Arizona Watercolor

A thinking of home watercolor of Arizona.  I added some linework afterward and I honestly cannot decide which version is better.  I've asked two people and gotten two different answers.  Better with or without lines?

Tower Sketch

A tower sketch drawn to Jake's specifications.  For some reason he really wanted his tower to have a thatched roof with a little pipe poking up.

Chef

I really like this drawing.  It makes me wonder... is that really what chef hats look like? I kinda winged it.

Lummi

I had World of Warcraft for a month.  This was my character.  A blood elf named Lummi. Check out those eyebrows.

Lux is a Space Pirate

Lux is a space pirate! I think that just about sums that up.

Kalista Sketch

Here was a quick sketch of Kalista, one of the new champions in League of Legends.  Notice that she has been impaled by many spears - that's important to her character.  And kind of a life changer for her as well, I imagine.

Anatomy Practice

Practice drawing hands and ears. Below is a 40 minute session of 45 second drawings.  This is done with www.posemaniacs.com which generates a random pose every 45 seconds.  You'll have to click on it for the chance to actually see them as the drawing is very long because I just kept adding more canvas to the right as I went.

Hextech Anivia Icon

A little hextech Anivia icon I created for Jake's Steam profile.  (I take a moment as I write that to wonder how many of the references I just made will make sense to my parents when they eventually find this post.  Most certainly they will recognize that Jake is my husband.  Most probably my mom will deduce the meaning of hextech as having a similar meaning to steampunk.  Most likely they will have no clue that Anivia is a character in a free-to-play online game called League of Legends and that Steam is a gaming platform that a lot of computer games are bought and played through. Good luck to them!)

Deck of Cards Sketches

I really enjoyed the lion king card.  I think it would be fun to design a whole deck of cards.

Rammus Ward

Playing with crosshatching.

Erie Drawings

Here are my drawings that I did during my trip to Erie for my grandfather's funeral.  It was actually a really nice weekend with my family. A very spirited game of Mafia kept us entertained for hours of laughter.  I happen to be an amazing detective.  I keep the town safe.  Except of course when I team up with a missionary to bring down the town as the best Mafia duo!

90 Day Catch Up Begins - Daily Drawings

So I am happy to say that although my drawings are not always stellar, I have managed to keep up my daily drawing streak.  Tonight will be my 150th daily drawing in a row.  I am very proud of my sterling record, which isn't to say that there have not been some close calls.  There have been a few times when I had forgotten but either my husband Jake or my friend Ray reminded me of my drawings.  There was also a time when I had actually gone to bed and I believe had dozed off for about 5 minutes when I suddenly remembered and had to jump out of bed to save my spree.

So today I shall take a moment and post some of the drawings I have done in the past 90 days since my last post (while also secretly hoping that some of the other days' drawings will never be discovered by sentient beings).

Dalmation

Dogs are awesome. Let it be known. Painted from reference.

Happy Birthday!

It's my birthday! Cupcakes! Yay!

Caught Up - Daily Drawings Catch Up #10

This is the painting I did last night which I quite enjoyed, though I stayed up really late to finish it.  Painted from reference.  Last night I also discovered a really addicting game called 2048 and I created my own version using my landscape paintings I did last year.  (Kimi is my gaming name.) Here is a link to the site http://2048.anilshanbhag.in/KimiLandscapes/

Please check it out, its fun!

Hint: Use the arrow keys to push all of the pictures in that direction.  When two of the same picture hit, they merge and become the next image in the sequence.  Every move you make will also spawn a random new lvl 1 picture (occasionally a lvl 2 picture spawns instead of a lvl 1).  There are a total of 11 images in the sequence.  My current high score is 7032, my friend's is 8040.  I've only ever made it to the 9th image in the sequence.  See if you can beat my score!

Black and White Paintings - Daily Drawings Catch Up #9

Recently I've been experimenting with black and white paintings done with the dense watercolor brush in Manga Studios.  I really enjoy this style.  Most of these were done from reference, except for the eye.

This was my first painting with this style.

Harley Quinn Sketch - Daily Drawings Catch Up #8

A sketch in honor of one of my favorite Batman villians, Harley Quinn.

Guardians of the Galaxy Love - Daily Drawings Catch Up #7

A sketch I did in honor of Guardians of the Galaxy.  The idea was kind of a female version of Groot.  This movie was so awesome.

Graphic Novel Exploration - Daily Drawings Catch Up #6

I've been working on a fanfiction graphic novel for League of Legends.  Here are some of my sketches for exploring style for the fanfic.

Sketches of various character's hairstyles.  I was working on trying to create easily recognizable silhouettes/styles for each character.

Facial expressions practice.

Strawberries and More - Daily Drawings Catch Up #5

Just a few more of my favorites that don't have a category.

League of Legends - Daily Drawing Catch Up #4

As always I am forever drawn back to League of Legends.  Love that game.  Here are some sketches that are League related.  Above is a quick sketch of Akali.

A couple sketches drawn in celebration of me getting the Hextech Anivia skin.

In celebration of Dino Gnar, which I think is one of the cutest skins in the game.  It makes me smile whenever I see one running around. (The sketch is day 31 but apparently I forgot to finish the word.)

My own designs for Super Galaxy Draven and Super Galaxy Janna skins.

Pop Culture Fashion - Daily Drawing Catch Up #3

One of the areas of art I really enjoy and hope to get a larger vocabulary/repertoire in is fashion design.  I do enjoy drawing fashion and I hope to get better at it in the future.  Here are some of my fashion sketches.  The ones below came from use of a lovely website called http://www.seventhsanctum.com/ which has a wonderful collection of creative random generators.  It has a vampire description generator, character generator, plot twist generator, dwarf name generator, anime power generator (the things anime characters scream when attacking like, "REMOTE DOMINATION WHIRLWIND!"  It also has a pop fashion generator.  It pairs a type of clothing - like Women's workout outfit or Men's military uniform - with a pop culture icon - like a pokemon character, Dr. Who, Dracula, etc.  Here are some of my creations.

Muumuu based on Gyrados (Pokemon), Women's Casual Outfit based on Godzilla, Cocktail Dress based on Frodo Baggins (Lord of the Rings).

Cocktail Dress based on Spongebob Squarepants, Yukata based on the Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland), Maternity Wear based on Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story).

Men's Club Outfit based on Iron Man, Women's Winter Coat based on Azumarill (Pokemon), Tuxedo based on Pokedex (Pokemon). I need to get better at men's fashion cuz I have no practice with it. But I really liked the women's coat on this one.

Pokemon - Daily Drawings Catch Up #2

So around Day Five I had started playing Pokemon: Fire Red for gameboy on a simulator on my computer, so I was very absorbed into Pokemon.  This was me learning the watercolor tool in Manga Studios.

To the keen observer, these last 3 are not real pokemon.  These I made up off of the very helpful suggestions of a friend who suggested "yellow water elephant pokemon", "gray water dog pokemon", and my own "purple plant pirahana pokemon".  For naming them we went with the traditional type of naming convention used by Pokemon creators.  "If it looks like a seal, its probably called Seel. If it looks like a butterfly, its a Butterfree. Cacoon -> Kakuna. Snake -> Ekans."  So the water elephant is called Waadelephant.  The water dog is called Nawtwaterog (just to shake things up). And the plant pirhana is called Pirahanaplanter.  Genius, right?