More Christmas Decorations - B&W

I was in my element tonight - this kind of craft seems to be one of those authentically 'me' type. 

Stencils with additional freestyle doodling.

You start with your black paper/card and use a stencil to draw around to make your basic design with a bold white pen, in this case a white uniball stylo.  You then either shift the stencil a bit and draw again - or you can just draw freely.   

These two are less 'busy'

Add any additional wording using freestyle writing:

They could be used on cards, tags, a hanging mobile or even as framed mini pictures.

Thanks for looking and for any comments,

See you tomorrow,

qwiksave

Do you doodle do?

As an artist come crafter I do find myself doodling at times.  I tend to like making up my own cartoon characters which is what I used to do from about the age of  5 onwards.  I've been looking at some old Beano and Whizzer & Chips annuals with my children recently and some of the images I remember so well that it took me right back to when I was their age.  Kind of spooky in a way.  I did love comics though when I was little and spent many a happy hour pouring over the characters' hilarious antics.

My sister remembers that I love to do cartoons so bought me this book for my birthday, 'The Telephone Doodle Book', and today I've been filling in some of the pages.  No telephone required.

In detail I had to:

  

...make faces out of photographed vegetables.

Design a cra-zy hair do:

(Some of the drawing is already completed for you, in this one I just added the hair)

(As you can see, I changed my mind on how I was going to do this, the spikes won!)

Next, I had to 'dress Mr Simpson'

Fetching pair of green shorts eh?

Here I added some stripes:

...and finally some more whacky hair:

There are loads of doodling books on the market, get yourself one and have a go!  They are a great way of freeing up your creativity!

Thanks for reading,

See you tomorrow,

qwiksave