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

"We've got oceans, beautiful women, this emotion called love. According to the old vids, we have everything they want."

quote from mass effect. bben playing mass effect and mass effect 2 recently and i actually think i like it more then dragon age... because shapard the charector you play (and the opwner of said quote fot the title of this blog) is aswome. they have so much personality especially compared to the warden in dragon age... dragon ages wardens need to be voiced in the future.

so anyway heres some work in progresses for my lates piece of art

happy drawing/writing/whatever you guys do

Chérie

WIP winters lullaby

another progress shot of my winters lullaby picture. hope to finish it soon.

dragon age:- the warden

a work in progress of something i am working on. she's going to be holding a rose.

oil paintings

first off i belong to an art club on Deviant art called IFX-forumites. one of the clubs activities is a short magazine. take a look http://the-phoenicorn.deviantart.com/art/Forumites-Online-Issue-1-165453282

next up my art classes finnished this week. its kinda sad, i plan on taking some more once i get some money together for them and travel.

heres my paintings from my oil painting class. starting with the first and ending in the last. hopefully they show improvement ^^.

I'll scan my portrait class stuff and hopefully get all that up soon, got quite alot of stuff for that class so its going to take a while to scan. blagh when i get it all together i'll make a big long post for it.

and lastly an other piece of dragon age fan art. this time Morrigan

happy drawing/ writing/ whatever you guys do

Chérie

dragon age

i dont do much fan art. generally i dislike it because i feel uncreative. i'm struggling to find the motivation to finnish my roselina picture due to this. blah i really should finnish it.

anyway i ended up drawing dragon age fan art... i actually have another piece started. quite a big project in the form of a fan comic... 4 chapters of it written so far one page drawn... needs text addig though and 15 pages planned outy so far... what i'm a big fan. besides it doesnt hurt to draw other peopes creations for practiceing fitting your drawings around a fixed brief.... thats my excuse and i'm sticking to it.

oh and i have 2 post cards sketched out ready for tweeking and inking

anyway so here we are my warden Neria and Alistair.

Alistair: "Maker's Breath! What are these darkspawn doing ahead of the rest of the horde? There wasn't supposed to be any resistance here!"

Neria (Warden): "You could try telling them they're in the wrong place."

don't know if i mentioned but i'm doing some art course at the moment. the illustration ones sadly got cancelled but i'm enjoying the portrait and oil painting ones... i like oil paints a lot which is surprising. still cant stand acrylic though...and i love watercolours been doing watercolour portraits and there so fun and relaxing. maybe more watercolour in the future for you. i'll have to scan all my work for this course and show you guys. will probably do that at the end though ^^.

grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

people may take my title to be a negitive thing accosiated with death, but i dont mean it that way sometimes when i paint i kinda go through this feeling of give me just 1 more hour and then i'll stop, it often feels like i never have enough time, especially with the multiple projects i have running at once.

i finished 1 of my 4 digital pics that i have on the go... i am very pleased with myself. i especially love the accordian, really glad i decided to colour this sketch :D

i'm hoping to dedicate 1 day a week to drawing from life, i need to get myself organised but its needed. i want to manage my time better. i'm going to plan everything on one of the free calenders my boyfriend got from work. only art related things are going on there. also i'm applying for a couple of illustration courses one is in children's illustration the other is fantasy illustration. i'm also considering taking a portrait drawing and painting class to to improve my drawing of faces. need to get moving and apply, but at least i've found some courses to take right :D theres a few that i was interested in but have been and gone hopefully they'll do them again next school year

winters lullaby is going to be the first picture for a calender, with my spring awakening, and my autumn gathering idea, its feeling pretty appropriate for a calender. i'm also going to start selling prints of my work soon, mainly because the imagine fx forumites club wants to do a catologue of everyone's prints and update it every month and advertise them, and been a sucker for group participation i'm defiantly considering it.

anyway time to sleep, happy drawing/writing/whatever you guys do

haggis