Polamalu Touchdown

 

We're going to the Super Bowl! Yay! I made five or six abortive attempts to draw an actual portrait of Polamalu from a photo, and just failed, so I did this cartoony thing instead. It seems a lot happier than I actually felt after failing to draw well, but it exists because Chris said something along the lines of, "How can you be grumpy when the Steelers are going to the Super Bowl?" So... yay!

Colored pencil.

Annoyed at Work

 

Customer service, while something I can excel at, is not always something I enjoy. I'd like to be as rude as this picture implies, but I'm not, really. I think this was the day I was already annoyed about other stuff. I'm sure Facebook remembers. Drew this at work.

Ballpoint pen.

The Doctor

 

Shut up. I've really been enjoying the new Doctor Who series, and David Tennant, and if I wish I had a sonic screwdriver, that's my own business. From a photo.

Colored pencil.

The Empress

 

Fashion magazines are good for something other than teaching you how to properly shape your eyebrows. Sometimes the photo shoots are actually cool and inspiring. I took a little more liberty with this one, because I like how it seemed to be Mother Nature in her bower, even if the original photo was a little more pale and consumptive. Pregnant belly!

Colored pencil.

The First Rule of Fight Club

 

After indulging in a lot of artistic laziness and whining, I cranked out this Tyler Durden quickly and liked it quite a bit. I really enjoy drawing from photographs, even if I my more cynical side makes me feel like just another Photoshop filter when I do.

Colored pencil.

Restless

 

Not much point in writing about this one.

Pencils.

Contracepcion

 

Drawn following my nightly sacrament. I love Middle Ages and Renaissance religious art, and I'm always looking to subvert it for my own mythologies, the earthly as divine and all that. I've never actually taken communion, but I've been taking birth control pills for about a decade. That's some kind of faith, right?

Pen, Markers, Colored pencils.

Not a Good Day

 

Turns out this was my one day a month where I cry at the slightest provocation. I didn't really think I'd be able to draw much of anything, but here you go!

My pen is very soothing.

SLACKER

 

Nullianac from Imajica, some random doodles. Not feeling it, really. A theme in the coming days. Woo.

Pen.

Boy

 

Just some boy I was thinking about. Not a perfect likeness, obviously, but some proper elements.

Pen, markers.

Easter Island Shadows

 

Drawing from memory is difficult, as is drawing from imagination, as is color, and lighting, and I'm going to go ahead and state for the record that this whole endeavor is hard and largely unsatisfying. I kind of liked how this turned out, though. Cute. Much much better than the other thing I tried to draw that night.

Felt tip pen. Markers.

Waiting at the bus stop

 

Strange thing, waiting for the bus and watching people go by in their cars. I can see them, smoking cigarettes, eating sandwiches, talking on cellphones, but I can't imagine what they think when they see me, if they see me. So, I took a bit of an outside perspective on this one. I think I'd feel a sorry for me, standing in the cold while they've got their heaters blowing.

Or maybe they think, "Why she's got her foot stuck out at that funny angle?" No, no, I'd say. That's just the way it's drawn. Couldn't get that quite right.

Colored pencils.

Silk WIndows

 

So... color. Color is tough, because I really like lines. Color is like this whole other subject that's messy and subjective, and often very difficult for me. Except when it's not! I was looking at the little window in my door, and thinking about designing stained glass for it. I started to draw these out, and they reminded me of the silk painting templates I worked with while taking classes with Diane Tuckman.

So these are little silk windows, and I do actually want to turn some of these into silk paintings. I used colored pencil, markers, and a felt tip pen.

One of the Birds

This is from an iPhone photo of one of Dale & Coral's birds. Colored pencil.

Scribble Elf Girl with Butterflies

 

This is the problem of having big paper and a small scanner. I should really limit myself to letter sized or smaller paper, but this one was unavoidable. When I had some of my coworkers over for the holiday party I hosted, some of the kids did a little coloring and left these scribbles large sheets behind. Loath as I am to throw away any piece of creative work, I decided to use them as my own little Rorschach test. The scribble is in black, my lines are brown.

I used the same technique a few days ago on the 30th of December.

Cow Skull

 

Nice inky blue pen. Chris' cow skull. Slightly earlier than right before bed, but still the last thing I did all day. Wanted to do a really loose sketchy drawing, but some anal retentive instinct kicked in, and I started outlining planes without really taking a long view of the entire skull. Composition suffered a bit, but I went back in with more sketchiness in mind, and got it going more toward my initial ideas with the shading and contrast.

I <3 Lamp

 

Day Two: Again, a right before bed sketch. It's a good thing I keep that small pad and pencil right there on the table, too. I kinda like the way this turned out after running it through Auto Contrast in Picasa. It's like inking, but the click of a button instead of inking supplies, which I don't have.

But now that I've got myself thinking about it, I want to do some ink drawings... just like Amy was so fond of doing in high school. *muses*

Bad Kitty Quick Sketch

 

One of my New Year's Resolutions focused around artistic discipline. I'm going to do a Drawing Per Day in 2009, and this is from the first of January.

I was pretty tired when I made this. One of the big things I'm realizing at Day 4 is that I need to set aside actual real Time in my schedule to draw, and not just make it a last minute thing.

Dwarven Particle Physics

 

This is a drawing on top of a scribble leftover from the holiday party. Original scribble is in orange.

Model Mayhem

I've been doing a number of photo sessions with 1st Black Studios (aka Rachael's Tyler), and so I made a profile thingie (pending approval), here: http://www.modelmayhem.com/793034

It may include, y'know, photos. Of a professional grade. Eventually.