time for an update

i have been working on alot this month. some of which i cant currently talk about as it wouldnt be professional until its published.

but some stuff i can share is here. well some sketches anyway.

this was for a tutorial that i wanted to enter but didnt have time. its of the sword excalibar i'm thinking of moving the sword and adding a graveyard. but i'm thinking of finishing this soon :)

next up we have the beginnings of a self portrait. i wanted to get some crit before i startred painting it. firstly we have the photo i used for refrence. i know it has alot of shadows on it but i want to work on my light and shadow and its perfect for that.

next we have the pure sketch from refrence hopefulkly i've got the likeness.

next up we have made it more of a fantasy portrait using my face as the base for a female barbarian. there has been talk about going the vampire rout but wen i gave the sketch before i went in this direction pointy teeth i couldnt help chuckle or feel very silly. its a good i want to suck your blood pose... i think the hair still needs some work, and some removed from places :) no layers have been removed even those that arnt needed anymore so ignore the scribbly mess.

hope you guys like so far.

my sisters birthday

so its my sisters birthday soon, real soon and i'm kinda bad at keeping track of time. so i've only just started pulling reference, figuring out the picture and what not. while i would love to be finished by her birthday, i don't think its going to happen. obviously the time where i need time to work on my art works offering overtime and i'm too poor to say no.

anyway so far i've done a couple of sketches. the concept is faeries dancing in a fairy ring, forest in the background. its going to be fun and something she will hopefully love. my sister likes faeries, she doodles them all day (still trying to convince her that anyone can draw but not succeeding) i used http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/ to do these studies. but i think these are going to be my bases for the picture i'm doing. the costume is going to change. i drew this to capture the movement i want in the piece.

still working on this theres a few key bits i want to work on the path, the greenery and the bottom right cliff of the rock with the temple on it... and maybe the bridge, not fully sure on the bridge.

anyway happy drawing.writing/ whatever you guys do

cherie

landscape part 5

another update. so wanted to get this done today but the massive headache is preventing me from doing so. dammit. at least the rock in the corners done now. i'm now revisiting the rock with the temple on it. as well thats the main focas and needs to be built up more because of it.

the reason i was hoping to get it finished today is because i need to start a watercolour painting for my sisters birthday. faeries dancing in glad so far for it. she likes faeries and she wanted a fantasy painting done of her self so this is what i'm leaning towards right now. hopefully the tablets will kick in soon so i can work on my landscape. really dont want to have to set it aside to start my sisters birthday present. stupid mum saying i should give my sister a painting for her birthday. i only do it because my sister is my biggist fan and it would make her day. it doesnt help that i'm getting the urge to work on my dragon age comic again. anyway hopefully everything will work out.

watercolour landscape progress - part 4

another update. sadly my camera did a sucky job of caturing thre green wash on the origanal progress photo i took so i took a picture of it again at a bit later in the process as a close up of the rock i'm working on. enjoy.

watercolour landscape progress - part 3

broke some of the cloud up to add hieght and depth. still need to do alot of work to make the latest mountains/rock formations more 3 dimentional. i think its going well though. i think the plank bridge needs muting a bit

more tomorrow. happy drawing/writing /whatever you guys do.

cherie

watercolour landscape progress - part 2

this picture looks lighter then this in real life. my camera is not the best and so doesn't always capture images brilliantly. one day i will get a better camera, not only for photographing my art but for capturing good reference pictures.

the plan is to add more detail the further forwards this is so the illusion of distance is achieved. i plan to add more colour the further forwards the mountains get also. the next layer of mountains i'm introducing greenery and some sienna and umber, maybe a smidgen of orange once the rest of the layers bases have been built up i will probably re visit the back one and add a little more detail. but for now its important i don't over detail it.

happy drawing/writing/whatever you guys do

cherie

watercolour landscape progress.

after a talk with a friend in a weekly art chat i visit, i decided to do an environment/landscape painting. environments or what people often dub as backgrounds don't get as much love in the places i visit. people seam to care more about characters more. so I'm painting a fantasy landscape or an environment if you want to call it that.

firstly i opened manga studio. i kinda use this for sketching and ideas. regardless of the fact this is planning for watercolour. as you can see its very loose something of which its going to retain. based on a piece of stock i found of some mountains on deviant art http://beefstock.deviantart.com/art/beefstockpic0035-29930422?q=&qo=, balianese temples from my photo album one of which i think is of tanah lot (its a temple surrounded by ocean very pretty), balanese palaces along with the memory of a plate i have in my verey bitty pots and pans that are in my mums garage.

next i printed the image out backwards. this is important as when i trece it ont tracing paperand then copy it to watercolour paper the image will be backwards to what i intend it. i clean up the sketch directly onto the tracing paper i also change the mountains in the forground.

next i mask of the building, the path and the litle wooden bridge. once the masking fluid is dry i wet the whole paper and attempt to do a graded wash wet on wet. i can do a graded wash when working wet on dry sadly there was too much water on the paper and the colours run :( i'm going to have to practice this some more. i lifted the clouds out before the paint dried using the tissue. some imperfections have been left behind but the cloud texture will be worked up eventually.

using more of the smale wash i pull the far mountains further forwards washing it over the clouds as i go and lifting most of it back out again. after letting that dry i work on the next mountain area. i repeat this adding more coboltblue to the mix the viridian green the further i get forwards. hopefully this sets the tone of the picture and creates a sense of distance in which i will be working on top of.

tune in next time for more progress of this painting. hapy drawing/writing/whatever you guys do

cherie