One Car in a Super Long Train

This is my contribution to the super long TRAIN of doodles at the Scribble Project. A selection of carriages will be used in a colouring zine, with profits going to UNICEF.

There is still time to join in the fun.   Go grab a template and doodle your heart out.

A Mandala to Color

It has been a busy few weeks ... I was down with the flu (again!) and then I got hit with a flurry of sales (hooray!).

I don't have any journal or sketchbooks pages ready to post today ... but I was playing around in a graphics program last week and made this mandala.

Sharpen your pencils or break out your markers and download your own copy to print and color (77k pdf file): http://www.cherylasmith.com/samples/cas_mandala01.pdf

Oh ... and good news! The Scribble Project seems to have gone active again. Be sure to check out the new group project and join in the fun!

Just for Fun

This is a page from my moleskine notebook.   I hadn't done a collage in awhile & was digging through my paper scrap box yesterday ...

I used paper scraps and image cutouts, acrylic paints, colored pencil, a gel pen, and a Faber Castell Indian ink pen to complete the page.

Happy New Year

Awhile back I drew this cool coloring page for a charity coloring book.

Great news ... They got tons of submissions!
Not so great news ... They didn't have room for my drawing.

Well, I didn't want my hard work to go to waste, so I converted the drawing into a quick loading pdf file for you to download here.   Print a few for the kiddies ... it's fun to color!

Happy New Year! Happy Coloring!

Hooray for Anorak!

Over the Summer, I drew some "totems" to add to a giant totem pole at the scribble project.   Happily, the folks at Anorak magazine decided to publish a selection of the totems in their Winter issue.

Here are the two totems I submitted ... can you guess which one was selected for publication in Anorak?Click here to see the 2 page spread.


Go grab a copy for yourself!

Peace on Earth

A little doodle in the spirit of the season, with a taste of the 70's.   This is page 56 in my little moleskine notebook.   (I picked up a few funky lettering books on ebay to help broaden my approach to lettering.)

a couple more

I drew this last night after seeing Teesha Moore's "fun drawing lesson" on her blog.

It pretty well sums up how I was feeling all day, yesterday.

Now that I think about it, it is a pretty "oxymoronic" drawing.   It was depicting "BLAH", but then I went and added all the bright colors ~ so it really isn't "BLAH" anymore.

I'm in a better mood today, so I'll just take it easy & see where the day goes.


This other doodle is from earlier in the week.   Just a random doodle I drew in my little moleskine notebook.

I think I did a pretty good job of filling up my moleskine notebook this year.   I make quite a bit of art for other people, but hardly keep any of my own stuff.   So having made 52 pages of art (for myself) in that little notebook is quite an accomplishment.