108. Sketches : Calendar Idea and Days 76 to 88

     The first sketch is one of the calendar ideas I will start working on. I want to have one of these little frame type things for each month with a small symbol for the month on it. I am working on the symbols for each month now and will start working on this idea in illustrator as soon as I narrow them down. I plan to have the inside of the frames be striped, just using two shades of the same color. Such as february would be a light and a slightly darker shade of pink.  I am thinking about making the decorative frame around it white. I am still playing around with color possibilities just because I a not sure what color I want the overall background to be, I am leaning a bit towards making it white as well. But I will see what happens once I get the sketching done and bring it into illustrator.

     The rest of the pictures are the dailies sketches I have done for days 76 to 88.  I have been playing around with a few different materials for these. I may end up sticking with water color pencils at least until I finish the notebook I am currently doing them in. It just depends on how much time I have to work on the sketch everyday.

     As a reminder I will be removing my 2013 calendar designs Night sky, Hourglass, and Notes from my Society6 store at the end of February (the 28th or March 1st).

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107. Birthday Flowers and Cards

     Here are the pictures for the completed Birthday flowers and cards. The lilies were not working to well with the paper I wanted to use, so I ended up making five different color roses for each present instead. I may try to work on the lilies again, possibly for Easter and just try different paper.

     I will have another blog post tomorrow with the daily sketches I have been doing; it should be days 76 to 87. I am also going to try and have some rough ideas for calendar designs done as well.

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106. A Birthday card and Sketches: days 73 to 75

     This is the first of three birthday cards I plan to make. I wanted to keep these fairly simple because they will each go with a set of six paper flowers. I plan to make the 'Happy Birthday' on the last two cards a bit darker and each will have a different colored set of balloons. I think I should have the last two cards and last three purple roses done this weekend. After that I just need to finish the lilies. So I am thinking that I should have the entire set of flowers and the cards put together the weekend after valentines day. Which would luckily put me way ahead of time since the first Birthday isn't until the beginning of March and the next two are not until the beginning of April. When I finish all of the cards and flowers I plan to take better pictures of everything grouped together.

     Once I finish the birthday stuff I have a few ideas for 2014 calendar designs I want to start. I also have a few ideas for a small Easter project. But I am not completely sure about it, I may not have time to actually finish it before Easter. I have to just see what is going on and play it by ear.

     The last three pictures are for sketch daily: days 73 to 75.

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105. Sketches: days 60 to 72

     Just a quick batch of sketch dailies. I am almost done with one of the birthday cards. I am thinking I should have it done by Wednesday. So I will most likely have a blog post late Wednesday or early Thursday with at least one finished card, maybe two. I have some minor issues with my printer so I ended up drawing them by hand instead. Just because I am not sure when I can get it working again.

     As a reminder I will be removing my 2013 calendar designs Night sky, Hourglass, and Notes from my Society6 store at the end of February (the 28th or March 1st).