Monthly Archive for June, 2009

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Body Art: Hearts and gears and bunnies, oh my!

Published on June 15, 2009 in Body Art, Bunnies and Sketch. 0 Comments Tags: back, Body Art, branches, Bunnies, bunny, Coloured, flower, gears, heart, leaves, steampunk, tattoo, tree.

Finally! Finally I get to play around properly with prettily coloured sharpies… all over someone’s back. Started with the heart and went out from there. It grew!

I’m actually really loving playing around with sharpies on people doing these ‘sorta not really permanent marker tattoo’ thingies. It took a little bit to get used to the way the coloured sharpies work and blend, but I think I’m starting to get the gist of it. When given the chance, I think I have a far better idea of how I’m going to draw a phoenix on a certain someone – though they’ll have to give me a bigger area to work with this time! Please?

In celebration of working with pretty pretty markers, I’ve created a new category for such things, entitled ‘Body Art’. That way they don’t just get thrown straight into the ‘Sketches’ category and that’s it. I figure that my friends will lend me forbearance for a while longer to draw all over them, so there is a fairly decent likelihood that I might post more pictures of them here. Yay for friends who tolerate my eccentricities!

I think that’s about it for today… enjoy the picture, and I’ll see you tomorrow. Phew!

Sketch: It’s been a while…

Published on June 13, 2009 in little girl, Plain Paper and Sketch. 0 Comments Tags: Big Eyes, brisbane, funhouse tour, Girl, little girl, pink, pink concert, star.

9 days in fact. My apologies – it’s been one heck of a couple of weeks. Builders in and out of the house, real-estate agents not wanting to give straight answers, not getting a job I would have liked to have gotten, I have to get surgery because my knee is not behaving… all in all, it’s been a just a teensie bit rotten. But that’s ok. Because I have a sketch for you!

You know how I’ve mentioned my ‘little girl’ before? This is her. She’s a reoccurring character that I draw over and over, here and there. And she’s cute!

Ok, so onto something a little different. I went to a concert last night – the Pink Funhouse Tour concert. When Pink actually got to the stage, it was an absolutely fantastic show. She was brilliant. What was, however, disappointing about the night, was waiting for the actual concert to start. The tickets say ’7:30′, so I expect an opening act, and then Pink to be on the stage by say… ohh… 8:00, or perhaps 8:30, tops. But noooo… it was already 9:15 by the time it got to the actual concert.

That, my friends, was a little disappointing – if we weren’t set on watching the main act, I would have walked out the door by 9. After all, you pay to see Pink, not Faker and a DJ for almost 2 hours. Not that Faker was bad or anything, and the DJ was actually fairly brilliant, but when you’re waiting for the main act, you don’t want to sit there and listen to something else for so long – it didn’t seem to pump up the crowd for the main act, it just seemed to draw out the time until it actually happened. Hopefully it was just a ‘first night in Brisbane’ type mishap backstage that made the wait so incredibly, incredibly long.

But the wait aside, the actual concert part of the night itself was fantastic. Pink really knows how to move around a stage and sing while being tossed this way and that in incredible feats of acrobatics, and the stage-show itself was just brilliant. Pink, not surprisingly, sung incredibly well, and even proved she wasn’t lip-syncing a couple of times by forgetting the words. Phew! Yay for the Pink concert!

I’m so not apologizing for enjoying awesome pop music by the way. So there!

Life Drawing / Sketch: The morning after.

Published on June 4, 2009 in life drawing, Plain Paper, Sketch and Sketch-Book. 0 Comments Tags: exhausted, female, Girl, life drawing, nude, woman.

Mmmm, I am starting to enjoy the wonders of raspberry tea right now. It is both tasty and delicious. That is what I am drinking as I sit here this morning, doing this post.

So I think that it is going to become required to put up at least one picture a week that results from my life-drawing thingies on Wednesday nights, provided that I go to them. This is one of my picks from this week. Yup, I’m going a full nude this time, but surely the world can take it? It’s just a few lines on a page, after all.

I actually played around a bit with artistic license on this particular sketch. It was nearing the end of the session, and the girl just seemed a bit exhausted, and I have to admit, I was kinda getting to that point too. My back was being an utter pain in the… uhhh… back!

So anyhow, yes… it isn’t true to the person laying there, in that she doesn’t have hair that covers most of her face, or looked completely and utterly bushed… but I am happy with it. Of course there are errors, but hey, as I keep trying to tell myself, what can be expected from a 15 – 20 minute sketch? I’m almost tempted to refine this one into something better, later.

That’s about it for this morning, though I might post another picture later too, if I have anything to say, or a reason to say it. For now, I had best get into the day and try to start it properly.

Sketch: Little Bunny Bumbleberry.

Published on June 3, 2009 in Bunnies and Sketch. 1 Comment Tags: Bunnies, bunny, rabbit.

Ok, so I probably won’t get any awards for awesome post titles this week… but that is ok. I’m posting fairly early today because I’ve just had the owner and real-estate agent for my home come over and poke around all over. I understand that it needs to be done – there’s a decent amount of damage, caused either by the storm or their own on-going neglect to maintain the place, but that still doesn’t make me any more happy about it. There have been enough visits in the past few weeks that I am about ready to go ‘You know what? This is enough. Give us two weeks unbothered, ok?’

But enough of my grumbliness – lets push that aside, shall we? Today I’ve drawn a bunny! Bunnies have a wonderful way of making me smile, even when a morning has not gone incredibly perfectly. I felt that after having my home invaded, the only real way to get a pick-up may just be to draw one of the furry little things.

Mission accomplished. I am actually feeling a decent amount better after drawing a bunny. It is a pity that such things can not solve all of life’s ills, isn’t it? Have a flu – a bunny will fix it. Have a hole in the wall – drawing a bunny will fix that too. Want to plan an assassination attempt – I suggest you call the very friendly folks over at ‘Brutal Bunnies for Hire’. They’ll take care of every single one of your assassination needs.

Ah well… the world doesn’t work exactly like that, but it would be nice if it did.

Body Art: Another dragon.

Published on June 2, 2009 in Body Art and Sketch-Book. 0 Comments Tags: back, dragon, pen, tattoo.

So I mentioned yesterday that I’d been drawing on people smart (or stupid?) enough to make their bodies available to me. This was one of those sketches from the week-end just gone. Ok, so it isn’t the most brilliant thing in the world, but gigantic nikkos with blunted edges (as in it didn’t come to a nice chisel point at allll) are sometimes just a bastard to work with. I am so glad that I went out and bought some awesome sharpie markers – my wonderful friends are going to be letting me draw on them again, apparently, despite whatever trouble they might have had washing off the last bout. Yay me!

You know, it’s really rather hard to put this one into a category. Sketch, yes, I suppose it would come under that, but it is neither digital nor on canvas, on plain paper or lined… I think it’s just going to be a bit uncategorized. One little category of sketch, and no other to define it… I wonder if it feels sad.

So that is all for today – I’m getting back to work on other bits and pieces now. You know, playing with markers, drawing with markers, dreaming up wonderful things to do… with markers. Yay markers!

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