21st March

Seem to have alternated between very productive days, and less so productive days, going to introduce Sophs to a friends dog this evening. Hopefully everything will go well, then will be another intro with a greyhound after that and she will be ready for meeting a new dog this summer if all goes well. Though shes not too pleased at the moment as she has a little ear infection which means i have to put ear drops in 3 times a day. I've started sneaking up on her when she is sleeping...she has started to suspect me I think.

Artwise:

Some doodles - LOOK! PEOPLE! Ok so they arent great but its a start...

Dragon Rex, I love dinosaurs. Jurassic Park is still one of the best films EVAR!

Annnnd a 50 minute speedpaint that i'm really rather proud of. Came out well.

And a silly doodle to make my sister follow me on Tumblr

24th of January 2011

Woooo I can finally share some of the commission work i've been doing, this is a cover for an RPG game called Hereafter by Idle Intellectual Games I think thats the right link so it might be updated shortly ^^; This was lots of fun to do and it feels good to get something done and be able to share it :D

And the thumbnails for it

Wednesday the 12th of Jan

Lots of commission work still which I cant show you all yet but hopefully soon hence the lack of updates. Have also started my driving lessons again as well as housework that I have been neglecting somewhat annnd the yoga that I'm trying to do every day. So its nice to feel productive and kinda makes me wish I had been doing this since I finished Uni, its occurred to me I was just sort of waiting for things to happen and the world doesn't work like that, but working hard and doing a load of studies every day brought work in and hopefully it will continue like this and I will have enough to live off.

Here are some landscapes I did as warm up for some freelance stuff:

Friday the 7th of Jan

Spent most of the day out the house and away from my computer and managed to forget to pack my sketchbook so didn't get a great deal done today. Managed to do this landscape this morning though, I like doing them but I'm feeling like I need to take the next step like playing with the view point and perspective so its a bit more 'wacky' and interesting but I'm not entirely sure how to go about doing it. Also need to do more industrial type stuff but its something to ponder on the next few days.

Here is the landscape I did this morning, not entirely happy with the composition seems a little flat to me but I do like the colours.

04/01/2011

Felt like a productive day today though I haven't cleared up properly after the new years shindig in which the living room was turned into a mini LAN with four laptops, and three desktop pc's on the go and more boys than we have seats for playing StarCraft 2. I sat in the corner and re completed Portal. I love that game. Anyway back to the art, I failed to complete my winter dragon drawing jam entry in time for the deadline having been struck down by a cold last Wednesday and with the new years visitors was somewhat unable to get any serious drawing done. Anyway feel I made up for it today, got up early (back into time table routine) and got some commission work done. Doing the text for a shield type logo and really quiet enjoying it, I expect you will see it when its all finished and approved and whatnot.

Then I did some creature studies -






Then the picture of today I'm really proud of, it actually looks like landscape concept art I think :D





And just did this one this evening conceptart for the Holy City in a rp i'm part of

Wednesday 15/12

Felt a little less productive today but at least my hand isnt dropping off, had some extra stuff to do as well so didn't spend the whole day drawing. Had the bi-weekly hour of moderator stuff to sort out on CGHub. I run the 2D drawing Jams so have to put up winners and polls and new threads and close old rounds etc but I enjoy it plus i get an lil badge next to my name :D Shameless plug - JOIN 2D Drawing Jams! Improve your art and have fun at the same time HERE Ok I'm done.

Oh and I finished updating the art on my website though I still need to mess around with the background and header and stuff to tie it all together but at least I have a website now. I am pleased.

First I did my landscape studies again, I'm really enjoying doing these more than I thought i would since i didn't really enjoy doing backgrounds before but having a photo as reference gives me a little bit of a basis then I can add my own elements as it were and make it my own rather than studiously coping the photo. Its helping with m light and composition so i'm pleased. I used a reference photo for the first one then did the second one on my own, its not perfect but I ran over my 2 hour slot so had to stop.

Next I did some of the New worlds challenge on cghub which is to draw an environment based on the SC2 Protoss Planet Aiur. Now I haven't played StarCraft2 yet despite having a key for the demo. I kinda want to play but I cant afford the game and I'm happy with TF2 and if its addictive as my boyfriend has made it out to be then I would never get anything else done. Plus I suck at tactics Command and Conquer taught me that. So here is what I have so far, the planet is supposed to be heavily jungled so I went with GIANT TREES to make it more alien i guess having failed at finding any worth while references of the game environment itself. I'm struggling to really show the scale of the place, I'm kinda hoping inspiration will strike me tomorrow but I have the composition to fix first but its not bad I dont think for a first proper environmental try.




And last but not least for today just a little still life study from real life! :o I know. Madness right. I need to figure out a way to put stuff a little nearer to me so i can draw it 'not a hard thing' I hear you say. Well I don't have a desk...heres a picture or two. Cept I have 2 monitors and a bigger main monitor so I cant see barely any of the table behind me. It's not *always* that messy but I do like to kinda nest in mess and I know where everything is, its when I tidy up the problems start ^^; And that is my friend Morf. Hi Morf.




So yeh. Here is the still life study:

Monday 13/12

Today didn't go quite to plan in that I ended up going home and helping with the festive decoration (THE TREEEEEEEEEEEE! It looks prudy) But i got around four hours in this morning where I did some studies that I really like the look of :D and finished my Art Order: Dungeon Delve entry AND did some of the princess on the drawing jam thing so over all I got a fair bit done.

So here are todays bits and bobs:



refs here for the two large ones -

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