Lucky Lucky

Entry #30 - Lucky Lucky

Yesterday I mentioned that you have to create your own luck sometimes so I pursued that today. I chose to use several 'lucky' symbols from different cultures, I actually have an eye and beetle. People also pray when they need luck to happen in their favour so that also needed to be drawn.

The tree represents the growth of luck and sometimes when you're on a good streak of luck it just keeps going and your luck goes from strength to strength.

As mentioned yesterday, today's entry is the LAST one I'll be doing in this series. I will continue making things but just not to a daily deadline. So there may be a new project heading on here soon!

Enjoy.

Thumbs Up

Entry #29 - Thumbs Up

Because yesterday's entry was about being angry, upset and whatever else I wanted to create something that showed the person was trying to reverse their emotions. Sometimes when everything is going the wrong way you just have to pick yourself up and try to create your own luck.

The arrows represent the new direction that the person wants to take but their thumb down is how they really feel. There is no expression on the face because there is no real need for a personality on the person, they represent everyone.

Tomorrow's entry is THE LAST one I'm doing! A month's worth of drawings a day (does that even make sense?) is enough and I'll just carry on drawing to no deadlines.

Enjoy.

Emotional Food Chain

Entry #28 - Emotional Food Chain

Today's entry, although linked to yesterday's, is quite a loose link to what I uploaded yesterday. Leading on from the 'chain' of the chicken to egg to fried egg I began thinking of chains and what kind of chains there are. I wanted to do something to do with anger and emotion so I just searched (on you know what) for 'emotional chain' and found an article! So I knew it wasn't something that I had made up. I then began thinking about what would link anger to emotion and instantly thought of relationships. Relationships, whether they be with family or lovers, cause us to be angry at some time or another. This created the 'chain' link that I needed.

The differently coloured borders represent the roads that you travel on when you are arguing with someone, sometimes you just go round and round without actually targeting the real cause of your disagreement. This 'real cause' is what is inside his head, the relationship and it's faults.

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The First

Entry #27 - The First

Once again I was struggling to extract inspiration from yesterday's entry. After staring at the description I entered it clicked, oyster's are (majorly) eaten raw so that nwould be my theme - rawness.

Although I had my theme, the image didn't immediately come to mind. Thinking it over though I thought about what is raw? Eggs! Then drawing influences from one of my earliest entries about the food chain, I decided to pursue that same train of thought. Chicken and egg leads to a fried egg of course.

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The World Is

Entry #26 - The World Is

Thinking of something to do today was quite hard actually, I didn't really see any inspiration leaking out. However, after thinking about it I noticed that I mentioned my cat looking out onto the world all time. Although this whole 'world' concept provided quite an obvious illustration, I didn't want to pursue this. So I decided to think about what ideas or concepts can be developed from the idea of the world. I thought about phrases and the classic 'the world is your oyster'. There was my inspiration.

I wanted to keep it quite simple (the colours anyway) and try to instil the feeling of being tangled up, because the world is pretty tangled isn't it.

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Stars

Entry #25 - Stars

Moving away from the 'opposites' concept I decided to follow the whole cutesy bunny rabbit theme. But instead of doing another rabbit I thought that a nice kitten would be perfect. This was influenced from last night when I was sitting in my room and my cat Sylvie was just sitting there in the doorway looking out onto the landing, it looked like an ideal image.

Initially, the image looked a lot different in my head but it just didn't work out when I started drawing. The balloons are photographs that I took yesterday because they were flying over our house (it was the balloon festival yesterday). The cat is just looking out of the door onto the world, the amount of time my cat just sits there and does that is incredible.

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Opposite

Entry #24 - Opposite

Yesterday's post hinted at the theme of binary opposites so I wanted to follow it today. For some reason I instantly thought of a  rabbit. Not sure why but that is what I started drawing straight away. The tricky bit was trying to enforce the whole 'opposite' part of the piece. I asked around at home and apparently the opposite of a bunny rabit is either a bear, a furry spider or a leech. I thought that the bear would be the most appropriate to 'head up' the rabbit so to speak. Through admiration and because I liked the idea, combining the two together is almost as a result of Sandra Deickmann's combining of two animals in her giveaway competition. I could even go as far as saying that this entry is of direct influence of her work but let's not get too carried away, ey?


I'd like to come back to this one and give the animal some texture or different colours, not sure why I just feel that it's missing something.


Enjoy.