Greek Amazon Art

Booo scanning

2010-03-30T08:45:00.000-07:00

I'm disappointed with how this scan came out (might try scanning it again with different settings later) which is extra annoying because I like how it looks in real life.
Markers.

My character Nyx, pose ref used.

Sketches

2010-03-25T21:18:00.000-07:00

These are a little old now, but... whatever.

Iuliana.

Self-portrait.

ATCs

2010-03-25T08:42:00.000-07:00

Had an ATC exchange over at PE. I'd never drawn an ATC before, but MAN are they fun. :D

Characters belong to Gaia (gg-al), Lizpit, FongMingYun, and Sarah (Feralgrinn).

PE Round 86

2010-02-28T23:54:00.000-08:00

Character belongs to Madeline Marie. I'd post more, but I'm tired.

Valentine's day

2010-02-13T18:07:00.000-08:00

Violy and Lucy for Kayley over the PE!

Aaaaaaand the reason that no greeting card company in their right mind would ever hire me.

Zebra lady

2010-01-31T17:13:00.001-08:00

PE Lightning Round - Period Costumes

2010-01-11T21:51:00.000-08:00

For Grace/FongMingyun - her character Rivek as a WWII fighter pilot. Had fun with the inking on this, but I also liked the pencils so I scanned them too... though they didn't really come out well. :/

Inks

Pencils.

PE Round 84

2009-12-24T18:35:00.000-08:00

For Gustave over at PE - her character Moonbeam.

Almost Forgot!

2009-12-13T13:52:00.001-08:00

My friend Kevin's D&D character, Songkill Warsinger

Some stuff

2009-12-13T13:36:00.000-08:00

All this stuff has been kicking around for a while, just waiting to be scanned.

First, some stuff from class (Minerals, woooo) (I'll keep these small, cause they're kinda boring.)

Okay, enough of those.

Hermes!

A girlthing.

A dragon.

Nyx in disguise.

Nyx pencil sketch.

It has teeth.

Orb

2009-12-10T18:38:00.000-08:00

Working from a tutorial. Just seeing if I could do it.

EDIT: Two more, because I'm procrastinating.

An custom orb for a D&D game

A less than custom orb for a D&D game. :P

...My character fights with balls.

PE Round 83

2009-11-24T23:05:00.001-08:00

For Manamaraya, her characters Mana and Wes.

Oh yeah

2009-11-20T16:16:00.000-08:00

Forgot about this one - The "What's in your bag?" meme, snagged from Molly.

PE Slumber Party Exchange

2009-11-16T21:48:00.000-08:00

Madeline Marie's "Kitten", in both cases. I'd really like some tips on refining this toony style I'm trying to work on.

Bloop

2009-11-08T17:01:00.000-08:00

Um, stuff.

Iuliana, in a toony style I'm playing with.

Nyx, in the same style.

Taurus. Oooh nooo, no pants!

Taurus and Djinn. I think I like how I'm doing Djinn's magic.

Cold

2009-10-17T14:11:00.000-07:00

Finally finished colouring this thing. :/

Kain & Quare

Neeeeeerd

2009-10-08T19:28:00.000-07:00

More calligraphy crap.
Look out for Mesozoic Sea Dragons!

A mosasaur

And a plesiosaur. (Their necks can't do that. Shhhh, basically no one knows.)

PE Pick-Up (SBLite)

2009-10-03T22:31:00.000-07:00

I took on a pick up for the Sketchbook Lite round at PE. Here are the results!

Cade for Kate (Dreor).

Az for Monni

Camo for Monni

Catta for Monni, which refuses to scan well, for some reason.

Monsieur for Monni. I just adore his design.

More of those Calligraphy sketches

2009-09-28T19:11:00.000-07:00

Taken with a camera phone. Um, whoo-hoo?
I wish I was posting more good art, but for now these'll have to do.

Still getting the hang of this style. This one's head really bugs me.

It's a cat.

I seem to have problems with jaws.

I think I ruined this one with the red flowers. Beard!

PE Round 81

2009-09-26T12:05:00.000-07:00

Rachel Curtis' character Iden for PE Round 81.

Ever Wonder What Minerals Look Like Under a Microscope?

2009-09-18T21:54:00.000-07:00

If you have, then fear not! By merely scrolling down, you can discover the answer!
(These are drawings from my first "Optics and Spectroscopy of Minerals" lab)

A grain of Quartz in Cross Polarized Light (XPL) showing Undulating Extinction (See how the colours are different with rotation? Yeah, that's what that's showing.)

This one is showing something called a "Becke Line" which is a line of light that appears between two minerals in Plain Polarized Light (PPL).

It is really bloody hard to draw a line of light with pencil crayons.

An opaque mineral grain. ...Meaning I got marks for drawing a little black blob.

Garnet, in XPL and PPL, to demonstrate that it is isotropic.

I was running out of time by this point - can you tell? XP Also, the XPL one demonstrates why I wish we were allowed to use markers for solid black portions, rather than pencil crayons.

Okay, not the most exciting sketch post ever, but.... whatever.

Sketches and doodles

2009-09-13T22:18:00.000-07:00

Small sketching binge last night. Found out that my scanner and photoshop really hate my green pencil for some reason. Anyway.

Quick self-portrait. I'm not that thin.

Felt compelled to draw a kookaburra. I <3 Kookaburras.

I also <3 foxes.

Yeah, sorry about this. Terrible scan quality and darkening the shit out of it was the only way you could see anything on this sketch. For the prompt "Crazy Wig" over at PE.

So that's the sketch binge. But because it's the start of a new year, you get to see the first of my school doodles! (Joy of joys!)

This one started out as a microscope. Then it turned into a robot with a top hat and a cane.

And a margin tattoo doodle.

G'night all!

"Calligraphy" art

2009-09-11T21:14:00.000-07:00

So, the other day at D&D, my friend Kevin was getting frustrated at an assignment where he had to do art with 'calligraphy' lines.
Anyway.
I thought it sounded like fun, so I gave it a go. The results weren't the nicest things I've ever done, that's for sure, but I think it was a good exercise. It was smooth, and fast, and not something about which I needed to care about.

I tossed a bunch, but here are the ones I saved.

When I started, I wanted to do big, thick lines, and was using a big, thick brush, and painting on black construction paper (with details being done with a smaller brush). None of these turned out well, but I find that I sort of like this image of Sprot, for some reason.

Then I moved on to just using the thin brush. Sprot again.

A dragon. (Painting on cardstock now, hence the various background colours)

Nyx.

Quare. Not sure faces really work with this, but hey.

Quare again. I think I hate this one, actually. Not sure why I'm posting it.

Quare again.

Um... Quare's finger.

Anyway, these are fun. I'll probably do more, later.

ARTS

2009-09-10T21:18:00.000-07:00

Narcissus, a character of Mystcloud's, for the PE's Makeover exchange.

My character Taurus - another attempt at being inspired by Greek statuary. I don't like this one as much as the Badri one. (I think Taurus doesn't do heroic poses well, and so I had trouble being "inspired".)

Art Dump

2009-09-08T21:36:00.000-07:00

My character Aldra - in a bit more of a cartoony style than I usually do.

Emanhotep for Herisheft as part of PE's swimsuit exchange.

Jude, for Skardash. PE round 80.

My character Badri... NSFW due to artistic nudity.

Eel for Mirre, PE round 79.

My character Djinn.

Kichikenebola for Liz. PE round 78.

Prep sketch for a Perseus piece I'm working on.