Welcome to Results Day! Thank you for stopping by. I hope you are staying well and finding new experiences to keep you busy! Did you create characters using BLOBS #119 this week? Let me know how they turned out!
This week’s inspiration came from a chalk message my daughter created. Maybe you’ve seen a few pop up in your neighborhood.
“We are all in this together.” - High School Musical
I knew instantly, her message would be my source for BLOBS #119. I picked a few interesting shapes….
…and created my Activity Sheet. Below are BEFORE and AFTER thumbnails from my sketch day (Tuesday).
The one thing my characters had in common was…water. For some reason, water was on my mind this week or maybe I just craved being in water. I grew up with a big pool in our yard where we played every day of the summer. In my high school years, we visited our family cottage often. If we weren’t swimming or floating in the refreshing lake, we were playing beach volleyball next to it. Water brings me peace and joy. And I think that is why my imagination led me to creating water-loving characters. I want peace and joy to fill our world up. Do you find yourself craving a particular place or feeling these days?
My first design reminded me of the Lochness Monster. Which made me wonder, what the Lochness Monster’s cousin might look like…
I think the Lochness Monster’s cousin would be friendly. What do you think?
My second BLOB was a challenge! It took a little bit of time to carve out a character. Introducing Goldfish and his Lovey (duck)…
You’ll notice Goldfish can walk and is not in water. Which is ok, because CHARACTER CREATING is all about playing! If I were to turn Goldfish into a story, his human-like characteristics would have to be explained. Maybe YOU can think of a reason?
The third BLOB made me think of floating in water. Once I crafted a character, she needed some movement. I decided to show her doing the backstroke. Meet GIANT PENGUIN SEA MONSTER and her monster chick.
I had so much fun with my last BLOB. I have never drawn a dragon before but this shape was begging to be turned into a long necked creature. Since water was the driving force behind each design, I plopped my dragon in a boat, and made her wingless. Follow FLORENCE, the WINGLESS DRAGON’s transformation below…
Here is a time lapse of my pen drawings.
After characters were cleaned up, I transferred them to a CHARACTER CARD Activity Sheet. You can download a sheet here or visit my Activity page.
Don’t forget to print a back side! Build onto my designs (or your own) with character traits.
Last but not least, I tested my CHARACTER CARDS out. Since water tied all of my characters together, I thought it would be appropriate to color them - using water. I decided to try watercolor pencils (not a familiar tool for me). This was the first time I used them (they are my daughter’s) and I loved the effect! Here are the colors I could find in our house…
Our seven Derwent watercolor pencils
…and my time lapse painting.
FRONT SIDES
BACK SIDES
Thanks for visiting! Be well!