Shopkins and Candy Crush Inspired Art Journaling Sketch

For Christmas, my sister-in-law gave me the Candy Crush coloring book. I play Candy Crush frequently so I thought this gift was really cute.

  

My daughter has been coloring in it and I have been using the images to use as reference for drawing. The cute little figures in the middle are Shopkins. My daughter has been obsessed with collecting these Shopkins and we decided to draw some of them one day. If you don't know what Shopkins are, they are these little figurines of household items and foods that have cute faces on them.

  

Here is the drawing I made in my sketchbook.

To make this picture, I used Staedtler Lumicolor permanent markers for the black lines.  

To color in, I used Sakura Koi Brush Markers. They are a bit pricey, but I won an art giftcard so I splurged on myself!

  

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Drawing a Girl in my Sketchbook

I picked up the book Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces by Jane Davenport and practiced drawing and painting some faces.  I like the technique that she shares for drawing eyes.  Looking forward to drawing more!

One Drawing a Day

I joined an artsy book club on Facebook.  It was started by another elementary art teacher but there are other artsy people in the group who are not teachers.  You should come join us!  We are just starting to work through the book One Drawing A Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity with Illustration and Mixed Media.

The 2nd assignment was to draw with pen and dip ink.  The lines were supposed to be more loose and free, but I was having fun drawing the detailed butterfly.

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One Drawing a Day Book Club

I joined an artsy book club on Facebook.  It was started by another elementary art teacher but there are other artsy people in the group who are not teachers.  You should come join us!  We are just starting to work through the book One Drawing A Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity with Illustration and Mixed Media.

 

It seems to be work-at-your-own-pace, at least I know I won't be able to keep up every single day.  The first assignment was a pen drawing of a still life set up of stuff you find around you.

Drawing right with pen is harder than it seems.  I was so worried about drawing a line wrong it was hard to loosen up.  I pretty much always use a pencil first when drawing, so I feel a bit more free with my lines, knowing that I can erase.


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Whimsical Girl Drawing

From my Instagram... a sketch of a girl.  I got a few DVDs from Interweave (there was a really good sale close to Christmas) which I looked at over my winter break. 



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ICAD and other artwork

I made the first index card for Daisy Yellow's ICAD challenge.  She is challenging you to create artwork on an index card every day in the summer. 

Index Card art with stickers, washi tape and gelato crayons.  Do you see the #1 sticker?  I'm going to put a small number on each card in the order I make them. 

Detail of an art journal page with stickers

an in progress drawing of a girl.  I used this as a demo for my 5th graders on using the grid technique.

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