Commissions are OPEN!

Hi all,

I'm opening my commissions for the summer, so please contact me if you're interested in me drawing something for you! :-) You can either send me a note on DeviantART, a message here on Facebook, or email me at: megan@artbymeg.co.uk

I will pretty much draw anything you ask for: from tattoos to book covers to personalised portraits and more. I have a standard price list that covers the basic possibilities (which can be found here: http://artbymeg.co.uk/Commissions.html - prices are listed in British GBP), but for anything else please contact me to discuss. I use both digital and traditional (pencils, colour pencils, artist markers) mediums.

Examples of my work can be found in...
My portfolio: http://artbymeg.co.uk/Portfolio.html
My Gallery: http://imaeko.deviantart.com/gallery/

I look forward to hearing from you. :-)

~Meg

Untitled Portrait - WIP 1

So I haven't worked out what I'll call this piece yet but anyway, I started a new portrait, after the very kind owner of the reference photo granted me permission to use it as a reference: isn't it lovely?

Guess what I was watching as I started it? Ok, fairly obviously LOTR haha. Here are some terrible close ups of the portrait at it's early stages: I've done a slight bit more work now though but I'll post that another day.

 Essentially all this is is the very basic outline of the figure and some general shading done in light crosshatching with my mechanical pencil. 

At this point of any and every portrait I really have to switch off the inner monologue! This is always the scariest time of drawing a portrait, because it's so early that it looks absolutely nothing like the subject and you really have to just plow through the doubt and indecision and get stuck into adding depth and dimension until it finally begins to bear some resemblance!

The above photo is really rubbish though. I am photographing these in good lighting conditions and they look fine on my camera screen but alas, not when they transfer to my PC! So... yeah. Most hated part of traditional work? Trying to photograph/scan it accurately enough so that it doesn't look completely rubbish when I post it online....! Failed this time, but hey ho, it's only a WIP, I'll make the full effort for the final piece. :-]

This was just me running an auto-filter in photoshop to try and clean it up... and I thought it looked pretty cool, so here you go! :-]

Finished Piece: I wait...

Originally I titled this piece "Contentment". You may remember seeing the sketch and ink on my art blog in January. 

Well, I finally finished it. I'm back! You may see more than completely no updates on here, but I don't think I will return to my previous high levels of activity on here this summer, due to focusing on getting the first draft of my novel completed. Still, some art is better than none, and for me it's a breath of fresh air to return to drawing!

Here, I used my pencil crayons and copic markers. :)

You can find the full piece and post at: 

http://imaeko.deviantart.com/art/I-Wait-306342921