Slowly getting there... at least I don't look 20 kilos fatter like on the last one. I think the lips are ruining the likeness, but I just couldn't make it better.
I also did some Caravaggio heads for my "50 heads challenge" and here are two that turned out decent:
Colored pencil on some blue-gray paper, I think it's Canson.
Posted on 22.07.2010 00:21 CET in: drawings, portraits, traditional | Comments
Drew this today while I was at my parents' place. I left it there so here's a rather noisy photo.
Graphite pencils on A4 paper.
My parents loved it. They love when I'm drawing something dull and uncreative, as opposed to bloody and gory things I'm usually drawing.
On a side note, my CAPTCHA wasn't working so if you tried to leave a comment, I'm sorry about the inconvenience. Thanks to Slaven who let me know about this issue! :)
Posted on 18.07.2010 23:25 CET in: drawings, still life, traditional | Comments (2)
Yesterday my boyfriend posed for me for the first time, and hopefully not the last, although he didn't find this pose comfortable enough :P
Conté on packing paper, 60 x 40 cm
Posted on 08.07.2010 21:50 CET in: drawings, figure, traditional | Comments
Oil pastel on black paper.
I doubt I'll work in oil pastel ever again. I gave it a few tries and even though this result is acceptable, I don't like working in this media at all - it doesn't blend easily, and it's hard to create any kind of texture that is not.. pastel texture.
Posted on 19.06.2010 14:23 CET in: drawings, still life, traditional | Comments
Still not looking enough like me. Oh well.
Charcoal and white pencil on brown wrapping paper (40x60cm).
Posted on 05.11.2009 22:32 CET in: drawings, portraits, traditional | Comments
I really suck at color pencils (acually, traditional coloring in general) so yesterday I was trying not to. It took me an hour to do this! :/
Reference: A month-old dry rose I got for my birthday <3
Posted on 05.11.2009 08:11 CET in: drawings, traditional | Comments
Well, okay, I know some things are off. Once you stand back and look at the drawing mistakes just glare back at you accusingly... But it was too late to fix them. Or maybe not. Maybe I fix some things later. But for now this is it.
Dry pastel on brown paper (40x60cm).
Posted on 01.06.2009 23:29 CET in: drawings, portraits, traditional | Comments (2)
My today's assignment was to draw the figure in shades of blue. Dry pastel on brown paper (40x60cm).
Posted on 25.05.2009 22:36 CET in: drawings, portraits, traditional | Comments
I'm back to drawing class after a few months break. Here's an ink figure and a dry pastel figure on brown paper. This is my first time using dry pastel, so I think it's pretty fine.
Posted on 24.05.2009 23:28 CET in: drawings, portraits, traditional | Comments (1)
More charcoal drawings made in class. That's all* for now, I took a pause this month because of exams.
* well, not exactly, but I don't plan to publish the rest.
Posted on 05.02.2009 22:19 CET in: drawings, still life, traditional | Comments
More drawings I did at the class... The first one is pencil, the rest are charcoal.
Posted on 24.01.2009 12:09 CET in: drawings, figure, traditional | Comments (2)
I mentioned I was attending drawing class for a few months. We leave all our stuff there but today I took photos of my drawings so here are some of them in their crappy quality.
The first two are graphite pencil, the last is ink.
(To be continued.)
Posted on 23.01.2009 00:12 CET in: drawings, still life, traditional | Comments (1)
This is a quick drawing/design for my friend's poetry evening. It's supposed to be printed in black and white, so I didn't want to use many gray shades because who knows how it's going to turn out.
This is a logo for our Vampire: The Requiem website. I made a few versions, but this one got the most votes.
I finally started taking figurative drawing classes. I'm the oldest in the group and the other girls were complaining our first assignment (drawing a mannequin) was "too hard", so the teacher said she'll pick an easier task next time, which didn't make me very happy since I want to make progress. I hope eventually we'll get to portraits and figure drawing as she told me.
Posted on 20.11.2008 00:44 CET in: digital, drawings, work | Comments (1)
I almost forgot I had a sketchblog (and a sketchbook, for that matter). I must have had the least productive month (or two) in the past year. Now I'm slowly getting out of this apathetic phase. Here's something I did a few weeks ago — an experiment in mixing traditional and digital media, though it's very far from what I intended and I'm not happy with it.
Ballpoint pen sketch, traditional painting (textures), photos, digital painting... I suppose you can recognize which is which.
Posted on 15.07.2008 04:32 CET in: digital, drawings, photomanipulation | Comments (1)
I printed and laminated a couple of bookmarks for the upcoming fantasy convention Istrakon I'll be attending this weekend.
Posted on 27.03.2008 22:23 CET in: digital, drawings | Comments (5)
I neglected real practice lately, I've been only sketching random junk from my head, so today I decided to draw something real.
I bought the heavy-textured yellow paper and a white pencil some time ago, now I finally put them to use. But the paper is not really suitable for detailed drawings.
Posted on 19.11.2007 23:43 CET in: drawings, still life, traditional | Comments (9)
I removed these images from my gallery, so I thought I'd post them here since I'm rather proud of them. Both are from nearly 2 years ago, January 2006.
I started drawing in summer 2005, and I had no previous drawing experience. I drew Kidush out of boredom, and next thing I knew people were praising my pencil work. That made me all enthusiastic about drawing so I did some photo-referenced portraits, but then a wise man said that drawing from photo reference is not so good, and that I should draw from life. And that's what I did.
Then I started drawing people, and they pointed out how my anatomy is all messed up. That's when I left still life and started sketching people, faces, skulls and bones, muscles and body parts... And while I think I made progress, I'm sad to see how I've become so impatient, I never thought about sitting in front of a inanimate object and draw it for hours again. It seemed so much easier before.
Posted on 17.10.2007 22:52 CET in: drawings, still life, traditional | Comments (1)
Shading with ballpoint pen. The works referenced are Caravaggio's Amor Victorious and Sick Bacchus. I screwed up the mouth and right eye on the latter.
Posted on 30.06.2007 22:15 CET in: drawings, figure, sketches, traditional | Comments
Mine. Almost.
Let's see if I can draw at least one sketch from life a day, for a week.
Posted on 25.06.2007 01:33 CET in: anatomy, drawings, traditional | Comments
I planned to draw a lot on my short trip to London, but instead I used it to recover my health and get some sleep.
This is the only sketch I did, made in mechanical pencil. Reference is from Peck's "Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist".
(there are some anatomical mistakes, I'm aware of it.)
Posted on 13.04.2007 03:28 CET in: anatomy, drawings, traditional | Comments (5)
Does "Basics of regulation technique" sound interesting to you? Neither it did to me. So I was sketching during the lecture, and one of the sketches I decided to color in Photoshop:
I didn't really pay attention to lighting and details, but it was fun.
Posted on 22.03.2007 05:55 CET in: digital, drawings, lectures are boring, wip | Comments
So I decided to give my doodles, studies, in-development and other stuff a decent home.
Nudity, blood and gore are present on some of the images displayed here — you have been warned.
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