Ok, so I haven't uploaded any drawings or anything for a while, so today I'll show you some of my recent drawings in my diary and explain their meaning and stuff..

First off we have this one:

 This one as you could probably guess... I drew because of my recent break up emotions.. I used pon and zi as inspiration, and made it my own.

I drew this one because it was raining... and kinda to represent how everyone has days where they just can't win. and they feel like everything is going wrong for them... so this one was kinda inspired by rain.. xD 

This one was inspired by the cartoon icons again... I'm really getting into them and am really liking them... so yeah. xD
I have a outfit very similar to this, so that inspired me with the clothing choices.

So for this one I got super bored and didn't know what to draw... so I drew what was in front of me, which were my legs and feet. xD Unfortuently the pants were too difficult to draw, so I just made them plain black. I tried using tone in this one. c:





So yeah.... Hope you liked my drawings, and if you have some submissions of your own, send them to Matt. :D
~Amy xx

Sour cream cupcakes

Hello fellow drawers and bakers

P.S when you see * please scroll down to see the important notice about the cupcakes

Another fantastic baking recipe

Just ready for school :D

What you need :

- 120 G of Unsalted Butter

- 1 cup of sugar

- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

- 2 large eggs

- 1 1/2 of all purpose flour

- 1 1/2 of baking powder

- pinch of salt

- 1/2 cup of sour cream

For the icing (chocolate butter cream) :

- 120G of unsalted butter (soften)

- 2 cups of caster sugar

- 2 tablespoons of milk

- pinch of salt

- Cocoa powder (unsweetened)

Steps :

1. Preheat your oven to 180 Celsius and line your cupcake tray with paper liners

2. In a bowl, mix the butter and the sugar until they become fluffy and smooth, then add the vanilla extract. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well before adding the next egg

3. With a separate bowl, sift the  flour, baking powder and salt together 

4. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture gradually alternate with the sour cream and beating on low speed until blended, Do not over mix !

5. Spoon the batter into the paper linings, about 2/3 full

6. Bake for about 20 minutes, once finish baking, place the cupcakes somewhere to cool

Once the cupcakes have cooled, you can start making the icing 

1. In a bow, mix the butter and one cup of caster sugar until smooth and fluffy

2. Add the other cup of caster sugar, beat that intill smooth and fluffy, then add in the *milk, salt and vanilla then beat until creamy

3. Frost your cupcakes

*For the chocolate part 

Dissolve 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder in 2 tablespoons of boiling water, let the coco dissolve and cool. Once the coco has cooled blend it in with the milk in step two 

Lots of love, Matt xoxo

Alice in Wonderland

Hello fellow drawers and bakers

Matt here with a new drawing,

Yes, its Alice, from wonderland

This drawing took me awhile, with

much rage and anger but after all of that, I think it turn out good, but as usual, that's up to you guys

I hope you guys have a lovely weekend

also, Happy Australia day to my fellow Aussies,

Have a lovely day c:

Lots of love, Matt

Snow White

Hello fellow drawers and bakers

Matt here with a new drawing, as of my last post, I've started drawing this style of drawings, I really like the style, what do you think of this new style and do you like it?

Anyways, It is Snow white, I really hope you guys love it aswell and send me your support via the comments section

Also, do you have any ideas for a character I might re-draw in this style? I have a few ideas but I'd like to see what the public would want to see

Anyways, lots of love, Matt

One more thing, don't forget to check out the contest page, as you could win a $20 gift card of you choice click here to find out all the details of the current contest

xoxoxo

Wizard

Hello fellow drawers and bakers

Hello guys ! 

Matt here with a new drawing, let me start of straight away, it took me a very long time, I've never drawn something so complicated, I usually draw one part of the body (clothing, hair etc) but I did an whole outfit, I think it turned out good, but as always, its up to you

Personally, I like this style of art, I reassure you, their will be more of this type of art in the future, I already have started my next project in the same art style.

Don't forget to follow the blog, leave your thoughts on my artwork, don't forget you can send me your artwork and I might feature it on the blog, for the world to see

One more thing, don't forget to check out the contest page, as you could win a $20 gift card of you choice click here to find out all the details of the current contest

Lots of love, Matt

Prom Dress

Hello fellow drawers and bakers

Matt here with a new dress design

Its my first time designing a formal dress, I hope you guys love it, maybe one day you will be buying my designs from your local Target :D

Anyways, here it is ~ I hope you guys like it.

