A Young Tatterhood

I cannot believe how busy I have been in the past few months – and I expect to be even busier in the months to come. I am still alive, just working. Working on many, many things. There appears to always be so much to do on ‘the list’, and yet I never seem to get any closer to finishing. Thankfully, I am young, so while the image above may be but a peak into a story in the works that will not be completed until a few years down the road, I do have the time to put it on the bottom of the list, as much as I hate to (though I will always be working on it here and there).  Tatterhood can wait.

Just being silly

A Tyrant Faced

Costumes based on imagery from The History of Costume By Braun & Schneider
T Rex referenced from ~goodiebagstock

So much I want to do, so little time. Hopefully I can redo my site before 2011, if all goes well! There’s just so much to do!

Katisha

A commission of Katisha, from The Mikado (my own costume design). How can you resist that elbow?

Madame - The Bird Maiden

Character from The Bird Maiden, one of the three stories in Fairy Tales That Never Were.

Stheno loves cake

Happy Birthday sis (if you are following this)! Hmm and I guess if you are, I sorta ruined a card I made for you. Err and don’t come back to my site later this week, and next week, because I will probably post your birthday present. Schmaybe. (Present is in the mail, it’ll be there soon!)

But here’s a hint for what the gift is: Bareka

This should have been a post of a final ‘group’ shot of my medieval animal alphabet, all against a black piece of paper and hanging on my wall. But I was just so busy this weekend with the baby shower, so here’s a baby related illustration instead!

Baby Animals

My sister-in-law has the baby room all decked out in a jungle-safari theme with touches of Africa (and Australia and China) and she wanted some pictures to hang on the wall. She had a couple of items from this set and wanted three small pictures to match. She chose the animals and I tried to illustrate some wittle guys that would match the style.

Not sure when I will be able to draw again now – I think I did a pretty good job of ‘pacing myself’ and taking breaks during the shower weekend, but unfortunately on my way home from the shower I was in a car accident. Everybody (from both cars) was ok, but I came out of it with a bruise shoulder, sore neck, and a wrist more painful than before (it’s not unbearable, I think it was just a case of my wrist being smacked against a door and bent back). Luckily I already had an appointment to see my hand specialist again, so I’ll make sure to mention it! So drawing will commence…hopefully soon

Wedding Table Charges

Spring is in the air, love is about and I rediscovered some old art! Illustrated charges from my medieval wedding, created for table settings. Why sit at table one when you can sit at table sun? (aha!) They also match hanging banner and mini flags (that went on mini edible castle cakes).

Images were drawn from heraldry clip-art/ancient stuff I saw in books, then were inked, coloured with watercolours, shaded a bit with a regular pencil and re-inked.

Di

Years ago I bought my first domain name and launched my first portfolio site. Originally I wanted ‘tatterhood.com’ but it was taken. So I tried for several other names, all of which were taken, and finally settled on ‘dragonideas.com.’ I am a very patient person (when I want to be). I am used to spending years on projects or waiting for particular items to be available. Time passed, and eventually ‘Tatterhood’ was mine and I had no need anymore for ‘dragonideas.’

Down fell the dragon, down came the site and yesterday it exhaled its last breath. But all is not lost. Here is Di, a friendly dragon I sketched and coloured, that lived on my old site. I think she’s cute.