Princesses

When I was a kid, my favourite subject for drawing has always been girls. Girls in mini skirts, bell bottoms, high heels, hot pants. I just loved drawing girls. That was the art of my childhood. Recently, I met a little girl who has a large collection of stickers and her favourites were those of Disney princesses, Hello Kitty and Barbie dolls.

To entertain her, I drew some of her stickers for her to colour because she loved colouring. She liked it very much and when her mum remarked that my drawings were good, I just said that it was nothing much really because it is just copy drawing. I said that I would gladly draw on the request of her little girl because it made me happy to know that even though my drawings were not commercial successes, they were at least admired and I promised that I would continue to draw for her.

These drawings below are original. They come from my imagination and from a rekindling of my childhood love for drawing pretty girls. They were motivated by my promise to draw for the little girl who so admired my drawings. The backgrounds were filled in later to make each picture more interesting to colour and that was even more challenging than drawing the girls.