Two ATCs

Spring Flowers ATC

Not much to show although I’ve been doing something creative most days. Some of that has been making notes about my world of Rohinval plus increasing the vocabulary of my conlang, Rohiniem.

However, I’ve made two ATCs for SwapBot swaps. ‘Spring Flowers’ is the first in what will be a series of monthly group swaps. The second ATC is a Zentangled U, a continuation of the alphabet series that I’ve been enjoying.

Hopefully I’ll have more to show early next month – for now, happy leap year day to all!!!

Zentangled 'U' ATC

Map and zentangles

Zentangled hand

I’ve recently completed two very different swaps in Swap-Bot.

The first entailed drawing around my hand before filling it with zentangles. I used a textured paper from an acrylic pad as the paper needed to be thick enough not to get bent in the post and this was the thickest white paper that I had available. It made some of the drawing more difficult but I love the effect on the shadowing around the hand itself. Fun to do – I’m doing a lot of zentangles and doodles lately, this was a nice challenge.

For the second swap, I had to draw a fantasy map with certain elements included: at least 3 geographical features, a compass, names of cities and/or town, and a name for the land itself. I chose to draw Neriadeem, an island nation in my land of Rohinval. It’s one of the few areas of ‘my world’ that I know a fair bit about and so it seemed obvious to me to use that. I was pleased with the result – I used pen, inktense pencils and some acrylic inks. Again, fun to do, and useful – I’ll be using this map (or the scan I have) in the new map that I’m currently making (see my Rohinval blog for more info).

Neriadeem, an island nation in Rohinval.

Jill’s book…

Jill's additions to my 'play' in her book...

... that I added to...

...and continued onto the next pages.

I deliberately left the thread unattached so that Jill can decide where it goes, if anywhere.

R.I.P. Adam Adamowicz

The artist responsible for so much of the artwork in the Elder Scrolls games died earlier this week, aged about 48. Sad that such a talented artist should die so young but the legacy he has left us is stunning. The site on Elder Scrolls is a tribute to him as a person and as an artist. See HERE for a slide show of some of his work for Skyrim, the latest in the series of fantasy games on which he worked. He will be missed.

Yay!!!

S and T zentangled ATCs

My Sketchbook 2012 for the Art House Co-op has now been digitized!!! See here.

Also, a couple of Alphabet Zentangled ATCs for the SwapBot series. I’ve so been enjoying doing these.

I’ve also worked in and sent back my Visual Dialogue book, see below for pics. I have Jill‘s book here, too, but need to take a photo so will publish that later in the week. Am so enjoying our renewed ‘play’ in the Visual Dialogue books, it’s such fun when the books arrive in the post to open up the parcel and see what Jill has done

 

My additions to Jill's changes...

... and additions to her spread...

... plus the start of a new spread.

More visual dialoguing

And we’re getting back into the swing of this nicely!!! So good to be ‘talking’ to each other again via our books

Here’s what Jill did in her book:

Jill's spread

And my reply:

My reply.

And Jill’s response to the pages in my book:

Jill's additions to my spread...

...and continued over the page.