I hope one day you'll be wearing this too one of your high school proms are to a wedding, even, your special day  ?

Have a lovely week my little dumplings and don't forget to send me in your drawings, you might be featured in one of my blog posts

One more thing, don't forget to check out the contest page, as you could win a $20 gift card of you choice click here to find out all the details of the current contest

And as always, lots of love, Matt 

Cartoon icon tutorial

Okay, so here's how to make a cartoon icon of yourself, with your own features, clothing, hair etc. If you have photo shop you can use that, if you don't you can download paint.net from the internet.

Step 1: Google "tumblr cartoon icons" and pick one you like.
Step 2: Open it into your editing program:

Step 3: add a layer.














 Step 4: Trace around the main features with black paintbrush (If you want your own unique hair, don't trace the hair)








Step 5: Add clothing and colour in with colours you want. My example is very basic.











Step 6: Now is my favourite part: THE HAIR! You can do it how ever you want, this is my example.

    

 Step 7: Pick some skin colour and hair colour that matches your own, and you're done your cartoon!!

Step 8: Now make the background white and use paintbrush and write your name. THEN YOU'RE DONE!

 

You can use this for anything you want! Facebook, msn, skype, google. 

I hope you liked my tutorial.

~Amy xx

Cartoon icons

Ello again guys!!
I know this isn't exactly drawing, but at the same time it kinda is. It's just creating an image on your computer in which you can use for heaps of different websites and social networking. Last time I mentioned cartoon icons, mostly used for tumblr accounts. I've been practicing and actually making some, and I find them really cool and interesting to make. I've actually been making them for people on tumblr, which is really awesome, and they're using them. I use paint.net, but most people use photo shop. Here's one I made for myself, with a dress design of mine.

If you want, I might make my next post a step-by-step tutorial on how to make your very own cartoon icon using a template. I only use the template for the face personally, but starting off a lot of you might use it for the body shape and stuff.

PS:  Sorry for not posting for a while, a lot has gone on in my life in the last few weeks. Including breaking up with my boyfriend of nearly 11 months.. which was pretty hard on me. I've also got year 12 this year, so I'll try posting maybe on a weekly basis.

~Amy xx

Jacket

Hello fellow drawers and bakers

Another one of my designs, no, its not a dress as it usually is, but a jacket :D

I've never drawn one before, I think it turned out quite well, but, that's you to decide

Once again, the hands are messed up but, I'm working on it, give it time <3 Anyways, I hope you guys have a lovely week filled with joy and love

lots of love, Matt xoxo

P.S Don't forget to check out the contest  page for the latest contest ! You could win a $20 gift card of your choice! Click here  to check out the details

Happy  Drawing !

Don't forget, you can send me your designs, I might even post them if I love them myself

Buttercream Cupcakes

Hello fellow, drawers and bakers !

We finally getting a baking recipe up  ~ Yay
I hope you guys enjoy making these 

What you need :

-Cupcake mixture (Vanilla)
(were using box mix, keeping it simple)
-250 ML of water
-80ML of Vegetable Oil
-3 Eggs
-Choc-chip
-Block of chocolate

For the butter cream :
-350G or Icing sugar
-175g of slightly salted butter (softened)
-2 tbsp of water
-1 tsp of vanilla extract 

Steps :

1. Preat heat your oven at 180 degrees 
2. Line your cupcake tray with paper cases

Step 3 - What it should look like

3. Mix the cake mix, water, oil and eggs together in a large mixing bowl, then use an electric beater on low for 30 seconds, then medium for 2 minutes

Step 5 

4. Get your choc-chips and pour some into the bowl
5. Now, Spoon your mixture into the paper cases about 3/4 of the way full
6. Bake your cupcakes for about 25 minutes 
(depends on your oven type, but this is average time)
7. Wait for the cupcakes to cool including finish cooking

When they have cooled (about 1 hour) you can start making the icing

1. Sift the icing sugar into a large mixing bowl 

2. Put the softened butter into the bowl

3. Start mixing those ingredients with a mixer, put it on low at first, then, when they have combined put it on medium 

4. While mixing the ingredients add the water and the vanilla extract

5. Once mixed all together, you can start icing your cupcakes

P.S We had used a piper bag to make the swirl, but that step is optional 

I hope you have fun making them 

You can send me your version of the cupcakes, I might upload them to the blog, for other people to see

Anyways, as always

Lots of love, Matt xoxo

Upcoming, from Shelly

Hello there, my fellow drawers and bakers!

