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I doodled a quick background for the sketch I did the other day. I say doodled; it actually took about an hours work. I really hate drawing landscapes and architecture; mainly because I'm rubbish at it. But, practice makes perfect so I really need to try harder. I just cannot fathom why some people are just so good at that kind of thing and my every attempt looks dire. I really hope practice will get me there - I honestly hate this background but am going to have to use it as I simply can't seem to do better. What a pain! How on earth do you do GOOD backgrounds!?
Anyway, you can see here the placement of the characters in the scene. :/ I am kind of losing interest in developing this piece further, just because of how crappy I am at backgrounds. Really not sure how to get better at them. I didnt do any work on the floor 'cause I'm not sure what surface to use yet.
It would be nice to draw this one up! This was a theraputic neat sketch I did today, about an hours work. This is a scene from my story where Brithilca the dragon takes the crown of the Dragon Kings from where it is kept. ... I wont spoil any more of the story. ;)
It would be lovely to digitally paint this one up (with a background, I imagine this to be in a main hall of the monastery... But I wasnt creative enough to sketch it on!) to practice scenery and to paint all those delicious dragon scales! I've yet to digitally paint Brithilca, I have only ever coloured him traditionally before. :) And also, I have never drawn the abbot before so it would be nice to paint him... :)The main point of this was really to practice my dragon anatomy. I always wish I could draw them better! I think have pinned down Bri's design / anatomy a bit more realistically here than in past attempts. I have been thinking about his anatomy and scale arrangements... Dragons are hard cause they dont really exist in real life so theres no definitive references to them. So I have been considering the features and functions of his anatomy, how he evolved to require certain muscles, and armous, etc. Haaard lol. I used the Dracopedia by William O'Connor for some assistance. That really is a great book for dragon fans. :)
(PS Bri's tail got cut off by the edge of the page. Whoops!)
Some concepts for a commission.. :-)
Ok so, Concept 1 (top) is meant to be the two characters laying down (on a bed?) with the male dangling some mistletoe! I thought maybe they could also be laying ona rug with a fire in the background, or a window to a snowy scene, etc etc.
Concept 2 (bottom left) is meant to be the characters snuggled up in bed.
Concept 3 (bottom right) could be a more easily adapted scene in terms of location. Indoors, next to a roaring fire? On a snowy hill? (etc etc)
So you havent seen anything of this since April, because I haven't done anything on this since April! Let me explain :)
This is a tribal inspired tattoo design for my bf's birthday - the reason I've suddenly gotten off my ass and reproduced the entire thing in pretty much 24 hours (I'm actually pretty impressed with myself to be honest) is because my boyfriend has decided that he wants this for his birthday which is next month - i.e. my present to him will be to draw it and to get it put on him. So.. here's pretty much the final concept. He's really happy with it which makes me feel pretty chuffed! :D I of course had to consult with him a lot on this as he's pretty picky. But from start to finish this particular concept was described as no less than "amazing", or "perfect". Sweet. :D
Perhaps there will be tweaks, especially since I'm not quite sure if it will map perfectly around the body like I've shown (I am estimating afterall as he wouldnt let me draw it physically ON him unfortunately!). But for now, welcome to the final concept. This is the biggest tattoo design I've ever done. I'm really proud of it!
Installed my tablet etc on my work PC so I can doodle on my lunch. This is the result of 30 mins painting and by god its crap! I REALLY. need to learn how to draw men rofl. I just thought I'd see what I could do.. turns out.. not much! *laughs*
Hmm. Gonna have to find some good man-stock to reference! :)
Does what it says on the tin! Sketched this quickly and painted it for about... hmm.. under an hour but I cant pinpoint further than that. It was pretty fun to do but I realise its a bit naff :P I very much enjoyed the face and dont mind how that turned out but I'm not too bothered about the rest. This iwas more of a relaxing paint-what-I-like-to-paint (i.e. pretty women) rather than anything serious :) I'm really loving sketching and doodling so much lately, its awesome, and I definitely need to keep it up! :D
So I went to the most amazing wedding yesterday. I honestly believe that I will never ever be at such a stunning wedding ever again - not even my own. It was held in a cathedral, which in itself was breathtaking (need I say more, I'm sure you have all been to a cathedral and they are undeniably impressive in architecture and design - oh how I wish they built buildings like that these days...), but the brides dress... wow. I can honestly barely remember it, I saw it for such a short time but it was the most beautiful creation I have ever seen, I just had to try and draw it. I'm sure this isnt very accurate though.. I hope I can get ahold of some photos to be jawdropped at lol. Never seen such a lovely looking bride :)
The bottom of the dress was, I think, netting. All over it were shiny little things (I think they were gem type things), and right at the front there was a large focal piece made of many combined.
