Kittys Drawings

Hi Everyone!
This week I had all intentions of fixing up the drawing in the previous post. I also did a bunch of quick fashion sketches that I had plans on colouring.

But then I became aware of ConceptArt’s latest CHOW topic. Fantasy Pinup. Umm – could that have been any more perfect?? So of course I jumped on it. Actually fairly pleased with this one – It could have done with a bit more detail but overall, I think my CHOW entries have improved significantly
This took me about 6 hours – maybe more? I used a ref for the pose. By Sunday, I was hungover from the night before so I was glad I’d pretty much finished it on Saturday.

Work in progress. Look – no lines!

So this week, I will finish the drawings I had planned on.
Also – I might head back to life drawing next Monday.

Ciao!

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

Sup!
So this is my entry for this past week’s CHOW – Brief for the project is in my last post (Just to confuse you!)….Overall, I’m pretty MEH about it. Didn’t have enough time to do what I want with it and I suffered from not thinking things through fully again.
I got some great tips from the ConceptArt peeps – Skip the backgrounds for now if you’re unsure about them and watch your values and anatomy. Yup yup got it

Some work in progress and details…(click for bigger)

Now I should get back to doing my latest client project!!!
Bye

Hi!

As promised, here is my Concept Art Character of the Week entry. The topic was The Surveyor – imagined up by one of the super cool girls on CA…..The surveyor being a woman from a multidimensional race who is surveying every human on earth – asking questions from the incredibly mundane to the philosophical. She flits around the globe every .005 seconds and is impervious to weapons and violence. No one knows why she is here and when asked she only replies “for the survey”.

Intriguing!

I wasn’t expecting to enter, let alone finish this piece so I was quite surprised at myself on Thursday when I found the sketch I was fiddling with actually looked kind of alright. So I took it into Painter and got busy – and this is the result:

And some details and the work in progress (these are all required for the CHOW submission as you don’t make the poll without them).

Sorry about the HUGENESS of the pics! Hope no one out there is suffering on dialup!

Anyways! I really like this. More than anything I’ve done before. First thing I’ve done in a while that wasn’t frustrating. Everything turned out exactly how I wanted it – the picture in my head FINALLY came out the same on (digital) paper. Yay!!

Now before I sign off for this Monday, I want to say a big “HI!!” to everyone who landed here via Makeup & Beauty Blog!! Thanks for visiting! So cool getting a big spike in hits (yeh I’m still a teeny tiny blogger). Thanks!!

Sooooo – I guess I shall try and post some more this week. I might explain those banners I’ve got there on my sidebar now…..see if I get to do some more sketching…and finish that business card.

Byeeeeee