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I'm alive! Ok, so assignments aren't quite done yet but the end is in sight. Anyway, I decided I should really start getting back into basics, and experiment with some gesture sketches. So hopefully this will become a regular thing. I hope to be doing a couple every few days as and when I can fit them in. I spent 10 minutes on each of these, but I definitely aim to cut that down significantly with practice. Hopefully over time I can become a pro at creating gesture sketches and poses! :-) This is the site I used for this set of gesture sketches, it's really good! http://lovecastle.org/draw/ Enjoy. :-)
P.s. I am unsure whether to watermark these gesture sketches. They're not exactly a big deal, I know, but eh. I can't decide whether it's still worth it to. I'll see how it goes for now.
To those who wonder why my art blog has fallen silent of late, I'm still alive!
It's November, and thus, university assignments own my soul (send help!). I don't even have time to write my book, let alone sit down and draw. It's very depressing! :-|
I hope to be back with a vengeance in December, doing a lot more writing and getting some sketches penned out to share with the world. But until then, if you don't see me, you know why!
Take care, all. :)
Hmm, well I've finished this, so now it's just subject to client's final approvement. :)
I'm quite happy with this. I really enjoyed making the background in this painting session. :)
These are a few edits that were required by the client.
Ok, so this is practically finished apart from final touches now... :)
Worked on Lilith's hair here.
Have worked on Lilith's face this time!
Here I've spent time ageing Diana... so I hope this has worked. I've added a lot of hand drawn texture to the skin, wrinkles and folds (subtle and not so subtle).
I've worked on Diana's face & skin, which are pretty much done now apart from the lips and some final definitions. I'll work on her red robes next but first... it's lunch time! It would be great if I could get Diana finished off today, actually! :-)
The next two WIPs from a commission I'm working on of two original characters (who are twins). Basic colours, and then work on Diana's hair. Actually really happy with the hair and enjoyed doing it, which makes a change! :-)
The start of a commission of some original characters, identical twins. The preliminary gesture sketch for the pose, and also the detailed sketch. I had better get this approved as is, actually, before I continue with the colouring!
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).
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!
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!
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?
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. :)
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. :)
So the last tattoo was for my boyfriend, this one is for his brother. Haha. :) Enjoy.
I actually designed this back in February but for some reason never posted it anywhere. This was a design I did for my boyfriend for his next tattoo. Might do a colour version, not sure. I think he would prefer black and white. Please don't use this, it's obviously a personal piece. I wrote the first four lines of the verse myself, he picked the last two from a quote he liked. Enjoy. :)
The finished version. Original DeviantART post here!
This is a repaint of my Masquerade piece. Needed a bit of a breather from Georgina and the Dragon! Still far from perfect but looks nicer in my opinion. :) Original piece is here.
I've refined the background here! Another hour - 19 and a half hours up to now. Wow, its adding up! You can compare this to WIP3 for the basic background. Much nicer now, methinks!
Another hour... Wings done and some of the other markings. :)
Another half an hour, quite impressed with how quickly I've got these scales done! (17 and a half hours so far)
Another hour and a half on this; total tally 17 hours so far. Still quite a way to go! But as you can see I'm making headway with the scales. :) Theyre actually quite theraputic to draw! Theyre not ideal (ie not quite how I imagined them) but I'm still liking how its turning out. :) I actually lost all of last nights work as Photoshop crashed so... that really gutted me. I feel like I cant trust my darling Photoshop anymore. :( It was lagging tonight even as it saved the files into jpeg format so I was nervous, but it didnt crash again, phew... gonna have to take it easy with such a huge file size perhaps!
Another three hours, so up to 16 hours now... I've shaded the dragon's hide. Now I'm adding scale detail and also refining things like claws, etc. I am too tired to work on this anymore today so I will come back to it tomorrow, now. :-) I'm sad that I've only been able to do this this weekend, but unfortunately for drawing, it's been pretty busy! I have Friday off work so I am determined to finish it by then though.
13 hours done on this so far... I didnt quite manage to get Georgina finished tonight but I've got pretty far at least! :) The armour was hard to do - I really dont know how to draw that... But I had fun making her tunic all dirty haha. This was really theraputic... cant wait to get back to it tomorrow :)
Up to just under 11 and a half hours on this now. I'm hoping to get Georgina painted totally tonight though that may be a bit ambitious! :)
Another half an hours work last night (yes it took me half an hour to paint that teeny bit of chain mail lol. Told you it was time consuming!).... Making a grand total of 10 hours so far!! It's scary that this is so nowhere near finished haha. I long to paint more on this tonight but unfortunately I dont have the time. Fingers crossed I can put at least a good hour down on this tomorrow night though. :)
Another hours work on this. Chainmail is very time consuming to paint!
I painted another hour to get to WIP 4, working on the skin. Then I have spent a further hour and a half on the rest of the skin and the hair. Up to a whopping 8 and a half hours on this so far and I'm nowhere near finished!
Next I want to paint the chainmail - I can't wait for that! :D I'm really happy with how this is turning out, thus far. :-)
Painted a rough background for the piece! Wow am I proud of this. I combined three photos for the reference for this (for of course I am hideous at backgrounds and definitely needed a reference to get what I wanted!) - one for the sky (the view from my hill), one for the middle ground (the view from the top of Simon's Seat over Appletreewick and the Yorkshire Dales), and one for the foreground (the moorland on the top of Pen-Y-Ghent, one of the Three Peaks). I didn't stick exactly to the reference but it really helped guide my hand. I took 2 hours to paint just this. I hope to refine the ground work though especially but I will wait til later to do that.
Hope you like this!
Spent 2 hours just laying down the base colours on this. Good gosh I can't believe it's taken so long! Next, to shade. But it will have to wait for another day - bedtime now!
Technically this should probably be WIP 2 - the sketch being WIP one - but oh well! Technicalities, haha. Going to start painting this one now. No idea how long I've spent on this concept so far but lets say about 2 hours for good measure. I took care sketching and inking this out, tweaking here and there. :-)
Another hour. I'm really enjoying this... :) Rendered the lips - which I find really hard, but I think I've done a decent job?
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. :)
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. :)
Sorry I haven't posted in ages! Life has been busy and I've been working crazy hours lately so I dont have any time to draw really. But today I felt the need to re-sketch out a concept I dreamed up absolutely ages ago - Of George and the dragon, only with a female heroine (I mean why can't girls kick ass, right!?). I have two versions to paint up but I'm really not sure which one to paint up!! :S
I really want to do the whole one but I think the top one where its more cropped gives a greater kind of impact. I dunno. Thoughts??
