Silhouette Doodle

This is a quick doodle I did today... feel the breeze!

Copying old masters

I've been copying some more old masters... well bits of 'em anyway, inspired by the "Anatomy Lesson Series - Body Part 2: The Torso" thread on CGTalk.

I wanted to study skin tone as well as anatomy, because I never seem to paint in life drawing, I only use charcoal.

I've alway liked Rubens so I did a few of his. This is part of the orginal:

Here's my go:


Mr Rubens No. 2:

And My attempt:
Click on mine for a closer look. Hopefully I'll do a few more... I must admit I enjoyed doing them.

These were done in Painter IX. Previously I had trouble trying to do skin in painter, but I think I've got the hang of it (sort of)

Swordsgirl

I did this because I simply have a soft spot for Swords and... well... swords women too I s'pose! Who hasn't eh!?

Fiona Sansom Square on the AOI Digital Tapestry

I've joined in on the AOI Digital Tapestry. The theme is Love & Affection. If you want to join in you book 4 175x175 pixel squares from the AOI either horizontally, vertically or in a square. I chose a square just because I thought it would be easiest.

As you can see below the square that appears on the screen is quite small... 80x80 pixels.


This is it at the requested resolution of 350 x 350 pixels.


The below was the whole of my original idea... but I thought that there was probably too much going on for such a small image, so I cropped it.

Oh well. ;o)

Click on image to enlarge

The final Tapestry should be interesting!

Paulo the Pirate

I have just participated in a Travelling Sketchbook with the theme of 'Travel' (funnily enough) with a group of other illustrators. It's still doing the rounds.

My husband was very keen for me to do a pirate, so my entry for this project was Paulo the Pirate.

I had to do a spread, so I separated it into two pages.



Check out the Travelling Sketchbook blog for more.

Movie Icons

Rudolph Valentino


This was done for the theme of Movie Icons. I'm not a big fan of the silent movies, but Charlie Chaplin sprung to mind under the theme of 'movie icon', but the problem for me there was I can't stand Charlie Chaplin movies. So I thought I'd go with my idea of Valentino.... not that I've actually ever seen one of his movies.... he always looks rather sulky to me. heh heh!

Ghastly Great Aunt

I created this image of a Ghastly Great Aunt for Frog and his blogsite Monsterosity. It was good fun to do.. so thanks Frog for asking me!

I had some rather nasty Great Aunts (tho none, I hasten to add, were quite as bad as this one), so when I was asked to do a monster, this theme sprung quickly to mind.

Needless to say click on the image for a closer look.