Downton Abbey Doodles: A Bunch of Branson and some Thomas

Wow! We're already a week into August and I haven't posted anything new yet! Thus I am remedying that with some of my better Branson head studies: 

And a sad Thomas with no one to smoke and scheme with!

Animal Drawing Practice: Horses

Just sharing a few horse studies.I've been trying to think of ways to get more animal drawing practice after the workshop, and found that the website that I use to to practice figure drawing, also has slides of animals to practice from! I mostly focused on horses so far, because we were given a brief lecture on how to go about creating equine animals. Hopefully I remembered enough of his suggestions.

IF: Lost

Yay! My Illustration Friday entry is up early this week! This weeks topic is "lost", and although I originally intended to draw someone lost in the woods, it actually came out looking more like someone "lost in thought" in the woods, which works too. But Ughhh! I really need to work on my figures!

Quick update

I have been trying to practice drawing more building exteriors and interiors lately (but mostly exteriors) because I feel that that is a real weak point for me, and is a pretty important skill. So I went looking for images of interesting buildings to practice off of, and came across a cool photo of the temple of Isis. 

And as a bonus! Here are some Legend of Korra doodles: Mako and his scarf

And the Korra crew in 1920's fashion, with an added sepia tone hue and saturation adjustment to make it look like an old photograph (I have nicknamed the Legend of Korra 1920's Avatar)

More Victorian's!

This is just a short post of something I was working on over the break. I think my understanding of perspective is getting better although this particular drawing didn't involve much perspective, but still I'm getting more comfortable with it and I feel that my work is showing more confidence every time I practice something a little more challenging. But hey! That's the only way to learn :)

First post of the New Year!

Hello! And Happy New Year! (even though it feels a little late to be saying that : P). My new years resolution this year was to make a sketch everyday (I'm proud to say that I've been keeping up with my resolution thus far but I can't say what will happen once the new semester starts!) Recently I've been feeling that I have been getting a little rusty on some basic drawing techniques like perspective, and so wanting to challenge myself and make something interesting, I sketched a Victorian house using two point perspective, with the help of some reference photos that I found off of Flickr (Although I did make up the background). 

After finishing my sketch I decided to try out my brush tip pens I got for Christmas!

And here is what I'm currently working on! Hopefully I'll have some more sketches to post soon!

Painting and Perspective

This is a first! Lately I have only been getting around to posting once a month, however this month I managed to get in two blog posts!!! Yay! But anyway Fall semester starts tomorrow, so that is going to disrupt my art life a little, (or at least how often I get around to a new post), but I am making it my goal to post as much as possible! There it has been said! And so it shall be done!!!

Anyway getting down to business now, this is what I have been up to lately!

Street in Japan

Here is some more perspective practice, I'm trying to get better at creating scenery and background images, because I'm in the process of making a Graphic Novel (Which is a fancy way of saying Comic Book, except a little more sophisticated, and artistic). I'll post more on that later.

Tea House Interior

This scene turned out a little better than I expected except I find that when I get frustrated I tend to "make up" the perspective, which is a bed habit of mine. I believe that the room is mapped out pretty accurately but the table legs and the screen on the wall kind of bother me...

UC Davis Arboretum

This was yet another attempt at watercolor, which I must say was easier the second time around now that I actually have the right paper to paint on (It made blending a whole lot easier!). I still haven't mastered it, as I find that this turned out a little flat (even though I wasn't really going for realism) and it turned out darker than I expected, but I think I'm starting to get the hang of it. 

Inari Shrine Foxes

This is another water color illustration that I was trying out just for fun. Personally I feel that this was more successful because i was able to create the kind of mood that I wanted with the lighting. Plus it has cute foxes! And who doesn't love cute foxes!!!???

Japanese Shrine

Yay! New post! Anyway, here is an illustration of a Japanese Shrine. I was having a really hard time getting the perspective accurate. I think I managed to draw the bottom half of the temple in perspective but the top half I kind of made up because the curve of the roof was throwing me off, But its not very far off from the photo I was referencing (Oh yeah! And the background is made up by me too). It's not perfect, but I'm pretty happy with it nevertheless.

Sketch Dump!

Yes it has been a while! A friend informed me that I never update my blog so I figured that I better do so. Thus I am dumping everything (or mostly everything) that I have been working on for the past few months into one post! Enjoy!
Landscapes for my drawing class the first is done in graphite and the rest are in charcoal (This was actually my final):

Quick gestural studies from the Legion of Honor:

Practicing Perspective:

Here's a helpful tip for those who struggle with this concept (myself included)....Use a ruler...(For some reason it took me three years to figure this out, Drawing teachers often prefer that you don't use one because they want you to master the art of drawing a straight line, but truthfully I don't believe it matters (even professional artists use a straight edge when they want to get their angles and perspective just right) Anyway that was my rant...Oh yes! and one more thing! The Trans America building is difficult to draw (I did not use a ruler to draw that and I think it shows)

Just for fun:

This was actually an Illustration Friday entry for the theme "shadow" that didn't make it on time: 

I actually finished this back in February, It's based on a series of Chinese myths involving the moon:

Drawing 7B

I haven't posted anything new for a while, So here's some class work!

Pen and Ink gesture drawing, (She put various objects around the room for us to sketch, and so I tried creating a composition by combining the skull with the statue of a female figure, in the end I didn't end up finishing)

Here's a close up:

And another! 

 Prismacolor sketch, ( Practice in blending complementary colors):

More Prismacolor work, This time we were drawing fruits and vegetables (I ended up with a very purple eggplant) : P

Still Life (Graphite, and Prismacolor) 

And my current project is landscapes, she highly recommended that we try using a circular format for this assignment, which was interesting but I don't like being confined :( 

That's all for now! :)