Patara's Daily Doodles

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Mermaid (standee) An illustration for a standee that I'm working on for the booth at SDCC this year. :)

Friday, June 1, 2012

Seeking Refuge

Seeking Refuge I was doodling and one of the skirt looked kind of like an umbrella. This was a while back and once in a while this image of a girl with an umbrella skirt with critters hiding from the rain under her skirt would pop up in my head. I just wanted to get the drawing out of my system lol. I think I like my original sketch better though. Maybe I'll post that some other time :). Oh, I also wanted to play with my watercolor set and some simple graphic shapes and bright happy colors :).

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Time stands still

Time stands still As I was painting the roses, my hand started to hurt. Too many roses. It started to become mundane, but it was necessary to complete this drawing! lol I was going to use some reference for the roses, but then I realized that I really don't like to draw from references. Maybe that's also why I'm not really into still life drawing that much. Sometimes it's fun, but not when I'm doing a personal drawing. For work or study purpose is another thing. When I'm painting out of my imagination, if I use references for things it feels like it ruins the flow for me, and my drawings become kind of stiff. To have to look at the references and look back is really annoying. Maybe it's okay if everything is not perfect. Even if the roses doesn't look super amazing, or the anatomy is not dead on, as long as the mood of the drawing is there, I'm happy.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

a cupboard of pandas

A cupboard of pandas After I've discovered that "cupboard" is the term for a group of pandas, I've been really into collective nouns lately. They conjure up such interesting images, and the words really suit the described animals. A murder of crows, an unkindness of ravens, a crash of rhinos, aren't these cool? :D I don't think I'd draw an intrusion of cockroaches though lol.