Hey, guys and dolls. I am drawing. Really I am. Here's the proof. It's just that I've suddenly taken to drawing on A3 paper, and I don't own an A3 scanner. I'm loving this bigger paper, though. Just what I needed, double the size paper to fill with the tiniest most intricate of details.Also, I now have to go to the print shop to get my drawings scanned. I'll have to post photos until I do that. Or, until I (can afford to) invest in an A3 scanner.
Something else I love is making life more complicated for myself.
I tend to scan A3 images in a half at a time and then stick them together in photoshop (if you don't have it photoshop elements isn't too expensive and is pretty good). In fact i once did it with a piece that was A1. its not perfect but if you're patient it works.
ReplyDeleteI love those hats! I hope you will show them to us again when you find an easier way to get the pictures into your computer.
ReplyDeleteAhhh! I love green! Look at all the lovely greens! I want every one. You're work is awesome!
ReplyDeleteThey are beautiful! I want one of each.
ReplyDeleteI love getting lost in the details of your illustrations. I can quite literally spend hours gazing at them. I wish staring and daydreaming were a paid job though! - well, for some people I suppose it is :-) Can I ask which scanner you were using at home that gave you such good resolution? Thank you for having such a lovely blog. Doris from Germany.
ReplyDeleteWhat a delight to find your latest pages with these lovely knit hats. It makes me feel like I'm in a hat store with a big problem of having to pick out a favorite. What fun!
ReplyDeleteLove it, love it, love it. When is your book coming out?
ReplyDeleteSplendid - such fantastic detail you achieve. And I love, love all that green!
ReplyDeletePut up a paypal button and maybe all the people who adore your work-and who wouldn't (!), could contribute toward your scanner. Your work is amazing.
ReplyDeleteI am in serious awe when I look at your drawings. Just beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI love this post! I think your drawings are amazing, and the overall feeling they leave when I see them.
ReplyDeleteAndrea,
ReplyDeleteI love how you posted these. In the first picture, I get to see more of your life with a bit of the background. The second picture is so interesting having it close and at such an angle.
Your work is so beautiful! I really appreciate you sharing it with us.
beautiful colours!
ReplyDeleteThe Five Moss Beany is INSANE. Seriously. I'm pretty sure I could touch the computer screen and feel the fly-away fuzzies on it.
ReplyDeleteholy crow!! it wasn't until i enlarged the photo that I realized it wasn't a real book!!! Fabulous Andrea!! the hats are awesome!
ReplyDeleteYou know how much I love your drawings.
ReplyDeletePlease can I order one x Five Moss Beaney. It's just what I need in this cold southerly wind.
Splendid !
ReplyDeleteWow - your work is actually more intricate and detailed than last time I looked, it seems. These drawings in color are beyond gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteYou continue to astound me with your talent and patience!! :)
ReplyDeletegorgeous hats! love those greens...
ReplyDeleteI am blown away! This is GORGEOUS! I love it!
ReplyDeletePrint a serie and u’ll get u’r useless A3 scan.
ReplyDeleteEven u gt shoes to bought first.
And a maid to hire also..
Simple Digigraphie may suit but photo’s thecs could offer more formats and supports perspectives- oversizing rule! kiss u’r visa- gonna be painfull.
U will found the dupon lab link below- best lab i know- gt the full range of equipment.
And check out printclub london even it’s not adapted to ballpoint tech.
http://www.dupon.com/us.html
regards. Guillaume.
Very jealous of the colour intensity you manage to get with pencils! Lovely piece of work and the little folded page corner cracks me up!
ReplyDeleteWow Andrea, this looks fantastic! I love all the little details and your lettering too!
ReplyDeleteReally 3D, great work !
ReplyDeleteThank you, ALL, guys.
ReplyDeleteI appriecate your comments, and encouragement, more than I can say.
Rick, "one day it'll happen, one day it'll all make sense" (I seem to speak in lyrics these days, that was Bjork one for you).
Cheers, m'dears.
A simple click of the mouse and I am magically flung on a journey deep into the wonderful world of imagination...thanks for yet again another awesome artistic adventure!
ReplyDeleteVerification word::PRIZE...and you win it big time in my heart! :)
I have just spent the best part of a day looking at every post on your blog (I'm recovering from surgery and the internet is currently the only thing preventing me from gnawing off my own arm in complete frustration). I have to say I am completely and utterly impressed. I love the attention to detail and simple beauty of your ballpoint sketches and then the colour and character of your children's illustrations.
ReplyDeleteEverything is draw droppingly good and very inspiring. I drew everything and all the time as a child, did an art A Level and haven't drawn in the 13 years since I left school, really (done some collagey stuff, but no real drawing). Life got in the way. BUT - I've found the journey through your blog so incredibly inspiring that I've just ordered a Moleskine journal of my own (god bless the t'internet) and I'm making a pledge to try and draw something every day.
Thank you.
What beautiful textures!!
ReplyDeleteWhen I first saw the top picture I thought, "Oh man, I'd love to flick through the pages of that sketchbook, it looks amazing!". After much studying, I realised that it wasn't even a book but a piece of paper you had made to look like pages in a book. Absolutely marvellous. These drawing are brilliant and I am trying to think of all of the different people I could buy a copy of your book for, once you get it published. That will be a great day.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteBy the way I have a tutorial on my blog on scanning pictures that are too big for the scanner. I have scanned A1 pictures on my A4 scanner. If you want to look at it the link is http://julieoakley.blogspot.com/2006/02/how-to-scan-big-pictures.html