Week 37 is Gifted

Gifted to some friends that is! Original character drawings for one friend for giving me advice on my cat's fleas recently (the blond cutie), and one as a birthday gift for another friend.

Week 21 is Gasping For Air

I apologize for the lack of updates over the last few days. Things were busy and exhausting, as they will be this coming weekend as well. Sigh.

Oh well. This is a blog about art, not  usually about my crazy life. That being the case, I made myself take a seat at the table today and draw more Bit faces. I decided to take it down to five different expressions rather than six in the interest of space and of finishing it by tomorrow night.

Weeks 23 and 24 Didn't Really Happen

And since they didn't happen, here's some scribbles from the weeks between 22 and now. Life's been hectic around here, and inspiration always suffers for it, but here's hoping things will chill out and art can resume as normal. 

Week Seventeen Isn't Much

Yes, I did finish a drawing this week but it was all in one sitting. It's a sketch commission for a friend that took a bit to feel motivated for, but once I started I was able to carry it through.

Also, I finished some Sculpey nesting dolls that I started at least a month ago and didn't finish painting until now.  The largest one is about the size of my thumbnail. No, they don't open up but maybe someday I'll figure out how to make some that do!

Week Five: Works for Me

I like to think I'm someone who learns my lesson from doing something stupid the first time around, but apparently not. After staying up until five in the morning on Saturday night I'm sleepy enough that I wouldn't be surprised if I nod off sitting on the drawing horse in my Figure Drawing class later today. It's my own fault, of course. I was with friends and family over the weekend and I usually conk out at 11 when I'm with them. This weekend, however, I wanted to hang out as much as possible, so I downed more coffee at about 7 that evening and wasn't ready to pass out until we'd watched two other movies and were half-way through the steaming pile that is Van Helsing.

Anyway, I did color in my drawing as planned. The background can wait until some unlikely occurrence when I have nothing better to do, but for now it's time to move on to Week 6.

Also over the weekend I completed my art assignment of three expressive busts. Only two are shown here because the other was so awful that no one needs to see it. At least it's done.

Week Five: Whoops (Artistic Nudity)

So while the week's been effectively kicking my ass, some progress has been made on the drawing. I finished inking it just a few minutes ago, but this picture was obviously taken before then. I'm at my cousin's this weekend and couldn't be bothered to figure out the scanner at all. I also doubt there will be much of a background on this, but if I get the characters colored at least I won't sweat it too much.

Figure Drawing on Wednesday was fun and effective. We spent a good deal of class having the model pose like each of the Three Graces from one of Botticelli's paintings, and then took a shot at a portrait afterwards. I liked the outcomes of both enough to share them here.

Week Five: Revisiting (Artistic Nudity)

This week will be for re-doing last year's Week 10, which is here . In all honestly it's a poorly executed drawing and is screaming to be revisited. My characters deserve better than that, especially considering that one of them had never been done in color before. Will the outfits be the same? That's the idea. The poses, however, won't. Here's the loose sketch from yesterday:

Yesterday in Figure Drawing we had a male model. I like drawing the curves on women, but variety is nice. This guy's also rather slim so muscle and bone structure is easier to see. His enormous beard, however, made the neck area difficult.

Week Three: Something

This background is... something, like the title says. A decent background idea just wouldn't come to me. A spaceship interior would have a lot of gray, and the characters do too. So just... random brown. Or something.

Anyway, it's done! I can take the next two days off from Weekly Art, aside from planning Week 4.

Week Three: Minimum Color

The powers that be must be in favor of me having a lot of time to finish this since my school campus was closed due to snow and both my studio classes were cancelled yesterday.

Still no set ideas for the background; probably a linear background. Also, more color will be added to Denver's pants and his face.

Now to keep watching Scrubs and enjoying not being out trudging through the snow.

Background noise: More Scrubs

Week Three: Heavy Lines

Inking this drawing did not go as smoothly as planned, and since it's a different type of subject matter than the last two doing things a bit differently was fitting anyway. The coloring will be different too, probably very flat. I messed up on Denver's face repeatedly while inking it, so I'llbe trying to color around the correction fluid, which is never fun. The background's likely to be very symmetrical, since they're on a space ship.

Today is my first real day of class in both my studios! I'm excited for Life Drawing but have NO ideas for my first Printmaking project. That should be interesting...

Background noise: Extraterrestrial by Katy Perry

Week Three: Futuristic Love

It's time to move on to adding another character in the drawing, and also time to make another attempt at drawing my hermaphrodite alien, Corvus. This time, however, I'm including en's android boyfriend, Denver. He's an awkward adorable thing still adapting to his emotion software.

Corvus' species is rather shy by nature, and also rather short. Corvus is about 5'1", Denver is at least six feet since he's constructed in the image of a famous male model (in that setting anyway).

Also, some more character sketches. Seems I've forgotten how to draw my goat Kenjo. Duke turned out awesome, though.

Week Two: Sweet Completion

The only reason this is being updated now instead of several hours ago was that both my lighter green markers went completely dry and a perilous drive to Michael's had to be made through the snow to spend about thirty seconds finishing filling in the background. Whining aside, however, it was worth it.

This is going to be the last of the semi-Art Nouveau backgrounds for a while. They're fun, but there needs to be a bit of variety. Possibly also the last fancy dress for a bit. My next two ideas don't really call for either of those anyway. Also, here's some sketches of a few of my characters done during class on Friday.

Also, great computer news! My new battery for the "dinosaur" (named Marvin) came in, and it turns out that replacing the RAM cards with some that hold more should fix the crashing issues. Said replacements have been ordered and should be here next week, so there will be digital art this year after all!