The Doodle Story

Its been a while since I've featured a Doodle Story, and shared my thought process on one of my designs. This doodle feature is not actually a new design, which is why I think it makes a good doodle story.

My AUTUMN Vibrant Flowers is one of my current favorites in my shop. I love the fall colors that brilliantly "pop" of the page. But this is not the first version of my design. The original vibrant flowers (seen below) used a much different color scheme. With each doodle design taking several hours to complete (between the hard drawing the photoshop editing/coloring) whenever I can "reinvent" one my finished designs with a new color scheme, it allows me to offer a new selection without having to start from scratch.

I wanted to offer an autumn flower selection in my shop and since I loved the playfulness of the Vibrant Flowers design, and the fun black and white hatching in the background I thought it would be fun to give it a new look!

Both the Autumn Vibrant Flowers and the original Vibrant Flowers can be found on sale in my Etsy shop.

Can't decide which version you like better? I'd be happy to create a combo pack of two of each color, just convo me to set up the listing!

Happy Autumn.

The Doodle Story

Today's featured doodled is my "vertical daisy" design. This doodle was not originally drawn to be a card. It was a doodle from way back when in one of my older doodle books. When I firsted started making cards out of my doodles, I went back through the old books to see what designs could maybe make good cards, and this was one.
My first BdoodleZ cards were solely black and white so this design was featured without any color. After I began doing colorized cards, I decided to make my flower note cards available in color too. Depending on the amount of hatching adding color can often take a long time. My newer designs are drawn with coloring in mind, so spaces between lines (for example) are often spread out well enough to allow for the color. But the hatching for the daisies was extremely close. So to achieve the color affect I had to digitally erase a lot of the hatching in the grass... a very time consuming process. But well worth it because I love the final result!

Check out this flower design and three other unique flower cards sold together in a four set of note cards: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10889555

The Doodle Story

Today I begin what I hope will be a new feature here on my blog: the Doodle Story where I share a bit of the story behind the doodle.

This card, simply titled "Wedding Dress", was created (like so many of my card designs) because I needed a card for my sister's bridal shower gift.




While I can't pinpoint exactly where the idea for the image itself came from, I imagine that somewhere in the back of my mind, I remembered a photo from my own wedding, a close up of my bridal bouquet which i just loved loved loved. While nowhere the same image, you could call them sister looks.

The Design has gone through a few transformations from where it began. The original version, which I used for my sister, had almost no color in it, only the flowers and a few of the triangle lines on the outside. But as I began to rethink the design, I thought that adding some color to the swirl hatch might help the white of the dress POP! which, it did. The version shown here is one that I love.