An Original Cartoon A Day

[LearningToLetGo]

Davey Do In school I learned a technique to copy and resize an image by drawing a grid on top of it with letters on the top and numbers on the side. We could then draw the same grid elsewhere at any scale (e.g. murals) and copy each grid square one at a time. This helps to maintain perspective.

Have you ever done something like that?

 

[Davey Do]

Oh dear, yes, LearningToLetGo!

And the technique can be used from handheld or easel works to large murals

 

[LearningToLetGo]

Oh dear, yes, LearningToLetGo!

And the technique can be used from handheld or easel works to large murals

I am using that technique for a watercolor drawing of my cat. Here's a rough copy that I made to test the process. It has been decades since I tried to draw anything and and I'm out of practice.

 

[Cosia]

That is brilliant!

 

[LearningToLetGo]

I used my phone to adjust my earlier drawing by manipulating the contrast and white/black point. I think it looks a bit like ink.

My next goal is to reproduce this style using sumi-e ink from an ink stick.

Wish me luck!

 

[LearningToLetGo]

I discovered a synthetic paper called Yupo that is remarkably hydrophobic, a strange choice for watercolor. Washes are basically impossible but the attempts are yielding an oddly pleasing effect. We'll see soon how the ink lays down...

 

[LearningToLetGo]

Another day, a little more progress.

I bought a white-ink gel pen, will use that as the last step to draw whiskers.

 

[BibleLover]

Writing is a great gift to have, and so is art.
I have never been able to draw. When my two children were little, they asked me to draw a cat ! So I did, and they fell about laughing. Whiskers, eats and eyes all in the wrong place.

I bought a book the title was "Anyone can draw". It is untrue. I followed all the directions and three weeks later, I took the book to a charity shop. My children didn't need it!

Anyone CAN draw. I've been quite adept at drawing flies for years.

 

[Davey Do]

THAT is one beautiful piece of artwork, LearningToLetGo!

And your progress was a surprise to me, as initially, I believed it was going to be done in a realistic style, but the lines, the colors, the abstract feeling of it, makes the composition quite a work!

I doff my proverbial hat to you!

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[LearningToLetGo]

THAT is one beautiful piece of artwork, @LearningToLetGo!

Thank you! You actually motivated me to try it with your artwork.

It's almost done, perhaps another 2-3 days. The paper is from a company called Yupo. It's synthetic and extremely hydrophobic so laying down the watercolor has been difficult, hence the abstract quality.

 

[LearningToLetGo]

Almost done. I need to touch up the black with some micron pens, draw whiskers with a white ink pen, and sign it. Then off to the frame store.

 

[LearningToLetGo]

I present to you, Teenage Bootsy!

 

[bobinfaith]

I present to you, Teenage Bootsy!

Good morning, LearningToLetGo;

This turned out beautiful. I'm also blessed to learn your artistic side.

God bless you, Jason.

Bob

 

[LearningToLetGo]

I figure it's time for another cat drawing. This is C.J. He's quite the rascal.




Here's the original photo for comparison.

 

[LearningToLetGo]

This painting is proving much more difficult.

 

[In Awe of Him]

WOW LearningToLetGo
Lookie at YOU... IMPRESSIVE.

I'm still plucking away at cartoon like characters of sheep... snails.. birds with bulgy eyes.... and anything else that catches my funny bone.

I am tinkering away with my watercolour set... and am enjoying that very much as if you water the paints enough.. .the pain basically does the work and goes where it wants... leaving lovely shades.

Nice to see that you are painting.

 

[LearningToLetGo]

Nice to see that you are painting.

You, too! Send pics!

 

[Big Moose]

the pain basically does the work

does it ever!

 

[In Awe of Him]

does it ever!

OI course YOU would pick up on my typo..... the PAINT..... not the pain..... GOOD GRIEF... the post was so short that I did NOT bother to proof read..... HAHAHAHA.....
STOP following me. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA..... NO wait.... Keep following me.... I LIKE it. HAHAHA.

 

[Big Moose]

OI course YOU would pick up on my typo..... the PAINT..... not the pain..... GOOD GRIEF... the post was so short that I did NOT bother to proof read..... HAHAHAHA.....
STOP following me. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA..... NO wait.... Keep following me.... I LIKE it. HAHAHA.

You have a way of twisting.........er.....turning a phrase.