Brian Cox Digital Portrait WIP 9

Another hour. I'm really enjoying this... :) Rendered the lips - which I find really hard, but I think I've done a decent job?

Brian Cox Digital Portrait WIP 8

Ok I just couldnt stop drawing, so have another WIP! This is the most fun I have had drawing a chin, ever, period lol. Which is amazing given I hate facial hair (incl. stubble!). I feel like I have made a really good go of this. :) I loooove my new custom skin brush :D

PS I'm up to five hours on this so far. :)

Brian Cox Digital Portrait WIP 7

Started painting abit more on this whilst listening to a Brian Cox interview on Youtube that a friend linked me to. Just fancied painting some more on it! Here I experimented with a dual brush incorporating some texture to give the skin a much less plastic feel. :)

Brian Cox Digital Portrait WIP 6

About another hours work. Have defined the right eye (right eye as you look at it, his left eye), and the nose. I'm up to 4 hours on this so far. :)

Brian Cox Digital Portrait WIP 5

Another half an hour. Zoomed in on the face this time - worked on the forehead/nose/right eye area. :)

Brian Cox Digital Portrait WIP 4

Another 20 minute session this lunchtime. Have shaded the jacket and started on the hair! :-)

Brian Cox Portrait WIP 3

Sorry for my recent absence! I've been busy lately. I haven't actually drawn anything since I last uploaded here. :-( So anyway, half an hours more speedpainting work on my Brian Cox portrait this lunchtime. Loving it so far! Really nice to slap lots of colours down roughly, can't wait to start refining now!

Brian Cox Digital Portrait WIP 2

This is after half an hour of slapping on colour in my lunchbreak. Here I am just laying down some colours and very rough shading. :-)

Brian Cox Digital Portrait WIP 1

So I have started a picture of the one and only Dr Brian Cox, the "rock star" physicist.

Here's my sketch - about an hour - an hour and a halfs work. I have gridded the reference picture and my canvas and drawn in the detail that way. I find it less intuitive than freehand sketching, but overall favour it as it gives a more accurate sketch in terms of proportions. :-) Overlaying this on my reference image, it's almost spot on, so I'm happy with that!

The sketch is always the very scary stage where it looks nothing like the person!! Lots of fingers crossed at this stage! :-)

Remember Jane - Final Piece

This is my entry to Think Pink V : Digital Painting-Airbrushing/Drawing Category.

Its finally done.. :) This is a painting of the late Jane Tomlinson. I thought it was particularly apt as Think Pink is all about raising awareness of breast cancer, and Jane Tomlinson was a two time sufferer of the disease. Beating it once, she never let the second diagnosis stop her living her life. She tirelessly fundraised completing many sporting events that most people would deem impossible to complete perhaps even if they didnt have cancer. Jane passed away in September 2007, 3 years ago now, but her memory and legacy live on. Remember Jane.

More about Jane:
http://www.janetomlinsonappeal.com/about/jane/index.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Tomlinson

I thought rather than stick to the pink side of Think Pink, I would try for something more thought provoking and real than a pretty girl in a pink dress, or a rose (etc etc). So, I hope I managed that. I hope my painting makes you think and empathise about not only a real person suffering from something like this, but also the inspiring side this can bring out in someone.

This took about 7 hours to paint, and I really enjoyed producing this. Digital portraits are even more fun to do that pencil ones.. :) It would be really great to do well in the Think Pink competition, from an arty side of things. Its a big deal and I've strived really hard on this to capture the theme, and of course Jane. I put so much more effort into this than any other painting I've done; down to the details of lines and distinguishing marks on her skin to getting the eyebrows down to the hair and the eyes just so... But I suppose if I don't do well but raise awareness of Think Pink and its aim to raise awareness of breat cancer then I've had some success :)

...I don't think there's anything left to say but please wish me luck and enjoy!

Meg

Reference picture: http://www.life.com/image/50917597
Works in progress:
1 - http://imaeko.blogspot.com/2010/09/remember-jane-wip-1.html
2 - http://imaeko.blogspot.com/2010/09/remember-jane-wip-2.html
3 - http://imaeko.blogspot.com/2010/09/remember-jane-wip-3.html
4 - http://imaeko.blogspot.com/2010/09/remember-jane-wip-4.html
5 - http://imaeko.blogspot.com/2010/09/remember-jane-wip-5.html
6 - http://imaeko.blogspot.com/2010/09/remember-jane-wip-6.html

Remember Jane WIP 6

Another half an hour on lunch today - spent painting the hair strand by strand... painstaking but hopefully worth it!

Remember Jane WIP 5

WIP 5, just a quick fifteen minutes on this at lunch today. Have neatened up the fleece but still have to texture it.

Remember Jane WIP 4

WIP 4... spent another hour on this now. Face, for now at least is done (I will most likely come back to it and tweak some bits on finalisation). I will next be moving onto the fleece or her hair. I'm really happy with this so far.. Glad the teeth are out of the way too! :)

Enjoy!

Remember Jane WIP 3

WIP 3 of Remember Jane... I spent another half an hour on this today at lunch, you can see the skin is coming together now (though I still need to texture it). All I can say at the moment though is I... hate.... teeth! They are really hard to draw!! Gotta keep working on those, they are so NOT finished...

Remember Jane WIP 2

Spent another hour and a half on this just now! I'm happy with how its turning out :) I firsly refined the ear and the left eye yesterday on my lunchbreak and now have done the right eye, and started to build up and blend all the skin. Obviously a long way to go on this one but its going in the right direction I feel! Gosh I love painting skin, it has so many colours in it! :D (Though texturing it for all the pores is not so fun haha)

Remember Jane WIP 1

I'm entering the famour Think Pink V contest this year over on DeviantART (deadline on October 3rd so plenty of time left if you want to enter!), and as the contest is all about raising awareness of breast cancer I thought who better to depict than Jane Tomlinson, a wonderful woman who survived multiple bouts of cancer and who never gave up. She raised millions for charity by doing all sorts of physical challenged, never letting the disease beat her, and really shot the disease into a higher profile within the UK. She was an admirable woman who sadly died a couple of years ago.

I hope I can do her justice in this piece. This is the first WIP - rough colours and shades, all to be refined. Running at about 2 hours so far.

Enjoy, and remember Jane.

Chloe (Final Piece) + Coronation WIP 4

I know I didnt really show any WIPS of this piece - sorry! I did try take some photos but they came out shockingly awful so I didnt post them :) I am so happy with this piece - it was the funnest portrait I've ever done, and it was so different to draw. For the first time I have used a mix of colour with graphite in a portrait, and I have also done much more than just a head portrait. I really cant wait to try out a piece like this again! You can find this posted on my Deviantart here.

Model is the lovely Chloe Pridham, in a shoot for the Sunday Times Style Magazine.

Here is the next WIP for my coronation piece featuring Naisa (right) and Rasir (left). I really LOVE how her dress is coming out, so I had to share it! Also pretty happy with the sword. Can you see how I have embedded her lovely golden bodice with pearls? Pretty :D I wish this dreass was real