A pencil sketch of an imagined fairy tale

Liesel worried about the wood

Champion, her deerhound, made her feel safe, however there was a rustling that made one aware of the depth of this forest.

There was a snort, like a wild pig, but more of a muffled snuffling.

From the rustling and the snuffling came Heinrich

Hardly a goblin or spectre, rather just an impish French bulldog who fancied himself a truffle pig.

Heinrich's search for treats in wood and field often had him spring up like a spectre

The adventure for spectres, gobelins, and rustling, snorts, and muffled snuffling could now continue, of course, but with the aid of their new chum, Heinrich.

I love to scan my rough pencil sketches
to prepare them for digital work. I often, before even more definitive inking/outlines or improving line or form eg. like to just fill in sections with blocks of colour.

It not only helps me to try out and consider a color story for a painting/piece of art/illustration but it's just fun. I suppose it's rather like coloring pages or coloring books.

Outlining and filling my rough sketchy lines is fun
and in this case I just used photoshop, after scanning my sketch, and darkened the line and then used the magnetic tool to outline bits and bobs I wanted to highlight.

I gave the overall color a simple scare of green behind the other layers (I do love layers) and felt it was rather affective.

Sometimes in play we discover new joys
and so when I mess about like this with my art in various stages I often come upon 'studies' that I love as is. And I have to say, for me at least, I rather like this primitive coloring in of this sketch, so I just might make this one a 'finished' piece, who can say.

I've said many times we Artist's are lucky in our allowance of changeable attitudes
"Chop and change, chop and change" might be said about such indecisive folk in shop keepers or book keepers, but in Artist's it's expected.

So, for now, I'm going to call this fun coloring book exercise a finished piece, tho I know I will still make more out of it in another iteration. This, also, extolls the virtues of the magic of the digital world for the artist.

Do you, if an artist or photographer or any visual artist, find that the various tools of tech give you more fun things in the toolbox to play with? Does it aid your work and inspiration or does it impede? I'd love to know.

I hope all of you find a moment in your day to indulge in your passions and as always, stay creative.

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