Robed Girl

Day 48's Daily is, obviously, a little late. Our internet has been rather spotty lately (that is a roaring understatement) and chose last night to continuously drop out every time I tried to use it.

(oh look, it dropped out again while I was typing this... and again another 3 times while trying to upload my image - I give up)

Anyway, yesterdays daily is a base drawing for a larger image to come so anymore updates on it will be posted here.
Man, I haven't drawn in pencil for aaaaaages. :p
Also, apologies about the quality, it's a photograph.


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Entries to ... something

Sketch and preview of a pic I've been working on for a competition of sorts.
Also part of an in progress series of images.

Finished Something!!

Haven't completely finished a drawing/artwork in a while now, so it's a good feeling when it's finally done :)
Drawn on tan mountboard then inked in various colours with Sakura Micron pens. Coloured with coloured pencil. The full size image is actually a little smaller than the work itself which measures 9.7cm x 15cm.
Sorry about the watermarks, this one's going up for sale (without the watermarks of course).

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Updated Serpentine Girl Sketch

Just an update on one of the sketches from my previous post.
I'd say this one's about ready to be inked now. :)

Click on the image for a close-up, there's a lot of detail in there.

Sketches and WIP's - September ALREADY?!

Those Doodle Swap Cards

Yup, that's the lot of them ^^
Can't remember who got what though lol.

Imperfection - Ink Drawing

Inked with micron pens on cartridge paper, added a little pink pencil for colour and effect.
This one's going to my Artfire to be sold as an original, no prints on this one, thus, pardon the watermarks.

"My imperfections make me who I am."

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Some Sketches in Pencil or Lamenting the Loss of Lappy

Yes, my laptop is still in Brisbane.
One week and a day after it conked out.
It is supposed to be in Victoria getting fixed by now, this makes me sad.

So I revert to doodling in ye olde sketchbooks.

With my obsession with all things Heian, it was only a matter of time before I created a character from that period.
Pardon the darkness of the image, it was sketched in my brown paper sketchbook and scanned in B/W.
Meet Akiko.



Also, this was doodled for a rather impatient friend who wants to see a particular character of mine drawn in a particular era/style. For now, this doodle will have to tide you over, N. ^_^




Man, blogger is been a real @$$ to work with today :/

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Artfire, ACEO's and neglected blogs

My poor neglected blog, how I have... neglected you.

Today I uploaded my first thing to Artfire!! *dances*
Remember that ACEO card from a few posts back, I've put that up there, I'm kind of nervous though! This is the first time i've sold something i've made online like this, I hope someone likes it enough to buy it lol.

And so as to not further neglect this poor unfortunately blog, here's a little sketch from my brown paper journal.

Pls don't ask about the other faces there, her's was the only one I actually liked enough to post.


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The End of TaD

The end has finally arrived and I am sad :(
I loved doing this project, it was inspiring and fun and hard and great all at the same time and i'll definitely be doing this again next year. :)

To commemorate, I finished an old pen drawing and added some colour in coloured pencil, haven't cracked out the ole' pencils in forever, it was a lovely change from digital.

"Macaw"

Here's to Thing-a-Day and all who participated and inspired me on this great little journey. :D


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ACEO - Yellow Foxy

Cross posted from my TaD.

My first ACEO ever! I’m rather chuffed! XD

Drawn by hand with sepia ink pen on yellow archival card stock.
The background is washi paper then the back was covered with another yellow card stock for stability and uniformity.

Yay! This was so much fun!

Pardon the watermarks, obviously they’re not there in the original ^^

Also, here’s a photo for a size comparison of the card in it’s little plastic sleeve and my chubby hand.

I've wanted to make one of these for such a long time but I never plucked the courage to do it, for some odd reason, and now that i've actually gone ahead with it, I found I really enjoyed drawing at that size as well as picking out the washi paper that best matched.I will definitely make more of these, perhaps to sell even! ^^

Unearthly (i.e. totally BS) Flora

I managed to churn out a little finished drawing. It isn't much, isn't very big (about half an A5 page) and the flora is totally made up, but I quite like how it turned out and I rarely get to do finished drawings in pencil these days. ^^

Pencil in my sorely neglected Moleskine sketchbook.

Pre weekend day job sketchy

!MOAR!! you says??

20 minute sketchy before work this morning ^^
Hmm, reminds me of a certain male character from a certain anime... lol.

It's unusually cloudy and humid out today, looks like it's going to storm. I kind of hope so too, it'll mean less people wanting to get ice cream which'll mean less scooping with an already bad wrist. Yay! XD