New Stuff

The nude is pencil with watercolor.

The middle piece is ink with digital color (using photo reference courtesy of janejayne)

The gal with the silly earrings is vector, from a scribble I did while on the phone one day.

Amuse

Digital piece; background is a stock image from inspyretash-stock.

GED Success Program Project

I did a pro bono job for the GED Success Program last month: key fob, poster and shirts. Fun, and for a good cause: to promote a workshop and encourage female students to shake off the stupid stereotype that they can't 'do math.'

Red Dancer

Acrylic, ink, pencil on mat board. Trying to stretch a bit.

I'm amazed that my many-decades-old acrylics haven't completely dried up!

Portraits ( Jessica)

Two pencil drawings with watercolor added. Reference: faestock at deviantArt.

Catalog Models

More drawing practice.

Facebook Faces

I grabbed some random photos from various Facebook photo albums and sketched them for drawing practice.

"We Like to Eat" Book Cover

One of the reasons I've neglected this blog (for six months!) is that I've been very, very busy at work (which is, of course, good.) It's not often I post anything from my graphic design business here, but this cover was notable for the fact that I was able to convince the client to use my vector illustrations on it rather than the stock photos that appear inside. Also, doing the illustrations allowed me to progress in my quest to be at least moderately proficient at Adobe Illustrator.

Life Drawing 2- and 5-minute poses

Life Drawing: Danielle

Another version...

Mikaela

Re-drawn and simplified pencil sketch, with color added in Photoshop.

From a photo of a beautiful pose by Mikaela Diane on deviantArt.

Serriform Nude

Brought a not-so-interesting drawing into Illustrator and had some fun using it as a template for some pointy-edged art weirdness.

Life Drawing Class

I'm taking another class at MSU this Spring.















































































































































































Decided to stop trying to scan these large, messy drawings...but I think I need to learn to take better photos of them...

BSG's Starbuck

My favorite character on Battlestar Galactica —the delightfully cranky cigar-chomping Ms. Kara Thrace.

Pencil, watercolor, Photoshop.

Poison Ivy

Playing around in Illustrator; still learning. Linework in AI; colors (and custom ivy brush!) in Photoshop.

Reflect

Digital drawing/painting from a pencil sketch I did using reference from Dove_stock on deviantART.

Recent Sketches

Reference: NikXStock on deviantArt.























Reference: SStocker on deviantArt.

Nude

Pencil and watercolor, from a photo in the gallery of Ck on deviantArt.

Shapes

Quick ink studies from a series of interesting poses by Jessica.

I did the basic flat figure shapes in Photoshop, then printed them all out and drew over them with pen and brush marker. I liked the contrast of simple geometric background shapes with the scribbly drawings.

Last of the Life

More Life

Exercises

All started out as pencil drawings, inspired by photos from the galleries of intergalacticstock, faestock, and sim4nee, respectively.

Life Drawing —part 2!

Life Drawing

I'm taking a Life Drawing class at Michigan State University to see if I can kick myself out of my art slump. It's challenging, particularly when the model isn't one you particularly like or the pose is one you'd just rather not tackle.

Miss Mosh

For the July jam over at the Drawing Board (yes, I'm a bit late.)

Pencil sketch with Photoshop color.

Model is Miss Mosh.

Rainbow Robots

I did a sketch of a robot girl, then inked her up and added her to the amazing Patricio Betteo's big robot and colored the whole thing for his Coloring Contest over on deviantArt!













I found it surprisingly fun to color someone else's work.

Post San Diego

Well, three days later I think I'm back on Michigan time, acclimated to the much higher humidity (ugh) and am feeling more or less recovered from a great trip to San Diego Comic-Con.

Having gone once before really helped this time around; I wasn't quite so completely blown away by the crowds, the noise, the too-many-panels-and-not-enough-time, and especially the too-many-artists-to-see-in-four-days of the whole experience. And then there's the exquisite frustration of having nowhere near enough money to buy EVERYTHING I wanted...

I traded a few sketchbooks and bought a whole bunch from the many fine people who were there...and I got to meet a few artists from deviantART as well: Bill Reinhold, Dan Panosian, Alex Riegel, and Franchesco, all of whom were delightful.



At one point on the exhibit floor when I was nearly overcome by heat and the crush of bodies I found myself thinking, "this is the last year for me; it's too much!" But by the end of the weekend I was making plans for next year. At some point I expect I'm gonna be too old for this kind of craziness but evidently I'm not there yet.

Off to San Diego Comic-Con

Yay, I get to go to SDCC again! I expect to have even more fun since it's the second time I've gone and I know the ropes, ha ha. The ropes? What does that mean, anyway?

I put together a little sketchbook of belly dancer sketches and finished work, in the hopes of trading a few of them for sketchbooks by artists I admire who will be there. And if they don't want to trade, I'll give 'em away!

Green Gypsy

Brush pen and watercolor.

The power of a graphic...

...to create a really bad impression.


















I have to wonder what the hapless graphic designer was told for this assignment. Make it look like the presidential seal only make it really hope-y-change-y with some important-sounding latin text. Make it hip and cool. Yeah!

Fail.

One of my friends actually told us this seal-gone-wrong was only an 'urban legend.' Good grief. Are there really people out there who aren't paying attention to what's happening with the presumptive Democratic nominee?

May Sketches

Woo hoo sketch dump!

In May I drew a belly dancer a day. Some are more finished than others, but here's a few of the better ones.

Marci (again)

Brush pen and digital color.

Marci

Pencil, colored pencil and watercolor.

Kadife

Pencil; color added in Photoshop.