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Digital, from a pencil sketch.

Daily Sketch Challenge: Black Widow

Another Daily Sketch Challenge...quick pencil sketch, scanned into Photoshop where I added color. Used my Black Widow statue as my model.

Probably 40 minutes or so from start to finish. Uploading this tonight against my better judgment, since I will no doubt see all kinds of things wrong with it tomorrow morning. Eh.

Daily Sketch Challenge: Benicio del Toro

About 20 minutes, digital quickie in Photoshop...didn't want to miss this Daily Sketch Challenge today and time was running out.

It's Benicio del Toro (mmmmm), by the way...though not particularly recognizable as him.

Marker—Quick Studies

Just some quick studies in marker and pen of my friend's fabulous, fashionable aunt, from some wonderful old photos she allowed me to use as reference.

I really love working very fast, blocking things in with marker and then scribbling in some detail with pen. I'm not wild about the marker fumes, though. *cough*

Daily Sketch Challenge: Reese Witherspoon

Quick entry for the Daily Sketch Challenge Group on deviantART. (The challenge was to sketch Ms. Witherspoon's face from provided photo reference.) I nearly didn't do this but managed to find a few minutes to enter--I am finding it far too easy to do everything else but draw these days! Must change that.

Pencil Portrait Commission

Pencil on Strathmore paper (which I wish I could find more of; it is the most gorgeous , responsive paper...a joy to make pencil marks upon.)

Delphine

Pencil and ink wash.

The actual paper is much whiter, but I liked the warm-toned background of the scan so I left it that way...

More Scribbles

...from recent 'Sketch & Kvetch' sessions.

Portraits

I am experimenting with portraits, with an eye towards doing commissions. I'm hoping to offer something other than the typical, traditionally-painted art from a photo ( though I'm working on a piece in that category as well.)

The girl was drawn and colored in Photoshop (the final was printed on 12 x 18" toned paper and I added some hand-drawn touches.) The young boy is watercolor and graphite on Strathmore paper.

Sketchcards: Jonah Hex * Green Goblin * Loki

Card trade with the multi-talented (and also very patient) Oran Parker. He requested these three guys who all have toothy grins (or grimace, in the case of the cowboy.)

Markers, pencil, white, gold and silver paint and one of those sparkly colored gel markers. I had a lot of fun doing these; thanks, Oran! :)

Eh

An average of 30 people a day visit this blog... Silently they slip in, look around, then scurry off, leaving nothing behind. I'm wondering if this little thing has run its course.

Red Sonja x 2

Art commission done for my wonderful, comic-loving accountant, who makes tax time bearable.

Pencil, marker, ink, some digital stuff, white paint and silver marker (which, sadly, doesn't scan well.)

Gone Wired Sketch 'n' Kvetch

My friend Diana and I have been meeting regularly at local coffee hangout, Gone Wired, for a few hours of whining, complaining, and sketching. Very therapeutic. We draw whatever's on the table that night--various toys, magazine covers, giant flies...there's always something.

Power Girl

I did this for my husband's birthday. Absolutely positively 100% analog--no fancy-shmancy Photoshop stuff, for a change.

I used markers, white paint and a bit of colored pencil on bristol. Scary as hell working without that digital net! I tried to keep it really loose, like a convention sketch-type thing. I see a lot of things I would like to fix, and I wish I'd been a bit bolder with color, especially the shadow, but--eh, it's done and he likes it, so I'm happy. :)

Lace

Pencil and marker drawing, with added enhancements in Photoshop.

Photo reference provided by a stock photo from Elandria.

Self. Portrait. Vector. Color.

More fun learning stuff, like how to get the brushes to do what I want them to, in Illustrator. From a boring photo of yours truly.

Bond-Bond-Buffy

Artist trading cards, requested by the talented Wynn Ryder.

I haven't trimmed them yet, and I kind of like the way they look, so I decided to scan them before cutting them down to 2.5 x 3.5".

These were great fun to do—I actually had no idea how much I would like working in a small format.

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.'