Kitty's Drawings

Hello!
I can finally show you all the commission that was taking up my time the last few weeks! Its finished and the client is happy (yay!). I learnt a ton in this one aswell – namely – STICK TO COREL PAINTER! Photoshop is still frustrating and annoying and hard to pick good colours with. Also learning to streamline my workflow and plan things out better from the start.
I will also be ditching the B&W to colour method because while it may be good for controlling values, I find the move to colour is difficult. What is this method I hear you ask?? Well, its all about working in a greyscale palette at the start of your drawing so that the range of contrast is easier to control. You can focus on what is dark and what is light a lot easier than starting with colour.
Which is all well and good but then you have to figure out how to convert that B&W to colour….how?? Tutorials on the web are a bit vague about this as I guess each artist works differently. You’re supposed to use an Overlay or Colour layer over the top in Photoshop but no matter what I did, the result was always a muddy mess. Black and white also doesn’t account for a shift in hue….There is more complexity to a drawing than just the tonal range.
It may be to do with my lack of experience in Photoshop – but I like to just pick a colour and paint with it. SOoooo I am back to Painter.

Enough rambling hey!
Here be the drawing….

I’ve also got something I’m working on for this weeks CHOW….I didn’t expect to enter because I only started sketching on Thursday and it’s due Monday …..but as soon as I started drawing I liked what I was doing and so continued. Its nearly finished so you’ll get a post tomorrow

For a possible commission I have going right now with a lovely Voguette

Only a quick sketch and colour in Photoshop. I like this pose but the face definitely needs some work. I might refine it later. See how things go.

Its kinda cool keeping the original sketch visible. Also playing with layer blending modes in PS. It’ll take me a while to get the hang of that. I understand them for work purposes but somehow it doesn’t translate so well into my more traditional art. I find it really hard to move away from a very natural media style of drawing….just layering colours from light to dark. With digital you can do whatever you want and I’m still struggling with that!

Anyways – I got my hair coloured again yesterday. So its back to the vibrant red. Yays.
Other super news – NEXT WEEK THE BRACES COME OFF!! Holy moly! Sooooo excited!!

Well, better get to bed!
Night!

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!

Yay!
Just in time too. I hope it is what was expected I’m quite happy with it too. Could have polished it a bit more but just didn’t have time.

No time to chat today! Gotta work on that harem girl.

Have a good weekend!

Hi All!
Having a great Sunday? The weather is perfect here in Melbourne – not too hot with a nice cool breeze.
Me and Jonny went to the annual Volkswagon meetup out in Cranbourne. It’s been 60 years since they made the first Kombi so there was a whole cavalcade of them from each year of production. Cool as! We also saw a whole tonne of Bugs and quite a few Type 3’s. Not very many Fastbacks like ours which is a good thing I think – our little car is quite unique! Jonny is full of ideas of what to do with it now. Yay!

So…back to drawing stuff. The last couple of days I’ve been working on this. Referenced from a photo – but she doesn’t really look like the girl in the photo – which I’m okay with. Trying out digital painting in Photoshop and only doing tonal values (black & white). I’m getting the hang of working in PS and may be even preferring it over Painter right now. Crazy huh! Hehe. This took a total of about 3 or 4 hours….lost count after the first hour
I could have worked it a LOT more but thought I should leave it before I overdo it. Kinda like the roughness anyway.
As you can see in the work-in-progress (WIP) pics, I changed her proportions a bit….as I was going along I noticed more things that were a bit out of place.

And the WIPs.

Bya!

This is the cucumber I’ve been drawing the past couple of days. Well – I did it in 2 sessions. The first one was about 2 hours and then another hour or so to finish. It’s not exactly like the reference I know – but I kind of like it different.
Slowly getting the hang of painting in PS!

Lots more stuff planned too. I’ve got work tomorrow but I plan to spend all of Tuesday drawing. Yippeee!
Hope you’ve all had a super excellent weekend so far!

What’s this?? Two posts in two days? Omg! Heh. Only a quick one today. My train sketches were seriously dodgy and not really worth showing. Meh. Having a bit of a flat day actually. Think I’m tired. Fire up tomorrow yah!!

This was done using a photo as reference. Fun. Took an hour or so. Slowly getting the hang of painting in Photoshop. Now I have to try something bigger. Or draw from life. I left my initial pallette on there so you can see where I started.

Bya!