February

Oh, have I mentioned on here that I'm getting married? Because I am :D So wedding planning and work have encompassed a lot of my time. Though I am very much trying to keep projects going. I finally sat down to design something for myself here recently, so now I'm going to share!

This was... I don't know what inspired this. But now I have to work on getting a logo done, and just complete a package. Because it will be fun.

I was perusing wedding sites and magazines and all of that fun stuff, and I was just overwhelmed by the amount of super skinny models EVERYWHERE I LOOKED. Look, skinny girls are beautiful, no question, but people are so diverse and amazingly different and most of your average clientele has at least a little bit of meat on their bones, so I just quickly came up with these three designs of different body shaped models based on some of the images I saw. Enjoy!

Sketchbook posts

Everyone knows that keeping a sketchbook or art journal is essential to doing anything creative. From just jotting down thoughts to thumbnails for a project to just going with whatever your mind wants to create, sketching and doodling are fun ways to relieve stress, brainstorm, or just let your mind be creative.

Here are a few entries from my most recent sketchbook:

 Never stop doodling. I doodle everywhere. Even on me, if I don't have any paper...

 Colored pencils are always fun, I should use them more often. Prismacolors, baby!

 First entry of my current sketchbook. I like it. A lot.

 When you're stuck in an airport for hours on end and the guy with the epic mustache WON'T STOP TALKING ON THE PHONE, what else can you do but immortalize him in your sketchbook?

Funky, not proportional, blue... I love this. I think I did this while waiting for a meeting to start (said meeting eventually got cancelled so this was the only outcome of that meeting.)

Yikes, it has been FAR too long. Luckily it's a new year, time to change things and get back into the swing of things!

Lots of new things on the store, very excited about how it's going. My Facebook page is almost at 100 likes, yay! Trying my best to keep that more up to date...

https://www.facebook.com/CathieNorrisDesigner 

Here are some new things that I'm working on:

 

This is on the store, as pillows, coffee mugs, etc. This is my LIFE - I drink so much coffee my DNA is starting to turn...

 This isn't on the store yet but I still like it :)

 This was a prompt from a retreat, very simple...

 This was from an Invitation project that unfortunately fell through... Wish I could have used it... oh well :/

 This was from what a client said to me about designing a book cover... *headesk*