Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Illustration of a boy and his fawn. He’s very fond of it. Hahahaa.
Sorry. Bad pun.
Tired from working on vectors all day. So a non vector piece. The gallery show yesterday was great; the bunnies are kinda from a piece I saw there. Bunnies are fun. And headless deer. And Chirstina’s work is awesome; if you don’t like it then you should…urm… swallow leeches. Or something. I dunno I’m tired…
I was sketching in my other style, the one that is simpler and more stylized, and wondering if I should develop more work in this style.
Was playing with negative space and definition of shape with color verus line. It evolved into a Cinderella picture, with some rather hot ugly step-sister and step mother.
Now and then I try to draw fashion models and fall flat on my face. I simply hate drawing pencil thin girls, they have no figure. Then I go back to drawing bikini models and it feels better. It’s funny, fashion illustration; half the time I think fashion designers don’t actually want people to wear [...]
Was trying out the pen on some proper Shikishi paper. Paper is thicker than I thought it would be. Pen doesn’t react interestingly on this, not any more different that the 100gsm cartridge paper I was using. Will try real ink with a brush at some other date.
Various sketches I did some time ago with an ink pen. I doodle stuff when I’m trying to come up with ideas.
Victorian dress is really fun to draw - the skirts and bodices lend well to hyper feminity. It’s a nice period to subvert too, visually, since it was a time when culture was really so full of itself that deviations stand out very easily. Ink pen for the first sketch, brush pen and Photoshop for [...]
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Had a bad few days of sketching, this was the first sketch that started to look decent again.
This is what I draw when I think about love. Which is odd because I’m not torn up about love at all. But it seems romantic all the same.
