Small update

 Catching up again. Now available for viewing my Porcupine birthday card 2020 in my personal web site/portfolio. Enjoy!

Birthday card with Porcupine and flowers 2020

 As usual I'm a bit late on posting the latest things. 

Unfortunately because of personal chaos of completing many, many tasks this year and the lose of my beloved cat Meetso, the thought of my friend's birthday got lost in the fray.  Hopefully I can do my best next year to remember. 😕I marked it on my calendar to make sure. Better make sure its on next's year's calendar too.

Here we have a lovely card I partially repurposed for a friend's fall birthday. The original birthday greeting card was a bit too ordinary so I decided to customize it was a cute porcupine drawing and painted it with some of the flowers already featured on the card. It made sense to have the flowers stuck all over his quills. They make a handy friendship flower holder don't they?

Drawing is one of a kind, sketched by me on tracing paper. I wasn't sure at first as to how I was going to place the drawing onto the card. So this is why its on tracing paper. 

Painted with water and acrylic on water colour paper after being placed and glued onto a greeting card. Pretty, but now enhanced to be even better. 

 

 

Will post it soon in my personal web site. 

Thanks for viewing!

Update on; Giant Fake Marker Storage Tube

 Now posted at my personal web site. Giant Fake Marker Storage Tube and template to make your own. 

Just follow the menu on the side. You may have to do some scrolling. Come on don't be lazy. And there's this link for the template. After clicking just scroll down to the bottom for the latest make. 

Enjoy and thanks for visiting! 

Previous post regarding the artwork. 

Giant Fake Marker Storage Tube

 Its another one of those "pop in post" postings. Posting when ever I can post. Only bare with me since I haven't been getting much sleep lately and then there's the fact I'm super busy. A nice combination to make you sleepy and lazy. Might make my writing a bit lazy too.

Anyhow this time I'm featuring a cool way of storing all those posters you have laying around taking up needless space all over the place.  Basically you take a boring old poster tube and make it look like a giant marker. A much nicer way of storing all those posters out of the way. You can now display it on a wall next to a giant pencil like I have or make a giant container such as a giant pencil case. Its up to you. Hears how you can make one. 

You need one empty poster tube. A good place to find one for free is possibly in a not so dirty dumpster. Usually containing cardboard of various things such as boxes. Or maybe get a used one from the mail. Or going the paid rout, you can get one from a post office, parcel service office or office supply place. Its up to you. Then you can then design a template with your favorite image editing program. If you don't have one there's are many free ones online available to download. And or you can use a template I designed as a starting point. It cuts down on some of the work. (template will be uploaded at a later date)You also need a large white sheet of some kind to cover the tube so you can have a nice clean slate to glue and stack your designs on the tube to make it look like a marker. A nice white sheet of paper is best. I happen to have a few things like old shiny scrap papers that I have been saving in my odds and ends closet. Also helps to have a marker for a reference for inspiration. I myself used a design marker. You can use any type as inspiration or just come up with something you like. Once you have every thing ready its time to simply bring it all together. 

I decided to make my fake marker red.  I put a personal spin on my design as well. My marker poster tube is currently sitting in my miniature basement studio next to the giant pencil. Its a nice souvenir from Croatia given to me by a dear friend. She's past away now.

The following pics are examples of my process and end result. Enjoy! 

Empty boring poster tube. 🔺

Close up of finished fake marker poster tube. 🔺

I already had some other paper such as this red paper that I added to indicate the colour of the marker. But you can add colour with paint or whatever method you like.

More pics of the finished fake marker poster tube. 🔺

What it looks like on a wall. How fun!  🔺 

Can't see the giant pencil I know but its there. Trust me. 

 

Great! I hope you enjoyed my latest project. I hope you try and make your own. I'm tired and I'm going to bed now. Good night! 😪Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Originally posted on late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning.  What ever.......

Update. Latest image featured.

 Dreaming poodle night shirt now featured in my personal web site. As always, link location is in the side panel. Just look for it you lazy bones. 

Finished Dreaming Poodle night shirt

 Again, hello world and blog. Like I posted in my other blog, its been awhile. I know. I always say that, but I have been busy with a personal project. Hoping that it will pan out. 🙏But the way the world is right now, makes me wish I could leave the planet for something better. A planet without AHoles! I ask my self every day lately, "do I even have a future? Is there a point?" "Is there anything for anyone? "I really hope that mister constipated P is not going to wreak the whole world with his selfishness.  Rich people at the top who feel have the right to "pull the strings" make me sick!" 😡You know who you are!!! You will pay by your own hand! Then you will ask"what was the point?!"

Anyways here is how that Dreaming Poodle Night shirt turned out. Very beautifully and just what I needed. Hopefully I will get to make more of these but it seems to get harder and harder to find the time to make personal things for my self. But still going to try. 

