I did another pattern for Paper Bicycle’s Daily Patterning. The theme in question: Hairy. Something I am reasonably familiar with.

Here it is, inspired by my very own beard (only loosely):

And here is a bigger version of the face. I put way too much detail in the hair shapes, they all get lost when it gets small, and half of them vanished completely in the pattern. If I had, had more time I might have addressed some of that, but alas, I did not.

All of this was done in Illustrator, a program I don’t use very much any more to make actual illustrations, It was fun to do something more involved with it again.

I participated in the collaborative illustration blog Ten Paces this past week. The topic was ‘Farm’

I made a sketch for someone else to finish, and I recieved a sketch for me to finish. Here is my finished pieced:

Acrylic on watercolor paper

Is is based on a sketch by Paul Windle. Here is that sketch:

And here is the sketch I made and the finished piece done by Rachel Dougherty.

I’ll be doing some more topics for ten paces over the coming months. Should be fun.

My friends over at Paper Bicycle posted photos of their desks with labels. One of them said I should do it too. So here is mine.

Click it to make it bigger. Pardon my terrible, terrible hand writing.

p.s. You may have two questions:
1) What was for dinner?!? Answer: Chorizo, sweet potatoes and green beans.
2) Why is their blue tape on that Wacom tablet?! Answer: The surface on the intuos 4 burns through pen tips like it was sand paper, so I used the surface from my old intuos 1 and taped it on to the tablet, much nicer.

I attempted to make a tree-based pattern for Paper Bicycle’s daily pattern, but it did not work out. However I made these two trees, and thought I’d share. Maybe not inline with my normal stuff, but I like them as doodles.

Fall and summer. There was a winter version too, but it did not work out.