I believe it is finished

So this is the finished still life painting I did. I really love that cork, I really believe that was what the painting needed. This was all done on canvas board with Acrylics and was "won" by my cousin at our family Christimas party this year. 

I was worried that I was going to come off a little narsictic by offering one if my paintings into the Christimas Cringle gift exchange, but my cousin seemed genuiningly excited about it :) 

Tattoo in progress

Once I line and scan this I should be able to get better picture up, but this is what I have so far for a tattoo I'm working on for my friend's little brother. He originally wanted worms killing a bird, but changed his mind to a cobra killing a mongoose. 

He wants it to look comic-like and semi realistic, and then said something about Batman-esque style, so this promises to be fun. 

It's getting there

A few more touches and I think it will be done 

My dog Grace

 

 

These are just a couple drawings I did of my dog in mechanical pencil, while she was sleeping. I was trying to draw her brother too, but he kept moving. 

Progress

I still need to work on the cup on tea, but I think the cookies and the spoon are turning out alright. I may just be tired and delirious though... I'm slowly trying to fade that really awful teapot into the background more, but I don't think I'm being very successful at the moment. I'm just unpracticed in water colour...

A still-life I need to touch up from school, I actually like it, despite it being so heavily weighted to one side, but then again I have never really liked crentral focused still-life's. Or central focused anything really... I guess it just doesn't seem "real" to me, the same goes for realism; it's pretty but sometimes just feels cold to me. I'm not sure if that makes sense at all... But it's how I feel. 

Finished product? Not sure if I like it or not.

I'm pretty sure this is 11x17 paper maybe 12x18, I used markers and pencil crayon and fretted over this picture more than I'd care to admit. 

It caused me a lot of heartache and I'm still not entirely happy with it, but it's done now and so long as my coworker likes it I'm happy. 

Commission for Bertie

This is a commission for a coworker of mine, I have finally started to make progress on it and took the plunge and started to colour it. I have been apprehensive about starting the finally stages because I don't want to make a mistake. So far the 12x18 inch illustration just has pencil, liner, and Coptic maker used, but I will also be using pencil crayon and possibly some paint later for final touches. I have until the end of October to finish this piece. No pressure.

 

This is a portrait of Berite's family, her boy friend, two sons, the youngest son's girlfriend, and four pets. Bertie wanted just busts if the people in her family and herself and full body drawings of the cats and dog. I think I handled the composition pretty well, and I plan on bleeding the colours of the shirts out a little more to play as a background for the animals instead of just having akward blobs of white.