Last minute addition

My friend Didi's birthday is this summer, and she wants to have a bellydancing/gypsy party super shindig of sorts. So of course, I get inspired to draw an hour before I have to leave for work.

This is being posted so I can save my progress before I probably kill this dead with my suckage, haha.


Whee? And now, off to work!

EDIT: Maaaaaaan. I was so excited about how this was coming out, and how her feet looked so awesome (because I SUCK at feet)...and then I realized that her awesome feet were backwards. Well shit. Gotta fix that, haha.

Pompadour Pontification

I'm a sucker for alliteration, lately. I blame Tokyo Times for that, since the author alliterates EVERYTHING. Jeez.

But this is Elliott.


Things about Elliott (yes, two 't's):

• Welds for a living
• Blind in his right eye
• Very bawdy personality
• Loves dirty magazines/humor
• Overly protective of his hair (who wouldn't be, with a 'do that magnificent?)
• Customized goggles that snap open at the side, so he doesn't have to pull them over his hair

He'll be fleshed out later, but so far I like him. Pretty sure that barbed-wire tat is going far, far away, and he won't be as muscled, but still fairly strong looking. I know he's got the same name as one of Gen's characters, but this was the only name that popped into my head, sorry ;_;...and now I can't think of calling him anything else.

I smudged this pulling it off the scanner, because I shaded it to death with my pencil. So now he's all finger-printy and smoodged, and it's annoying. But he's preserved here so mreh.

Things I love about Elliott: His hair, his JAWLINE (omg sexy haha), those goggles, and his sideburns.

He's supposed to be wearing a welder's apron. With a muscle shirt under it. It doesn't look anything like that. Oh well.

Pitiful

Some new things. But not an entirely impressive amount of stuff. I'd like to make you all think I've been busy...(who am I kidding? You all? No one reads this, haha). I haven't been especially busy, but I have had to work, and enjoy the first few days of my summer vacation by doing a lot of nothing, followed by a lot of shopping.


Did these over doodles from another day. Well the dude at the top, at least. I've noticed I have a habit of drawing random eyes when I'm lacking inspiration. I tried drawing the box of pirate band-aids I have, but they got covered up by a rather large newsboy cap. That rather fetching gentleman with the bumpy nose and caveman jawline started out as just a nose. The rest of him grew from that magnificent schnoz. I have a thing lately for drawing bumpy, stubby noses. I like them. The lollypop isn't a tattoo, it was in the way and I didn't bother erasing it. The guy on the bottom is me trying to draw a more muscly, burly type guy. I'm also trying to get a feel for this guy's character, as I'm doing a collab of sorts with a friend, and he's our main focus. It's not quite right here. But it's getting there. His mouth is a bit too large, but I adore his exaggerated chin and absolute indifference. He sees you, and he's not impressed, haha.


This last one is born of a meme I've run across many times and have been too lazy to do a thing about. You're supposed to draw yourself in what you're wearing, right at that moment, using only one layer.



Fabulous, isn't it? Peejays. An old holey skate shirt and a pair of fleecy pants donated by my mother, because they're too long in the legs for her. I didn't draw in my glasses or bathrobe because I wasn't thinking about it...but I did include my lovely 2 am hair and irritated squiggly line for you all.

I'm so thoughtful.

More already.....?

Two this time, oh wow. We'll see if this keeps up...*shifty eyes*

First is a continuation of the age meme, I felt slightly guilty doing 5 years ago instead of 10, so I went ahead and did a quick sketch of me at 11. It's so sad, haha. I was an awkward kid.



I did this one a couple weeks ago but was too lazy to scan it. Random dude, playing target practice with pigeons. I like the pose, it's pretty ambitious, for me...even if the anatomy is terrible (no references!). In case you can't read his text, it says "Hah. Dirty pigeons." Don't ask where that chain is coming from, it's magical I tells ya! I may keep him as a character, he's the mischievous type that I tend to have a liking for. If he had a name, it would probably be Keith. He seems like a Keith. We'll see....




Ohhh and I wanted to add that the photo in my header is one my mom took. She was helping me get photos for a texture set for my digital photography class, since at the time I was overwhelmed with things to do. That's pretty much my favorite picture right now. I did some creative cropping and layer screens and made it my header! I rather like it. :)

Fresh Start

Oh no, you're all saying. Kristina's made another sketch journal. Well this one is an art blog (it sounds slightly less silly and much more pretentious, which is how we artists are supposed to be, or so I hear). I've deleted my old livejournal sketch account, because it was going unused and quite frankly the username was a character I created when I went through my weeaboo phase, and I'm trying to grow away from that.

My intentions are to improve (which I would hope was quite obvious given the blog title) and to begin sketching daily throughout the summer, since I won't be in school. To get the ball rolling, I finally opened up that pad of marker paper I bought at the convention from the Copics people. Rather than draw something meaningful of course, I've hopped onto a bandwagon and done a meme. Oh well.


There are plenty of errors, I'm not especially worried about them. And I cheated on the meme. It's essentially "You as a teen vs. You as an adult." The versions I've seen have all consisted of a 10-year difference, but I'd have been 11 and not counted as a teen if I did it this way. So I compared myself in 2003 to myself now. There's enough of a difference that it works, I think.

The marker paper is marvelous. I got a funky texture for the sweatshirt when I layered grey on the frontside and a dark blue on the back, and blushing skin is much easier. It didn't work as well on the actual figures, but the ear looks almost exactly as I wanted it to, as far as the coloring goes. Now if I could sit still long enough to do the work required for my finals, I'd be in business.

We'll see if I can keep this blogging thing up! :)