A black-orange stripey head
Is peeking out at me
From that tiger lily –
What do you think I see?
Each lovely curly petal
Is a tuft of hair
Framing a little face
From which he does stare.
A cheerful tiny tiger
Perched upon a stem –
It’s not just one little fella –
It’s a whole patch of them!
*The Little Fairy is available in my Etsy shop
WE BE ON TV!
This adorable line of rubber stamps is from my line of Skratch Patch Kidz.
They will be on Hochanda tv, Hochanda.com, presented by Sarah Jane Bewick of Stamp Addicts, on Sunday, August, 4, 2019.
If you have been wanting some of my images as a rubber stamp, they are also available at StampAddicts.com, and will be available for purchase on Hochanda.com, as well.
They are also available as digital stamps in my Etsy shop.
Everything in the shop is on sale today until Monday, Buy 1, Get 1 Half off!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/SherryWestArt/
These little cuties have been colored by the very talented Marnie Schagunn, a member of my design team.
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I did it!
I can color!
I’m NOT naturally gifted in the coloring department. Not. At. All.
If someone is “artistic” in one area, that doesn’t automatically guarantee they will be artistic in another area….like, say…oh…coloring in my own line work.
As a professional illustrator, I HAVE to be able to color in what I draw. Unfortunately, coloring is NOT my gift. I can draw, but I can’t color. That’s NOT good for a professional artist.
I have to ask others who are good colorists for help in that dept., and lucky for me, there are lots of good ones out there in the area I’ve chosen to specialize in – adult coloring and stamping – who love to color, are good at it, and kindly and graciously volunteer to help me.
After I Publically beg for help.
I have met so many nice people through this method, that I actually look forward to having to ask for assistance because I know I’m going to get some new wonderful friends, as well as some great coloring, out of the whole deal.
There’s a good reason why kids and pets beg….
It works!
This cute little gal is available in my Etsy shop
Coming up with an extremely appealing facial design is probably the number one aspect of designing a doll, paperdoll, coloring page, digital or rubber stamp or character. You want something that is universally appealing to all ages, genders, nationalities, so that’s a daunting task. Plus, it’s not easy to create beautiful designs that haven’t been used before and don’t look like something else that’s already out on the market. So, when you create one that works, you keep it and use it!As an eBay doll seller/redesigner, I’ve learned that doll companies use the same basic face style on each of their doll models. So, following that well-established tradition, I’m doing the same with the current crop of images I’ve been drawing. You can use the same basic face (as long as it’s an appealing design), tweak the features a bit and have an entirely new creation! Plus, it makes it much easier, faster and cheaper for the designers and companies. All of the well-established doll companies do this: Madame Alexander, Mattel, Kish, Tonner, etc.
As the old saying goes…it‘s all in the eyes. The eyes are the number one part of the figure that have to be right. If they are off in any way, nothing else works. It is through the eyes that the viewer is drawn to the image, so they need to be beautiful and engaging. Creating the hair style, body, clothing, accessories, color palette and details fall into place fairly quickly and easily once the eyes and face are set.
I‘m still learning how to design a good coloring image (and stamps) and am learning it might look easy but it isnt! So many things go into designing an image – composition, balance, line style, direction, line width, subject matter, and more!
Someday I would love to design paper dolls, figurines and dolls. I love modern dolls produced by Madame Alexander, Kish, Tonner, Maggie Iacono and others. I collect and am knowledgeable about hard plastic, composition and vinyl dolls from the late 1930s to the early 1960s. My love for dolls strongly influences my designs on paper.
HAPPY ART FOR A HAPPY HEART! 