Today’s random sketches – drawn on the train. No referencing peeps here. Except the dude with the hair hehe.
Nothing finished for you lately cos I’m workin on stuff. I can’t show you half a drawing as I swear it’s a curse…I’m already a bit over that drawing of the secret blogger. But I really should finish it. When I’m done with this weeks CHOW (theme is Atlantian Anarchist – yeh that’s right).

There! Click to make larger if you want to

Bya!

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Feeling a bit better lately. Got over being sick in about 4 days – blergh – reminds me how much I hate being sick!

So I’m picking things up again. Only a few sketches here and there and some more work on the preview I showed you all before.
They’re pretty crap but meh….Just some warm ups.


I like this one the best….

Other news….We had a HUGE storm here on Saturday. I saw it coming on the weather radar but wasn’t expecting hail. Stones the size of golf balls!! I was scared our skylight was going to break in. The sound was incredible and the cats where running around freaking out like it was Armageddon. The hail built up in our courtyard as we are on the bottom of a small hill and the drains were way too full to contain all the downpour. I was ready with towels in case the water came high enough to reach the door. They didn’t – but only just…we were only about 1cm off! It looked like snow outside. The roof leaked a bit too but no major damage. All my sad little tomatoes which had only just started growing properly are now completely obliterated! Boo! The lemon tree survived though thank goodness.
So that was our storm – the city was in chaos with train stations shut down and many buildings closed because of leaking or even caved in roofs. Fire engines were screaming around everywhere. I hope no one was seriously hurt!

Well – back to playing around. Hope you’ve had a good weekend!

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Here is a sneak preview of something I started the other day. If you can guess the blogger then yay to you! You don’t win a prize cos I don’t have one haha. But have fun guessing. Maybe it’s too easy to guess? We’ll see.
Trying out how I go without leaning on the crutch that is linework.

See you all on the other side of this MEHness.

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Time for some art! I’ve finally finished the work for my other client – Renee at Beauty Fool asked me to draw her a new header for her site. She wanted a rough icon look in black and white, of a girl applying lipstick. She sent me some reference images as well as some of my own work that she liked. It didn’t take me long to whip up a sketch but and later the final art was done. Happily, we didn’t even need to do any revisions! Though I did make two versions, one with colour, only because I got a bit excited with the digital watercolour in Corel Painter. Up until I got my new computer, using the digi watercolours was just not an option as they are so realistic to use, my poor little laptop couldn’t cope with the heavy memory load. Painter mimics the wetness of the paint spreading across the paper in real time (if you choose it to) – you can adjust the drying time, spread of the paint, even the direction and strength of the wind pushing on the paint while it is drying.
My new Beast takes care of this with ease and I’m itching to play around with these tools along with the other ‘real’ paints like acrylic and oil. Yay!

SO….here’s the black and white followed by the colour version.

I wanted to go fairly simple and subtle with the colour – the digi watercolour I used on the hair using a big wet bristle brush. It produces the nicest soft wash, it’ll be fun to try out different paper effects and layering later.

Anyways, back to work!

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I took lots of photos this time surprisingly! Which is why I’m actually blogging about this in greater detail. Somewhat unsurprisingly though, my photos are neither a complete documentation of my trip, nor very good. Heh! So I present to you a selection of what I took. These were taken on the Thursday as I wandered around discovering stuff – Jonny was busy in Dad’s workshop playing with the Big Boys Toys.

Some veggies from the greenhouse:

The killing block (look away if you’re a veggo hehe) and some obligatory grapes

Jonny working on stuff and my Mum watering the plants

Cows (or bull to be precise)

Chickens & Ducks

Farm things

Flowers and timber

Bits and pieces from around the house

And finally, some things from the cellar door.

So there it is, a small glimpse into my parent’s winery. While there I also helped set up the St Imre website – which is now live and can be seen here: CLICKY. Still ironing a few things out and adding content. The blog is still not fully incorporated to look like the rest of the site. But getting there! You should soon be able to buy wine directly from the site. Yay!

Now it’s back to drawing and testing out how my wonderful new computer copes with some work.
Bye!

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