Grannie's Tale | Shop Opening!

      Today is such a Big day for me! I finally had my shop on etsy, after I've been working on it for quite a while. It has been a lot of work in preparing everything and making sure that the products are high quality. I've been spending time testing on papers, inks, printers and many other things, but it's surely worth it!

Well, I know this is not going to be an easy task or a success over night (or weeks or months..). It'll probably take years and require a lot of time, effort and of course.. patience!

Anyway, I'm sure that doing what you love is the best thing you can ever do. So, my friend, if you are  now on the same path of chasing your dreams, or perhaps planning to.. Let's get on this road together!!!

in the mean time, let's see some photos that I took for the shop :)

The Little Red Riding Hood Art Print for Children

The Three Little Pigs Art Print for Children

The Cinderella Art Print for Children

The Gingerbread Pin Back Button set

The Three Little Pigs Pin Back Button set

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2nd Instagram Give Away!

Yayy! I'm always so excited about the Give Away! 

This time we've reached 1,000 followers on instagram! So, in order to say Thank you, I decided to make these pins for the Give Away!

This time I gave away 10 set of pins that is inspired by one of my favourite bedtime stories; The Little Red Hen.

So, just wanna say THANK YOU again to all my followers! <3 You all give me strength to keep on drawing painting and learning. (seriously!!)

Love,
Minnie

The Little Red Hen Pin back buttons set

30 Days 30 Sketches!!

"You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh." - John Singer Sargent.

You can't sketch enough. This is so true! It's quite strange how I sketch less and less since I work on art more and more. I started to think too much before dragging the pencil around on the paper.

Sometimes you might need to think less and let your hand move on the paper with your instinct.

I'm hoping this "30 Days 30 Sketches" will let me have more fun with sketching in this month!

Follow my sketches on http://instagram.com/minniesakuntala

:)

Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf pretending to be her grandma.

One of the All-time favourite fairytales that (most of) the girls should have heard about is "Little Red Riding Hood." or "Little Red Cap", written by Charles Perrault in late 1600s. What I like most about the story is how she couldn't tell that it's not her Grandma on the bed, but the Wolf. Even when she saw the teeth and the nose. I thought it was hilarious when I first hear it. Yes, it looks kinda... you know not very smart, but that's why it's cute and funny.

So, I captured this scene with Watercolour on a smooth surface (watercolour) paper, with a little touch of Coloured pencils :)

My first Instagram Give away!

Yay! Finally I did my first instagram give away!

I noticed that I had 495 followers on instagram, and I though it should be fun and it's a good opportunity to do a give away! I really wanna thank all the people who has followed my work, support me with their likes and comments that give me energy and inspired me to keep on painting!

So, I did this painting..

My Art approached is Watercolor and 

a little bit of Water soluble colored pencils. 

Final Art Print!

I honestly wish I could give it to all 500 people who has follow me on instagram to let them know how much I wanna say "Thank you" for their support! Unfortunately, I couldn't afford that :p

Anyway, I surely will do more give away in the future!

Puss in Boots!

It's been a few days of illustrating this little Puss in a scene when Puss went to the King and the Princess and told them that his master was drowning.

This is my personal project. Created for practicing and experimenting with pencil colors.

I haven't used pencil colors since I was in school!

Anyway, I've found that using pencil colors is actually help me play with colors easier and also kind of increase the illustration's saturations.. if that make sense :p

There's one thing I noticed is that when I look at this illustration. It first take my eye to the King and the Princess instead of Puss, because the contrast is higher in that area. Need to be more careful next time!

Anyway, here it is!

Puss in Boots

SVS Contest! T-Rex Joy Ride.

Last 2 weeks, Will Terry and Jake Parker has given 2 online classes for free though SVS (School of Visual Storytelling).

http://schoolofvisualstorytelling.bigcartel.com/

The first one is Light & Shadow ; Taught by Jake Parker, an Amazing artist who has worked on a set of Ice Aged 3, Rio, and many more.

http://mrjakeparker.com/

The second one is Working with Color ; Taught by Will Terry, and Amazing Children's book illustrator who's been in the industry for 20-30 years.

http://www.willterry.com/

The Class was AWESOME and I can't thank them enough for it.

Anyway, after the lessons, SVS has offer a contest, in which we have to paint an illustration drawn by Jake Parker, and I wasn't even hesitate to join the fun!

Here's my step-by-step painting.

Since I'm gonna go for 'traditional painting', I have to trace the drawing on my paper first!

After painting water all over the paper, paint a few color for the background.

Then, after the paint is dried, start painting on details..

and more details...

...and more...

...and more...

...and done!