Organicity (Final Piece)

This is a jewellery set specially made for an anniversary meal I had last night. I have received some lovely compliments on this set, and, this being coupled with my own pleasure and satisfaction with this set, makes me reeeeally happy and proud to share it!

Its my best jewellery to date of that I'm sure, and I spent a lot of hours doing this (necklace made from scratch, earrings/bracelet premade, but I have set them with the stones - blue abalone), however I know I can do better and I can't wait to have the time to sit down and try a similar inspired piece! :D

I hope you like.. :D

(and PS, yes that is me modelling them haha)

Elvynne WIP 2, 3 & 4

WIP 2 - roughly sketched Elvynne in.

WIP 3 - drawn in the neatened lineart

WIP 4 - layer of basic colour laid down, lots of work left yo do but enjoying this piece a lot so far its a nice break from everything I've been drawing! :)

Elvynne WIP 1

So I started an art trade with Elvynne a while ago and I'm just totally uninspired to finish it. I've honestly been working at it for AGES, and its been on every weekends to do list for at least the last 3 months! But, just cant sit down and do it, really have lost the motivation :/ So, I decided that at the very least I should draw her something. Enter, her amazing fursona. Wow is she georgeous! So I started a drawing of her, and the first thing that popped into my head was this massive cloudscape. I'm really happy with it :O Yay clouds haha! This is obviously on a really rough throwing the colours down sketch so far. But, I will now start drawing Elvynne in. Wish me luck!

Anne Hathaway (Final piece) + Chloe WIP 1

So I am really inspired to start this new piece, but in the back of my mind I was thinking "You still havent finished that portrait of Anne Hathaway yet.. tut tut...."... so I decided that my reward for finishing THIS picture would be to start the one I am so inspired to draw haha!

The picture I'm really inspired on is a graphite & colour pencil portrait of a model who I believe is Kaya Scodelaria (it looks to be her spitting image if not!)** You can see the first pencil sketch below :P Its fully cleaned up and mostly erased out so I can colour over it without the lines showing up, which is why it scanned faintly, and why, as you can see I had to max out the contrast!

** I looked up the name of the model in this sketch... sad to find its not Kaya at all, its actually a model called Chloe Pridham. Oh well. Shes beautiful to draw all the same...

Winter Romance - Final piece!

Its finished.. yaaaaay!

For my general comments on the piece, please read the artists comments on my DeviantART post... and you can also view all of the WIPS together on a walkthrough. :-)

Coronation - WIP 1 & 2

So I received a beautiful journal style sketchbook from my parents this Christmas, and I want to fill it with lovely pictures. As I would also really love to advance my novel I thought that I would combine the two, and so I am aiming to fill it with concept and character art from the story. This event takes place some years before the novel even starts - before the main characters are even born in most cases. But, I am still so drawn to drawing Naisa, even though she is dead by the time the novel comes around. This is her coronation, whilst her consort Rasir stands proudly at the foot of her throne dais :) I'd really like to colour this one!

As you can see I had a hard time getting a decent view of the sketch. It was too faint for my scanner to pic up so sorry for the grainy camera image. As you can see from the ink I've inked it very minimally (for me anyway! Usually I go for every single detail!). I am hoping that this will give a much less cartoony feel to the final piece :)

Winter Romance WIP 9 & WIP 10

Well I have spent about another hour and a half on this at the very least today, so probably up to about 8 hours by now? Its hard to keep track!

This is really coming along. I'm fairly happy with this - I realise there are a lot of things wrong but this really is my first major digital piece since probably Secret World in 2008, and I'm definitely happier with this piece than I was with that one. Its all a case of practice, everyone has got to start somewhere and I guess I'm still pretty close to that starting point! So, though there are things wrong I'm not being too harsh on myself. Its all practice. I just wish I could have portrayed Luke a bit more like how he is in my head! Perhaps the next time.. ^^;

Winter Romance WIP 8 - Please Crit!

God I need help. Luke is just not turning out how he is in my head, on account of the fact I really cannot draw guys! I totally need to practice male realism more, boo. Hope this one ends up turning out ok, he could really be the thing that spoils it, because of my inexperience... Please crit on Luke specifically if you can!

Winter Romance WIP 7

WIP 7 for you.. I have worked a little more on her dress/cloak, his top and visible arm, and painted in his hand.... Getting there slowly but surely! Up to 5 and a half hours on this, and I have to finish this this weekend otherwise I will miss the deadline. Pressue's on!

Winter Romance WIP 6

Painted in the collar and added her other arm.. only 15 minutes working on this though I had hoped to be able to have a longer session :(

Winter Romance WIP 5

I think I've spent about 4 and a half hours on this so far. I am really running out of time on this one, deadline is the 14th Feb so gonna have to hurry it along! I get the feeling I havent gotten enough contract in the face but I will come back to it later. I definitely had fun painting this stage :-)