Again, I had purchased a nice extra large magenta tank top or well, a plus size. Because I like loose for sleeping. Normally I wear an extra large for day time use shirts. I made a cute drawing of a poodle sleeping and drew some novelty text to enhance my design. Hand printed it onto the tank top. Then hand painted as well as airbrushed the whole thing in fabric acrylic. Finished it by clear coating it.Wore it quite comfortably last summer. 😊

 

 

 

See previous posts regarding this project.  👚👚

Croatian Style Paintbrush Patterns Set

 New and now out there. A new set of paintbrush patterns based on a recent or previous vector set. It's mainly for use in Illustrator but may be possible to use in similar programs as well. I don't know for sure cause I really haven't used them in that way my self in those competing programs. 

Oh and also these won't be featured in my personal web site since I already have a similar vector illustration on display. See previous post, here. 

 

Homemade Easter card 2020

 Last year when the pandemic came out and right around that time it started to rage all over the world. I made this card with that theme in mind, only a bit friendlier in nature. Sure, this situation is not the greatest to be in but I guess its better to be positive instead of the latter. 

So anyways I made this card featuring a cute Easter bunny giving out much needed toilet paper and other pandemic fare that was a bit hard to find as a result of pandemic purchasing. 

Using some leftover poster board and watercolour paper I had in my "leftovers box", the card was all homemade. I just drew an image that inspired me at the time and coloured it in with marks and some coloured pencil. The background was made using some water colour before the rest of the image was completed of course. Finished it off with some fine tipped marker. The card it self was covered in some tissue paper before I placed the watercolour image on. I also had laying around. I chose red and white since I really didn't have much variety to choose from. I guess in the future I'll have to collect some more from the dollar store or where ever. None the less it really turned out nice and it covered the flaws in the poster board such as wrinkles.  Since I had no envelope to place the card in, I found an old poster I collected a few years before from a store that was selling alcohol. They often get rid of stuff like old poster advertisements, the tubes they come in and other interesting useful things at the end of seasons. So the poster had this nice abstract pattern with lots of cheery colours on it that reminded me of the season of spring and Easter. So I chose a spot to use for the envelope. I was pretty lucky the poster was the way it was and not specific to any image. It made it perfect for that use. So I folded it all up till it finally it became a nice useful envelope. I added a nice piece of copy paper on to the front so that I could put on directions to where it has to go. The envelope was too colourful and glossy to be written on anyhow. Then I just put everything together and sent it off to make someones day last Easter. My friend really got a kick out of it. 😊

 

 

The original drawing I made🔺

A sample of what the poster board looks like when its coloured with tissue papers. 🔺

 

What the envelope looks like from both sides🔺🔻

 

What the card looks like when its all finished🔻

 

 As always featured in my personal site soon. Thanks for viewing! 😊

Small personal site update

 Just a small update. Now featured for viewing at my personal site, The Traditional Croatian Dance dolls vector graphics. As always just go to the side menu panel of my blog to go to the link or your book mark. 

Again Thanks for viewing.🌝

Traditional Croatian Dance dolls

 Now out. A set of lovely traditional Croatian costumed folk dance dolls in the form of digital graphics. 

Comes in both male and female characters and can be linked together to create a dance scene if desired. Basic paint brush patterns featuring traditional patterns included. Just download from the appropriate MS sites. Costumes not particularly associated with any region of Croatia. Just your typical generic design by me. 

As always also to be featured in my personal web site soon. 

Enjoy and thanks for viewing! 

 

 

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. 😊

Airbrushed bed spread with dark blue Pansies design.

 Like the descriptions say here are the pics of my finished airbrushed bed spread featuring dark blue pansy blossoms. Finished months ago, only now shared. Sorry about the quality of the pic. I know its a bit dark so I fixed them up as much as I could. But you can see the pics were on the cusp of being over done. Just have to make due sometimes I guess. 

Also might as well post the previous post of the work in progress relating to this project. You can see my explanation as to what can happen sometimes when things don't always go the way you want them. 

 Pics are better in that post too. Just lighting I guess.

 Since then I also decided to airbrush the flowers on the old pillow cases too. But never bothered to take pics of those since they pretty much look all the same as a set. 

Looks even better in person. 😊

Dreaming Poodle Night Shirt origional drawings and some work in progress

 First off Happy New year. Hopefully it will be a better year to come but well you know. I'll keep out the negativity because there's enough of it to go around and we certainly don't need more of it and or around here anyways. 

Going to post some new stuff. Just a hint of it for now since there's a lot of it to show. I actually completed this months ago but I find my self always busy completing something. 

