Children's Art Created in Digital

Is it Safe?

Little Bull with Rose

Swimming in Bubbles

Sketchy Doodles for children's illustrations

Sketches for children's illustrations

Often times I sit and doodle ideas for illustrations,characters and backgrounds mostly.  These are samples,  thinking doodles, a glimpse into a few moments of free thinking.  It is good to give yourself room as an artist to participate in different styles of thinking.  Sometimes we are too literal and we need loosening up, so we need some exercises that make us relax and enjoy the process of art.  I really enjoy the memories of childhood and the sweet images from my childhood books, so one of my ways to free up my style is to just let my imagination go when I doodle.  I'm not drawing a piece of fine art here, just some quick images to let go of adulthood for a moment, and go to a place that is pure imagination.  For more of my children's work go to my other blogsite: http://thesowerwentouttosow.blogspot.com/

Fuzzy Moth

Little elephant takes a drink.  

One of the circus acts was an amazing juggling spider.

Cat dropped his fiddle and began to dance

Lonely as the ice broke away from land, only the moon looked  comforting.

Uncle Bob told the absolute funniest stories.

Saloon Town. 

The land was dry except for the Billybong trees.

Mr. Warm and Fuzzy.

Honing Our Art Skills - Following Others

  To learn any new subject, we need to spend time to hone our skills.  We usually are too loose and free or too tight and restricted.  The first usually causes many accidents and the other greatly restricts the capacity that is hidden in the soul.  To hone our skills means that we need to restrict or build up one area of our learning and open up the innate abilities in another part of our being and let them fly.  Artists tend to be unbalanced at first, so it is good to follow others and practice what is learned from them exactly, but at the same time digging deeper in and finding the place where something innate is buried and teaching it to use its wings by the things learned from others.  Without our own wings, our soul never carries us in our artwork.  Without the discipline that comes from learning from others we never really learn to do things well.  Explore, experiment, learn who to follow.

Daisy in Spring Grass
digital

Expressions in an Children's Illustration

     The facial expressions in children's work capture the attention and quickly tell the story. Children from birth focus on the face and can relate very much to the emotional elements in faces.  This means a lot when verbal language is still in development and illustrations that capture the emotional elements well help to standardize the child's response and understanding of a particular word or phrase for the future.  Facial expressions also demand a lot more involvement personally with any given story.