March '15 Sketchbook

Sketchbook stuff. I think the last image is my favorite one. 

onward and upward,

Bethany

The Draw/Write Journal pt. 1

As you may know, my eventual career/life goal is to write and draw stories. In order to do that though, you have to actually know how to write and draw. So, to make some headway in both areas at the same time, I started keeping a Draw/Write Journal. I sketch something (usually whatever pops into my head) on the one page, then write on the other page. With a few exceptions, I've been able to draw/write in this journal every day and I thought it would be fun to share some of the less terrible entries. The writing bits tend to be random rambles, but I'll throw them in here too if anyone wants to take a stab at deciphering my handwriting.  

I actually have a bunch more draw/write journal entries, so I might do another post about them in the future. 

onward and upward,

Bethany

March Skill Building: Reptiles and Cats (also, a frog)

My skill building drawings have been pretty random lately, as evidenced by this post. One of these days I need to do another concentrated study on anatomy or hands or something like that, but for now, it's just whatever I feel like drawing at the time. Also, the cat drawings are done from life. Jon and I were house sitting for his parents, who have 3 cats, and I got 100+ pages of drawings done! I was also reacquainted with the fact that drawing from life is hard. :-/

onward and upward,

Bethany

More Fae portraits

Sorry this post is a little late; there was much shoveling of snow today. O.o Anyway, I took the fox fae girl sketch from a few weeks ago and painted it in Photoshop. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. In fact, it might be the best thing I've painted in Photoshop up to this point! 

After fox girl turned out so well, I decided to try a deer fae portrait. That turned out to be more complicated than I anticipated. I drew the first version, tried painting it in Photoshop, hated it and scrapped the picture. I drew the second version, tried to paint it in Photoshop, hated how the painting looked, and scrapped that picture too. I was going to repaint it a third time, but the week got too busy, so I'm just going to post the sketch with and an "I.O.U a proper paint job" note along with it. Also, my deer fae person is a little more gender neutral than I'd intended. I was trying to make it a guy, but the features didn't come out masculine enough. I still think it's a good portrait, though; much better than my first one.

onward and upward,

Bethany