It's been a busy two months! Only just had a moment to stop and write some updates. Lots of news so apologies for the incoming wall of text...
Although I'm a few days behind, the challenge has been going well, my style has been shifting and becoming much more minimalistic which has allowed me to create the illustrations more quickly. Although it has been proving difficult to keep up with the Daily Doodling and keep the ideas fresh, especially in between long days in the studio... I've been close to losing my sanity and I'm only 100 days in! I'd like to thank everyone who has sponsored me so far and for all the kind words of encouragement I've been receiving. Honestly, I can't thank everyone enough. All the support has really helped keep it all going when I've been close to giving up.
The Daily Doodle shop has been moving along nicely, I've nearly sold out of a few of the prints and I'm just awaiting a big order from the printers containing lots of new print designs to be added to the store. By next week I should have about 20 new pieces to add to the shop.
Over this past few months I've been developing a few of the doodles into full colour digital art pieces to be sold as stock illustrations, canvas art and to be entered into competitions. This month, I've entered one of them into the Boomtique t-shirt design competition and I'm already ranked 3rd! You can show some love by voting for it here: http://www.boomtique.com/pages/vote#tee-12
I'm also using some of the doodles as the basis for some royalty free stock illustrations which I'll be selling through Fotolia.com and my design studio, Creative Elements. Click here to view the full colour doodles in the Creative Elements stock image bank.
As mentioned earlier this month on Twitter, I'm currently working with the online gallery, Art for Urban Spaces to create a series of limited edition full colour canvas prints from the Doodles. The first of the series can be seen here: http://www.artforurbanspaces.com/beautiful-way-stina-canvas-print.html I'll be adding more to the Gallery over the next few months, to find out first about the new canvas prints, you can follow the gallery on Twitter @art4urbanspaces
As the aim of this project is to raise money for the charity Shelter, I'd greatly appreciate if everyone could show their support by sponsoring me on this creative marathon. The project is being followed by around 500 people and if each one donated just £2, we'd raise £1,000 for the homeless! How cool would that be? You can sponsor me via my JustGiving fundraising page here http://www.justgiving.com/DailyDoodle2010
Is it the end of the month already? Must be time for some more updates...
Just two months into the Daily Doodle challenge and I'm starting to feel the burn! I've had a lot of work on this month, sometimes working 12-16 hours a day and then going on to try and come up with a new idea for a doodle ... it has been a real challenge! There have been a few days where I only just made it in time, uploading a rushed illustration at 10 to midnight. But the whole project is making me much quicker at illustrating and is forcing me to think on my feet creatively.
Due to popular demand on the Daily Doodle Facebook page, I'm excited to announce the launch of the Daily Doodle Online Gallery Shop where you can buy high quality, signed, limited edition prints from as little as 80p. You can check out the shop here: www.daily-doodle.com New prints are added to the shop every week, and if you see a piece of artwork that you'd like to buy, and it isn't available in the shop, please let me know by leaving a comment. If enough people want it, I'll get the prints made up and get them added to the shop. I'd like to give a special thank you to FolderPrinting.co.uk for supplying such high quality art prints.
Once again, I'd like to give a big fat thank you to everyone who has sponsored me, and to everyone who has supported me on this project so far, the donations, words of encouragement and help spreading the word has been very much appreciated! This month's special shout outs go to Creative Boom for continually publishing features about the project throughout the month and to PS.DESIGN who ran this lovely feature on me in their blog: http://bit.ly/ccCpwQ
Don't forget that you can show your support by sponsoring me on this creative marathon by making a donation of just £2 to the charity Shelter via the Just Giving fundraising page here: http://www.justgiving.com/DailyDoodle2010 Every little helps and I'm sure I don't need to tell you all about the fantastic work that Shelter do to help the homeless!
Just 1 month into the challenge and it's going well, time for some updates!
Firstly I'd like to give a special thank you to everyone who has sponsored me so far on this Creative Marathon. Keep the donations to Shelter coming! It really is a fantastic charity and I'm hoping to smash my target by the summer! http://www.justgiving.com/DailyDoodle2010
I've so far managed to keep on top of the doodling and it's building it into my daily routine nicely now. One of the biggest challenges I've found is learning how to not be so precious about my artwork, but to be spontaneous, creating quickly without fear of criticism. This way of thinking has been difficult to get used to for a perfectionist like me. The challenge is also making me look at my surroundings differently, constantly looking for inspiration from my environment. It's been a challenging but fun and very rewarding project so far!
As some of you have probably noticed, the Doodles have now earned a regular slot in the popular online magazine, Creative Boom. I'd like to thank the Creative Boom team for all of their support with this project.
Ideas have been brewing and I'm teaming up with Snap Movement to create a range of T-Shirts to help raise a few extra quid for Shelter! We're conducting some market research at the moment and your invited to take part. Please take 2 mins to complete the Daily Doodle survey and be in with a chance of winning a free Daily Doodle T-Shirt!
