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December Day 21: Lettering + Doodle Challenge on Instagram
Today’s challenge prompt is “Rudolph”. Of course, I had to do another hidden letter doodle. I had to, I tell ya’. It’s doodle law… part of the Santa Clause I think.
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December Day 20: Lettering + Doodle Challenge on Instagram
I thought today’s challenge prompt “All is bright” needed to be against a sparkling background of twinkly Christmas lights. Once I inked the lettering by hand in my sketchpad, I scanned it, and then used it as an inverted overlay in Photoshop over a photo I had on my iPhone.
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December Day 19: Lettering + Doodle Challenge on Instagram
When I first saw that today’s challenge prompt was “Christmas lights”, it didn’t seem like one I wanted to do. I put it off all day. Finally, late in the evening I decided to go ahead and give it a go. It turned out to be one of the most fun ones I’ve done so far. Funny how that happens.
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December Day 18: Lettering + Doodle Challenge on Instagram
Today’s challenge prompt “All is calm” stumped me at first, but then I started to see the letter “A” forming in my head. I knew if I drew it out, the rest would flow. It worked!
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December Day 17: Lettering + Doodle Challenge on Instagram
I liked drawing this doodle so much, I may have to do more versions and fine tune the sleigh runners while I’m at it.
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December Day 16: Lettering + Doodle Challenge on Instagram
I’ve been up to my eyeballs in website and online shop maintenance, so I’ve missed the past couple of days for the challenge prompts. Thankfully, I finally got everything done this evening and had enough energy left to play with a new lettering style I found on Pinterest. It’s called “Chimaera” that suggested it was a good learning exercise for students. As a “student”, I have to agree! Click here if you want to see the original pin I used for reference.
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December Days 12 and 13: Lettering + Doodle Challenge on Instagram
I had a crazy busy weekend that left me away from my computer and mobile devices. But I did still have my sketchbook with me. Here’s my lettering and doodle contributions to the challenge (better late than never).
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11 Dec 2015 mini watercolor
This little gal has been in my sketchbook for a long time. I decided that it was time that she got some color. I’m trying to do mini watercolor paintings to get back into the swing of painting again. I did this sketch while watching the movie Meet Me in St. Louis. It reminded me of the days I used to stand at the bus stop as a child waiting in the swirling snow for the bus to arrive. I often felt like a human “snowgirl”. I experienced so much snow during my childhood years in the mountains of Colorado, that it’s enough snow to last me a lifetime (hence the look on the little girl’s face). That’s why I now live where it snows once every three or four decades (if that) and just watch snow in Christmas movies *wink*.
December Day 11: Lettering + Doodle Challenge on Instagram
This quick doodle is for today’s challenge prompt “Snowman”. Sometimes I’m in the mood for something simple and minimalist. Snow is simple and minimalist, so I thought this doodle should be too.
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