Shtoof!
What's that, you say?
No, I'm not dead. I've been intending to post on LJ for at least 3 months now =_________________=.... my time management skills are sterling as ever.
Fortunately I am in a much much better mood than in my previous post, since injuries mentioned therein are around 95% healed and now enable me to climb (badly), cycle (better than the climbing, if only because the number of times I fall off the wall per climb generally exceeds the number of times I fall off my bike per ride. Generally, mind.) swim (??...) and begin practicing floorballish (also LARPish) type activities, which do not seem to bother me at all (I can't run for more than five seconds without wheezing, but that's nothing to do with injuries). Knee is also greatly strengthened.
Excellent! This then frees me up to whinge about my job, my complete lack of motivation, and the aforementioned problem with time-management -... rather than things which actually erode my remaining sanity...
But enough about boring stuff like real life. I do indeed have artwork to show. First and foremost, the RPGsoccers as commissioned by mentalfirewall (bar the one with their face blurred out, since I have not yet got their permission to show from them):
An example of what one anal-retentive person can do with a paintbrush and acrylic after overrunning their deadline by three months while combining at least ten different pictures to shop various heads onto various bodies, all of different resolutions and sizes, which they are completely incapable of homogenizing visually, because
They
Just
Copy.
=____________________=...
Prizes for those who guess which two are heads on someone else's body entirely, since I could not get photos of them. And by prizes, I mean experimental baking.
Next up, lifedrawing class FTW (up pretty much in order of drawing):
Charcoal on handy flipchart. Crap picture.
Charcoal on handy flipchart, laid on and then rubbed out with handy rubber. Less crap, but ran out of time on the head.
Detail - I drew the head first, unusually.
Charcoal and chalk on grey card. This was not, in fact, the card I'd bought specially for the session, and indeed had with me at the time, but a random piece of cardboard lining the art folder I'd brought that day. I... forget why, exactly...
Again, charcoal rubbed off flipchart paper - more heavily done this time. Could have done with slightly rougher/thicker paper, though. I wish I'd had time to do more background - the model looks like she's floating.
Pencil (for the darker shadows - they only show up brightly in the first drawing because of the flash) and chalk for the brighter lights. I hadn't decided on the pencil/chalk combination at the start, with the result that the model's nearest leg looks a bit smudgey. Yes, indeed it is on two pieces of black paper stuck together with masking tape. Quiet, you.
Coloured conte crayon (apparently these are not quite the same as chalk pastels. Go figure) on grey paper, with slight touching-up using watercolour for the darker shadows/outlines. Hmm.... the reflections in the floor look a bit crap though.
A more successful application of the previous technique. Yay for colour. It would have helped if we had a two-session pose, as was the original plan... I'd like to use this drawing style some more.
Well, that's that for lifedrawing. I actually have enough material for two posts, but I can't be bothered to put everything up today (and some are still pending permission from their owners).... however here are some sketcheeeees;
The first is a random angel, drawn while freezing my fingers off in January or somesuch silly time of year. The second is Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeane! from Claymore, who I may or may not have stuck in my last (f-locked due to general misery) post, but I cannot be bothered to check so she's going in again anyway, and the third is the parks on one of my many visits to Oxfordia. If you look closely, you can see a meerkat.
Yes.
Someone was walking a meerkat... in the park. On a little leash.
It came up to me and climbed into my hand.
I could feel its heart beating.
There are just no words to describe the Cute.
Doodles. As you can see, I was concentrating veeeeery hard during the conference I attended.
(Fortunately we were provided with satsumas for entertainment, and the guy beside me was equally... um... concentrated. One satsuma ended up as a Jim Carey, and one as the Flaming Eye of Sauron. I think it was a good conference).
I was concentrating equally hard on the one-day training scheme...
[Yes, DrM - It's a lion! Get in the car!]
Goodness gracious, golly gee, whose could this patronus be?
If by chance you do not know, spoilers may be found below...
... Or not, depending on how hard people are trying to avoid commenting on my Harry Potter fanart or my bad grammar. *evades lord_sandwich's withering look* another result of my training-scheme attention span...
Aaand finally. Two crappy sketches of my favouritist character of all time. Except that one of them cannot, in fact, be my favouritist character, for reasons which do not become clear until the penultimate novel. But shush! Artistic license, I say. Unfortunately they are rubbish, but I may do the proper non-sketch versions at some point. The former picture is meant to be in brilliant colour - possibly on sky-blue paper, even... black, white, gold and blue... On the other hand I have a backlog of about ten of these on my to-do list, so I am not overly optimistic.
Well, that's all, folks. Except for the other post's-worth of material which I cannot be bothered to put up at the moment *yawns* bed-time, methinks..
