This week's roulette is decidedly mellow. We had only two words to work with, making for some chill and tasteful illustrations. New week, new us!
Horoscope
Garden
Katherine's roulette is a two-parter. It's very "the numbers, what do they mean?!" It speaks truth to the fact that some people will find meaning in just about anything.
The Zodiac constellation Virgo is found on the pricklies of this cactus. That definitely means something. It's a sign. Literally.
Allison's roulette is a magnificent garden of astrological fruits and veggies. Every sign has that one plant that really resonates with it, you know?
Allison and Katherine are both radishes. Scorpios are tooooootally radishes. Do you agree with your sign's food designation? Do share.
We like these illos so much, we may just use them as art print inspiration! An entire watercolor Zodiac series? Into it.
Did you follow this week's prompt? Go tag #psillustrationroulette on Instagram and we'll feature your entry!
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ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?
This week's words were exactly the kind of ridiculous we've been hoping for.
Cappuccino
Unicorn
Meryl Streep
oh my
Here we go!
Katherine's roulette is a pun. Katherine says she doesn't use puns, but contradictory evidence is mounting daily. This is PEAK contradiction right here.
Hehe. Mareyl Streep. Katherine lives in a world full of #dadjokes.
Allison's roulette is on-trend. Unicorn beverages are trending! Everyone gets a unicorn beverage!
Do you guys think Meryl makes a mean unicorn cappuccino or what?
I think these roulettes speak for themselves, so I'm going to leave it there.
Did you follow this week's prompt? Go tag #psillustrationroulette on Instagram and we'll feature your entry!
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Round two has been ROUGH. Don't worry - we've got plans for improvement.
The devious words in question: CYNICAL REVOLT DOWNTOWN
I mean... maybe we're not as clever as we thought we were. But we powered through, and here's the result.
Katherine's roulette isn't intended as political commentary, and she certainly does not mean to offend. She's currently deciding whether or not she's offended herself.
Oscar the Grouch: OG anti-gentrification revolutionary.
Allison's roulette is ALL OF US. And it's so perfect for a Friday afternoon I can't stand it.
We need a drink after this challenging roulette so this is now our chosen reality.
Katherine's tools:
Sakura Micron size 05 to outline
Princeton Neptune round watercolor brush size 2 to paint
Variety of Daniel Smith and Windsor & Newton professional watercolors
Katherine's process:
Katherine knocked this one out quickly and did no scanning or editing. What you see is what's on the page!
Allison's tools:
same as last time
Allison's process:
yup, same
Here's what I've learned from round two: WE NEED PROPER NOUNS. We're going to add a ton of fun new words to next week's drawing so that we don't anger you all and lose you forever.
Also, please keep in mind that you can always present your roulette without comment. If it makes sense to you, that's good enough for me, because let's be real: I'm not going to share with you the mental path I took to that drawing of Oscar the Grouch. Nope, not gonna do it.
It's over!
]]>Illustration Roulette is an idea that has been brewing in Katherine's brain for many months, but launching Party Sally while owning Script Merchant, Inc. and also trying to get more than 6 hours of sleep per night meant that it had to wait. Until now.
Here's the rundown on Illustration Roulette as we initially intend it (it may change, who knows! help us help you.):
Who: me and you and everyone
What: Illustration Roulette
When: as often as we can, aiming for every Friday, indefinitely
Where: Instagram, using hashtag #psillustrationroulette (oh we do love our hashtags, don't we?)
Why: to get better at illustration and/or copywriting, ideally simultaneously
How: every Wednesday Katherine will pick a number 1 through 4 out of a hat (or bowl or shoe) that determines how many words she picks out of the NEXT hat which contains previously recorded words in the English language (that you have submitted. send us words in the comments here or on Insta!). We all explore the relationship between these words using illustration, writing, or both, and post them starting Friday of each week. Sometimes we may just illustrate a cool picture, sometimes we may include a short story, sometimes we may simply handletter a quote. It just depends! We'll get silly together and feature everyone's attempts. We'll add new words to the hat every week.
Since it's the first ever Roulette, and we predicted it to be somewhat confounding, we did this first round without including you guys. SORRY.
Katherine set an online random word generator to spit out 3 words and went with whatever the first output was.
And that was... APPEAR BLACKMAIL WHALE
Katherine told Allison, and with zero guidance or collusion they set out to make something of the words.
Katherine's roulette weaves the tragic tale of Tamela the whale, forced to appear at Lucky's Guys' Club every Friday lest the owner tell all of her fishy friends that she doesn't really belong. She's a mammal, after all.
Katherine is also sure there's some searing indictment of Sea World in there somewhere.
Allison's roulette reveals that she's a sucker for a good homophonic pun and that she gives no f*$#s (fishes?) that Katherine is pun-averse. Aggressively straight-forward, here we have a pier, a black male, and a whale. And it's killer (Katherine made this pun in a moment of weakness).
Feel free to follow your own path with this first Roulette, or join us next Wednesday for round 2! All related posts will be tagged with #psillustrationroulette so that you can easily find them.
At the end of each Illustration Roulette post, we'll be sure to include some progress and process shots as well as a list of tools we used to create our entries.
Katherine's tools:
Palomino Blackwing to sketch
Sakura Micron size 05 to outline
Princeton Neptune round watercolor brushes size 10 and 2 to paint
Variety of Daniel Smith and Windsor & Newton professional watercolors
Katherine's process:
Katherine likes to illustrate in pieces, especially when there are small letters involved, and then assemble in Photoshop. Below is her original piece before scanning and editing.
Allison's tools:
Graphik 0.3 to outline
Holbein artist's watercolors
Windsor & Newton Sceptre Gold II round watercolor brush size 2
Other teeny tiny brush, probably size 000
Allison's process:
Just paint the whole damn thing already
That's all for round one of Party Sally Illustration Roulette! Party on.
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