Whimsy in the Park

I'm learning from my colleague, Patrick Green, to #steallikeanartist. So for my first sketch on the theme whimsy, I did a google search for inspiration. There are beautiful graphic designs with whimsical trees and birds. Following the tree idea, I also saw a poster at the SG Botanic Gardens recently with trees made out of simple shapes. I'm always trying to learn something new when I create something for a sketchbook, so this was my lesson in Adobe Illustrator. YouTube helped me figure out how to make the tear drops and how to draw shapes you can color in. It was fun! I hope you enjoy my whimsical adventure.

Can you spot the outlier?

My sketch this week was motivated by my visit to the Red Dot Design Museum in Singapore. The museum is full of good design...well designed objects, technology, furniture, graphic design, posters, videos, etc. While there, I saw some books on typography and fonts. I love fonts. I'm kind of obsessed with them. Betsy's sketchbook theme is "Outliers". So, I thought I'd use fonts to think about outliers. Can you spot the outlier? It's obvious. But what makes that one the outlier? (Hint, there is more than one right answer.)