No, I'm not dead. I've been intending to post on LJ for at least 3 months now =_________________=.... my time management skills are sterling as ever.
Fortunately I am in a much much better mood than in my previous post, since injuries mentioned therein are around 95% healed and now enable me to climb (badly), cycle (better than the climbing, if only because the number of times I fall off the wall per climb generally exceeds the number of times I fall off my bike per ride. Generally, mind.) swim (??...) and begin practicing floorballish (also LARPish) type activities, which do not seem to bother me at all (I can't run for more than five seconds without wheezing, but that's nothing to do with injuries). Knee is also greatly strengthened.
Excellent! This then frees me up to whinge about my job, my complete lack of motivation, and the aforementioned problem with time-management -... rather than things which actually erode my remaining sanity...
But enough about boring stuff like real life. I do indeed have artwork to show. First and foremost, the RPGsoccers as commissioned by mentalfirewall (bar the one with their face blurred out, since I have not yet got their permission to show from them):
An example of what one anal-retentive person can do with a paintbrush and acrylic after overrunning their deadline by three months while combining at least ten different pictures to shop various heads onto various bodies, all of different resolutions and sizes, which they are completely incapable of homogenizing visually, because
They
Just
Copy.
=____________________=...
Prizes for those who guess which two are heads on someone else's body entirely, since I could not get photos of them. And by prizes, I mean experimental baking.
Next up, lifedrawing class FTW (up pretty much in order of drawing):
Charcoal on handy flipchart. Crap picture.
Charcoal on handy flipchart, laid on and then rubbed out with handy rubber. Less crap, but ran out of time on the head.
Detail - I drew the head first, unusually.
Charcoal and chalk on grey card. This was not, in fact, the card I'd bought specially for the session, and indeed had with me at the time, but a random piece of cardboard lining the art folder I'd brought that day. I... forget why, exactly...
Again, charcoal rubbed off flipchart paper - more heavily done this time. Could have done with slightly rougher/thicker paper, though. I wish I'd had time to do more background - the model looks like she's floating.
Pencil (for the darker shadows - they only show up brightly in the first drawing because of the flash) and chalk for the brighter lights. I hadn't decided on the pencil/chalk combination at the start, with the result that the model's nearest leg looks a bit smudgey. Yes, indeed it is on two pieces of black paper stuck together with masking tape. Quiet, you.
Coloured conte crayon (apparently these are not quite the same as chalk pastels. Go figure) on grey paper, with slight touching-up using watercolour for the darker shadows/outlines. Hmm.... the reflections in the floor look a bit crap though.
A more successful application of the previous technique. Yay for colour. It would have helped if we had a two-session pose, as was the original plan... I'd like to use this drawing style some more.
Well, that's that for lifedrawing. I actually have enough material for two posts, but I can't be bothered to put everything up today (and some are still pending permission from their owners).... however here are some sketcheeeees;
The first is a random angel, drawn while freezing my fingers off in January or somesuch silly time of year. The second is Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeane! from Claymore, who I may or may not have stuck in my last (f-locked due to general misery) post, but I cannot be bothered to check so she's going in again anyway, and the third is the parks on one of my many visits to Oxfordia. If you look closely, you can see a meerkat.
Yes.
Someone was walking a meerkat... in the park. On a little leash.
It came up to me and climbed into my hand.
I could feel its heart beating.
There are just no words to describe the Cute.
Doodles. As you can see, I was concentrating veeeeery hard during the conference I attended.
(Fortunately we were provided with satsumas for entertainment, and the guy beside me was equally... um... concentrated. One satsuma ended up as a Jim Carey, and one as the Flaming Eye of Sauron. I think it was a good conference).
I was concentrating equally hard on the one-day training scheme...
[Yes, DrM - It's a lion! Get in the car!]
Goodness gracious, golly gee, whose could this patronus be?
If by chance you do not know, spoilers may be found below...
... Or not, depending on how hard people are trying to avoid commenting on my Harry Potter fanart or my bad grammar. *evades lord_sandwich's withering look* another result of my training-scheme attention span...
Aaand finally. Two crappy sketches of my favouritist character of all time. Except that one of them cannot, in fact, be my favouritist character, for reasons which do not become clear until the penultimate novel. But shush! Artistic license, I say. Unfortunately they are rubbish, but I may do the proper non-sketch versions at some point. The former picture is meant to be in brilliant colour - possibly on sky-blue paper, even... black, white, gold and blue... On the other hand I have a backlog of about ten of these on my to-do list, so I am not overly optimistic.
Well, that's all, folks. Except for the other post's-worth of material which I cannot be bothered to put up at the moment *yawns* bed-time, methinks..