Current work-in-progress

Dean Winchester fanart again... I have a long way to go.

Eric Northman drawing for my mom

Completed version. Done in about 2 hours in charcoal.

The next few pics are the W.i.Ps, if you want to glance at the process. :D                                                 

Sketches from the past week

Playing catch-up on the blog. Next post will be a completed charcoal project and its W.i.P.s.

Attempting something different. Most of my hand drawings are usually cleaner looking.

Completed version and some quick sketches

Hello everyone!

I'm doing two posts today. This one will have the finished version of my last painting, Serene, and some sketches I've been working on the last few days. The next post will just be on some interesting links. Anyways, on to the artwork!

End product, titled Serene.

Then, working at Art Walk, I was able to knock out two quick sketches while there was a lull.

Sketch of photographer Irene Quiroga's "Little Dancer"

Palm tree over water. No reference, though it was inspired by my boss' collage/mixed media paintings.

And finally, just a random practice page.

New work in progress

Trying different techniques. This one is going to be done in just black ink. It's kind of acting like a quick sketch/gesture drawing- it's actually rather fun to do. At this point, there's only about 10 minutes of work put into this. Two pictures at different stages.

Completed version of Painting

    Worked on the last painting a bit more after some great constructive crit.

First big summer drawing

Apologies for not getting on here recently. I can be a tad bit forgetful at times. Anyways, just finished a drawing today and I thought I would put up the WiP photos and the final result.

Midway point on the drawing.

The almost complete version... watercolor, gesso and black ink.

Watercolor and recent doodles

I still have quite a ways to go, to get this all up to speed... but I decided to go ahead and upload two recent drawings- one a quick sketch and the other a watercolor and pen drawing that I'm satisfied with. As I mentioned before, I think, I'll probably upload most of what I draw on here. That being said, I have "good days" and "UGH" days, so not all drawings will be equal in overall quality. That's life, though. ^^;

Synthesized face that started off as a quick pen drawing.

And for the not so pretty, though still useful, drawing.

An... attempt at Drawing Dean Winchester, from the box set cover for S1 of Supernatural.

   Yeah, the Dean sketch didn't work out so well... Good practice for speed drawing and being more loose with my pens though. And for something that only took me ten minutes, I feel it turned out decent.

Some Doodles and an M. Interpretation

  I have managed to get a few doodles down this past week and one attempt at a Master Interpretation done.

My very quick interpretation of Edvard Munch's Madonna

  Below is his version:

  I actually drew mine by using Robert Hughes' book The Shock of the New. One idea he mentioned in the section pertaining to Munch and his fellows, was that many Norwegian writers/painters seemed to view women as "a Belle Dame Sans Merci, bringer of anguish and emotional ruin.... [Munch's] women oscillated between fantasies of rape... and visions of woman as devourer." (Hughes 281) Apparently, the Madonna painting showcasing Lilith would be an example of the devouring aspect. The original border and text that was meant to accompany the painting delved into that a tad bit further, from the sounds of it.

  Other than that and me slowly finishing The Shock of the New, I managed a few doodles when distracted from other things.                                                                                                                          

Watercolor 3

Today's drawing/painting... took about an hour? Really need a better picture- my camera phone and artificial light are not conducive to decent photo taking, when trying to get images of my artwork. -.-' I will try to post sharper images tomorrow.

I freaking love watercolor!

  Ahem, well... you get the point. Anyways, today I was re-inspired to play around with watercolors. There's this artist on deviantART called agnes-cecile, who does some pretty amazing stuff. I even glanced at her speedpainting videos... and I was fairly blown away. Intimidated? Yes. Wanting to yank out my watercolors? Definitely. :D

  Well, my first attempt didn't go too well. (Read: Too embarrassed to put an image of it up, until it goes under extreme re-hauling.) I had stepped away from watercolors, for the most part, in the last couple of weeks. So, my first attempt was admittedly- well- yeah... it showed that I was intimidated and over-complicating it. -.-' My second attempt though went a lot more smoothly. I rather liked how it turned out. :D

    In other news, I get to hang out with Lizz from Ketch a Wave from Friday afternoon till sometime Saturday. Should be awesome! Dragging my Vivitar SLR and some art supplies with me as well, so it'll be interesting to see what pops up on here next. I'm definitely going to be messing around with watercolors there as well, so we shall see. Might be a few days before the pics go up, though. My SLR is non-digital.

Cover/Page 1

First work-in-progress shot for the sketchbook. Trying to decide whether or not the first page needs to have the quote done in ink or collage.

A tad blurry, but you get the idea.

Final Projects and The Sketchbook Project

  Finally, artwork update! Here's the completed version of my Design 1 isometric drawing.

   The completed ink portion of my Drawing II project, both a close-up and slight distance shot.

 

And finally... the sketchbook!

Drawing II W.i.P continued

   It's been a long day. Had a frightening moment where I thought there was an issue with Graduation, but found out that everything's moving smoothly. Have to go clothes shopping soon, though. UGH! Just cant wait to have that Associate's Degree in hand.

   Anyways, here's a little more progress on the Ribera interpretation.

finished line art

Starting to do ink washes

And here's where I left off for today. 

 Next time, I hope to start on the other version  of the interpretation. I'm possibly doing a young man trapped in a toy store, stuck with the costume and strings of a marionette. We'll see. ^^;

Final Project W.i.Ps and The Sketchbook Project

I can finally upload some current work. I'm working on final projects for both my Design 1 class and my Drawing 2 class. These are work-in-progress shots, so they may look extremely different when complete. For my Design project, I'm doing an Isometric drawing on a full sheet of Arches (140lb Hot Press) paper.

Full view of the Isometric drawing. Watercolor and graphite at this point. Glass-like architecture.

 And for a close up of part of it:

My Drawing II project is a bit of a Master Interpretation drawing. I'm doing the proposal on a sheet of Stonehenge, and breaking down the original painting into line and shape- instead of subject matter. Then, on a sheet of Arches, I'll bring back the subject matter, but with my definite own spin. The painting I'm using is Jose de Ribera's Martyrdom of Saint Phillip. Here's what I got so far.

Full view. This paper is almost as tall as I am. O.o

Close-up

The actual reference image:

Martyrdom of Saint Phillip by Jose de Ribera, Spanish Baroque

    Also, I decided to participate in The Sketchbook Project. It sounds amazing, and I can't wait to receive my sketchbook. I'll upload the drawings as I work on them. That's all for tonight!