Drawing: Seahorse Bookmark

[elliejane]

So, I have recently been doing some more drawing and a friend of mine said 'seahorses are popular', and thus I should draw one, lol! And so, as a bit of a challenge, I did. I then had the idea to try and make it into a bookmark type affair. This is the result.

The original drawing was scanned in to the pc, then printed out onto heavyweight paper, and laminated with 250micron matt laminate. Then, I hand cut the laminate around the image, and threaded some ribbon and beads through a punched hole at the top. The result is a bookmark which is approx. 12 or 13 cms in length. The laminate means you don't have to worry about getting sticky fingers on it (I read and eat chocolate at the same time, which can get sliiiiightly messy) as it's wipe-cleanable

I'm not sure the drawing comes across here terribly well (keep clicking through till you get to a slightly bigger version), but you can see the basic look of it, I think. It's done with Faber Castell pencils, and I *think* the actual drawing looks prettyish in real life.

I want to try making a couple of other designs, as well. At the moment, I'm thinking cupcakes, lol. And of course, now I'm hungry.

Comments

[elliejane.livejournal.com]

Hee, thank you! At the start, I wasn't even sure if I would be able to do it, but everything more or less came together like I wanted it to, amazingly enough! Initially, I had thought to do some kind of braiding; I saw the ribbon and figured I could try it, and although I couldn't make it braid properly, yay, just threading it though seemed to work. And I gotta say, I spent *hours* in hobby craft looking at the beads they have there!

I'm actually kind of chuffed that you mentioned maybe doing them to sell, because I must admit, that was in the back of my mind! I've started to try and do portrait drawing and other illustrations and I have been persuaded by a friend to have a stall at a village fete this summer. The bookmark idea came around because I want to try and have some little, cute things on the stall, as well as the main stuff. I have NO IDEA how the whole thing is going to go, but I'm trying to think of things I've found appealing on stalls in my years of convention going!

(I am also trying to make myself an arty website, and so the seahorse may end up on there as well!).