Saturday, March 16, 2024

Poodle Doodles

 

Here are some poodle doodles I've done recently.  I've been sketching poodles cause I'm working on a children's book that has poodles in it, so I want to get better at drawing them.

Its harder than you might think to find good pictures of poodles with classic haircuts.  These are based on the ones in a German story illustrated by Lothar Meggendorfer called Der Pudel.  If you're interested you can read it for free and in color here:

https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Der_Pudel

Its also included in a collection of short stories with the same illustrator which is available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/8027317959?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

It is a fascinating collection of stories although the pictures are low resolution to the point of being very pixelated and it is all in black and white.  I enjoyed looking at them very much even though I do not speak German so of course it is all unintelligible.

Anyway I'll try and keep you posted as I make further progress on my children's book.


Saturday, March 2, 2024

Clouds With Dragon

 

 

I think this acrylic painting came out pretty good.  Maybe I could spin it into a new header image for my blog.

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Spoonflower Shenanigans

I no longer have fabric and wallpaper for sale on my Spoonflower account because they changed the rates so I wouldn't get paid very much at all and it isn't worth it.  Cutting out the artist is disrespectful to both the artist and the consumer because supporting an artist is probably a small but meaningful part of what motivates someone to buy products designed by artists in the first place.

Thank you to everybody who's bought my designs in the past, that's huge, I appreciate your support over the years and it means a lot to me!

Since yardage and merch haven't panned out, the only products I have left are coloring books on Amazon:

amazon.com/author/jpmorrow

And if you've bought any of those thank you as well!

And I've got plenty more ideas for artistic projects for the future if I have time...

Sunday, January 28, 2024

Another Knot

 

This is actually an adaptation from a design that I did for fabric and wallpaper on my spoonflower store:

https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/jpmorrow

I would link to the individual design but spoonflower is broken today... like so many things in life.

Monday, January 15, 2024

Skull

 

 

Here's a skull drawn with a white marker on toned paper.  It was kinda fun.

Here's a link to the marker used.  I'm not sponsored but people might be curious:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08THBHN1T?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

Also the paper for the same reason:

 https://www.amazon.com/Strathmore-412-105-Toned-Sketch-Sheets/dp/B008D2TUYO/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=toned%2Bpaper&qid=1705347673&sr=8-7&th=1