month of drawing: week 2

for week 2 of the spoonflower month of drawing challenge the main theme was lettering. you still got a daily prompt of inspiration, but they were all meant to have lettering incorporated in them. i love lettering, so this was my favorite week i think. i like most of what i made this week too. i already have digitized the dreamers of dreams one to use on a sleep mask design (i'm working on a whole set of lettering designed sleep mask fabric.) i love the dreamers one, but my favorites out of this group are the lemon and the toast. the "that's my jam" cracks me up every time i look at it - i love having these in a sketchbook, but i might have to recreate a couple of these in order to frame.

month of drawing: week 1

in august, i participated in the spoonflower month of drawing challenge. every day you got a prompt as to what to draw and you posted your drawing with #spoonchallenge. i'm really not an illustrator, but i do enjoy doodling and rarely find time to do it. i thought this would be a good way to give me subject ideas and give me some accountability to keep up with it for a month. some days were harder than others with working full time and then taking alex to activities and school starting and dinners to be made and lunches and bath time and you get the idea. but anyways, i did it! even if i only have a short amount of time to draw, i found a way to fit it in. so here's the first week of the challenge, top to bottom. the prompts for the first week were: 1. cactus; 2. mountains; 3. trees; 4. landscape; 5. river. there are definitely drawings during the month that i liked and some that i really hated and didn't even want to post, but i did anyways. in this batch i like most of them, my least favorite being the mountains. i think i like the gang of  cacti best :) although i might spend some time and redraw the trees one to frame as maybe a future anniversary gift or something (thanks pennycandy for that idea.)

zentangled

i've always enjoyed doodling, but i actually don't do it that much anymore. at work one day, my friend reminded me of how much fun it is to doodle and showed me a book she was going thru about zentangling. so i started. it's so relaxing and nice to just draw in a notebook with fine point markers. i also create a calendar each year so i decided to try to draw a whole set of backgrounds for the calendar. so...here are crops of the set of twelve designs i doodled to put as backgrounds in the calendar. i may turn some of these into fabric options as well.