Winter is here

November has been playing with us, teasing us with spring-like temperatures, and then dumping snow on us, cycling all over again. I think the cold is here to stay, though. The long dark hours and the cold take their toll, and I have a few issues to deal with at home. Sometimes I’m serene and […]

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Welcome to the Café

It’s rollout day at Starbucks today, and I couldn’t resist getting a Peppermint Mocha. Of course it put me in the mood to do some Christmas doodles. Also, I’m rewriting this blog, since my fumbles at learning a new system deleted the first one I wrote! Ah the learning curve of things.

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Logo sketches

When I sketched out the designs for the café, I wanted to give the coffee cups little faces to add to their cuteness. Then I scanned the pencils in and inked and coloured digitally in Photoshop. Even though I like the crisp lines of the digital version, there’s a looseness and softness to the pencils […]

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