Monthly Archives: June 2008

Robot Bathtime – or an excuse to try out my new watercolor pencils

June 30, 2008 | Topic: art, my art

I tend to draw on paper, then color in photoshop. And i haven’t done watercolors in years, and my oils/acrylics haven’t seen the light of day since i had a toddler running around the house. But a trip to the art store today led to an impulse purchase of watercolor… Read on...

Illustration Friday – "Fierce"

June 27, 2008 | Topic: art, Illustration Friday, my art

A request to my dear readers — do you think any of these are portfolio worthy? I have such a blind spot for my own work. Any honest advice appreciated! This is a quick coloring job of a concept sketch i did for a new project. The line work… Read on...

Dabbled Summer Doldrums Contest

June 27, 2008 | Topic: Uncategorized

I think it’s time for another Dabbled contest. We can’t wait all the way to halloween, can we? Cuz you know there is going to be a killer Halloween contest. Remember the Black Heart Anti-Valentine’s Day contest and the April Fool Contest!? But until then…
The… Read on...

Inspirations…

June 25, 2008 | Topic: Uncategorized

Some links to check out! In forcing herself to get out of her creative funk, The Caffinated Crafter produced this cute little critter. I love him! (and on etsy!) Little Arty Crafty Crow creates adorable yet slightly creepy little dressed up animals. (on etsy too!) Bitter Betty has… Read on...

More webby goodness

June 25, 2008 | Topic: Uncategorized

More web spring cleaning…
2 things:
1) I updated my RSS feed – even though i’ve had a feed through feedburner forever, for some reason I was still using the standard blogger feed. So, hopefully i didn’t screw anything up when i changed that. So, if you’ve been reading this… Read on...

Charcoal sketch

June 24, 2008 | Topic: art, my art

And now for something completely different!
I was playing around with my charcoal pencils and decided to do something realistic. I haven’t drawn like this in ages, but I thought it would be a good brain exercise.

Nancy's Art

June 24, 2008 | Topic: arttop

I’ve posted a great deal of art on Dabbled–watercolors, cartoons, and of course, lots of robots! You can always pop over to my art portfolio (nancydorsner.com) site to see it, but here’s where it’s been blogged.

Welcome to the craft section!

June 24, 2008 | Topic: crafttop

Here you’ll find some of the craft goodness we’ve created on Dabbled. Like what? Well… lots of stuff! You’ll find tutorials — you’ll see some featured ones in the sidebar here, or see all of the tips/tutorials posts. Some of our best tutorials are from our great… Read on...

Another Nursery Rhyme – Miss Muffet

June 24, 2008 | Topic: art, my art

The Boy keeps repeating Little Miss Muffet and it keeps going through my head. So I felt the need to do this, just for the heck of it.
Pencil sketch, colored in Photoshop. Previous Dark Nursery Rhymes are here…

A nifty photoshop tip for working with line art

June 24, 2008 | Topic: art

I adore Tom Richmond’s MAD blog. He posted a great tip for working with scanned line art in photoshop a few weeks ago, and i finally got around to trying it on the drawing i’m currently working on. It works great! It even works great on the scanned pencil sketches… Read on...