Sushi (100 Ideas 4)

Dinner time is always very busy, specially with the kids around. No chance of being able to draw my dinner then. So I decided to draw my lunch. Usually I only eat something small at home. But yesterday I saw this delicious box full of sushi waiting for me right there on my way back home from an appointment. I decided to treat myself as I love sushi and haven´t had it for about 5 years! I´m sure I was also inspired by a sushi drawing done by The Renaissance Chameleon. I saw it the first time about 10 months ago and I really like it very much. It also got me to do more Moleskine drawings.

4. Draw your dinner.

You can´t imagine how difficult it was to draw the sushi instead of eating it. So I had to do a quick illustration... always eating the parts, which I had already completed drawing. Give me more!



You can find a lot of sushi drawings in Moleskines at flickr. I guess, it is easier to draw your food when it won´t get cold while doing so.

Link to Mim´s post
100 ideas

Collecting rubbish (100 ideas 1)

The next assignment was to collect stuff from the sidewalk. I did this together with my kids on the way to the kindergarten and back. It was strange walking all the time with the head down on the ground and at first it was also very strange to pick up all the rubbish (specially cigarette stubs or dirty stuff). But you can´t imagine how happy the kids were to pick up all these colorful bits and pieces. It´s going to be hard to get them away from this again and they still keep finding wonderful things.

1. Go for a walk. Draw or list things you find on the the sidewalk.

What a variety of things we found! Usually I don´t see so many different kind of colors when I rush along.

Full page:


Right side:


Left side:


When I completed the drawing I went to have another look at andrea joseph´s sketchblog.
She has a picture showing stuff she found at a church yard. I was surprised how many similar things we found. You should take a look at her blog. Her crosshatching is just amazing.

Link to Mim´s post
100 ideas

Creative Blogger Award And Pill Of The Week

This week is starting out great. Two surprises waiting for me in my inbox and on the net.
I received the creative blogger award by Mim and the Pill of the week on Illustration Friday Night for this illustration. Way cool! Thanks for the award and the pill. They made my week! :)


Here are my 5 blog nominations:

Mithi's Creative Journey
She started the blog when she took time off from her career ladder as a research scientist at Cancer Research UK. She decided to reconnect to her creative side and she reports about the process of achieving this in her blog. Her life is inspirational to me, as she is leading it into the direction she wants it to be.

Diana Koehne
I really enjoy reading Diana´s blog. So many different things, pics, drawings, etc. Take a look at her post-it gallery too.


Stefan G. Bucher´s Daily Monster
It´s a fun website. Don´t miss out his weekly monster-movies.

God The Blasphemer
I´m giving the award just for the great name "my heart is made of gravy" and of course the blogs are great too. I couldn´t decide which one should be awarded, so the award goes to all of them (Prozacville).

Plastique Monkey
Yuka Yamaguchi´s artblog is one of my favorites. I like her pictures. At first glance her drawings and paintings are innocent and cute. But you should take a closer look!

Inspiration On Illustration Friday Night

This week´s topic on IFN is `INSPIRED BY´. The instruction is to create something in direct communication with a piece of work recently posted on IFN and to put up the new piece of work along with a link to the piece that inspired it.
So I would like to post the pics and some comments which lead to this week´s theme.

Last weeks topic was "What Goes In Must Come Out". The starting point was the illustration by Mim:

What goes in...

...really has to come out....

Comments:
ksklein: lol.... mim, you gave me a bad, bad idea! :) i´m not sure whether i´m going to post that here. :)
Mim: Go ahead girl - if you're thinking what I'm thinking it will be a complex drawing

what goes in must come out

by ksklein

Comments:
red-handed: Nice mouth. Do blowjobs really cause babies?
ksklein: well, sometimes they do. that´s actually not the problem. the problem is the tightness of the neck... hard work! *lol
ksklein: btw: i was wondering whether the guys would be scared by the teeth showing?? ;)
Ellis Nadler: The vagina dentata appears in the myths of several cultures, most notably in several North American Indian tribes. Erich Neumann relays one such myth in which “A meat-eating fish inhabits the vagina of the Terrible Mother; the hero is the man who overcomes the Terrible Mother, breaks the teeth out of her vagina, and so makes her into a woman.”
Prozacville: Cool. Like the internal inspirations thing. Would be great one week to do a tag thing where everyone has to post as a response to the previous person posting.
Next week?
ksklein: hey mim, was this what you were expecting?
Mim: wonderful! Not quite what I expected but really a great sketch.

For K.S.Klein

by Ellis Nadler

Comments:
ksklein: Wow. You were very quick with this one. Somehow I find the in-way less disturbing than the out-way. ;)
Mim: what have we started...

Now I´m off to get some inspiration on IFN to complete this weeks theme.

IFN: What Goes In Must Come Out

This weeks theme on Illustration Friday Night "What Goes In Must Come Out" was inspired by the artist Steve Wasserman reading Celan on the toilet.


My illustration was inspired by Mim´s entry for this theme. It´s a quick one, as the next few holidays are starting in about 4 hours and I still have to cook 6 full meals.