Ink-pen portrait

 

This started out as a pencil commission from a coworker of her daughter. Unfortunately she had to can the commission part-way through for personal reasons. The picture started to make a very smudged mess in my sketchbook to the point where the picture was hardly recognizable as a person, so I decided to be ambissious (maybe a little too much so). It was going well until I accidentally put too much pressure on the pen while shading the left eye. I then tried to even it out with the rest of the portrait... It worked somewhat, but I still think it looks like I gave the poor girl a big black eye. 

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.