Kitty's Drawings

Hiii!

More life drawing for everyone Colour this time! I had heaps of fun with this lesson and it was good to dig out the pastels – haven’t used them since my uni days! Did LOTS of drawings – the majority of them dreadful – but I have to put the really shit ones up so the half decent ones look a bit better ehehehee.

The quality of photos is absolutely terrible and I apologise in advance – I can’t nuke the levels out of them like I would with a B&W. They look a bit more vibrant in real life – winter sun and all that, crappy camera – hard to take a good pic. But enough of the EXCUSES, time for drawings

The worst first – 1 min and 2 min warm ups:

Contours – the first was meant to be 7 mins one colour and 7 mins the next but I finished early (always going too fast!) and did the next one quickly. Then 10 mins doing a drawing based on shading and using 3 colours. My third was the background colour heh.

Then the final pose – two lots of 20mins. I did the first sketch and realised it was way too big for the page so I scrapped it and started again. Really pleased with the end result – using blue really grounded the whole thing I think. Shame the pics are so craaaaaaaap argh sorry!!

Some close ups

K, that’s enough nekkid man-bum for a day Until next time!

Hi!

All done for this week’s CHOW. I can’t believe I managed to go out Saturday, bum around Sunday, do life drawing today and STILL get this done. Awesome. Oh and I don’t hate it so much either. Omg.

Okay so it’s not fantastic but it’s better than most (all?) my other CHOW entries so I gotta be makin’ some progress. Plus this week’s theme was mega mega awesome.
So onto the drawings…

If you can’t tell – I decided to go with a whacked out junkie as my Dorothy. Tehehehehee. WHY? Cos I can. And you gotta think that whoever came up with the whole OZ thing had to be on something. I know it’s not the original but have you SEEN Return to Oz?? Cray-zee. The first one was bad enough.
Some progress pics (Click it to make it big if you so wish)….

And how was life drawing I hear you ask?? FAB. Loved it!! Much better than what I was expecting. I shall show you my results tomorrow and talk about it in more detail.
Until then – BYE!

Hello!

This week’s Character of the Week topic was “Atlantian anarchist”. Picture the idyllic Utopia that Atlantis is – Surely such perfection cannot last that long and there would be rebellion??

I started this with a much more basic pose as you can see in the work in progress pics…but the anatomy was all over the shop as I hadn’t used reference. So I quickly found some and created a more dynamic pose. However, as usual time constraints became the biggest issue. With a weekend full of high tea and seeing Alice in Wonderland, it didn’t leave all that much time for drawing. And I am mighty slack sometimes. I think the weekly format allows me to just get to that point of a piece where I’m sick of it – but not enough time to push through that phase. In all honesty I should try and work on it every night. Though I am learning a lot I think – getting used to not relying on line-work and getting the majority of the piece down in a short amount of time.
The next step is more forethought and planning. What to do when I get to the point where I hate it. Right now my solution is to get stuck into details – yet when you’ve not planned for just the right amount of detail then you’re left frustrated. Heh.
I should make more (mental) lists when it comes to art.
Anyway, enough jibber-jabber..on to the drawing.

And work in progress

Ta ta for now

Just a quick post today to say…I WON SOMETHING!!!!!

Eeeeeeee!!!

A lovely blog that I read, by Twila at The Mysterious Life of a Metropolitan Housewife recently had a competition to celebrate her first blogging anniversary. The prize was a gorgeous aqua repro 50′s dress by Shristi Studio on Etsy. And as with many contests, I enter and then promptly forget about it….but today I saw on Twila’s blog that I had WON. Woooo!!!

So without furher ado, here is my prize…picture courtesty of Twila & Shristi Studio of course.

I can’t wait for it to arrive. Yay!! SO HAPPY!

A non-drawing related post.

Let’s talk about (and perve on) SHOES.

Check out these babies!!!!!!! I don’t usually spend my last cent on frivoulous purchases. Really.
But this time I just *had* to have them.
Just look at them. The brightest shade of electric blue. Pretty sequins. Flowers. The cutest rounded toe. The right height with a perfect, not-too-skinny heel. Soft suede. Plush pink velvet interior. *sigh*
And all for $100 including postage. Yay!
From Schuh in the UK. They arrived in less than a week too.

Excuse my fatty feet – the mercury reached 43C today (108F) hence the swollen feet. Blergh.

I think I am in love with Irregular Choice.

Quick late night posting today…..

I just squeezed an entry for ConceptArt.org CHOW this week…the topic was Steampunk Harem. Mixing two conflicting styles. Ripper topic! So many entries. And I bit off WAY more than I could chew! The way I envisioned this was so different. I’ve learnt a lot from this exercise…mostly to plan even the tiniest details from the beginning. I wish I had more time…but I’m thoroughly over this…but I like one of my original sketches, so I might paint that in PS just for play and to see how I go.

Hope you like! Even though I am very MEH about it.

Night!

Hello Everyone! Today I have a new Art Jumble drawing for you. This week’s topic is “Emo girls” – a super fun topic actually they are fun to draw! Lots of peeps on Art Jumble seem to be happy about it too as there’s quite a few submissions this week. I had a rough sketch for this but it wasn’t what I used as the base – haven’t had time to get to the scanner at work lately. So I drew this entirely on the computer instead. It’s turned out pretty good I think! Emo always makes me think of bright, punky hair. And I know I didn’t add any accessories etc but thats not really my thing. Hmm. Took me about an hour and a half. While drinking a beer. Hehe. Anyways, this was quick… I need to start pushing my limits a bit. Have a couple more drawings planned so I should get onto those next week. Bye bye for now!