Some more drawing and my birthday

Since my peeps are off having adventures I took myself to a nice little gouache painting workshop at ARCH Art Supplies w/ Nathaniel Bice for my birthday. He was super nice and a good teacher! I think this was my first time painting on one of these gessoed panels. I liked it! I especially liked the magenta underpainting idea and I kind of wish I had left a bit more pink peeking through on the final painting.

Other drawing stuff I have been working on is in procreate. I need to get my Dirt Bag stickers finished!

OMG my screen was so dirty, please don’t judge.

I also came across this sketch I did at the ASLA conference workshop with Chip Sullivan. I’m back to being inspired bye the idea of tarot-like cards for landscape design principles. How can I work with this idea? I ned to sketch more!

I've been working on a cute logo

Here is the sticker I ordered. I meant for it to be diecut… So I have ordered more and actually ordered them correctly.

I did a bunch of sketches and then started tracing in Procreate. I’m not very good with Procreate yet and was getting very frustrated!! I asked my friend Jenn of Vettha Arts to help me out as she is an amazing artist and very skilled with Procreate!

Well, she transformed this for me by refining the quality, changing p some shapes to read better, and also really made the CA poppy leaves look WAY better. so, thank you, Jen!

I’m using her Procreate file to help me understand some of the ins and outs of this program. I admit, even after watching a bunch of masking videos, I am still a but unsure how I will need to use that feature.