Last day in France! Thinking about what to do with all that cute fiber

The movie's great and I'm running low on ideas

More sketchy notes. Was especially smitten with the animal-people sketches, I had no idea that was a thing in the 1700. It looked very modern-comic-book-y!

Possible project angles this time. Might be onto something

I fell in love with the Savonnerie techniques a lot more than Actual Tapestry, so I out down things I've seen done with floof to have it all in one place

Vague brain dump of possibilities for textile toys

Since I'm textile-deprived for ten days, I'm going to sketch and plan. Some drafts for kitchen towels

First draft is done. Did some watercolours for it

Also made mini-shawl number 2, photos after blocking the whole series.

More brioche fails, 1/5 of the mini shawls.

Also more sketching for the portfolio

Planning the next Fimo sculpture. Can't quite figure out the head

Sketch cleanup: done! SAI is amazing. Now I do I get that onto watercolour paper that's in a block and therefore forbidding the use of a lighttable...

Started sketch cleanup, this time with PaintTool SAI's amazing linework tools.

Was a bit short on time to start the sketch cleanup, so here's a late night quickie. Turned out pretty cute :)

Sketch for the next painting. I'll be doing it on a watercolour block so can't use the lighttable, will have to think of something else

Research for the next painting.

Ran too late with other things to have time to paint, so made a few doodles. Might turn some of those into paintings eventually.

And DONE. I am not doing this the same way ever again. As you can see from the comparison, it was well worth it though. Tomorrow: print and transfer on watercolour paper!

Was hoping to finish today but it is, of course, taking even longer than expected. Cheers to coders' time estimates.

Still cleaning the sketch. Taking ages, but doubling as some very nice pen tablet practice. I'm getting much more comfortable tracing lines and being precise.

Scanned the sketch and started on the cleanup. This is taking FRIKKIN AGES, so lessons learned: try to learn to sketch digitally, or at least to have cleaner sketches before scanning. I also realized how much I rely on my lines being messy for my sketches to look okay: I need to address that and work more on line quality.

Added the frogs and the Don Gero mask in the middle., and cleaned up the lines a bit Next: scanning, cleaning, printing, transfering, painting. Phew!

Onto the clean sketch! This time I'm trying to do it to scale to transfer onto the watercolour paper instead of re-drawing it. We'll see how it goes

There's a Majora's mask zine taking shape out there (http://majorasmaskzine.tumblr.com/post/10495056919...) so I wanted to draw something from the game. Since I never got around to finishing it, finding what to draw took a while. I settled on the frog choir. We'll see how it turns out!

Any feedback on the composition super-welcome. I intend to make a watercolour out of this, again.

Preparatory sketch for a Squirt (Bastion) painting!