Arya Svitkona - Final

10 and a half hours.... and it's finished!! This was a real labour of love. :)

Full post on DeviantART: http://imaeko.deviantart.com/art/Arya-Svitkona-260633765

Arya Svitkona - WIP 7

Half an hours work finishing off the top! Quite like that... :)

Arya Svitkona - WIP 6

Another hour and a half; done 9 hours on this now. Considering whether or not to redo the hair. I just see her with quite wavy hair, really... it's just not quite right. Unsure if I will have the time to amend it.. Anyway, enjoy. Worked on the outfit (except the billowing white sleeve).

Arya Svitkona - WIP 5

Another hour on this doing some work on the hair. I'm really not satisfied with the hair. Find it very hard to draw and I really haven't done it well here so I will have to come back to it at some point although I haven't finished the first painting of it yet. Hmm. Frustrating... Anyway, that's all for today. I will have to get a move on if I want this done by Thursdays book signing!

Arya Svitkona - WIP 4

Another hour and a halfs work on this (so now a total of 6 and a half hours work on this piece) - texturing the skin with a dappling brush and doing those lovely eyes! Have had to do some anatomical corrections - I flip the canvas occasionally to pick up such errors (when you flip the canvas, small errors you wouldnt normally see stick out like a sore thumb!). Not sure what to do next... hair or outfit!

Arya Svitkona - WIP 3

Erm... I wish I could show you some more steps inbetween this one and WIP 2but to be honest I've just been absorbed in this I've lost track of the progress made and haven't been able to put it down!

This is another 3 hours of work, on the face as you can see, bringing the total time now spent drawing this up to 5 hours; still a long way to go. I am having so much fun drawing this though, it's just... amazing to be able to paint someone I see in my head and it actually coming out how it's supposed to. I have such a clear image when I think of Arya as I read the books.. it's odd! I also feel like this has reopened the floodgates for my inspiration, and I feel so enthusiastic about this piece like I haven't about my art in a while. I'd also like to note I'm not using a reference for this... I'm just trying to put down what's in my head.. So thus far I'm pretty proud of it. Can you tell I'm not using a reference?

Arya Svitkona - WIPs 1 & 2

So I get to meet my favourite male author next Thursday for a talk and book signing! I am beyond excited! Naturally of course, I have to do some fanart...! So this is how I have alwasy pictured Arya Svitkona from his Inheritence Cycle when I read the book... :-) I actually really like this roughly coloured version. I think when you refine an image you often lose that potency of the sketch, that raw feeling of what someone is like. So.. I hope to retain that but I know that it will be hard. Anyway. Yes, I am alive, yes I am drawing again, and yes this drawing will be addictive haha. :)

Familiar

I've been trying to spend a bit more time drawing on the go lately, in a small A6 sketchbook. This is a quick drawing of me and my bf, which I did in the past week. I quite like it.. I'm no good at drawing a realistic self portrait (no idea why) but this seemed much easier. It was lovely to pick up my markers and colour pencils again though mainly. I've also included the part completed one as it has a nice simplicity about it, I think. :)