Blood Makes The Grass Grow!

Done with a set palette for a weekly art challenge on tumblr.

Abomination

This illustration was done as a gift for a friend. It will be included in her comic/artbook as a bonus image. You can pre-order a copy right over here.

New Header

I did this instead of sleeping! :D Have a close up.


Would you believe I've been wanting to draw that picture since about seventh grade? Yeah.

Chain of Roses

That hair is what I get for inking something at 2 AM. I'm pretty happy with those roses, though, and overall I think that experiment was a success.

There's my sketch for this. I was thinking dragons instead of roses at first but changed my mind.

Painting at Midnight

Why am I painting at midnight and/or 2 AM, you ask? I have no idea, but I've spent the last couple of hours looking at Mucha paintings and that may have something to do with it.



There's loads of errors here, but mainly I intended to use it as a test painting to try out my watercolor pencils and water pens, which I haven't actually used yet.

Scanned again so I had a line art version of those roses. I really like drawing roses.

Progress

I can't believe I forgot to put this here!



I applied some critique from some other artists, particularly on minor tweaks to the anatomy, and I'm working on detailing and better defining the forms now.

My current project for BrandX is due to be finished on Monday, though, so I'm a little busy with that and can't work on this right now. I'll hopefully get some time to finish this up next week. :)

Blood Magic

More stuff I drew on my lunch break!



One day I will draw Andy doing something she, you know, actually does sometimes.

progress and lost lighting

This might have been slightly ambitious given the amount of available time I have right now. Anyway, I've finally got Zach's face to a level where I don't cringe to look at him, I've put in the base of a sword and some placeholder lightning. I had some blue light on them from the placeholder lightning, but accidentally closed the file without saving it, so that will have to be redone. I've also adjusted the seams on Andy's robe in the sketch so that it actually makes sense... might seem like a small tweak, but it was driving me insane.

I think their hair will stay as-is until I get the clothes to a more complete level, since I'll probably end up with some flyaway strands on the clothing and I think it will be more efficient just to do that once.


Here's what it looked like with the blue lighting I lost. The previous picture is more recent and has some tweaks to Zach's face to make him look a little better.

Finished

Finished this at work today. :D

The paper got all waffley from being colored, so my scanner destroyed it pretty well. I did my best to fix it up in Photoshop. Pretty happy with how this turned out, but I really badly want to go get more col-erase pencils now, considering what's shown here is basically every color I have left.

Work Doodles

Obviously Mucha-inspired WIP Andy. Complicated by the loss of most of my col-erase pencils, resulting in a VERY limited palette that does not, unfortunately, include her hair color.

Rriilp Update

So, remember that water creature painting I was doing? When the computer crashed, I misplaced him deep inside my reference folder. I found him yesterday! Obviously, still a WIP, but this version looks a little better than the last one I posted.


I'm tempted to redo his feet, and I'm beginning to believe he needs more jewelry. Opinions?

Painting from life!

So here's two weeks worth of life drawing, since I didn't upload last week. Luckily, (unluckily??) I didn't like many of my drawings last week, so there isn't too much I have to show this time.


I drew several like this, with too bit of heads, due to having my (very large) sketchbook in my lap instead of on an easel. I kept forgetting the perspective of having the thing in my lap means that I don't have to draw the head so big. Sigh.




This week, there were two sessions back to back: a normal one, and a three hour session with only one pose. I went to the long pose but skipped the others.

Acrylics because my gouache has apparently dried out! :c This was interesting since I've never done a nude from life before with paints, and I spent quite a lot of time fighting the tools rather than focusing on creating a likeness. This is something I should probably spend more time on, but next time I wouldn't mind having a canvas, I think, since this one was just in my big sketchbook.

Life Drawing!

So, life drawing. What this blog was actually really supposed to be for.

These are going in my print portfolio. I tidied 'em up in photoshop with burn and dodge (of all things) which is a pretty sweet technique Lynda taught me. Those tools are dangerous, but for cleaning up black and white drawings, they work perfectly!

Actually the first one here was originally pink col-erase, but the others are graphite. These were in my 11x14 life drawing sketchbook, so the originals (and these scans) are pretty big!





I want to do more life drawing!