Please Stay.

"Don't go, please stay."

I hope I don't sound too big-headed, but I love this illustration I drew yesterday. It's definitely the best one I have drawn in my sketchbook so far, well I think so anyway.

It came about of having a spare couple of hours due to the power being off in my accomodation. I assume they were doing maintenance or something important. Thankfully my laptop kept its charge and I started off by playing solitaire, which got boring very quickly. I then decided I should attempt some sketchbook work. Seeing as I had no internet, I used pictures I took at the zoo as references. The animal I was going to challenge ended up being the lovely grizzly bear. She didn't appear grizzly at all, but I'm sure she could if she wanted to be.

You can see the stages I took in the photos below. I quite like the simplicity when it's just the outlines of the bear and plants. However, I don't regret adding the fur pattern on. I also added the phrase at the end, I'm not sure of the relevance, but they're parts of a song which came into my head during the making of it.

I hope you like it too and believe me I was happy when the electricity came back on, but it was time well spent for once.

Purple.

Acrylic paint on paper, A1.

'Purple'. Yeah, you probably get the idea now... I'm not so keen on this one, there is just something about it that doesn't feel right to me and I have decided that my paintings look better as a photograph rather than in real life. I don't know if that is a good thing or not, I could possibly use this to my advantage later on in the project. A thought had occurred to me... 'Purple Rain'. Song and a rather nice cocktail according to my friend. This one may have to be dedicated to her because that is all I will think about when ever I see this from now on. Queue the awkward moment when she says she doesn't like it haha! Any who. Tomorrow will be another day and another colour. Fingers crossed as always that it will go well.

Below are photos of stages to get to the final piece: