SkribblyBlog by SkribblyKids

Neglect

2011-05-07T09:20:00.000-04:00

Yes, I have been neglecting my blog for sooo long! That's not to say I haven't been a busy bee! I've started making wedding/ save the date invites, done tons of custom portraits, and started working at a video game company! Here are some of the drawings I've done for etsy and http://www.cutecartoonportraits.com/ customers.

I'm also thinking about attempting to make an Iphone app at some point... fun things to come! :)

Prints for Petfinder.com

2010-12-17T12:32:00.000-05:00

I am now making prints to benefit animals in need! This is the first one in the series. His name is Sammy. The real Sammy lives in Ottawa and needs a very expensive operation. $5 from the sale of every print of Sammy will go directly to his rescue. Please visit the link and pass it on. Let's get Sammy better!

New prints!

2010-12-14T13:48:00.002-05:00

I've added a few new animal prints to my shop! Which animal should I do next?

Driving Traffic

2010-12-14T10:37:00.000-05:00

In an effort to drive more traffic to my shop, I've decided to list my magnets and pins individually. I only have a few of them left anyways, so I figure its a good way to liquidate at the same time. I'll keep you posted on how it goes...

I was on Etsy front page in this treasury!

2010-12-12T15:23:00.000-05:00

Spunky Diva feature!

2010-12-07T18:28:00.000-05:00

I got featured on The Spunky Diva today! Check it out!

New Website!

2010-11-30T21:01:00.001-05:00

I just finished making a new website dedicated to custom portraits! Give it a peek at www.cutecartoonportraits.com/

COUPON TIME! Everything on sale from now until xmas!

2010-11-29T10:15:00.000-05:00

Great news! Everything in store is now on sale from now until xmas! 25% off anything! Just use coupon code BLOGSALE001 at checkout! Happy shopping :)

Couple more cute pups!

2010-11-28T09:57:00.000-05:00

Here's two more pet portraits. These dogs were super fun to draw!

WOO! Featured on Retro To Go today!

2010-11-19T15:07:00.000-05:00

I'm excited to announce that My Custom Portraits were featured on RetroToGo.com today, a site that I've been admiring for a long time!

Let the parade of custom pet portraits begin!

2010-11-18T15:19:00.000-05:00

Ever since having my Custom Pet Portrait listing featured on Etsy Finds, I've been a busy bee drawing into the wee hours of the night! Here are just a few of the ones that I recently made! I really love making these since each one is so different and has its own set of challenges.

On Etsy Finds!

2010-11-14T12:10:00.000-05:00

I was lucky enough to be featured on the Etsy Finds daily email! :) I'm surprised at how much attention it's been getting me! Check out the listing here.

Jewlery Treasury

2010-11-12T11:23:00.000-05:00

I made a treasury featuring my OhCanadaTeam members. There's some really great Canadian stuff! :)

2010-11-08T21:54:00.002-05:00

I made a flier for a good kitty cause! :) You should buy raffle tickets if you are in the Sante Fe area! Go visit their website too! www.kittycityks.com

Family Portrait Treasury

2010-11-07T20:54:00.000-05:00

Check out my Custom Family Portrait Treasury on Etsy! So many cool sellers selling great custom items!

2 features to start your week off!

2010-11-07T11:32:00.000-05:00

I'm excited to show off my 2 new features!
The first one is on the pretty site "K Let's Shop". You can see my Retro Portrait here

The second is an interview AND CONTEST! You could win a card by check out the AdoredByNat blog!

Another Treasury

2010-11-03T11:35:00.000-04:00

Etsy is having some sort of promotion with HGTV. They wanted to show them cool gifts. I think these are pretty cool and worthy of being featured on HGTV! Check it out here.

New Interview

2010-10-30T10:44:00.000-04:00

I was lucky enough to be interviewed for "Life is What you Make it" blog!

Here is the Interview

Comic Cards now in!

2010-10-29T16:13:00.000-04:00

My retro comic cards are now in my etsy shop! Now you can say whatever you want to say on these cute cards! Christmas cards also available...

Holiday Dogs Custom Piece

2010-10-29T11:11:00.000-04:00

I made these dogs as a custom piece for someone to make as holiday greeting cards. They were super fun to make! I love doing custom work :)

Pet Portraits now available!

2010-10-26T13:25:00.000-04:00

Pet portraits now available through my etsy shop! Don't miss out on having a great personal print!

Click here to see

Twitter

2010-10-25T16:47:00.000-04:00

Well.. I don't quite know what i'm doing yet, but i've finally signed up for twitter!

Follow me here: http://twitter.com/#!/Skribblykids/

Retro Modern Treasury!

2010-10-25T11:03:00.001-04:00

I made my first treasury list on etsy yesterday! What better to include than all my favorite etsy retro sellers?

Click here to see it!

2010-10-21T17:24:00.000-04:00

This character was the star of a video I made for Atelier V. Recently I put him in various holiday costumes to be sent out in emails and the like.

This was a fun project to do!

25% off sale!

2010-10-18T17:19:00.000-04:00

Hurry hurry! 1 week only get 25% everything in my etsy store! This includes custom portraits as well! What a deal! http://www.skribblykids.etsy.com

Commissioned Piece came from the last one, Part 2

2010-10-17T20:10:00.000-04:00

This one was a loooot of fun to do. This family has 7 cat (yes 7!), 1 who recently passed away, and a dog. I had a lot of fun planning out who would go where.

These portraits are fun to do and I can wait to get more commissions!

Commissioned Piece came from the last one

2010-10-11T21:44:00.000-04:00

I posted the last family portrait on facebook and it got some attention. My soccer teammate wanted one of her family, so I came up with this! I think i'm going to add a listing to etsy for custom family portraits since they are so much fun to do!

Family Portrait

2010-10-08T15:17:00.000-04:00

Here's a family portrait I did of me, my boyfriend, and our cat. :)

Comic style greeting cards

2010-10-06T16:00:00.000-04:00

So I think I'm just going to leave the speech bubbles blank so that you can fill in your own message! Here is a new style that could be for birthdays.. or any other gift giving occasions. The colors may need to be darkened though.. what do you think?

Christmas

2010-09-30T18:03:00.000-04:00

I've been designing a new line of retro cards. Here's the one for Christmas. I was thinking about putting in those kids (less rough version of course), but ultimately they got nixed.

Any thoughts or comments on the new look? Things can still be changed before I send them to the printer.

Self Portrait

2010-09-29T11:39:00.003-04:00

I made a new self portrait yesterday. Like most of my stuff these days, I used some textures to balance out the clean cartoony feel. I also decided to try framing it. Fun look I think :)

New Video!

2010-09-28T13:36:00.006-04:00

As some of you may or may not know, my day job is as a Motion Designer. I am currently freelancing for AtelierV where I made this nifty little video which explains how they operate. Original idea by Mathieu Lavoie and Anouk Azuelos, Design and Animation by yours truly, Joanna Goldman (a.k.a SkribblyKids).

Watch the Video Here:

2010-09-28T12:57:00.002-04:00

I made this drawing for my soccer carpool girls. They drove me around all summer, so this is my way of saying thanks!
I decided to go with what i've been doing these past few months and use a ton of different textures. I like juxtaposing the clean cartoon look with the grungy textures.

Featured on Amazon!

2010-07-22T16:29:00.003-04:00

My invitations are now being sold on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca!

Go check them out

New Feature and Giveaway

2010-07-05T16:44:00.001-04:00

New feature and Giveaway! Check it out here

Items now being sold on This Saturday Night

2010-06-29T15:05:00.003-04:00

A new site is selling my items!
Check them out here!

Review and Giveaway!

2010-06-28T13:39:00.001-04:00

New Giveaway and Review on BeesGoBuzz blog! Go Check it out today!

Fifa Fever!

2010-06-12T17:00:00.001-04:00

Inspired by world cup, I made this self portrait of me wearing my team's uniform! Go Tigers!

SPCA poster!

2010-06-10T21:51:00.001-04:00

I made this poster for an upcoming Jazzy Cat Adoption day at the Montreal SPCA. Should be a fun day!

Special invite for a special boy!

2010-05-31T16:56:00.002-04:00

It's my friend's kid's birthday, so i designed special invites just for him! I think they turned out pretty cute :)

Invites are in and on sale!

2010-05-31T14:13:00.005-04:00

Just a quick note to let you know that I got the invites from the printer and they look great!

I put them up for sale on my site and on etsy this morning.

Here are the Baby Shower Invites:

And Here are the Birthday Invites:

Also in this week is a new no word version of the popular Stork card:

Go check em out now!

Monkeys variation

2010-05-27T12:10:00.001-04:00

The monkeys decided to take the plunge and get married! Congrats monkeys!

New Facebook fan page!

2010-05-26T12:48:00.002-04:00

I am happy to announce my new facebook fan page! Take a look at it here!

New site!!

2010-05-26T12:46:00.002-04:00

www.skribblykids.com got a makeover! Instead of using Etsy as my main site, I've chosen to use a template based shopping cart system. This will allow me to better track my customers, better promote, and allow for greater expansion.
Go take a look at it.. it's really nice if I do say so myself :)

Featured on DigiCute's fan page

2010-05-26T09:39:00.002-04:00

Today my giraffes kissing were featured on Digicute's fan page! Great page!

New logo in the works

2010-05-19T13:07:00.003-04:00

A new logo is in the works! I like doing these because I get to try things I would not have ordinarily!

I'm trying to do more and more of these since they are a blast to do.

The final product to come... stay tuned!

Monkeys!

2010-05-17T10:10:00.001-04:00

New monkey design! These guys are so in love.. awww

Habs vs Flyers

2010-05-17T09:53:00.004-04:00

Ok, so maybe we got crushed last night... but the Habs need some encouragement! Go Habs Go! Haha... I made this little drawing in about 30mins. Just for fun!

New Invitations!

2010-05-14T14:49:00.004-04:00

New invitations being printed up. Should be available in my store shortly! These were a lot of fun to make. I spent the day doing different layouts and designs. Have an idea for another sort of invite? Feel free to leave a comment...

Pavement Thumping

2010-05-14T14:45:00.005-04:00

Recently I've been going all around Montreal handing out these snazzy new pamphlets to try and get my cards into more stores. If you are or know of a retailer who would want them please don't hesitate to contact me! skribblykids@gmail.com

Trailer is up

2010-03-04T10:48:00.001-05:00

The trailer for Totem Headz is up. Check it out!

Vote for me

2010-02-17T09:14:00.002-05:00

So I neglect Etsy for a few days and I come back to a sale and a voting feature! Yay
Vote for me here!

I've been neglecting because I got a small contract to make a trailer for the upcoming iphone game Totem Headz. Looks like its going to be a fun game!

Blog Feature!

2010-02-11T09:21:00.002-05:00

Senioritis was nice enough to post an interview with me here!

Check it out :)

Sketching on a coooooooooold winter day

2010-02-02T18:11:00.004-05:00

It's FREEZING here today! Evidence is my cat sleeping on the radiator. The day they make people sized radiators is the day i finally get warm... oh the life of a cat!

My Photos

2010-01-27T17:42:00.001-05:00

Every Weds I go to the SPCA Montreal to take pics for petfinder.com. My best shots are featured on my flickr account.

Digi Fun part 2

2010-01-26T12:21:00.000-05:00

Tried out some more photoshop fun with this one. Mad Men again!

Digi Fun

2010-01-25T18:31:00.002-05:00

I had some Photoshop/ Flash fun today. Some of you may recognize her as Betty from Mad Men. I took her photo as inspiration. I just sort of ran with this one. I tried out most ideas that just randomly popped into my head. I like working with different patterns. Some of these are from old wallpapers that I found online.

New Cards!

2010-01-24T16:24:00.003-05:00

I put up new cards in my shop! Check them out here.

Vite for my Penguins!

2010-01-20T17:28:00.002-05:00

I submitted them to Threadless.com - an awesome t-shirt site. Go Vote!

Mixing It Up

2010-01-19T16:50:00.005-05:00

Today I cleaned up an old sketch of a barn and decided to go -crazy- and have some Photoshop fun with the background. It's a fun mix although I think I prefer the process to the end result (happens a lot!).

Ever get that feeling?

2010-01-18T15:55:00.002-05:00

This being creative every day task is getting hard. Uh-oh!
Ever get the feeling you -want- to draw, but you just don't have inspiration?
So i've been doodling in my sketch book.... nothing final to show.. yet.

Wedding Penguins

2010-01-12T18:18:00.003-05:00

This card was made by request. It will be printed soon-ish

Self Portrait

2010-01-12T10:04:00.001-05:00

Yesterday I whipped out my inks and decided to do a self portrait. This one took me roughly 45Mins while listening to the Across the Universe soundtrack.

New Years Resolution: Create More!

2010-01-11T16:38:00.000-05:00

In an attempt to feed my creative machine and stop being a sloth I have resolved (among other things!) to do at least one creative thing a day.

So, without further ado... here are some kissing giraffes! :)

New Get Well Cards!

2009-10-25T12:27:00.000-04:00

Cute new cards!

Vote for my Video!

2009-10-20T08:53:00.000-04:00

Click Here to watch:
Videos | Genero.tv

I wanted to create a mood while making this video. I didn't have a video camera, so i took time lapse photos all around Montreal. In the end i think it gives it a cool look! But.. if i win the contest i'm buying a video cam! :) Made with After Effects.

Please vote (and confirm your vote via email)... spread the word! Thanks!

25% Off everything in store!

2009-09-01T12:21:00.000-04:00

Visit SkribblyKids's Studio

SAVE 25.00 % On
All Items

Use Coupon Code:

25BACKTOSCHOOL

during checkout.

Handmade Cards

Finally - updated facebook fan page

2009-07-07T11:03:00.000-04:00

Just a quick note to let everyone know that i (finally) updated my facebook page! Take a look and fan me if you'd like: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Joanna-Goldman-Designs/16616199547

Smooth Drawing Tutorial

2009-06-28T13:45:00.001-04:00

I often get questions on how i make my creatures. Here is a small tutorial to give all of you an idea on how I do it!

You need:
- A doodle
- A scanner
- A Wacom Tablet (optional... but makes life easier)
- Basic knowledge of Macromedia Flash
- Photoshop (optional)
- Time to play with it!

** note: you can click on any of the images to make them bigger.

Step 1: Skribble it out!

Draw it on paper first. I find that it's a lot easier to skribble things out on paper rather than creating it from scratch on the computer. Try to make dark outlines around the lines you will be keeping. Once you are satisfied with your paper doodle, scan it in.

Step 2: Flash

Import your scanned in doodle. It will import onto a layer. Lock that layer. Create a new layer.

Step 3: Trace

Remember those dark lines you did? Now trace them! I like using my Wacom Tablet and Pen for this.

Step 4: Smoothing is your BEST friend

Highlight different sections and use the smooth and straighten tools to make... well... smooth lines! This makes the overall drawing much cleaner looking. Don't forget to zoom out and look at it as a whole.

Step 5: Tweak and playDon't like the nose? Change it! Needs more detail? Add it! Have fun and take time making it look the best.

Step 6: ColorPlay with different colors. Remember, un-do is very easy! Take the time to figure out which color work best with each other.

Step 7: Finishing touches, shadows/ highlights

I tend to color pick colors just 1 shade darker than the base, and use that for the shadow. Remember to smooth your shadows so that they fit nicely in the character.

Step 8: Export

Export the image as either a vector or a rastered file type. For simple projects i tend to use .Jpgs. Bring it into Photoshop or Illustrator and play around with it! Put it onto Birthday Invites, or print it onto a t-shirt. The possibilities are endless.

****Got a drawing tutorial you'd like to share? E-mail me! skribblykids@gmail.com