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. 

  

Twinkie

This is my coworker's cat Twinkie, she passed away a couple weeks ago and my coworker commissioned a small picture drawn of her. I wish it was a little better, but I only had a poor quality cell phone picture to go from. 

Done on mayfair, 5x7 inches big, pencil crayon. 

A Dump of Art

The body of the mermaid is done! I'm pretty sure just the blue alone took me a couple hours.

The tail is complete! Now just for the hair, background and final touches. some hours of work down, many to go. 

While at the mall with some friends, I decided to draw my friend's girlfriend's face. She's very pretty, so the drawing doesn't do her justice. 

A quick drawing of a sphinx done in red and blue pencil.

This is just a quick drawing done in pencil of a girl thinking I guess? I was not feeling so great when I drew this but I don't mind the picture at all. I might do something more with it.

The Rose and the Humming bird. Not an innuendo at all... These are just the lines of the drawing, I'm planning on finishing it digitally eventually... But I need more practice. 

Bus Dump

These are drawings I did while either on the bus or at a bus station. They're all done in pen (all blue except for one in black ink down at the bottom) in my purse-sized Mole Skin sketch book (about 4.5 x 6 inches big) I thought I was being pretty sneaky about most of the drawings but I started to get strange looks after I would stare at continuously for too long

Monster

This drawing is a couple years old, but I still love it. The bone details were inspired by a wolf's skeleton and the hair... a drowned rat maybe? I'm not sure.

8.5x11 inch paper and black lining markers.

Mermaid

This drawing started out as the fish in the bottom left hand corner. It then grew into a mermaid-like creature with sea life in her hair. The pattern on the fish was taken from the place-mat I was drawing on. I still have a long way to go... Colouring is proving to take a very long time. 

The drawing is 10x10 inches big, and with pencil, lining markers and pencil crayons. 

The Doctor's Office

This is a drawing I did in pen while waiting to see a doctor. It was a pretty long wait and the sketch itself is 8.5x11 inches large.