Less of a Spectre, More of a Zombie

To celebrate my first day of free time and the ability to just draw whatever I want, I zombified Silk Spectre I. Because I could. I'm definitely doing more of these, just need to pick the victims.

Medium: Promarkers/markers, fineliner.

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What the Water Gave Me

After promising myself I wouldn't go weeks without updating...I did. This morning I submitted my final assignment for the year and although I'm not the most awake right now, I figured I should get a post up here.

This was what has me exhausted. 

Our brief was to create a doll or puppet based on the theme 'Another Side of Me'. It only looks bad that this is what I came up with.... I actually took a lot of my ideas from the Birdeatsbaby song, 'What the Water Gave Me', with some 'The Devil So Charming' thrown in for good measure. There's a backstory to go with her, which I plan to illustrate soon enough. It does involve shady dealing late at night in a forest though.

Some of the notebook pages. The other notebook was filled with work by Menton J. Matthews and Raliel, plus The Crow, Edward Scissorhands, Robert Smith...I'm fond of that notebook. 

Making her body from Fimo. I really hope she doesn't break before she's returned to me... Those arms! (excuse the unprofessionalism of my pjs but Donatello was just really interested).

And finally her with The Crow's crow, modelling the nest. 

I realized that I never named her. Calling her 'creepy tree lady' is probably a bit hurtful. I think I'll go with Frida, after the song's title. 

Digital Pin-Up

The other day I had a go at my first digital pin-up. I worked over an image, editing and changing aspects. I need to just keep doing these, digitally or on good old paper.

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Artist : Siolo Thompson

I've been meaning to do a few posts about pieces or artists I come across that awe or inspire me. And Siolo Thompson is certainly one that falls under both categories.

She was a complete random find on tumblr while doing some research for an assignment where I was mingling Occidental and Oriental horoscopes. I'd decided to do this through pin-ups. Oddly enough, when I found her she was in the middle of creating a set of Zodiac pin-ups! And they are beautiful!

Gemini

Capricorn

Cancer

Aquarius


And then there's her alphabet....

Her style is just stunning and very much her own. This summer's gonna be an all out pin-up drawing frenzy for me to improve and work on developing my style further.

Dr. Sketchy's March Session

My first Sketchy's session since June! God I missed it! The music, the models, the hopeful sense that I could possibly win some frilly knickers! And let us not forget the spinning tassels.

This month's session made Easter not so innocent with the fabulous Foxy Pony as an Easter Bunny and a pretty adorable Randall Jones as a sexy birdman, or a more suggestive bird name I'm sure you can come up with yourself. As usual we were treated to some wonderful performances, this month seeing the brilliant Roxy Rhinestone take on Snow White, whistling (and stripping) while she worked, as well as Randall flying high and feeling good (with feathers EVERYWHERE). The music was perfect as always - and I left with the B52s and The Safety Dance stuck in my head - and Scarlett Nymph kept the whole beautiful machine running smoothly.

left handed

Zodiac Pin-Ups

At the moment I'm working on a project where the Occidental and Oriental astrological characters are combined. We were given two celebrities' names, dates of births and starsigns under both astrologies - e.g. Oliver Hardy, Capricorn, Dragon (year of the Water Dragon).


So my idea to mix them was through anthropomorphic pin-ups, more specifically 1920s circus sideshow pin-ups - just to be difficult. These are the cleaner roughs for the two finished pieces and I'm still working on the media I'll choose (they must be mixed media). I'll share the final images when they're done in a few weeks.

Aries

Aries - ideas, colour story, poses

Water Dragon - colour test

Capricorn

Capricorn - colour test

Initial rough for Dragon and Capricorn

First Aries rough

Where I Work - or Where I Should Be Working

I'm finally on midterm, which has never been more needed!! And at last I had a chance to clean my room and organise my working space (for the bazillienth, and hopefully last for a long while, time).

I can see my desk again! - which my dad very kindly and awesomely made for me. And my walls are no longer bare since I've covered areas with inspirational pictures (eg. art), or just things I like (eg. the Muppets)... It will very much do until I can have a room all on it's own for my art stuff.

No before picture, because...just no.

Chest covered in notebooks and boxes of supplies, along with two crates filled with the same.