Loki Maid

Another horned lady down. This one was based on a Horned Ibex, also called an Alpine Ibex.
Alpine...Switzerland...milk maid.
There was some logic used here.

She came out looking rather glum... Maybe I should choose some more upbeat drawing music.

0.05 pigment liner on Letraset comic paper

Adamantelope

I may have changed my initial idea of different animals in general to different horned animals because horned animals are just pretty. Plus the combo makes for some fierce looking women.

I couldn't not do the Bongo, or as I named then after a trip to the zoo, Adamantelopes because, well, they look like Adam Ant...

0.05 pigment liner on 300gsm card

Batgirl

I spent the other day rambling around the national gallery and museums. I honed in on the bats in the Natural History Museum for some reason and took some photos and a few sketches. Then yesterday I found a photo of a woman in this pose and thought I'd give it a bash to see if I could get it. Once I had that done, I remembered the attempt I made a few months ago at a painted/tattooed angel figure that failed. This was attempt two. The bat wings just kind of happened, more based on the stuffed bats from the museum than functional wings. The designs are based on henna tattoos. 

I'm less happy with this the more I look at it, mostly due to the background/sky. I was originally going to use a different medium but changed my mind, so the moon looks a bit...yeah.  I'm still happy with her and the rocks though (after 3hrs of stippling I'd better be!)

I'll stop rambling and post the picture now...

Pigment liner 0.05, polychromo pencils on A4 300gsm card

She's Her Own Worst Enemy

Since part of my summer research for college involves animals, patterns & design, and I love drawing beautiful women, this outcome seemed only natural. The series could pretty much be called Naked and Tattooed Animal Women of the World... the illustrations explain why.

This is the second I've done and she's my favourite thing I've done in ages. I thought my first one was, but there's little things that bother me with that one (I'll post her next).


My matador bull lady sporting some Mexican tattoo designs.

0.05 Pigment liner on A4 300gsm card.

26 Portraits : Update One

I love drawing portraits. So, when I saw that part of my summer work for college involved drawing portraits I started collecting images to work from. I wanted to draw people I knew rather than celebrities. Sure, I know what celebrities look like, but not as well as people I've met in person or see often even in an online capacity. I asked for people to offer photos or even just volunteer themselves if they particularly wanted to be drawn. Otherwise I'd be left to my own devices of drawing folks at will from Facebook. I've done a mixture of both so far. 

After the first two, I realized I was kind of doing my own version of Molly Crabapple's Sixty-six project by drawing my friends, peers, folks I know and like well enough. I decided to set myself a number, so I went to a random number generating website and set it to pick between 1 and 66. It picked 26. So that's my goal. I'm about 8 in now, but I've taken a short break from this to focus on getting work done for the convention in a few weeks. After the first two, a particular style emerged, so it's a little bit all over the place at the beginning but evens out. I'll add photos of the first few here.

One : Scarlett

Two : Robin

Three : Adam

Four : Sarah

Day of the Dead

I have been absent from the blog, but I've also been creating like a mad woman! I think, since finishing college nearly two months ago (oh my!), the longest I've gone without drawing has been about three days. Not too shabby. Except this past week I may have done myself some injury. That is the reason why today I'll be propped up with pillows and cushions galore while I do something less intense, like painting.

Part of the reason for my over-over-zealousness is a convention next month, ArcadeCon, at which I'll be selling my crafty wares. So far, not too bad on the having actual things to sell front. I'll post a few photos of what I've been making. I've started doing Day of the Dead style work last week and it's just a little bit fun!


DotD style Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas (inks, watercolour, pigment liner). I've one more of these planned to do.

DotD Geisha card (watercolour, inks, pigment liner). Sorry for the webcam shot, I was just grabbing quick snaps as I worked.

And there's a load of other bits and bobs, with other ideas and plans scribbled down that I still have to get to. I've also been working on a series of portraits, which I'll include in the next post. 

More Representational Work

This was a toughie to draw... Now, it only took just over an hour to do, but I was in a crowded classroom, on a warm day, with this poor lil plant guy in my hand. After the rough shape was sketched out, I started on the first leaf...when I looked back up a moment later the lil guy was wilted. And very muchly so! So I had to prop each leaf up with a finger, draw it, move on to the next one, and repeat... I got there in the end though!

Also, the thing on my thumb is my chipped nail varnish. People keep asking me. 

A3 piece, 2B pencil

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