Keep to the path through the wood and don’t ever stop!
Materials are watercolor, Colored pencil, cut paper, and chalk. I don’t have any digital capabilities so I’m experimenting with ways to use traditional art and still have the depth and dimension I want.
I’m not sure if I took this one too far... but I got a little excited. Does a poster style mashup with Labyrinth count? I did a few more than 4 characters.
Here’s mine! Aside from seeing the growth over a year, highlights for me include actually finishing the Draw 50 things assignment, having Mindy Kahling share my sketch on her Instagram, and participating in MerMay.
I also can't figure out how to post more than one photo at a time. Grrrrr. Me and technology.
Here's a little illustration that popped into my head today. Obviously, it isn't perfect, but I'm happy with the general composition. Still trying to find a way to work on lighting.
@will-terry I would love some feedback on the draw 50 things assignment. I posted it a while ago, but I think it sank to the bottom of the forums before you saw it. That assignment scared the crap out of me. And I had several goes at it before I finally settled on this piece. I work traditionally. This is a combination of ink and watercolor. I know there’s at least one tangent (the plug). But, what I’m wondering is - I messed with perspective a little, but I don’t know if it just makes it look wrong, or if it works. ☺️ Please Fire away! 
Some of these are just practice sketches, but Ive also done a ton of requests from friends lately. I think I've sent out over 40 4x6 watercolors since December. Its good practice, but I want to get better at doing whole scenes. Plugging away everyday!
I posted this in my Instagram and asked for feedback there - I realized I should ask here though because you all are studying this stuff too. Sometimes I forget that I have community outside of Instagram. Anyway, I’m doing this just as a personal challenge. I want to create something interesting with strong contrast and focal point and I’m loving the lack of color, but everyone is saying I should add some. I’m very drawn to the style of Arthur Rackham and I love how a lot of his work is black and white. I’m not opposed to adding color, but I’m thinking muted and in very selective places if at all.... what do you guys think? Wanted to ask before I finished it. I wish I could have done the book cover class too! It looks like so much fun! Maybe next time.
*These are for the Mel Milton stylizing Portraits class.*Just a couple stylized celebrity portraits I did this week. I feel so much more comfortable sticking with pencil than trying to color things. Art is haaaaarddd! :)
Redraw!! Here's my last official drawing of Inktober, though I have more businesses I'm working on still. I wanted to do a redraw of a portrait that I did last inktober. I've learned a lot about ink as well as portrait drawing (and drawing in general) through the SVS classes this year. I was feeling pretty discouraged about my progress till I dug out last years picture for comparison. Wow! Hard work and practice = progress!!
Last year's is on the left. This year's is on the right.
Finally got the upload to work on this! Excuse the quality. This traditional acrylic paint on canvas. It's not the easiest too get a picture of.
Here’s a couple new little sketches. Feeling a little frustrated latelyWith my art.
Luna Lovegood ~ This one popped into my head the other day. Just imagining her walking into the great hall with her lion hat. I sketched it out and then did an experiment - painted with watercolor and gouache on yupo paper. Very weird but fun. The paper is actually waterproof so instead of absorbing the paint, the water evaporates and leaves the paint on the surface. Anyone ever tried this before?
A couple pencil sketches. I loved the class on stylized portraits and this is what I always fall back on when I have only a few minutes to study. I know I need to spend more time doing compositions and whole figures, but there’s something about a pencil portrait that just gets me. Pinterest supplies an endless selection of sweet references so this is what I do when I can’t get to my paints.☺️
@Eric-Castleman I'm 35, married with 5 kids. Ages 10, 9, 7, 4 & 3. The struggle is real. My goal is to draw every day if possible. I don't want to be dried up and rusty when we get to a point where I can actually devote some real time to my art. Most days, I can at least do some sketches after the kids are in bed. My husband and I will sit in bed and watch an episode of something on Netflix, but I'm usually drawing. Other than that, I fit it in when they are outside playing or while they're doing crafts and things. Its not easy, but Its worth it.
The biggest thing that helps is adjusting my expectations. As long as I know I'm going to get interrupted, its easier to not get frustrated/discouraged when it happens. And, I also know, that most of what Im going to get done, is practice, not finished pieces of art. Its just the season.
Last year I did every day of inktober, but we're so busy that I'm aiming more at once a week this time. I'm also trying to practice perspective with buildings and vehicles, (two things I really need to work on) so I'm drawing some of the local businesses around our town. This first one is one if our local food trucks. It's a bit messy and just in my sketchbook, so I might use the idea to do a more refined version later. It's ink and watercolor.
I'mworking on another local business for this week, but here's my updated Food Truck. I posted the original on Instagram and the owners of the Truck liked it so much that they wanted it, but I didn't feel good about it and it was just in my sketchbook so I did a better one on actual watercolor paper. I'm still not in love with it. I think it's better than the original, but I'm just so uncomfortable with buildings and vehicles and perspective drawings. I'm purposely doing this project to stretch those skills, so hopefully the practice will bring some improvement.