So, I guess I should explain my inactivity a bit.

First it was laziness, but then my computer crashed. We fixed it, but it still held me up a bit. Heh, sorry.

But, there's some good news: tomorrow I'm going to do some baking, and I'll have a new recipe for you to try. Won't that be good?

Alright, well I'm going to sort some more stuff. Have a good one!

Cupcakes

Hello fellow, drawers and bakers !

Matt here with a new drawing, since this is a baking blog, might as well do a baking inspired drawing, so, here it is <3




Sorry, I did not have time to edit the picture but, I think it looks alright, we hope <3
Stay tuned for more drawings coming your way

Also, I wasn't going to share this with you guys yet, but, this weekend, my friend and I are going to be making cupcakes ~ We'll upload them for you xoxo

But, until then, Happy drawing !

Lots of love, Matt
P.S Don't forget to check out the contest page for the latest contest ! Could win a $20 gift card of your choice! click here to check out the details

Patchwork Jumper

Hello fellow, drawers and bakers !

Matt here with a new design, its not a dress this time, but a jumper, It was my first time ever drawing a jumper - It was quite hard especially with the type of manikin I had used..


Anyways, It is a patch work design, If you don't know what patch work is, its pretty much sewing different squares of material to make a quilt or a item of clothing (like what I have done)


Don't forget to check out the contest page here for the latest contest, its a drawing contest and you could win a $20  game gift card of your choice if you win 

And as always, Love Matt

Ello again guys. :D

So for this post, I decided to show you one of my dress designs. This is an old design, that I redrew a few days ago. I started designing a few years ago, and while I think the designs themselves are alright, the figure work I find hard to work out. So in redrawing the design, I decided to make it a cartoon version, inspired by the very popular cartoon tumblr icons. (pictured below)

In using this as a inspiration, It helped me greatly with my design. Here is a picture of my dress design using the  computer cartoon: 

 I made it a little different to the first cartoon, only using it as a template. Don't be afraid to do this, as it helps mature your drawing skill until you can do it on your own. 
I then decided to take it a step further using paint.net, by making a computer made version of this design. I used the first cartoon computer image as a template, changing the hair and clothing to match my design. Here it is: 

 I personally don't find the computer made design as textual, but anyway.


I like to make my clothing designs a little different and unique. So if you don't like different, you may not like my designs. I use mixed colours in many of my designs, and added detail to some places. I hope you like the different ways I displayed my design. 
Expect to be seeing more of my designs. c:
Have a good day.

~Amy xx

Sorry for the wait !

Hello fellow, drawers and bakers

Matt here with two new drawings because I didn't have enough time yesterday to post anything, anyways, I hope you enjoy them, both! The first dress is far my favourite because it is a classic dress rather than the one below, but I think thats just my drawing skills, considering I rarely draw antyhing but dresses... Anyways, thats for you to deicide!
Don't forget to check out the contest page here for the latest contest, its a drawing contest and you could win a $20  game gift card of your choice if you win


Also, don't forget to follow the blog, leave any suggestions for drawings in the comments section, because honestly, I don't have a lot of ideas

And as always,
Lots of love, Matt

Ello guys, 
So for my first post, I'm going to be talking about drawing journals. This is where you can draw anything you want, and what ever you're feeling at that particular time. This journal is basically a diary, except instead of words you're using drawings and pictures. It's a good idea to buy a small visual diary, so it's easier to carry around. Here's some examples from my drawing journal.

 

So basically I just drew what ever came to my mind first and what ever I was feeling. Don't be afraid to use other pictures or drawings as inspiration or a template, as long as you make it your own, it's not copying.

Here is one of my most recent drawings. I drew this while listening to music, and that inspired me to draw him. I used a photo of him as a template for the outline, then just did the rest myself. 
(Sorry for the long post)
I highly advise having a drawing journal, I personally find it a lot more efficient and fun than a normal diary. Feel free to submit photos of your drawing from your drawing journal to Matt at: mattybonbons@gmail.com
Thanks for reading my post, expect to hear more from me. c: 
~ Amy xx