Charcoal on handy flipchart. Crap picture. 

 
Charcoal on handy flipchart, laid on and then rubbed out with handy rubber. Less crap, but ran out of time on the head. 

Detail - I drew the head first, unusually. 

Again, charcoal rubbed off flipchart paper - more heavily done this time. Could have done with slightly rougher/thicker paper, though. I wish I'd had time to do more background - the model looks like she's floating.

Pencil (for the darker shadows - they only show up brightly in the first drawing because of the flash) and chalk for the brighter lights. I hadn't decided on the pencil/chalk combination at the start, with the result that the model's nearest leg looks a bit smudgey. Yes, indeed it is on two pieces of black paper stuck together with masking tape. Quiet, you.

Coloured conte crayon (apparently these are not quite the same as chalk pastels. Go figure) on grey paper, with slight touching-up using watercolour for the darker shadows/outlines. Hmm.... the reflections in the floor look a bit crap though.

A more successful application of the previous technique. Yay for colour. It would have helped if we had a two-session pose, as was the original plan... I'd like to use this drawing style some more.

Well, that's that for lifedrawing. I actually have enough material for two posts, but I can't be bothered to put everything up today (and some are still pending permission from their owners).... however here are some sketcheeeees;




The first is a random angel, drawn while freezing my fingers off in January or somesuch silly time of year. The second is Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeane! from Claymore, who I may or may not have stuck in my last (f-locked due to general misery) post, but I cannot be bothered to check so she's going in again anyway, and the third is the parks on one of my many visits to Oxfordia. If you look closely, you can see a meerkat.
Yes.
Someone was walking a meerkat... in the park. On a little leash.
It came up to me and climbed into my hand.
I could feel its heart beating.

There are just no words to describe the Cute.




Doodles. As you can see, I was concentrating veeeeery hard during the conference I attended.
(Fortunately we were provided with satsumas for entertainment, and the guy beside me was equally... um... concentrated. One satsuma ended up as a Jim Carey, and one as the Flaming Eye of Sauron. I think it was a good conference).



I was concentrating equally hard on the one-day training scheme...
[Yes, DrM - It's a lion! Get in the car!]



Goodness gracious, golly gee, whose could this patronus be?
If by chance you do not know, spoilers may be found below...

... Or not, depending on how hard people are trying to avoid commenting on my Harry Potter fanart or my bad grammar. *evades lord_sandwich's withering look* another result of my training-scheme attention span...





Aaand finally. Two crappy sketches of my favouritist character of all time. Except that one of them cannot, in fact, be my favouritist character, for reasons which do not become clear until the penultimate novel. But shush! Artistic license, I say. Unfortunately they are rubbish, but I may do the proper non-sketch versions at some point. The former picture is meant to be in brilliant colour - possibly on sky-blue paper, even... black, white, gold and blue... On the other hand I have a backlog of about ten of these on my to-do list, so I am not overly optimistic.

Well, that's all, folks. Except for the other post's-worth of material which I cannot be bothered to put up at the moment *yawns* bed-time, methinks.. 

#^_^# All right, I know I should be working on what I promised I'd finish for DrM... but some pics are just begging to be drawn.

Also, anyone watching Claymore - or indeed anyone who knows who the characters are - please write this fic for me ♥. Because it needs to be written. Anyone who can write. Or even if you can't.

... And in the back (grargh, I hate drawing chibis 9___9):


 

Yes, pamplemousse is a word. It is the French word for grapefruit. It is also quite possibly the most intrinsically funny word I have ever heard.

.... I other news, yes I was in France. (Sorry, mentalfirewall >__> !!)

No, really, I was gone. For a week. Hands up, who noticed? Anyhoo - having failed to take a camera with me in the hopes that it would spur me to draw some landscapes for a change - I have doodles rather than photos. 

Another term, another LJ post. Actually two, since for some reason t'internet deleted the first one without saving ¬______¬...

In fact this post is an excuse to retroactively SQUEEE about the marriage of joe_smoke and mentalfirewall, in what must have been the most awesome wedding of the century ^^...

♥ ♥ ♥ CONGRATULATIONS!! ♥ ♥ ♥

Anyhoo... whoops, anyhoo, here's the relevant doodle;






(Yes, to my shame, the background is photoshopped. In the original it wasn't, but it ruckled up under the scanner so I judiciously deleted it.)
And to sum up the rest of the holidays, here is evidence of my boredom: I think next time I shall draw each frame manually in a flick book and scan it in, the whole thing was an exercise in unending pain >.<...



Dedicated, naturally, to unclegriff.

The cosplay photos blackmail material evidence of my developing acting skills are ommitted. I thought dwarfy_drm would want first dibs on those.

Ahh... I wish I'd finished my icons in time for this post. So many icons *smiles dreamily*...

Anyhoo, here we have STUFF, posted with kind permission of the recipients, with the exception of the following link because certain people won't receive it until tomorrow so dwarfy_drm keep your mitts off until then; you and your family only get to see the finished product. I will tell you that it is a black and white line drawing and actual size. [And entirely the fault of Zim, for at the moment of reading your email there was this small voice cackling in the back of my head '... and it shall be the most liney lined line drawing of ALL TIME muuahahaa!]

The link for DrM to keep her mitts off; http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/bluegoo0/roar.jpg

Incidentally, more Zim, for I am now a hopeless addict ♥. Fortunately so are other people, so they got this monstrosity:

Ladies and gentlefolk, the moment you've all been waiting for... or not... the RPGsoc banner in all it's paint-spattered glory! Unfortunately the letters became increasingly detailed as I painted them, so the R and the P don't quite gel with the rest. But you can't tell 'cos photobucket shrunk the image ~^_^~.

Also, permission to post still pending from a certain Larpo *pokes with pointy stick* who is apparently very busy with the coming Maelstrom, so certain images have been blurred to protect the not-so-innocent. I will be writing the full title of the society below the big title and clean up the background/re-outline the large letters to disguise the paint-smudging over the rims, but nothing fancy.

Hm. Now I wonder if I should've used just one long picture for the background... but nice long compositions are hard to find, and then we would not have Carlos in his wonderful ♥ PINK ♥

Much better!

The blue monstrosity is still lying in my room, taking up most of my floor, until I can re-do it.

However, here's another Legacy-related whatsit. Since I failed to mention it before, the dimensions of the (must... destroy...) poster in the previous post is A2 size; this one alas has a diameter only slightly larger than A4 (it would have been nice to do a big one, but then I would need an extra-large compass. Or the patience to measure it out with a bit of string and a pin ;^P. Pfft. as if.)

  

*pokes head up* Legacy poster the first, uncropped and cropped versions:

  

  

[In other news, dude! I tracked down Maimu!! That took forever, but was much more rewarding than the poster, even considering it lasts less than 2 minutes ¬____________¬...]