Showing posts with label drawing dog portraits at an event. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drawing dog portraits at an event. Show all posts

Thursday, May 7, 2009

trying something new

I'm getting ready to participate in a local "Woof to Weston" event. It's a fund raiser for a new rescue site in the north land. The name of the organizing group is NAWS. Mother nature is always cooking up some surprise, so having t-shirts and caps on a table just right in the great out of doors is risky. I've decided to start a new side line...called LunaToons. For a few bucks, I will cartoon individual dogs at the event! All will be simple. I love drawing dogs, so I don't know why I've never thought of doing this before. Who knows if it will be popular or if my drawings will be good enough...but I'm willing to give it a shot and I'll have some dog illustrations to bring home and put on a t-shirt or a card, so either way, I'll end up with something.
I practiced doing a toon of my neighbors dog this AM to see what I'd need to set up and how long it would take me to make a reasonable "toon"...I'm going to draw our dogs so I'll have some more samples of my work so folks will know what they're in for if they say yes. I guess I'm trying to make my life a little more simple and fun. Hope this is the right direction to go. I'll find out soon enough! the drawings shown are just a couple for practice run to get a feel for how things would work and to see if I had enough supplies with me to work with. The illustrations are of Tucker (bichon dog) and the girls, Star and Hannah...little long coated chihuahuas.