30-day Drawing Challenge Completed!

Happy September! Last month, Spoonflower hosted their first Instagram drawing challenge, issuing a new "prompt" every other day or so. I thought this would be a great way to get back to working by hand, and I loved it. Here were my entries. You can view all of the entries on Instagram using the hashtag #spoonchallenge. Can't wait for the next one!

Prompt 1: Cactus and Prompt 2: Mountain (both marker)

Prompt 3: Tree (marker) and Prompt 4: Landscape (colored pencil)

Prompt 5: River (colored pencil) and Prompt 6: Lemon (acrylic and marker)

Prompt 7: Book (marker and cut paper; the background is my Old-Fashioned Candies print, which I cut and pasted and added a yellow background to) and Prompt 8: Arrow (marker)

Prompt 9: Tea (Japanese Kanji character for tea painted with tea, then cut out and pasted onto tea bags and sugar packets; plus pencil shading) and Prompt 10: Toast (colored pencil)

Prompt 11: Platypus (pencil and marker) and Prompt 12: Hedgehog (ink fingerprints and marker)

Prompt 13: Beetle (colored pencil) and Prompt 14: Cat (marker)

Prompt 15: Fish (marker and cut out pictures of tuna cans) and Prompt 16: Skyline (blind count our drawing with pencil)

Prompt 17: Taxi (marker and pencil abstract) and Prompt 18: Map with Legend (marker and colored pencil)

Prompt 19: Landmark (pencil) and Prompt 20: Selfie (marker)

Playin' with the Queen of Hearts

This week I made my first little Flipagram animation for my Instagram feed, showing the designs in my new Queen of Hearts collection. I'm trying to focus for awhile on making smaller prints, which I'm hoping could be useful for a larger variety of projects. Let me know what you think! The collection is available on fabric, wallpaper, decals and gift wrap from Spoonflower, and totes, pillows, cards, and iPhone cases in my Society6 shop. (By the way, I can see this Flipagram thing becoming an addiction!)

Make a Font in 10 Minutes! (Freebie Alert!)

Over the weekend I discovered the iFontMaker app for iPad. Wow. Using the simple interface, you can literally make a font in 10 minutes!



Once you have created all your characters, the app then emails you a code so you can go to the website and download TrueType and Web Font versions, and even make the font public so others can use it as well. Here are two of the four fonts I've made so far. Both of these are public--if you'd like to download them, simply click on the font name below the sample. Enjoy!


First Try Unicase

Lilianne