IF: Freeze

New IF! This weeks topic was freeze so I decided to make an illustration based on Hans Christian Anderson's story The Snow Queen. This actually turned out better than I expected, but I want more water color practice, so I may make some more illustrations for this story in the future. 

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!

IF: Carry

Here is this weeks new Illustration Friday submission, this weeks topic was "carry" and I originally planned to make an elephant procession, but got too caught up in the design to the point where I couldn't fit anymore animals or people in without them blocking the view of the architecture, but I'm happy with how it turned out nonetheless. 

Old work: Figure Drawing

While I was digging around in my portfolio today, I found some old pen and ink work from my figure drawing class last semester that I never got around to posting. So here it is! (Better late than never!) Also my scanner cut off some of the images so that's why there are some missing limbs!

I think this last one turned out pretty solid, I don't know why but it's much easier to draw people from the back, less detail?

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!

IF: Suspend

While discussing possible ideas for this weeks theme (that wouldn't be such a literal interpretation of the topic) with my sister, she suggested the idea of "suspending time", and the first image that jumped into my head, was the Picture of Dorian Grey, seeing as Dorian Grey wishes to remain forever youthful, while his portrait grows old and ugly instead of him.