Cwtam - Nelchee's sketchblog

Sheep skulls II (and quick portraits)

As I wrote in my last post, I'm continuing with the sheep skull studies. Tonight I did a drawing in soft pastel on toned A4 paper.

This morning I couldn't sleep anymore so while I was waiting for my boyfriend to wake up, I sketched some portraits referenced from photos in a Taschen catalogue. Top left is a fragment of Lady Gaga, and Rachel Weisz at the bottom. Top right is some dude I don't know, I think a photographer of these ladies.

Portrait WIP

I'm working on a painting that started with this sketch, here's a glimpse of the face without the tiger markings...

So far 6 hours of work, Photoshop + Wacom intuos3, referenced from mirror (sketch) and some photos of mine.

EDIT: Here's the finished version:

Catty behavior

I'm sharing a sketch I did 2 weeks ago in my A5 sketchbook, I meant to post it earlier but forgot. It was referenced from a mirror and the first one did catch my likeness pretty well.

After that I went over with a thick 8B pencil and I like it less than the original sketch...

Selfportrait #6

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.

Avatar

I watched the movie yesterday, and I loved the humanoid felines so much I had to make my own avatar :)

~2,5 hours in Photoshop.