Just a few works in progress - my main concern with drawings is that I have problems figuring out what to do for the backgrounds so it always takes me a while before I finish a full drawing :/
I actually drew this like almost 2 years ago but I've lost my files at least twice a year because of technical issues (I have the worst luck with that), plus I don't have a harddrive (yet), but I found this in my friend's thumbdrive so I decided to give it a go again recently.
This is probably one of the most colourful pieces I've done (or am doing). I usually go for more muted pastel colours or dark monochromes. I bought the Fashion Design book by Ballistic Publishing and I got really inspired to try out Loish's colouring style. I kinda feel like I can stop doing stuff with it but it still feels a bit empty somehow so I'll probably just leave it alone and come back to it in a couple of months.
Went for a really soft ethereal feel for this one - I actually spent about 2 hours making sure my pencil lines weren't too thick so that I wouldn't have to clean it up too much after i scanned it. Still trying to decide if I should put her in an actual environment (which would take ages to paint) or just a textured background. Just for laughs though, a friend of mine photoshopped the Eye of Sauron into the background lol.
This actually started out as a practice for drawing profiles, but I quite like how it's looking so far, so I probably just need to work a bit more on the colours.
Ravenna from Snow White and the Huntsman. Didn't care much for the movie but Charlize Theron is a boss and she was what made the movie not flop. That and the track that Florence and the Machine did for the movie.
This was one half of a collab with a friend (check out her stuff here!). We'd been thinking of doing a collab since last year but we finally came up with a theme to work on - I got really inspired by tribal patterns so we wanted to really show off some off the textures and themes. Each of us took 2 seasons/elements, so I did Spring/air and Winter/water, and Kit did Summer/fire and Autumn/earth. This is just a rough digital palette guide for when we do the final colours in watercolours.
I guess that's pretty much it for now. I usually do my drawings in pencil then colour digitally in Photoshop. I actually have a lot more WIPs but they're not really ready for anything yet so yeah.
I've never been able to keep up a blog so we'll see how this goes and hopefully I have enough momentum to keep it going.
Until next time.
I've never been able to keep up a blog so we'll see how this goes and hopefully I have enough momentum to keep it going.
Until next time.