Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Aaaarrrrrttttttt.

So...I draw. A lot. Like, obsessively fill up nine notebooks obsessed. And own another ten or so.
I guess you could call it my main craft. [I also dabble in knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch, friendship bracelets, origami, quilling, and several other things, but that's not the topic.]
Y'all may or may not have noticed the link to my DeviantArt site, off to the right.

It contains most of the best pictures I've drawn over the last couple years.
I haven't been drawing a whole lot the past couple of weeks (though I should because I've several commissions, a couple gifts, and a bunch of freebies to draw for people), mostly because I've been working on other things and haven't had the inclination. I used to do most of my drawing in class, because I was bored and there was nothing else to do. Now, even when I am in class, they actually teach stuff and I actually need to listen. Go figure.
I am an traditional artist, mostly because I have no tablet with which to draw on the computer (computer graphics, or cging) nor the necessary art program in which to do it. Even if I did, though, I'd still do a bunch of traditional stuff - nothing like getting up from an hour's worth of drawing and having your hand black from
graphite.
For the most part, I draw in an anime style, colouring with coloured pencils, rarely inking my lines (because they always seem to turn out bad). I've markers I use sometimes, but it's usually the pencils.

Anyways. On to some pictures.

I'm just going to pick two or three of my recent pictures to show off.This is my most recent picture I've got on the web...it's a commission I did for someone on GaiaOnline. I actually inked it...did most of the details in ink, because I was having trouble with the poses, and was getting too much graphite on the page...almost all of the small details were drawn straight out in pen. Colour is coloured pencil (mostly Prismacolors).

This picture was done for a good friend on GaiaOnline. There's several hour of work in this one. First I drew the central figure...inked and coloured it (Coloured pencils, as above). Then on a seperate piece of paper I did the background, in watercolour paints, then chalk pastels after the paint had dried to add definition. I scanned them in seperately, then melded them together on the computer.

[Sorry about the differing sizes...if you want a closer look at any of them, the pictures are all found in my DeviantArt account.]
This is also a picture done for GaiaOnline, but for me this time. ^^ I was actually very happy with how this turned out. No inks, just coloured pencils this time. I love to draw wings, so I tend to spend more time on them in a picture than anything else.

Finally, this is another picture for my friend from GaiaOnline (she scrounges a lot of them from me...she even has her own folder in my art folders, where I keep everything I've finished). This time it was a freebie picture I made for her...her avatar had all these wings and, well, I've a fondness for wings. A wing fetish? Whatever...all the wings made me draw it for her. It was a really quick sketch - no more than 5-10 minutes for the lines, and maybe 10 minutes more for the colours.

Anyways, that's enough pictures for you for now.
I don't want to overload the posts. *grins*
Again, all of these pictures can be found at my DeviantArt account, the link to which can be found in the link list to the right.

1 comment:

Heidi and Steven said...

"looks good" *smile*

my daughter needs to update her blog again LOL!