The Queen's After Party

And finally, here is the last of the pastel drawings from my class this past Fall semester. These are of the model as a queen at a party... drunken Queen FTW! Very fun to draw... I mean, who doesn't like a sloppy, drunk Queen spilling wine all over herself?

There are some drawings which I was going to develop and finish, but have decided not to for some reason or another. I'll be posting the lineart for these rejects soon, should anyone convince me otherwise to rescue them from the eternally unfinished bin.

Color! Oh, Color!

The best thing I gained from my Figurative Concepts class this Fall semester was an experimentation with color via pastels. See, color was an elusive she-beast to me and is only now starting to come around. Previously, I worked mostly in a limited color palette, usually even purely monochromatic. This isn't to say that I'm necessarily going to vastly change my color appreciation and I'm still a hardcore sucker for monochromatic illustrations... but the explosion of color I experienced was a nice diversion from my norm.

We each placed our five best drawings on the floor of the classroom the last day and the scope of it all was pretty cool.

Pastels are actually pretty awesome and fun to use. They provide bold, vibrant color and are a relatively flexible medium--at least more so than my usual inks. Here are a few selections of my work with pastels these past months. In the future, I'll be adding some of these to my Etsy shop so if anything strikes your fancy, keep an eye out.

Ah, pastels. How you have worked your way into my heart... and my hand.

Merry Winter's Solstice, everyone!!

Enjoy your holiday festivus winter celebrations!

Random Post is Random

Glorious. But still off. This is my first assignment from a Figurative Concepts class at AAU. The class is very fun and engaging; we're working strictly in color pastels for the beginning of class and it's a new, overall pleasing, experience.

But this drawing definitely needs a lot more work... at least a couple hours. It wasn't until I looked at the drawing next to the reference that I noticed the boobs were off.

See? The angle is all off... which is pretty disappointing since I had fun rendering that right (technically left) breast. :/

I guess that will make it all the more fun to draw it again...

I got the reference photo off Deviant Art on Eva Pechmarie's work. You can view the original here.