Sunday

A small collection of doll creatures..... these are not for sale, I have made them for my family to enjoy.... it's nice to make something 'for us' and at the same time test out design ideas..... I like to exercise my silly side, it's good to do that. I often show my children how a creature is coming together and they give me suggestions on what next. For example, the wide grin on the guy in the middle (that's smoke coming out his head!) was an idea my son gave me - my boy stuck his fingers in his mouth and stretched his lips: like this mum.... Working on facial expressions is really interesting, especially sharing them with my son who is autistic and sometimes does not 'read' faces with the same emotional confidence as someone else.... For a while my son would draw faces with eyes outside the head - almost like ears - and I knew why, but it is interesting now to see that more recently he draws people with eyes looking at you and is very particular about details in his drawings, gaining confidence all the time..... My teenage daughter is a Manga-inspired artist and really developing her own style....so her Manga interest may be influencing a bit too.....

Anyhow, I'm sharing the silly chaps today as I don't have new sketchbook pages to share this Sunday.

Have you seen ger's wonderful creatures? They are quite magical.....

Thanks and more soon.....