Now and For Always

One page of a comic thing I've started. The title is not decided yet. I'm thinking of Now And For Always, since it's inspired by that song from LoTR the Musical. It's gonna be shortish, and talk about my very best friend, and depression, and good stuff like that.

This is NOT the finished version.

Dovahkiin Sketches

My Nord Dragonborn, Edris.

These sketches are from several months apart. The top-left and bottom-right are from summer, the bottom-left and top-right are from September/October, and the kneeling-archer and the last portrait are from a few days ago.

I love art school.

Sketchdumps

So, the first sketchdump.
In order:
The Fairy Tree
Morrigan
Life
Avalon
On the Other Side
Belladonna

Distractions of an Educational Nature

So, dear readers, I started art school in late August. As a direct result, I haven't had a lot of time for personal art. Schoolwork got in the way. Seriously, I've been up until about 2am most nights.

I'm going to try and do NaNoWriMo this year, so maybe I'll post some bits of my story on here. After all, drawing and painting aren't the only kind of art!

This weekend, I'm going to pull out my scanner and art-dump on you guys. Part will be paintings, probably, and part will be sketch-dump.

In case you're wondering, I'm doing fine at college. I have a few friends, and I'm keeping up good grades. Some of my classes are very frustrating, though. My drawing teacher has a severe love for Conte crayons. Do you know how difficult those are?! They're practically unerasable! And they get everywhere! I woke up yesterday looking like I had a black eye from the Conte-dust! And don't get me started on gouache. Just don't. Augh. It's awful.

So, you guys have something to look forward to for the weekend!

In the Beginning, There Were Colours

Colours Walkthrough

Supplies

So here I have all my paints, my palette, and my handy dandy water bucket. There’s absolutely no chance of drinking out of this thing by accident. I also have a strip of test paper.

Here I’ve laid down a wash of diluted Ultramarine Deep, laid over by some Payne’s Grey. Both of these are Holbein colours. I’m going for a kind of cloudy look here.

Colours Progress

In the Beginning were the Colours, of Which the World Was Made

I've soaked the paper and taped it down. (The paper is torn from my smaller sketchbook, "Nature Sketch" by Pentalic. It's got 130lb. acid free paper that's supposed to be good for watercolour. I guess we'll find out. I traced the sketch out onto another sketchbook page just in case I have to switch to Arches.)

If you have 140lb paper or below, I'd recommend stretching it. Just soak the paper for a few minutes, then lay it flat on a board. Make sure there are no air bubbles below your paper! Dab the surface off a bit, so the tape will stick better. I usually use masking tape, because the special gummed watercolour tape is evil. It just is. It sticks to everything but my paper. Leave your paper to dry so it's completely flat.

I spent the time while the paper was drying playing around with some watercolours (and a Skyrim break). I used to use Holbein exclusively, but I've recently gotten into LUKAS paints. They're beautiful, and much cheaper than the Holbeins at my favourite supplier. (The cost is about the same, but LUKAS is 24mL for the same price as Holbein's 15mL tubes.) I've found that the LUKAS sepia is greyer than the Holbein sepia. (I forgot I already had sepia... so I got another tube.) 

Play with your colours! How else are you supposed to know if they can work together?

Up there in the right hand corner we have Holbein's Mineral Violet (the redder one) and LUKAS's Dioxazine Violet (bluer). I used this paper to test out my LUKAS paints, Dioxazine Violet, Sepia, English Red Light, and Cadmium Red. Then mixed them. 

Look out for more updates on this one. My little sister gave me an old digital camera (she's a photographer, so she has a shiny new one from Christmas), so now I actually can take progress photos! 

30 Monster Girls

30 Monster Girls - Harpy

30 Monster Girls - Centaur

Maybe I'll do a walkthrough when I paint the Centaur. 

In The Beginning, There Were Colours

In the Beginning, There Were Colours

Sketchfest sketch. Prints may become available of the finished version. 

Starting Out

Well, this is my first blogging experience. I suppose I'll be posting works-in-progress, sketches, and walkthroughs here, since this is going to be an art blog. I mainly work in watercolours and graphite, though I'm looking into branching off. Hopefully, I'll be attending an art college in the fall. To see some of my newest work, visit my DeviantART gallery!