Its of a night shirt with a sleeping dreaming poodle on it. Its both airbrushed and hand painted. I decided to make one since it so hard to find one at a fair price these days. I decided to match it with a pair of I think they're shorts or capri style of PJ pants which also have a doggy theme to them. I'm too lazy to find out what they are for sure. The painted image character and text was made on to a extra, extra large tank top for plus size people for personal comfort. I prefer loose fitting especially for sleeping in. My actual size I prefer is large to extra large fitting for normal daytime use.

Also in the to do list update the links in my personal website regarding past works of holiday cards. Oh well. 

 

Some text I made for the shirt. 🔻

Dreaming poodle drawing 🔻

Some text painted on the back of the shirt. 🔻

Some more text in progress for the shirt. 🔻

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 😛

 

Just a little update

 The new birthday card now available for viewing in my personal web site. 

Also now available. Some newish stuff at Pond5. https://www.pond5.com/artist/ktgrafix#1/3072

 

homemade Fall Birthday card 2019

 A lovely birthday card I made last year for a friend. She loves these types of whimsical style cards and I had a enjoyable time creating it. Also makes a great portfolio and memory piece.

Featuring animal friends of the forest celebrating a fall birthday with all the trimmings. 

The card its self is made with coloured construction paper. On it I free handed a drawing with a coloured pencil and later added detail such as shading with you guessed it more coloured pencil and a bit of marker to make things pop. 

 

First I free-handed an image in a yellow pencil to make it stand out. 🔺

 Second phase. Starting to add shading. Finding my way around the card too. 🔺

 Third phase. Really starting to take shape. Got to keep on working. 🔺

 Forth phase. Just about done. 🔺

Using white coloured pencil here is relatively easy here.  

 All done and added the inside part of the card. 🔺

 

Then I placed the image illustration on a piece of some kind of white card stock I had on hand. I can't remember what it was because it was a while ago but I'm pretty sure I got it out of my box o bits and pieces. That's where my small pieces of leftovers go when I finish a project. Comes it handy and less environmental waste. 

 

Added a cute message and other things of which I will not share for privacy reasons. Mostly created using marker and some coloured pencil 🔺

Since I didn't have an envelope on hand I simply made one out of a white sheet of paper. It seem to be the right size and was pretty convenient. Then I put on the address and decorated it a bit with a bit more forest whimsy. A cute trouble making black squirrel all decked out with a birthday hat and present/gift a squirrel can only provide. 

Added a cute but rascally squirrel on the envelope along with important info which I'm not disclosing for privacy reasons. If your wondering about the blue colour on the black squirrel is because to provide a simulated sheen to his fur🔺After all black squirrels are not just black when their fur shines in the sun, you can see shades of colour. Most people might not notice that detail but that's alright. Since I'm qualified I can bring that up for those that are interested in those type of details. 

Hope you enjoyed my latest piece. Artwork will be uploaded to my personal web site soon.Providing that I still get to keep it. Considering where every thing is going these days with the turmoil. 

God bless and keep the peace! 

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! 😊

Pansies in progress

Another flower based post I guess. This time a work in progress. 
Currently working on an airbrushed image to go on a fitted sheet. Problem is that when I originally purchased the sheet I was expecting it to be a cloth even if it was mostly polyester. When I opened it up was more like a shower curtain.😕 Oh well, so it forced me to do more steps then I originally planed. So I airbrushed on a separate white cloth. Its going to be sewn on to the fitted sheet later.
First I just free handed my desired images. Then airbrushed them. No masking. Just penciled in. They’re a group of pansies. But I won’t bother cutting them out of the excess material. Just going to sew it on. Its only for me after all. 

small personal site update.

Oops another mistake. I forgot to upload the leopard patch pics into my personal website. But they're up now along with the newly uploaded images of my homemade Easter card 2019. Enjoy!😊

Home made Easter card 2019

Oops looks like I made a small "boo boo" in the last one or two postings of my monarch butterfly series. But they're all fixed now and the mistake was not a big deal but it would have bugged me to no end. 

Now for some spring time fun. An Easter card I made last year for a friend. Al little late but it still is technically spring. Its fun to look at none the less. But then there are Christmas related things to boost moral being shown too in different media forms so who cares? And besides if I don't I may never show it off. It just accumulates and all that. Also will be showing soon, other card creations with various degrees of fun.😊

 Some envelope art a bumble bee.🔺

  Also some envelope art a bumble bee holds a basket and other Easter symbols. 🔺

 

 The card cover art. A bumble bee with a basket of eggs and real pressed flowers. 

Some more art in the card featuring another bumble bee and more pressed flowers. 

Created the card with real flowers I collected the previous year. Some snap dragons and some type of blueish flower that later turned more purple when I pressed and glued them to cardboard to make them more workable.  Other media used, water colours, markers, coloured pencils. Cardboard and construction paper used as well as watercolour paper with texture. I tried to stick to bright colours instead of overusing the colour black for the obvious bee stripes. 
I hope you like it. 😊