Dead Girls Don't Cry - Redo Again

The composition was still annoying me. I'll probably change it again in a couple of days.

Dead Girls Don't Cry Poster

I don't know WHAT I was doing with the composition on yesterdays piece. I must of been knackered. As soon as I left it alone I realised how bad it was. Here's a new one. Threw in a little extra transparency and a rejiggle of elements. Also cleaned up a whole bunch of small overlap errors and areas where the strokes weren't quite right and stuff. Much better.

On a poster-print?

Dead Girls Don't Cry

This took all day. Lots of little bits of colour, gradients & transparencies. I'm not sure I'm totally happy with it, but I've spent 10 hours on it today and it's reached the point where I can't even tell if it's good or not because I've been staring at it for too long. There's loads of detail there if you want to zoom right in. Have a look see.

This on the other hand took no time at all but I thought it looked pretty cool.  

Dead Girl - Work In Progress

So here's a little peak at what I'm working on at the minute. It's taking forever and I wanted to post something.

Pretty much just done the skin at the moment. 

Work In Progress? The Gypsy And The Moon (Again)

Since last time I posted this I've added up extra layers of paint to most of this. The headband was originally green but it ran too much into the leaves on the rose so I switched it out to purple. The goats skull I painted in yellows and browns and then went over the top in a thin white acrylic so it's translucent. It's actually a bit whiter than it looks on the photo. I've also blocked in the background in a dark purple/dark blue/black mix to try and get it to look like a night sky, probably gonna add some stars on top of that.

Close up of the face. I'm really pleased with how the hair came out, it took a while to work over each area indivdually to get the gradients right in the seperate curls but it was definitely worth it for the effect it gives out.

 

Close up of the lettering. Pretty standard tattoo style script/cursive writing, which I do a lot. It's a lot harder with a paint brush than with a fineliner.

February 21st 2010: That Girl Over There

 

Random drawing I did at uni. 20 minutes trying to use styles.

Work In Progress: The Gypsy And The Moon

So this is an extension and recreation of a piece I did on December 13th 2010. I liked the elements it had in it and I felt that it could be bigger and better and more colourful and detailed. So that's what I'm going for. I've scaled it up from A4 to a large board. Probably A1 height but a bit slimmer in width.

Drawn out in marker. Usually when I use markers everything goes horribly wrong but this seems to have gone quite well. Good strong lines.

Close up face.

Close up goat skull.

Started painting it. Acrylics. Like the blue.

More to follow.

December 23rd 2010: Always Looking Catish

Cat.

December 21st 2010: Always Looking Revenant

Based on a picture of Brody Dalle which is why I chose Revenant for the title. Pretty good. Think I nailed it other than messing up the shading in a couple of places but overall I think it's worked really well, I like big hoop earrings in drawings. I've started to work this style to my tastes now so I'm enjoying it more and more and I think getting better. Bit more colour in this which I think works really well, not so much as to be overpowering but the heart really pops out. As David Choe said, "Red is the king of colours."

December 10th 2010: The Kiss

Straight up pencil sketch. No references, no pens, no rubber. From brain to paper with no post-pencil edits. Pucker Up.

Dogs For The Disabled: Jump Through A Hoop

List Item Number Eight: Jump Through A Hoop

I really like this one, check out the dynamic leaping motion... I'm even more pleased with this as about 40% of this was done one handed whilst on the phone. Now considering I don't have a mouse attached to my laptop I feel that's quite an achievement. Stretching for curves & hot keys really gives the fingers a good work out. This is also the half way point in the set. It's all downhill from here.

May 2nd 2010: Lily Allen

Lily Allen biting her lip.

I like this one alot.

Outlines.