Instagram, Art and Me

I've been totally lax on my blog for the past year.  But I am going to rectify that.  I am linking my pinterest, deviantart and instagram accounts to this page.  I want to be able to share my art with everyone as well as my journey from sometimes artist, to full-fledged art professional.

Follow me on Instagram at: @thejulesbaker

My Pinterest page: https://www.pinterest.com/thejulesbaker/

Deviantart: http://julesbaker.deviantart.com/

And here is some art to make you smile!

So I got Married! .......

Actually, I got married last year on 12-12-12.  But it was random and we did it last minute on a dare.  We were already engaged and had set our original wedding date for 4-20-2013.

Me and my son on my wedding day

Me and my new husband on our 12-12-12 wedding day.  Not bad for a wedding planned in 24 hours huh?

We decided to keep the April wedding date and use it to throw a reception/party instead.  We wanted it to have that Rock-a-Billy/Tattoo feel so I designed some artwork for the invitations as well as some banners that we had around.

Here is the original top to our invite:

Here is our invite (my lettering was a bit off but it was a last minute rush job):

And then I also did this sugar skull drawing for the banners:

Everyone had an amazing time, we loved every minute of it.

Me and my girls on my 4-20-2013 reception day.

Cheers!  We had a crazy fun time!

Step-By-Step Sketching

I love making patterns.  I am very symetrical, I have a hard time not balancing things out when I draw.  (I really need to learn to let go of that!)

 

I drew this mandala with the help of my 9 year-old son who directed me on where to place the lines in my picture as I drew.

 

The first step I took was to sketch it out in pencil (sorry, I don't have that picture to show you!).

 

The next step was to line it all in pen, then erase the pencil lines.  I used the Micron pens for this step.

Looks nice but kind of boring with all the same size lines.

 

Step three, I made some lines thicker and added the fine details, again with my Micron pens.

It's looking way better!  My son loves this last step.  I colored everything in using my Copics, Sharpies and Bic Mark-Its.  My son picked the colors to use.  Then my final touch was with my white paint pens. 

Turned out pretty nice for a mommy and me project (he says "mommy and me" sounds to baby-ish - hahaha).

My Birthday

Today is my birthday!  Yay for me. 

It doesn't really bother me that I'm getting older, I don't feel as old as my age.  I try to live my life the way that I want to, not how society feels that someone my age should be living it.  I have friends of many different ages and I try to surround myself with happy, fun people that enjoy life.

I am posting this picture that I drew for my friend for her birthday, but I'll use it to celebrate my day too.

Enjoy your day everyone!

xoxo Jules xoxo