Wondering what a Creative Tuesday is? Every two weeks we grab our pads and something to color with to create for the theme over at Mr. Toast's Creative Tuesday's assignment -- neat, no?
This week's theme is Thanksgiving or Thank You. I could be really literal for the holiday or just express a gracious feeling in my rendering. Well, I have to admit that I still have logs and firewood on my brain and that's all that kept coming out in my sketches. So, I embraced it.
Here is the pen ink drawing. That's Katie on the left and Sammy on the right. Yup, the golden retrievers that rule my existance. And this looks a whole lot like a certain picture from this post I think, but you be the judge.
And in the spirit of trying new things and the whole creative stretching I decided to color it in both with GIMP (a GNU image manipulation program -- free to download) and also with markers and color pencils.
First up. The version I colored on the computer.
I do like the way I can audition colors for different things with GIMP. I also like that I can have any 'ole color I can dream up in my coloring box. What do you think?
And here is the more traditional markers and color pencils version. I have to admit that the coloring of the pups didn't come out nearly at all. They were a lot more yellow/golden in my version, but again I'll embrace the way it was scanned.
And I do apologize if I didn't get the words just right. I was sketching along and then realized the instructions asked for either Thanksgiving, or Thank you -- geez, can we just chalk it up to getting back into the swing of things? I'll try harder next time :)
I hope you consider joining in this or the next assignment (really hope you do) and please take a look other artists in the community here.
