind of tissue paper for the speech bubble so I could get that "see though" look. 😊

 

 🔺The front of the envelope. Address and embellishments done in gold metallic markers with a touch of red. Personal parts of the address removed. 😊

 

 Also a small update to some of my links in the side menu. Now usable. LOL 😛

 

New Moon Bear set

Now out New Moon Bear set. I actually finished this one months ago but just decided to share it now. I decided to delay sharing this version because of personal use at a new "merch store" I'm trying out and experimenting and I wanted first crack at it. Its mine after all. 😉
The original version was a sketch I made years ago probably while bored or on a break onsite. I then illustrated it in traditional form and made a small Photoshop file for use on my personal site years ago. And now its also available in clip art vector form and in my new "murch store". Links will be provided below the illustrated sample/link. 

😷Masks ⏰Child's clock ⌚Child's watch 👕Child's sleep shirt 💠Poster 🎁Blanket and there's more......

Please note that the website priced these for my products and not me.

Proceeds go to the ending of mooching off my parents and gaining my own house and out of my parents. 😉 In other words helps to pay off expenses. Thank you! 😊

Monarch butterfly 2 extra

Now out monarch butterfly 2 extra. JPG only non scalable version. But just as beautiful. As always to be featured in my personal web site soon. 
Also another online portfolio bites the dust for me too cause they decided to now charge a usage fee. No biggy. There are still plenty of quality online port providers out there. Its a big pond after all. It was just a backup port anyhow. But none the less I saved all of my info in other words a back up from that place and now I can move to a new spot. 😏😉

Monarch Butterfly 1 Extra

First of all I just want to say is Please Stay safe. This virus is no joke. Stay indoors and don't go out. Even better do some praying for your fellow man. The least you can do since there are no Easter celebrations this year in a physical building. But we can still celebrate and do some honor in our own vessel for our fellow man. 

Anyhow here is the Extra version of MB1 JPG only form, designed as an option cause you can make it like this in order for it to be a true vector. 

Monarch Butterfly Set 2

Now out Monarch Butterfly Set 2. This version features the previous butterfly only now the butterfly is feeding on a cluster of butterfly bush/weed flowers. Very lovely orange coloured blossoms. If you can see them in real life, its really something special. Especially when you see other insects other then just butterflies feeding on them. 

 See previous.

Turkey card

Now posted in my personal web site the blue sweater with shinny stars. 

Butttt oh what's this a lovely card I made last year with a Thanks Giving theme. 
I felt bad last year for missing my friends birthday so I made her this lovely card featuring this makeshift turkey in the tradition of children's craft art. OK they usually make it out of a hand prints but this is like the whimsical version for grown ups. 
I used a fancy fall leaf from a Chinese/Japanese maple as the tail. The leaf was preserved last year. Then I took scraps of construction paper shaped it in to the other parts of the turkey. Before I glued them on, I coloured patterns of feathers, face and other things that you would see on a turkey with coloured pencil and markers. I glued them all on a scrap of water coloured paper cut and folded in to a nice card, but not folded in the usual way. Picture a wet floor sign. I kind of was going for something different anyways. Pretty pleased with the whole results. Needless to say she was quite pleased too. And oh yeah I did remember to give her a nice card (another home made)this year for her birthday. I made sure I didn't forget. Wrote it on all kind of calendars and it does help to make things a head of time too. 
Anyways Happy Thanks Giving 🌰🍗Canadian version. But its also good for the American version too. 😁

Carved Style Easter Egg Resurrection version 1 Set

New and a little late for Easter but just in time for next season's Easter. 
A new carved style Easter egg set The Resurrection version. It features the cave tomb where the resurrection of Jesus took place with door and angel all in a stylized art work egg carving design. Bonus it also comes in chocolate. Too bad, you can only eat it with you eyes. 😉😁
Comes in regular mono tone, polished with gradients and chocolate version. Another set featured soon. As always it will also be featured in my personal web site too. 

 Polished with gradients version isolated and close up 🔺

Just the angel reg egg version isolated close up 🔺

Neon Lights Barber Shop 7

Here it is the final installment of the Neon Lights Barber shop sets. 
Currently working on an Easter themed vector. It was a set type I worked on before but with a different theme then the chicken version. It probably won't be completed by Easter at least the phase 2 part but at least phase one I'm hoping to complete before Good Friday at least. Its pretty intricate and that's why it takes unusually long to complete. But patience will be rewarded. 

 

Christmas card 2018

OK lets get this over with. I know I really should wait until next Christmas or at least July. But if I don't post it now, I may never will. I have a bad habit of getting side tracked and well then things fall on the way side. Oh but don't worry I'll be showing something Easter-y next time I show off card related stuff. So please bare with me.
Here is another card I made for the same good friend. I decided to utilize some of those leaves I collected last fall, along with a few other bits not relating to fall.  I think the most impressive of all the card design was my lettering. It really turned out really nice. 
This will be one of those thing that will also be featured in my personal web site since this is a completed project.  This card design is inspired by an old vintage card I got years ago in my child hood from my relatives. I liked the card design so much that I decided to make a similar one for my friend.

BTW the lettering is hand made and done by hand. 😉

Neon Lights Barber Shop Set 4

Now out Neon lights Barber Shop set 4. Now with beards. 😁

Sign Man Set 10

Sign Man Set 10. Now out there. The gradient version and the last of these sets. 
Soon to be viewed on my personal site as well. 
Enjoy!

Sign Man Set 5

Sadly Fall is already here. 👎😔Only a few more months until SPRING! YAY! 😍
Anyways here is the Sign Man set 5, the non gradient version. A bit sidetracked because of other activities but now posted none the less. But then there was a renovation at one of the places I release at too soooo....   Here we go. 

Sign Man set 3

Here it is Sign Man Set 3 non gradient version. Now out.
Please note that I have taken a small break from ShutterStock till they fix their image theft issues. 
Hopefully that's soon. 😒

 

Sign Man Set 2

Now out Sign Man Set 2. The one with out the gradients of course.

Farm or Chicken magnet

I kind of mistakenly bought this little magnet thinking it was a pack of sampling canvases and lo and behold it was a little magnet. I wanted to buy a pack of sampling canvases so that I could make a few tests for a project I was working on at the time. So I took advantage of it and converted an old chicken fridge magnet in to a farm scene magnet. I hand painted the little farm in the background and then added the old chicken magnet on top. Turned out pretty nice. 😊

 Its kind of tiny so its not that detailed. But it is cute. 😊