Lilla Rogers Studio MATS Bootcamp May Gallery has gone live!

Okay, the Bootcamp May Gallery has just gone live!

Here is the link to go the May Gallery, Page 6. My artwork is at the very bottom ... so be patient and scroll down, and down, and down.  Don't know why ... I am all the time at the very rear of the gallery :-(

May Gallery: Editorial Illustration - Meditation: The Moment
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If you are interested to view my artwork back in February and March gallery, please view them here:

February Gallery: Gift - iPhone Case - Cuckoo Clock: Cuckoo ...
http://bootcamp.lillarogers.com/wp-content/plugins/lilla-rogers-gts/viewimg.php?img_id=333&post_id=773&p=5#viewImage:

March Gallery: Bolt Fabric - Jell-O: Happy Jelly Party
http://bootcamp.lillarogers.com/wp-content/plugins/lilla-rogers-gts/viewimg.php?img_id=853&post_id=853&p=6#viewImage

Tigerprint Design Competition: Kids Character Creation

I have rushed a design and here is the entry I have submitted to Tigerprint Design Competition.  This time the theme is to create a character card for a boy or girl aged between 8 and 12 years old.  The target is Marks & Spencer customers. 

Okay, kids of this age range are in higher classes in primary schools.  I believe that apart from playing with iPad and electronic games, they still love to go out, to go to the countryside for some physical games and fresh air.  I think flying kites can be a good idea.  Kids can enjoy themselves by competing with each other to fly their kites higher, and higher.

This is the first time I enter this competition.  Although it is a competition, for me, it is just for fun.

MATS Bootcamp May Editorial Illustration - Submitted!

For this month's Bootcamp assignment, we have to create an editorial illustration is to suit the article titled "How to Meditate: A Primer for People Who Don't Like to Meditate".

The author of this article is a female Acupuncturist, Doctor of Chinese Medicine, so my centre character is a lady. To add life and fun to the overall ambiance, I have included my favorite Cat and little Fish. Surrounding the characters sitting at the centre meditating, I have included all the excuses that may prevent them from concentrating in their meditation. Mobile phone vibrating, "My mind cannot settle down", "(Meditation is) Not for me", "(Meditation is) Too new age-y", "(I have a) New book idea", "Something needs to be done now", Hug a friend, "Business will fall apart", thinking of enjoying a coffee and donuts, enjoying a hot bath, etc.

I have attempted in three color variations and have decided to submit the one more intense in the blues. I feel that it makes the character(s) as well as the text "The Moment" pop better. I struggled if any text should be included indeed. At last, I used "The Moment" (and not words such as How To Meditate? etc. etc.) because "The Moment" is the focus of meditation. In the article, it has repeatedly mentioned that by meditating, it can "gently but firmly bring your mind back to the moment". The Moment is key.

I hope you enjoy my artwork - whether you like or don't like to meditate. :-)


I have submitted this one, mainly in blues.





Yellow was added to the blue background.









Blue background with yellow/red/purple accent.



Hang in there!

This is dedicated to a hardworking buddy who is now travelling with on business with a group of "bosses". 

Hang in there!

@Daily_Doodle #DinosaurHunter

Who hunts who?  I don't know!  Just assume my NinjaCat and NinjaBird gang is to hunt Dinosaurs.

@Daily_Doodle #AMaskedCharacter

@Daily_Doodle #UnderwaterExplorer

Yesterday's contribution to @Daily_Doodle colored in gouache.

I wish to use my NinjaCat and NinjaBird to create stories.  Maybe it will be great to start by incorporating them into the snapshots submitting to @Daily_Doodle (http://www.twitter.com/Daily__Doodle).

Colored in gouache.

LineArt sketch.

iPhone, iPhone, are you broken?

The son of my cousin has broken his daddy's iPhone while he made his first attempt to use it to shoot a photo of a snail - his new discovery.  I am so bad - I made use of this "story" to create this piece.  The snail was soooo caring, checking if iPhone was alright.  Well, I was called "you are so mean"!  Haha!


iPhone, iPhone, are you broken?

@Daily_Doodle #SuperCat

17 May's contribution to @Daily_Doodle #SuperCat

SuperCat and Gang

Hello! gouache

Let's see the effect of gouache on this piece which is good for children's book illustration.

Brainless gouache trial

Some brainless gouache trial to test the colors.

MATS Bootcamp May Assignment: Editorial

The Assignment of this month's Bootcamp is to create an editorial illustration themed "How to Meditate: A Primer for People Who Don't Like to Meditate".

Okay, the faces and people I doodled last week for the Mini appear to be ... irrelevant.  I have to come up with new faces in new & different poses.

I have never come across Meditation.  Why some people like it?  Why some not?  In fact, I have no idea of what meditation is.  Is it simply about concentrating ones mind with or without any body movement for some time, with a controlled breathing rythm?  Is it a sport?  What's good about it?

There must be some benefits for practicing meditation, otherwise why there are people sitting there for 30 mins or longer, not moving, not talking, not thinking ... if it does no good?

Will find out more.

Before I have a better concept about meditation, I do not know what to sketch now for the assignment. 

Today is the birthday of a good friend.  I sort of twist the idea of meditation to a concept to make a Birthday Card for her.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FRANKI!

 

Sketch with details

Initial sketched line art without details



Details make the difference





This one ... any feel of meditation?

With a twist, I turn it into a Birthday Card for a good friend.



Faces for Mother's Day


Happy Mother's Day!


 

More more more faces!

Enjoying doodling the May Mini: Faces & People

Doodles of the day.

Enjoynig doodling the May Mini: Faces & People

Boys and Dolls faces

Face doodles. Included some boys and some dolls. The dolls claimed they are not dolls.

Some boys.

Some dolls. The dolls claimed that they are not dolls.

These are faces too :-)

Oops! I know I should sketch human faces, but I can't help enjoying drawing these little guys! Excuse me ;-) Will work hard later on drawing people.

MATS Bootcamp May Mini - Drawing Faces & People

After five intensive weeks in MATS Part A, I am back to MATS Bootcamp this week. The Mini for May is to draw dolls, faces and people. I like to draw animals or creatures better, maybe because I love the imaginery wonderland without humans m...ore. Anyway I still should sketch some humans - in my styl, of course I have a full week to do this. To start, I doodled a few young faces, and even colored them. I believe they are not too scary.

 

Happy birthday, Ivan!

MATS Part A Gift Market - Lush Pouch

This week, the MATS assignment is to design a full lush pouch for the gift market.  We are free to choose our own color palette to create a 9.5" x 7" pouch.  Ideally the design should reveal our collected treasures.  Well, I am not a person collecting things except books.  I do have the full range of Oliver Jeffers' childrens' picture books.  There are pictures from other authors including Aaron Becker's Journey and Emma Levey's Hattie Peck, both authors/illustrators have their debut launch last year and this year.  Books.  What can I do to merge them into my design?!  I just cannot show these books' covers to make up my pouch (copyright infringement).

Okay, as I cannot use the books for my design, I have decided to combine many elements of Spring.  Instead of creating a bright and noisy art, I use retro colors.  It looks not bad at all!  In addition to the pouch, I have also created two journals, a pen and a eraser/rubber.  I wanted to include more but due to time limit, I will do that later.

Lush Pouch - SPRING (tribute to Madame Andrée Putman, "The Queen of the Checkerboard")

The pouch design and other stationery items.