Posts Tagged ‘conceptart.org’
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Hiiiiiii!!
Lightning fast posting tonight….Just a few sketches I did on the weekend from “The Figure in Motion”. Retro 70′s nudes FTW lol!!
Excuse the really dodgy heads and clumsy shading.


Should bring some colour back into this little blog huh?
ConceptArt is up to its 200th CHOW which involves a month long contest with the theme “Monarch of CHOW”. We have to a depict a king or queen of a particular music genre. TOO MUCH FREEDOM. Soooo many ideas! I should start sketching soon. Need to think about this one a lot.
You know I haven’t even done anything digital for a few weeks now? Feels strange.
Life drawing last night was fantastic too – if a little messy. Silly me to wear a white top on the day we’re meant to colour in our entire page with BLACK charcoal. Messy messy. Will attempt to somehow capture my drawings with the camera. Dreading the thought.
Okie then seeyas!!

Tags: Art & Design, character of the week, charcoal, conceptart.org, digital painting, drawing, female, figure, girl, graphite, grey, illustration, pencil, Rambles, sketch, sketches, study
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
Heeeeya!
ConceptArt buddy Ed lent me some time ago, a book on fashion illustration. It’s an absolutely MASSIVE book with heaps of wicked tips and a really good resource. I only had the chance to start going through it yesterday (slackie) but I can already see the benefit it can have on my drawing. It’s a very technical book going into detail about composition, colour, proportion etc and stressing the importance of practice, practice practice!
So these are the first few sketches I have done from it. Nothing groundbreaking – they are rough copies of sketches in the book but I really need to get that croquis down. I realise I am very very terrible at drawing the hips/pelvis. Always had iss-ues with it.

See…..iss-ues

And some clothes – another tough area. Folds and what-not. Yipes!


So there you have it. I’ll get back to it then! 
Ciao!

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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Tags: Art & Design, cat, cats, charcoal, conceptart.org, drawing, feline, female, graphite, illustration, life drawing, pencil, Rambles, sketch, sketches, study
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
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!

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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Hi!!
Small post today. Some sketches for this week’s CHOW – The theme is Wizard of Oz. AWESOME! Seriously!!
I’m doing a junkie Dorothy whacked out on smack, floating down the yellow brick road. Teehehe. I’ve already done the majority of the linework at home so these are just a few doodles done at work while I was waiting for a (massive) file to save. Obviously working on Toto too – I don’t like those fluffy Terrier things – Boxers are much cuter. So I did a mini one. Not a Pug either mind you! Plus some other random animals heh 

Woof!
Awwww so cute. ;-P

Bya!
(blogging at work….shhhhhh!!)

Tags: Art & Design, bird, boxer, bullmastiff, cat, cats, conceptart.org, corel painter, crow, dog, drawing, fashion, feline, female, girl, graphite, hair, illustration, kitty, meow, pencil, raven, sketch, sketches, white
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
Tags: Art & Design, conceptart.org, drawing, exhibition, fashion, female, girl, graphite, grey, hair, illustration, national gallery of victoriam, pencil, Rambles, ron mueck, sculpture, sketch, sketches, study
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Friday, March 26th, 2010
FINALLY.
Something I actually like. And one which started off as nothing more than a random sketch from my LittleSnapper inspiration pics. Started it yesterday night and finished it today. Took about 3 hours all up – if that. Using a combo of my favourite pastels and then watercolours in Corel Painter. I still love linework but I find it hard to do anything more complicated than something like this. There’s a lot of “Cmd-Z” to get the lines right – particularly the curves as most you can’t really do slowly – they need a swift and decisive stroke otherwise they look wonky.

Anyways, I’m off to watch a movie and have an early night. Got a few things planned for the weekend – Going to see the Ron Mueck exhibition and meet the guys from the ConceptArt sketch group. Bout time I rocked up to that again. Slack-ass.
Ciao!

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