Kat Johnston

Tag: woman

  • Sketch: Interesting Bedfellows.

    Kat Johnston Art: Interesting bedfellows, don’t you think? Everyone is different though – what is tragic to one is simply beautiful to another.

    Taking another turn today – we’re back to the ‘Masked’ series for a moment. Yes, I’ve decided that they’re a series. I don’t know where they’re heading, but I am absolutely loving drawing them, therefore they are a series. I mean… two pictures is a pair, three becomes at lease a set, and this is number four… so it definitely counts as a series, I think!

    As you can probably tell by the last one as well, I am starting to work in a couple of my little obsessions… I wonder which little obsession will come next?

  • Sketch: Ellen Starry joins the cast for some zombie-killing mayhem.

    Kat Johnston Cartoon – Ellen Starry… she’s hip, she’s happenin’, she loves hello kitty and blowing the stuffing out of naughty ole zombies.

    Let me introduce you to the next in this cast of characters: Ellen Starry!

    She’s an awesome gal with a fondness for anything pink, pretty and covered in Hello Kitty. If you can toss in a geeky reference, so much the better!

    Don’t let the peppy facade fool you though – she’s quite happy to deliver a knock-out punch with a smile from ear to ear if you cross her, then skip off to do an x-ray or ultrasound of whatever poor sap just happens to find themselves on her examination table. Yeah, you heard it right – not only is she deadly, she also knows how to operate machinery that can kill you with radiation.

    When the Zompocalypse comes, you can be sure that she won’t hesitate in trekking over vast stretches of zombie-infested land to get to Jimminy and Brittoni… after all, popping off zombies with a pretty pink gun is far more fun when you can do it with friends! So long as they all hole up in a place well stocked with booze, snacks, guns and girlie-mags, she’ll be quite satisfied.

    After all, Zompocalypse is just like a real life first person shoot-em-up, right? She’s spent enough hours in front of a PS3, Wii, DS or computer screen to know how to win at those… and unlock all the hidden easter eggs. Just so long as the zombies aren’t actually the death-spawn of Hello Kitties, there’s hope for us all with her around.

    Oh yeah… and she curses like a sailor. Just sayin’. She censors herself sometimes, but everyone slips up now and then.

  • Sketch: All Masked Up

    Kat Johnston Sketch: She holds a mask before her face, so one and t’other can be barely told apart…

    Another sketch in the same sort of vein as yesterday’s – this time with a mask instead of just make-up. Once again, I am rather happy with the result!

    It is nice to return to a style you have dropped for a little while. As I was mentioning yesterday, I tend to go through phases – scribbley and loose at some points, clean and precise at others… sometimes rough, sometimes smooth, and often a combination of the two. I haven’t kinda sat down and done more ‘precise’ (yes, I did that in inverted commas because this is not precise in a traditional sense) sketching in a while… it’s nice. Frustrating at times, but nice.

  • Artist Feature and Sketch: A tragic clown.

    Kat Johnston Sketch: A proud and tragic clown, looking down with an imperial air.

    The last couple of images I’ve uploaded have been rather… um… sketchy! So time for something a touch more precise.

    I tend to go through different moods – fairly unscribbled here, lots of scribbles there… since I don’t tend to ‘pre-sketch’ for these sketches (ie, do something erasable underneath first before going over the top in pen) scribbles sort of lend themselves to the medium. Even in slightly more ‘precise’ work I tend to work over an area with short, sharp strokes rather than long and flowing ones.

    I know this isn’t a way I always used to sketch. I’m fairly sure that I used to favour more long, sweeping strokes – one stroke to create a line from start to finish. Perhaps it is the tendency of biros to cut out part way through whatever you’re doing (something which is tragically a major annoyance with cheaper brands or pens you have used faithfully for the extent of their life) or the gradual build-up of a line achieved when using a short-stroke style that has caused me to prefer one style of sketching over the other.

    Whatever the reason… It works for me!

    Now for something I’m going to try and do more often: linking to other brilliant artists whose work I admire and adore.

    Artist Feature: Radio Signals.

    I had the pleasure of first ‘meeting’ Miss Radio Signals when the sim my mainstore was located on in Second Life was no longer suitable. One of my customers told her about me, we met up, had a chat, worked out a few things and BAM! Just like that I had found a new home. I’ve never looked back!

    Her store, called Scribble, presents a blend of beautiful products, but beyond her work in Second Life, she is also a talented pop-surreal artist with a great knack for the digital medium. With delicate tones and a style which is all at once both precise and seemingly organic, it is simply stunning. Yeah… I’m a total fan-girl!

    Here’s a couple of my favourites, which can be found for purchase at her Etsy store:Actaeon and Eulogy, though of course more can be found at her website, including wonderful progress shots and a look into the process behind the artworks.

  • Sketch: Oh holy maiden, to grace my page so sweetly…

    Kat Johnston Sketch – Oh holy maiden, to grace my page so sweetly…

    Ahhh, another random scribble-girl. Scribble girls are fun, don’t you think?

    Ok… I’ll be honest… she wasn’t entirely random. If she were entirely random, I’m not sure what would have come out!

    I actually intended her to be a bit more simplistic than she is as you can see her now – but she simply demanded that my pen keep scribbling away until she was quite satisfied indeed. I’ve even kept a larger copy of her aside in case she wants me to do more with her now that she’s been sucked inside of my computer… I have a feeling that she may well want me to continue her for a little longer.

    She did remind me of something though, as I scribbled her down against my page… she reminded me that I should really me drawing her in an actual sketchbook. It isn’t that I don’t want to draw in my sketchbooks – I’ve simply been so decidedly lazy that I forget to fetch it out and dust it off to be drawn in again.

    Anyhow… a rather short post for today. There is absolutely nothing that springs to mind that would be amusing, interesting, or even mildly stimulating to keep you reading any longer!