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.

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.

Testing, testing 1-2-3

   I figured today would be a good day to actually upload some of my more recent artwork. These are just a few of a watercolor series I completed last week. I tend to use graphite or ink more often, so these are a bit... different from what I normally do. I actually did about eight of these, but I'm only posting the three most recent ones. (Everything else will be from this past weekend and on, when I start uploading more.)

A self-portrait based on a photograph.

The smallest of the series, and the one that seems most like a gestalt.

A bit of an eye study. Used a dip pen and burnt umber ink to go over the watercolor.

    If anyone would like to see more of the series, just left me know. :) Later, everyone!