Not a major update...

I just made a little change to this painting to the hair and top. So nothing major!

Meh!

This is just me trying to get used to photoshop and its controls...so its not great! But a good start methinks!

For my favourite Princess...

This is a sketch for my sister Rosie because my birthday card for her this year stunk. I hope this is better! Love you! x

Design For Layout - Artist Studio

(If the image is abnormally dark, its not meant to be I had photo saving issues...dammit!) Anywhooo this is my Artist Studio Digital Painting for one of my Uni projects. This is the second digital painting i've ever done EVER! I am surprisingly chuffed with the outcome :) The Artist is a Medieval French Calligrapher. Hope you like!

Trip to Marwell Zoo!

The Tigers were GINORMOUS! They were my favourite animal there by far, I could sit and watch them all day. To draw them however, was a completely different ball game! It was so difficult from a distance to capture the stripes and to draw from our angle in the way they were lay down was a challenge. But i resisted the dredded outlining trap and i think i came away with a couple of decent drawings of them.

These Oryx's were awesome to draw. Using pen and ink i only drew the black pattern of their coat which was all it needed really to visualise the form and shape of the animal. The Oryx were my favourite to draw of the day for sure.

Ahh the Camels...what funny creatures they are! Brilliant to sketch though! There's a random rubbishly drawn Lemur in there too... and the Tigers again at the bottom, i was really trying to focus on drawing the shapes and curves of the stripes on the Tigers so as not to flatten the drawings by outling them...cant really work out some of them..but hey ho!  

For the Ostrich and the Secretary Bird i used ink and a Bamboo stick which was a lot of fun! I wish i had more time to spend on these, I will definately go back there and spend longer on them experimenting with different ways of using the Bamboo stick. They were constantly moving about, i need to, next time, try and capture the variety of poses they created..ruffling their feathers and what not, and not to be too precious with me lines and to just really go ferrit!

ZEBRA! Extremely hard to capture! They are constantly moving but im happy with the two that came out half decent, again not outlining the form and just following the shape of the stripes, hard but i learnt a lot from it. It didnt help that I started to get surrounded by huge crows...i think i filmed one of them..staring me out, giving me evils..i think they were planning an ambush..creepy..so i ran away not long after. D:

I made friends with these fellas! They were so good, very chilled. I struggled with the bottom drawing to get the foreshortening right. I cant remember what these guys were called...but me and Graeme call them 'Bear Cow things that make a strange loud noise' :)

Last but not least, my not so very successful studies. The Giraffes were SO hard! I approached them in watercolour and the PENguins too. They were hilarious, just stood staring at a wall...hmm. Oh a random person is in there too and an Owl (which i loved!) and some of my Gibbon drawings, they were good to draw but I couldn't see them very well through the glass which was a shame.
                                                      
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Life Drawing

Some drawings I have done of Life Models on a website...

Costume Life Drawing

I really enjoyed doing these, i feel my lines are gradually loosening up. The ruffles on the dress were a challenge but i loved it, being able to feel free with my lines and not being too precious was great fun! I definately have to keep this up.

I just couldnt help myself!

In This Moment

Ahhh I've been discovering so many new artists lately, im feeling all gooey inside! The world is full of very talented people and im learning something new everyday from them..so thank you! :)

I've been talking to someone recently about life and our goals/dreams, talking about how we're going to make our families proud ... and whilst I was listening to my music the other day I came across some lyrics that express exactly what im feeling right now:

I thank you for the moments of your life
And never giving up on me
And you held me through it all
And you never let me fall
And you let me fly away
And you always believed in me

Nothing special!

I dont know why but i like these...they're not even that good but the one that looks like he has claws for hands makes me giggle!

Life Drawing

There seems to be an accidental running theme with these in that they're all either sitting down or lying down poses! So...whoop! It is helping me understand perspective and foreshortening though which is good.

Costume Life Drawing...

I've really enjoyed doing the costume life drawing, its challenging and has made me realise I need to stop outlining my drawings and think about the material folding over the model's body as a three-dimensional form, otherwise it flattens my work. But overall pretty chuffed with these and they are supporting me as references for other drawings im trying to do without a model to help me.

The one im in love with...

We met at Disneyland a few years back...magic!

Its a secret but im giving you a snippet...