another drawing

It's been a while but I was finally motivated to draw again tonight. But I decided to play around in Art Rage instead of real paper.
I bought Art Rage just after starting Suzi Blu's class so I haven't had very much time to get to know it, so I was excited to try drawing digitally and seeing what I could do!
And so my first experiment...
Don't get me wrong I have opened Art Rage a few times and scribbled a few faces, but I had no idea what settings to use or how to blend colours or anything. Tonight I had a quick look in the help section before starting and I was much happier with what I accomplished.
But OMG my arm hurts. I had my pen set on the highest sensitivity so I was really pushing hard sometimes to get pressure on the page. I think I need to adjust that next time!

Please let me know what you think! I went for a little more realism this time and I know it's far from perfect but I like her!

Scrap Orchard contest and GSO!

I decided to enter the Iron Scrapper contest at Scrap Orchard this year.
This is my first page and I'm so excited that it made the GSO Blog! Thank you Kate!
Thank you also to Kimberly for the GSO on her blog and to Heather-Kate for the GSO at Scrap Orchard! wow!

Drawing with Suzi Blu!

I have been eyeing off Suzi Blu's 'Petite Dolls' class for ages now
and last week I finally took the plunge!!And I'm loving it! I'm only up to lesson 2...but I am so happy with what I've made so far.I had no idea I could draw so well!
I am now hoping to get some soft coloured pencils soon so I can blend better. My Derwent Artist's are just too hard to blend the colours nicely. So I'm trying to decide between the Prismacolors (which Suzi recommends but are hard to get here) or the new Derwent Coloursofts. If anybody has any advice for me it would be appreciated!
So here is Suzi's class if anybody is interested...

and my work so far...

GSO Blog!

Thank you so much Anne! hugs

GSO blog...wow

Now this was a huge surprise!
I made this page really quickly as a LilyPad challenge and then the next dayI see it on the GSO blog!
I was honestly shocked! lol
Anyway...thank you Sandra aka chengie! Much appreciated!

A new designer, A Freebie, and new stuff from Hollie!

There is a new designer in town!
I am so happy to announce the arrival of Deviant Scrap's newest designer, Art By January!
January is an amazing artist who actually paints her elements in watercolors or acrylics and then carefully extracts them.
You will not believe the detail and realism she brings to life in her art.
Make sure you check out her amazing first kits and her baby dragon freebie at Deviant Scrap!

And my pages...

And new from Holliewood Studios is the gorgeous kit Knock On Wood!
Love this!!

Red Ivy Designs new kit!

I answered a one kit call for Red Ivy Designs this week and I am so in love with this kit!
Alice is guesting at ZigZag Scrap for the month of April so you can find Think Spring exclusively there!

And thank you Sandra for choosing my page for the GSO blog!

ViVa Artistry spotlighted at 5Star!

ViVa Artistry are the featured designers at 5 Star Digital Scrapbooking this week!
Head on over to see what makes them tick and to grab their gorgeous freebie!

New From Holliewood Studios!

Hollie has brought out a fabulous new kit...'Art Journalling 2'!!

I had heaps of fun making a page with this, and it could easily be used for normal scrap pages too!

A huge thank you to Madgentis for the DST GSO and to Lynnette for the GSO blog!!