Monday, December 30, 2013

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. 



Monday, December 23, 2013

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. 


Sunday, December 22, 2013

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. 

Friday, September 27, 2013

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. 
  

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

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. 

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

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. 

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

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