From drawings to finished products

 

I wanted to show you a little bit about my process for designing today.

Maybe it will inspire you to design too!

Above is a drawing I made into my sketch book.

I used a stabilo pencil....in black.  It doesn't erase...but the feeling of drawing with one is amazing.

They are at Art stores.

The shading is awesome.

So then I painted the bunny on a small block of wood that my husband cut out for me.

I sanded it and then layered papers and paint.

After the painting was done...I scanned it into my computer.

I took these high resolution images and used Adobe illustrator to make these cool Happy Birthday tags. So now I can use my artwork for embroidery, selling prints of the painting, and selling the tags in a digital download sheet!

I like to get a lot out of art. 

Above is my "Sweets for the sweet" pattern.....which came from a drawing....a simple drawing on an ATC card.  I also watercolored the sketch.  So now this image is in my embroidery pattern and can be made into tags or prints.

Here is my "Boo door hanger" pattern....it first was a black and white drawing on an ATC card....I painted it and scanned it for more uses....but I decided to enlarge it and make it into this very popular pattern design. 

My Bee kind pillow....this design was a small sketch....I chose embroidery floss colors, stitched it up, aged it and gave it depth and then made it into this sweet pillow.  

Here I took a sketch from a drawing book...cleaned it up...redrew it.....and embroidered it up.

I made this Patriotic pillow last summer....so bright and fun.

Sometimes simple drawings can become a lovely embroidery.

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Imagination

 is more important 

than knowledge

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