so its been a while...

i have gotten complacent with posting here. its not that i dont do art anymore on the contry i do. i infact are undertaking a big personal project as we speak its more i'm bad at updating at times. and this year i have decided to make that my art resolution. update my tumblr and my blogger more often. anyway in an attempt to get this blog upto date have some art :D

lets start by looking at the sketchbooks work. all of these are charcoal though techniques have changed by the last one ^^

now some work in progress for a watcolour piece. it was suppose to be for a weekly chalange over on the IFX forums that i failed to compleat. need to get back to this one and finish it. it is the sun tarot card.

digital works up next both sketches, work in progress and finished pieces. painter and Photoshop have been used here. i need to learn how to use painter more methinks. i'm going to order a book to help me. the portrait is defiantly going be finished that's for sure.

anyway thats everything i have on the pc and ready to show. gonna have to kick myself to scan some more of my sketch books... i ave a bad habit of grabbing the one nearest me and drawing in that. so there very al over the place.

anyway hay drawing/ whatever you guys do

cherie

a cuttlefish

i actually drew this for drawing day just sadly didnt get it uploaded to the site because i had to dash off to work. ah well better luck next year. i had to pop the pencil on the page becacause the page wouldnt stay down... due to glue that propebly shouldnt be there -_-

and another face. had fun with the shadows for this one :) though they are some mistakes. will keep practicing.

thanks for reading :)

charchoal drawing

i started this yesterday so it proberbly doesnt count as a drawing for drawing day :/ hopefully i'll get another one drawn later today :)

portrait classes

scanning takes to long... so this is my sketch book and other loose work (except some watercolour squares i did to practice techniques... cant remember where i put them but i'll put them up when i find them. there probably in a draw some where. anywho so this is my work from beginning to end

drawn from life in 15 minutes

learning about the skull

drawn from life:- between 30 seconds and 1 minute

drawn from a photo in 1 hour or so

drawn from photo 3 -4 hours(i plan on finishing this one)

learning about how shadow falls on the face

learning about light and shadow, soft shading and cast shadows

using charcoal techniques seen in a video - drawn from life in about 1 hour

drawn from life 30 minutes to an hour (he kept moving)

watercolour on watercolour paper - drawn from life between 1 and 2 hours

(we had a tea break in there somewhere)

drawn from imagination using techniques from a video

(not fond of this one at all)

gesture drawing on train

practising face placement and bob kato's technique again

face placement again - her necks to thin

more skull practice

drawing children - proportions

drawing animal portraits- mainly dogs, a few cats and a bear

i need to get better at placing eyes in a straight line, i notice that now that one eye tends to be higher then another. so i will be working on that. I'm also going to work on facial expressions... i have more sketches to update but there for another time

happy drawing/writing/whatever you guys do

cherie