Just doodling.
Monthly Archives: January 2016
Ruby
Weirdly enough, this photographs worse than it looks in real life! So, this was a watercolor experiment…I’m not getting the hang of them *quite* yet. Watercolor is not forgiving, so I had some bleeding issues as well as “crap painting over this too much just…removes the paint” and had a lot of trouble getting the color and shadows of her skin right. I think I need to stop treating it like a pencil probably, and …
Economy of Line
Homework #2. I did this SO WRONG. Haha. There was a warmup exercise with 24 practice faces (the same 12, two times), that were supposed to be QUICK, SIMPLE drawings. This expressions sheet was supposed to be 25 faces, I THINK with time involved, and the same person 24 times. I instead did these as simple doodles and let the face be whatever it felt like. Oops. I don’t like all of them, so …
Gremlin
I don’t know why this is so horrifying. Definitely not my usual lady portrait!
Three Styles
This was my first assignment for an online illustration course I’m taking. Take an image (in this case, a random profile photo that showed up in my Facebook Feed… thank you Lacey for unknowingly becoming my subject!) and draw the image in three distinctly different styles of other artists you like. 1) Describe each style you chose to emulate. I tried Fiona Staples, Jim Mahfood, and Ira Sluyterman van Langeweyde. Fiona is really good at economy of …
Jubilee Redux
Ink and colored pencil. It’s difficult to do these things without a photo reference, but I like how it turned out!
Jubilee
Quick ink sketch of Jubilee, my favorite of the X-Men. No pencil here, straight pen, which is not at all forgiving, but I think it’s good practice.
Work In Progress (Update: 1/20/2016)
Work in progress. Probably won’t be finished until next week at least, or whenever I have time to work on it at the office during my lunch break. I definitely am going to change a lot, such as the darkest shading on her skin. The color is just a little off.