Stunning. If only I could have done it justice with my comparative scribble but, eh, it was fun to draw all the same!
I hope to make more outfit designs using the base I created for this - its an area I've always wanted to explore yet.. never done! Enjoy :D
Another concept sketch / black and white doodle. I don't know why she's all veiled and hiding behind curtains but it just popped into my head so I scribbled it down :) Took about 20 mins in Photoshop.
20 minute concept sketch. Saw a delicious fabric tutorial in IFX this month and just had had had to try it out SOMEHOW. I thought I would quickly sketch up a small thumbnail to catch some sort of concept including the pretty fabric but who knows if this will ever get painted. Hopefully so - it would be a good learning process to paint from a thumbnail for a change. It was actually pretty fun doing the black and white thumbnail, will definitely do so again when I have time! :D
The bottom image is with a dash of colour on top - she sort of turned into a mischeivous elven red riding hood to be honest!
Enjoy! Click for the full version - This is just a random pose / anatomy sketch I did, I decided I would write little notes on how I did it. 20 minutes it probably about the quickest I've finished something like this, so that's pretty cool in my eyes! Usually I get totally lost and absorbed in the minute details and cant sketch ANYTHING quickly! I do realise this isnt perfect though being such a rushed thing, but, thats fine by me :) Practice makes perfect!
The thinking behind this was a rogue / thief character, running away - perhaps she got caught stealing! She roams around with a bird of prey - a peregrine or a red kite, I haven't decided hence why I didn't try draw that - which she is just about to release so she can run faster without fear of hurting it. Maybe I will draw this up one day! I quite like the concept :D
I'm not sure why I forgot to post this up, I did this a little while back!
This is a bookcover sketch commission for a close friend. I very much hope to be able to paint this up one day for her, it was lovely to work on! The main character is based, looks wise, on her mostly so it was also nice to draw my friend :P
Enjoy!
Well my boyfriend wants a super huge tribal tattoo so I thought I'd have a bash at designing it. Here are concepts one & two (image one) and three (image two). One/Two, I ditched, probably for the obvious reason that it wasn't looking manly / generally cool enough. I'm going to keep generally with the third concept but tweak some areas, for example how the back piece connects to the arm. Not liking that so much at the moment.
The body views took me about two hours to draw, traced directly from photos I took of my boyfriends torso from different angles. Drawing over them was simply a cleaner base to use than grainy photos taken where the light was all at wierd angles. This just gives basic contours I guess. I actually really like the body views. I love painting skin haha :)
Enjoy! Hopefully the final concept (shall we call it 3-B lol) to follow soon. This has been on the shelf for a few weeks so I could do with working on it some more imminently. The tattoo basically needs expanding down the chest and around the side to meet the back piece.
1 & 2
3
This actually only took like an hour tops which is pretty cool! However, oh my gosh. DRAWING FAIL RIGHT HERE LAWLZ :-|
Wow I hate this haha.
This is a character concept for a book I'm writing. I have this beautiful sketchbook that I'm trying to fill with all my visual concepts, ideas, and illustrations - this is one such illustration. Princess Demara, who in my story marries/is married to Price/King Zaki (who usurps the throne from Naisa by murdering her, kidnapping her daughter Irumae as a hostage, and declaring her son Aung outlaw - what a nice brother). I just felt like drawing her. As you can see, complete anatomy fail, and whilst the costume came out ok in design (loving the crinkly dress actually :D), the colours are just SO off. I like her hair though. Yay hair :D
I really hope I can pin down her design better in the future.......
