This is a technique I use when making my coloring books or creating characters for books in Adobe Illustrator. I mostly use the pen tool to draw the outline so this is a an easy tutorial if you are just starting off with Adobe Illustrator.
Forest fairy illustration in Adobe Illustrator
This was a very simple craft to prepare for my 3rd and 4th grade elementary kids while teaching in South Korea. I drew out the simple template on the top left using simple shapes. Then I photocopied one for each student. Their task was to… Read More »Tip of the tongue ~ ESL writing craft
With the constant building and industrial development of the world a lot of us are surrounded by, street art has never been more important for our mental health. Living in a huge city with no garden and endless concrete city blocks, day in and day… Read More »Street Art
Up until last summer I had been using a mouse to do my digital drawings. Over the years I did try various inexpensive options from cheap stylus for an old ipad to a drawing tablet attached to my computer. Neither option was of any help… Read More »Digital Drawings with the Apple Pencil
Winter camp was a lot of fun this year as the class size was small. Only 15 students for the lower level group, which was perfect as I put them in three groups and each member in each group was awarded a team point on how… Read More »Winter camp class
We had a great time making these Monster character bookmarks during summer camp. Very easy to assemble the basic structure so the kids had lots of time to decide on the design. For a lower level class and because we didn’t have color paper at… Read More »Monster Bookmarks
After much poking and hinting I finally got down to creating an Oracle Card deck for my sister’s company, The Energy Tree. Her brief was centered around Moonlight Messages and after a little thinking and a lot of staring at a blank wall to figure… Read More »Oracle Cards Deck