April’s fantasy

This is the second month I’ve been running my ART CLUB and the events for it. Part of what I’ve been doing on a monthly basis is create monthly art challenges to prompt people to create more art! The challenges can be taken as seriously or casually as the creator likes, it’s just a low-pressure way to make something when everything feels so hard to make.

I haven’t had a large amount of participation from other club members yet, but I understand that they’re busy. HOWEVER it has immensely helped with my personal art creation.

I make posters to announce the themes, on-theme posters for meetups and other social media posts. Plus I make something for the theme each month to prompt others to do so too! This month I even made multiple… and a fibre-art crochet dagger, partly because I love crochet and partly to show that digital art isn’t the only art that you can make for these challenges!!

One of the Illustrations, I made in homage to my ‘Sandwich Prophecy’ project. I made it as a loose experimental drawing, focusing initially on a study of the values. While this is not how I would imagine the project looking, it was good practice and gave me an idea of what I do want. Plus it actually got the ball rolling! For once I wasn’t just sitting around and thinking of making something in relation to this project, I actually made it!!

The next thing I made for the theme was the cute little crochet sword/dagger!! It was really easy and fun to make, I crocheted the general shape with grey wool, then wrapped it with purple wool for the handles, added moss stitching (French knots really helped with that nice texture) and finally sewed some cute little buttons onto the hilt! I found two little sticks outside which I debarked and used to reinforce the horizontal elements so it would hang nicely!

Finally, I turned my rusty life drawing sketch into a full illustration of a Knight!

Going to the life drawing event held by Scribble Sesh was such a good experience!! Everyone was super nice (and really good artists) and the model was amazing!!

I was incredibly rusty, not having done life drawing for almost a whole year! Plus since she was in armour, they did longer poses to accommodate… which I am very not used to. I like the short poses we would do at uni! (plus they were good warmups) 10 minutes is a good maximum pose length in my opinion, but the shortest ones we did that night were 15 minutes.

I’ll get better and get used to how they ruin things though, because I plan on going to these life drawing events as often as I can!!