Let's go for a ride!

A quick illustration inspired by Pascal Campion and my trip to Venice!

Catfish

This is a piece I started one day and ended up getting carried away with. I started out drawing just the sailor cat and then thought it would look cool with some cat mermaids. The composition looked too "balanced" so then I threw in jellycat too. Word play fun! I'm thinking of putting together a children's book with this theme when I get some free time :D

Girl's Best Friend

A little girl and her wolf pup!
I admit I've been neglecting this blog because I've recently gotten addicted to Tumblr :D If you've got one and would like to follow me, I'm at vivedessins.tumblr.com!

Daisies

I saw a cool hairdo on Pinterest and used it as a chance to try out some different Photoshop brushes!

Happy new year!

Car sketchin'

Some marker sketches from the 2013 Car Classic which I threw into Photoshop and fiddled with. I wish I could have drawn all the cars because there were sooo many cool ones. But I took lots of photos! The chrome DecoPod Scooter is my favorite.

Watercolor sketches

What a dead blog! I should get in the habit of updating whenever I finish a piece. Thanks to my followers for still dropping by :)

With so much digital work at school I feel like I haven't painted in ages; that's gotta change soon. In the meantime, I wanted to share some long-overdue sketches I did when I was in Venice last year. Long story short, I've never visited a place that made me want to paint 24/7 like this one does. 

The fish market that opens every morning at 6am, with seagulls surrounding the back dock waiting for scraps of fish thrown out by the vendors. The red awnings were beautiful, and it was a challenge to capture the light hitting them front and back.

 Sculpture detail from the side of the Santa Maria della Salute

The above two are the same towers done from the side and front, while the sun was beginning to set. It was right near a canal where a wedding was taking place - in gondolas!

San Rocco - did you know John Singer Sargent painted here too? Needless to say it felt very surreal to be sitting in the same spot he did, seeing what he had seen a century ago. I tried very hard to channel that same energy he has in his paintings. An impossible task, but nothing some more brush mileage can't fix!