Forest Queen

It's been a hard week. So again I needed to work on something without no refs, all symmetry and just DRAW without thinking.

So I did. And kind of continued the theme, I guess.

Flower Child - a response to emotional turmoil.

As I said on my facebook today: "Emotional overload. Last night I lost my grandmother, age 98, a force of life throughout my childhood. This morning I surprised my kid with a house full of balloons when she got up for her fourth birthday. There's been a few cups of coffee, to say it that way."

I guess I kind of "self medicate" my emotions with drawing, and last night and tonight I needed to draw a bit, to keep my brain from churning. 

I kind of wanted to write something about my grandmother now, but it's still a bit too early, so I'll just put the image I worked on here instead. I needed to work on something with no refs needed so I could just make the brush flow, I needed to make something with absolute symmetry just to feel that there were still rules in the world, and I needed to work on something that was connected to earth, dirt and growing. 

So here you are.  

Hitting the "will I ruin it by going on?" moment....

Here's the image in question where I earlier posted "The question is... I am coming to the point where my brain is loosing it's grip on the image (which I have been at for days), and I am starting to get worried about ruining it by keep going... but, but, BUT I can see some glaring mistakes... Should I go on? I need a cup of something to think about that...."

I feel like I have learned tons of this image so far, when it comes to light and colour. I managed to get some rather nice photos while the winter sun (that barely peeks up during winter here) was making the world pretty last week. So yes, I am my own model again, hehe.

I think I will indeed have a cup of rum and coffee now, paint something else, and look at it again tomorrow and fix the most glaring ones that hits me then, then leave it. :) 

Futuristic once-human oracle WIP

So, this time the CGHUB 2D Drawing Jam caught my attention, futuristic once-human oracle in a future with races/species close in looks to what we'd imagine demons and angels today.


Took the one to the upper right, worked some more on it, and then started detailing. Still mirroring, gonna step away from that at a later stage. Progress so far:

Did some thumbs to get me going, it was the one to the upper right I took, worked some more on it, and then started detailing.

And this is what ended up being the final in the last anatomicae:

Skeleton Dance work

The Anatomicae challenge right now is Skeleton Dance, and I wanted to have a go at it, since if there's one thing I really should do it's doing proper anatomy studies, I don't think I've ever actually sat down and drawn a full skeleton, just knowing how they basically work in a body without any  more than generic knowledge.

I got so stuck though, I couldn't manage to find a setting and environment to put them in, and they looked kind of alone there all by themselves. But since I really want to have a final to submit.... After giving it several tries, I ended up going against my usual realistic approach.

Here's the sketch work:

Speed Environments

I don't do all that much enviros, so I decided to do some speed ones. I thought I kind of should. :)

Enjoy. :)

Self Portrait Day 2012

So, Nov 1st is always Self Portrait Day. So I had to do one, just like most of my artsy friends. ;)

Anyways, when I woke up today, I didn't feel too great, but after coffee, tea with honey, shower, make up and whatever else I could find, I started to look somewhat human.

So here's the end result:

There's deception though. Because this is basically what I looked like this morning....: