Nurturing Heart

A friend of mine sent me a link to a Threadless Design Challenge. The theme was 'Love'. I began work at 9am Sunday morning and did not stop till 11:30pm that night...and made the deadline! Now I'm waiting for the design to be approved for scoring :D I've always wanted to do t-shirt designs, and looking at all the submissions gave me loads of ideas. This is my first t-shirt design but it won't be my last! Nurturing Heart will also be available as a digital print :)

Threadless Design Challenge Link

Enjoy and love life! ;)

At the Threshold - Evolution of a Sketch

Finally got around to working on this piece after a looong while! Originally it was titled "Through the Open Door" and began as a rough thumbnail sketch in my sketchbook:

So then I scanned it and drew out a cleaner copy in Photoshop:

But for some reason the image didn't call to me and it stayed stagnant in my hard drive until yesterday, when I reworked it again:

I flipped the drawing around, added more stuff around the door - I wanted the room to appear claustrophobic and cluttered. And the girl was no longer lingering by the door, she's bounded out with the cat! (yeah only 1 cat here).

Then I decided to change it again and the girl is once again behind the doorframe, but taking the first step outside. There are 5 cats now, all in various progress of exiting the room:

The final clean drawing before colouring!:
There are 3 grades of lines to help emphasize parts of the drawing. Most of the clutter will be in deep shadow, and the outside is very bright.