for love of drawing

My second painting in 10 years! I had taken an intro class back in senior year HS, and boy, I'd forgotten how tough it was. I'm used to markers and color pencils, so not being able to do a straight line was a nightmare.

There are some funky things happening here: mainly having to do with the girl's figure (geez, that one short leg) - and the fact that her front is supposed to be leaning closely on the boy. A lot of it was lost in translation from my sketch (she was supposed to have one leg tucked up so you couldn't see it, but I had to paint the left shoe in after I was all done because she looked like she only had a leg and a half, see bottom). Hopefully it'll be better next time lol!

(detail of acrylic mixed with pumice: hearts)

(Miss One Legged Dancer, before the 2nd foot was added)


(My sketch study from the previous post)

(Above) My husband's entry. It's his second painting ever. He doesn't believe in blogs, myspace or facebook - although recently, I got him to tweet. But he only uses twitter when he's gone working away from home. Anyway, that's why I include his entries into my blog. I'm so proud of him for being in touch with his artistic side :)


And this one is my sketch from googling the word "Tango." I basically just wanted to see the movement before I redo it into my style of figures. Hopefully, I'll finish before this week is over :-/

Hmm, as usual, I start with no particular finished product in mind. A lot of tree hollows this week, so I thought I'd do a figurative hollow: the princess who has everything feels hollow without her freedom. Ok, maybe that's a stretch haha.

I'm not sure how the background's going to be (as usual, my worst enemy!) and I kind of jacked up the window vista...For some reason, I couldn't make up my mind about the time of day (of all things!) so it's a mishmash of sunset and daytime...*sigh*

I do like to scan the image in the process, though, so I can see how the composition is going a well as the coloring. Right now I know that I really need to color the sky better.

I have to give credit to BenCPanda on Deviant Art for inspiring me. I used my decade-old prismas (which I hadn't used since fashion design at FIT so long ago!) and micron pens.

This week was cool because I got my non-artistic husband to do one too (haha). He said, "Shaky? I can do shaky!" Then he used my copics and is almost - almost! - convinced they are worth the $$$ lol.