Scrawlrbox August

 

I really loved how technical Augusts box was:

A new mechanical pencil! and it came with refills Yay! This pencil has a good weight to it and its made its way into my pencil case along with the Fiesta mechanical pencil from February's box.

Likey to use again? Yes

Another Derwent product, this is a good little rubber, one of two shapes we could have received. Fits nicely in my hands and it rubs out pretty well.

Likey to use again? Yes 

More Alcohol markers, this time by Spectrum noir. Not heard of these before but they work pretty well from a novice marker point of view. Looking through Instagram it looks like there was another colour combination that other people received, a pink and a teal colour. 

Likey to use again? Maybe, I might have to get some other colours to go with them though.

I already have one of these, but it was nice to have a pen to go with the mechanical pencil.

Likey to use again? Yes

This was cool, I don't do straight lines, perspective or any thing isometric so this tool was great fun to use. 

Likey to use again? I think so

This is my drawing for the challenge, Imagination palace. Loads of other people drew palaces or castles so I decided to be different and draw a room from my imagination palace. Also inspired by Baldur's Gate which is an Isometric top down RPG game which I am currently playing at the moment. However after photographing it I have realised that I haven't done any shading in it :( poop.

Fimo Friday

Glow in the dark!

These two dragons are the trouble dragons that I wrote about in a blog post here  I was fully expecting to snap the tails when putting the spider charms on. Unfortunately because of my luck both the dragons have a wobble due to their tails being in the air, so the dice are glue in their hands to weigh them and stop the wobble.

Freaking love this guy, just love the horns and the colours, though this time I have used a slightly lighter green for the belly and accents than I usually do. Also made completely with Sculpey Souffle

This guy is also made with Sculpey Souffle, I really like using this clay and might continue to do so.

All these guys are in my shop here and there are more images there too.

Black Fine liners

I have a bit of an obsession with Black pens, and have collected a few over the years in pursuit of the perfect one.

My oldest pens are the Uni Pin pens, I use to use these all the time, they were quite good pens and not too expensive. Haven't used them for a while now as I am playing with newer pens so they are starting to dry out.

This is the Pilot G-TEC-C4, its a gel pen but the lines are nice and thin.

Another Pen I use to use all the time for larger areas of colour is the Paper Mate Flair. It does run out quickly and tends not to survive not being used for a while as its a felt tip

This pen I was given as a present have haven't really used it properly. Pentel Brush Pocket Pen, however I think I might start using it again as I have discovered its more waterproof then most of the pens on this page.

Derwent Graphik line Markers, I bought these pens 2 years ago and fell in love with how dark the black is, and then got the grey to add more depth to line drawings. The sepia and Grey come in 0.1, 0.3 and 0.5 sizes whereas the black has 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.5 and 0.8. Derwent also do a range of paint markers so you can get a white one as well for highlights.

Staedtler Pigment liners, I'll be honest these pens I have used the least amount compared to the rest as they are not as waterproof as I had hoped.

Ooooo I love the Zig Mangaka Flexible pen, it came with April's Scrawlrbox (I think) along with the manga 0.5 (which is a size I don't use often). I already have the replacement pen in my shopping basket on amazon ready for when it finally runs out (Which might be soon as I use it so much). Any pen work in the last few months has had this pen used on it :)

Another Scrawlrbox pen is the Stabilo Point Max. This one is not waterproof at all and limits its use.

Artline 200 again another Scrawlrbox pen and again not waterproof, but when you get it wet it kinda goes blue lol

Stabilo point 88 This months Scrawlrbox pen (August), I already have one of these, it came with 9 other coloured pens that I use for admin stuff with my Etsy shop. They are nice to write with, I've read that they run out quick but I haven't found that. 

Micron Pens the newest addition to my collection and I love them so much as they are waterproof so I use them a lot with the Mangaka flexible for a lot of my recent work (skull-a-day)

Anyway it's nice to finally test and compare all the pens against each other.

Fimo Friday

Two of these little dragons have gone off to new homes but the others plus the Galaxy donut earrings are available in the shop

Skull-a-day Final pieces

Scrawlrbox July

Wink of Luna, Metallic brush pen. I did not like this pen, I don't know if i got a dud or its suppose to work like this. The bottom scribble is the pen dipped in water to see if it worked better.  

Likey to use again? No

I liked the black pen as I have an obsession with collecting Fine Black pens. Unfortunately its not waterproof so it limits its use.

Likey to use again? The black one yes, probably not the blue one

The Post Chalk pen was a weird pen as its clear to begin with so its difficult to use for art. 

Likey to use again? Yes for my blackboard

Wasn't sure what to do with this pen, so I used it for the background. Works nicely, good flow of ink/colour.

Likey to use again? Probably not 

These are heavy colouring pencils, the pack says they are super durable and I believe it, they put down colour nicely, my only gripe is there was no purple, one of my favourite colours.

Likey to use again? Maybe as part of my travel art supplies

And here is the horrific self portrait, Its not going to be posted anywhere but here, The prompt was Shattered Self and I tried to use as much as I could from the box (apart from the crappy wink of luna brush)

Anyway got Augusts box to work on now. 

It doesn't rain but it pours

This is going to be a wordy post with probably no pics.

So on Friday I sat down to work on some Halloween dragons for my shop. They are going to be a black base with orange accents, now my black fimo is a big 350g block that I've had for a few years and i'm over halfway through it. Its a bit hard so a lot of conditioning is required to get it suitable for making dragon with. The clay is now all rolled into balls and its soft, wonderful, I start working on the body of the first one. I don't really notice that the clay is too soft and its sticky until I start to attach the tail. I'm getting frustrated now as holding the dragon is making it go out of its shape, I can't use my black premo clay as the design I want for these dragons are their tails curled up and premo uncurls in the oven, not helpful. I power through trying not to touch the clay too much as I think the heat from my hands is not helping.

I managed to make one dragon but did not bake its wings as I was planning on doing that the next day. During the night one of the cats gets up onto the desk and knocks the tray with the wings on on to the floor and now I have to remake the wings. Fine, not a problem, oh wait the clay is still stupidly sticky, arg.

I still have two more dragons to make with this clay, so Saturday I start the next one. Somehow the clay is now even more stickier and I am get frustrated trying to shape this next dragon so much so I scrunch the bloody thing up and throw it.

Right now I need a win, I need to restock the shop and get on with my long list of dragons to make. I've just recently bought the whole colour selection of sculpey souffle, so I fish out the black and I make a tiny dragon with a pumpkin. This makes me much happier as now there are two dragons sat waiting to be baked.

I decided to bin off one of the ideas as this black clay is getting me stressed, I power on through the next dragon with the black fimo and so far its sat on the tile halfway made and its ok so far. I decide to call it a day at 6pm yesterday and when I have unbaked clay sat on my desk I cover them with tubs that use to have biscuits and cake things in. They are cleaned out before being used to cover the dragons, except the one I used to cover the dragons I have struggled to make, and baptise them in crumbs........

ARG.

Thankfully I am able to blow off most of the crumbs and it hasn't affected the dragons. Anyway I haven't baked the dragons yet so I am fully expecting more crap to happen.