WIP Blargh

So, I worked for four hours on Saturday, after getting only about five hours of sleep, then chilled for a few hours with a friend (with much needed therapy), vented for a bit about the recent drama involving packages, crabby customers, and overall a bad week, and, finally, at long last, got my floating head Pangur Ban onto a body.  Now, he still needs a pair of thighs to go with his paws, but alas, I shall live for now. Today, I slept for a few short hours, woke up to stomach pains, passed back out after a while, woke up well after noon, did my errands, chatted with a friend for a bit, came home, worked on Pangur's body some more, and eventually passed out.

During all this time, nothing got done on... well, almost anyone.  I started another project drawing, smaller, won't take as long once I decide what I'm doing, so more on that as it develops.  I posted all I have finished of This Is My Forest onto my other blog, Irrevocably Tangled, and I'm in the process of getting that together and ready to go.

I am so tired...  I don't want to go to work...  *sigh*

The Mad One--Doodle to Painting

Tlaloc went mad, under the influence of the Dark Lady, Itzpapalotl.  I wanted to show him how I see him when I hear about him going off the deep end.  I love the idea of the Mad One to begin with, so the chance to draw him like this is awesome.

Skipping the sketch step, since it's across four pages of tracing paper (one for face, one for body, one for hands, and one for paws), here's the inking steps:

At some point, I gave Tlaloc a fuzzy thing to wear instead of the vesty thing he had...

Adding some color:

About... 50% done.  <33333  I'm so proud of this one!

Currents Works in Progress

Current Works in Progress:

Yaretzi:  100% COMPLETE

Escalus:  100% COMPLETE

Tlaloc:  10% Complete, Sketch on tracing paper is compiled and approved, no photos yet.

Mecutio: 1% complete.  Okay, I haven't done anything on him yet.

Lenore/Louella: 5% complete.  Planning stage is done.

The things I'm doing,the tally so far, and how I'm going to go insane before I'm done...

Escalus Painting Progress (Pics)

Woo!  Still finishing up the ground and I'll let Escalus dry overnight before I take him off.

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Character and Artwork (C) myself, Cassandra "Starving" Schofield.

Prints and Escalus Progress (No pics)

So after much flattery from the print-shop guys, I got the cost for prints, which is kind of on the pricey side if I want one on nice paper (which I do), but I think this company (A&D Technical) will be the one I'll use for getting prints made of the larger works. They're about $3 for a "cheap" one (good board, I think I'll do that for some of my less-than-favorites) and about $15 for a nice one on watercolor board. (I have  the Mad One sketched and planned, and I'm doodling Mercutio and Tlaloc. Not together. Just doodling them) I need to start getting prints (or at least scans rather than photos) of the more elaborate stuff I'm doing. I do all this wonderful stuff, and no way to share with the world that "this was me being awesome".

 

I picked up some more colors (so I can have a "leaf" green instead of "sour apple" green).

 

I stayed up last night working on Escalus instead of doing things like, say, sleeping.  I'm still not pleased with the trunks of the trees, but decided I liked the look of the "flowering" trees to the greens all over again.  It lends a gentler air to the picture, I think.  I even added one of the Castle walls in the background (I honestly don't know how the heck this castle is supposed to look) to add some kind of depth to the picture.  I'm getting much better at the tree and leaf effect.  The super-cheap sponges on a stick are a big help.  I need to cut one up to have a flat bottom (right now, it's round) eventually.  that'll help to get some more smooth lines.

 

I need to add some green and more shadows to the trees, I think... 

 

He's so pretty..  I'm still trying to figure out how to add sparkly to him (Yaretzi gets sparkly, Escalus does too!)

 

I should really start planning Mercutio... he will be the hardest, I think, because he has such a reputation to pack into a singular picture...  And it will contain an almost-obscene amount of RED. >.> *goes off to sip gatorade and ponder more artsy stuff*

Escalus--Progress

So much free time meants lots of people get painted, worked, and developed.  The hooves were, hands down,the hardest thing I've ever had to draw.  I thought "Oh, draw them like this, it's easy!" only to realize, for like... two years now... I've been drawing them wrong...  *sigh*  So I sat with Escalus in front of me for ages to get it juuuuuuuuuust right.  I'm not 100% pleased with the shape of the face, but MEH.  I'll live.  Yaretzi is busy flattening out (the acrylic paint made the top part curl up a bit, I used quite a bit, but I'll be getting the measurements to Caro so she can start hunting for a fame (omgomgomg someone's going to frame something I did *secret squee/flail*)

So, here's my next presentation of Doodle to Painting:

So original was like, six inches tall, and that's too small to do a large-scale painting of (in my opinion, without having to do a large, complicated background that I'm going to end up hating).  So I sized it up, seen here, at 125% and 150%:

I chose the 125% on the larger watercolor board. (same size as Yaretzi)

Tracing paper is awesome, so I could draw the outfit to lay properly on the figure, as well as make adjustments to the outfit without erasing the form.  I decided it would be open to his navel because I didn't want to cover up his belly button (I worked on that, I wanted to show it off).

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Inked!  Pretty self explanatory.

Color, phase 1, with sharpies:

More color:

Yaretzi--Doodle to Painting

Okay, so, this was the painting/drawing that started it all.

Song of Inspiration:  'Who Will Love Me Now" by PJ Harvey


This is a painting I decided to do for the heck of it, for Athena.  =3

Doodle/Concept sketch:

Inked:

Hair:

Skin/Added Details:

Finished Painting:

The finished dimensions are just over 12" x 18", done on Watercolor block *and I cut it off a bit too early, so it's flattening out until I can get it scanned Monday and a full-scale print made, so I can display it--because I love doing artwork and giving it to people.  I just don't like not being able to have a record that "This is the most awesome thing I've done so far".

Those trees were hours of agonizing.  There's like four layers of pastel under the acryllic, trying to get the effect of "trees" and "leaves" and finding that my dark green pastels just weren't doing it.  Besides Yaretzi in general in the middle, I am most proud of the trees--and that sky, particularly that cloud in the upper right-hand corner.

YARETZI (C) Caro "Athena" Kellenberger
Artwork (C) Cassandra "Starving" Schofield

Escalus--Doodle to Painting Series

Fo today I got to work more on Escalus, who is the latest in my vague doodle-to-painting series that I've been doing for giggles.  he is the most difficult by far, because I don't have much in the way of a clear idea of what to do, unlike Yaretzi, who was very clear in my mind.

The sketch I'm taking this from is an old one that I started back when I thought Escalus was going to have green hair.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAokay, now what?

*cautiously peeks out of the wreckage of Multiply, looking around, sniffing the air a little before darting out into the open*

FREEEEEEEEEE!  FREEDOM!



Sincerely,

"Starving"