A corner of my own

Since I moved to London I have variously worked on my lap, on kitchen tables, on strange plastic stands, on my bed, and everywhere in between. So, thanks to the wonder of men and their carrying/self assembly abilities, I now have a proper little desk tucked into the corner of our room. So I can happily squirrel myself away and do work or pretend to work.

Painting for this evening:

My problem with painting in photoshop is refining it. I want it to still look painty and texturey, but they always look unfinished. I could work on this more but I told myself that I couldn't go to bed until I'd posted something.

I also read 'Cages' by Dave McKean the other week. A quote in there states that paintings are never finished, they just stop at interesting points (or something like that). So, I'm using that as my explanation so far.

Nighty night world.

Pandas

This is what I did the other night, started colouring up one but like I said, zombies invaded my after-work time... maybe I'll draw some zombies. Scratch that, I'm DRAWING zombies!

Got distracted...

... by my friend giving me the first four Walking Dead comics to feast on. Gave the beat down to the first two yesterday evening, I'll have to seriously struggle to pull myself away from them tonight. OR, pull my sleeves up, crack my knuckles and finish the bastards in a couple of hours. Yeah, right on!

Quick life drawing

I did some timed poses the other night, and actually the only ones worth showing are the 30 second ones. It seems the longer I get to draw something the more I lose the gesture.

These are actually from a few weeks ago, I feel a bit guilty. So I'm doing some more drawing tonight to either put up later or tomorrow. I'm also trying to help a friend build a new website, ack I hate layout sometimes. It's the little things that pull it all together.

Anyway, whatever it is I should be doing, I better go do it!

Frozen Planet, Sleeping Mum

So here are a couple of things I doodled over Christmas.

As you can tell I scribbled over them in photoshop as I don't have a scanner and the picture with my camera wasn't amazing. Also, as hastily drawn sketches I felt they could do with some tarting up for public presentation!

And then there was my chosen victim:

Yes, she did thoroughly enjoy Muppets Christmas Carol. And I like drawing sleeping people with cute squishy faces.

I've been playing around with Corel Painter X today, and my my, does my laptop not have the muscle to deal with the rather lovely brushes. I have to wait about 15 seconds after each stroke before I can start again. And as you might imagine, that doesn't really make for fluid painting. I might have to invest in some extra RAM, unless anyone knows another way to make it run more efficiently.

Hope you all had fun at New Years, I'm just about back to human right now.

Merry Moomas

Hope you're all having a wonderful Christmas/Hannuka/Insert Festival here holiday. I am with my mum in the countryside, and as you can see above had a lovely pre-Christmas dinner stroll admiring the beautiful livestock. I think we were the most interesting thing they'd seen all day.

I haven't done much drawing but I have been up to my ears in eating, drinking, sewing and sleeping. I plan to correct that this evening and maybe whack out a couple of portrait drawings. The sedentary nature of Christmas activities (ie watching TV) is surely in my favour.

Love joy and warmth to all.

Boff!

That was always the best old school Batman punch noise. That and 'Biff!'. People don't make that noise when they punch people anymore.

Okay so it was more like an hour and a half... my aim was to get it accurate yet push the poses a little. My reference was this place, which I discovered thanks to Mel Milton who I follow. He's a bit talented, I love looking at his drawings. His sketches from that series are far more dynamic than mine.

Also, look how dependent I am on Photoshop! Look what happens below when I don't use it?? I need to do more life drawing with real materials, and just more drawing in general. I'll see if I can cram some in my lunchbreak tomorrow.