Revenge of Fuzzy

I hate being so slow with this challenge, but I am proud of each piece so far. I also don't want to give you a crappy drawing on time, so I give you better drawings. They're worth the wait, right?

My third challenge was to combine favorite pet or animal with an unfit means of travel. Hamsters aren't my number one, although I love them, but I had to draw this after I thought of it. It is a skeleton leader riding in the mouth of a hamster zombie. I would consider that unfit, wouldn't you? Anyway, here is the drawing. I even added a tiny splash of color for variety. 

Sweet dreams.

Pierce the Heavens, Gurren Lagann

Another commission! My path towards arthood is well underway.

A friend of mine asked me to paint a picture of the drill from an anime titled Gurren Lagann. I have not watched this anime, but I've heard a lot about it. I also did a little research into the storyline and significance of the drill. The show takes place in a future Earth with some people living in subterranean villages. Some of these people are diggers that use drills to expand the living spaces underground. The main character, Simon, unearths a drill-key to a mecha and joins his brothers gang to one day reach the surface world.  There is much more to the show and you can find more information on the wikipedia page. 

Anyway, I created the painting based on other images of the drill and the dark to light represents the drill traveling from the isolated, subterranean world into the light of the surface world.  The spiraling clouds and dirt represent the divide between the two.  

I hope I've done the image justice with this painting. It is acrylic paint on canvas panel, size 11'' x 16''. (I think)

Dragon and a Kitten

I recently painted a dragon for a friend of mine. It took me two sessions of painting from start to finish; that didn't include sketching. I used acrylic paint on canvas panel and several pallette knives. No brushes were used for this painting.

Here is a close up of the dragon's eye to show detail.

I also remembered to take my camera the last time I visited my parents so I could take pictures of their kitten, Grimm. Enjoy!

Grimm is a handsome fella.

He was rubbing his face on my finger and then derped.

He's also quite fierce.

Nap time on the dog toy.

Babies!

Sorry for the wait, I'm working on projects and being slow to get stuff uploaded. Here is some information about some stuff I did a while back.

My SO has two goddaughters, both born after we started dating (barely). The oldest will be four and the younger one will be a year old this year. For their births I drew each of them a little colored pencil animal to match the rest of their theme, considering some babies have themes. Anyway, goddaughter 1 loves giraffes, somehow they knew that before she was born.

So I drew and framed this for her! It's colored pencil and ink and 4x6 on heavy sketch paper.

When her little sister was born last year, her theme was elephants! Unfortunately, I was slow on getting the drawing finished and even slower on getting it to the family. It's really sad they live four hours away from us. 

Here's the elephant! It's also done in colored pencil and ink on heavy duty sketch paper and is 4x6.

Sorry for the image quality on these two. They are just pictures of the finished drawings on simple cameras, I never thought to scan them into my computer, but you get the gist. 

Another friend of mine had a little baby a handful of months ago and she lives up in Alaska! This baby loves her toy moose and since they were back in the lower 48 for a few weeks, I got to see them. Yay me! 

Here is her moose! Same as the previous; colored pencil and ink, heavy paper, give or take it's 4x6.  I blended the colors into the paper more on this one for a richer and brighter image. I also had the smarts to scan the finished drawing.

It's still not the best quality. I have a simple cheap-y scanner/printer, but it does its job well enough for my needs until I get rich. HA! 

When a friend or relative has a baby, some people make blankets, some people make stuffed animals or clothes, but I draw cute little animals! 

The Mighty Sea-Star-Crab-Fish!

Finally! I've completed the second drawing to my drawing challenge!  I apologize for the length of time it took to complete. I got really into the drawing, and the holiday weekend, and work... adulting can be hard.

Anyway, with these drawings I'm working towards more complete images, meaning I need to make a decent background, not just shadows and a horizon line. The last drawing had some clouds, and the basket and this drawing has a whole sea storm! Full of waves, lightning, and some simple clouds.

The two challenges were the offspring of 2 unlikely animals and something from the sea, so obviously I created a sea monster that seems to be a cross between a starfish and a crab. I think he's beautiful.

My Independence Day adventure was taking the motorcycle on a four hour road trip to see the most amazing fireworks show I've seen yet! The bike ride wasn't so bad since we stopped every hour or so to regain feeling in our posteriors and stretch our legs. We got to see my other half's beautiful goddaughters. I so wish we lived closer! Too bad I couldn't take my nice camera on the bike, otherwise I would have some pics on here to show off how lovely those girls are.

I have a deadline to reach today with some preliminary drawings, so wish me luck. Join me next time for an unfit means of travel combined with a favorite pet or animal!

Drawing Challenge: Level Medium

A few years ago I completed a thirty day drawing challenge that was fun and most of the drawings ended up really cute. This year I decided one challenge wasn't challenging enough. I've decided to combine two different drawing challenges into one drawing per two days. I'm changing it to two days per drawing to allow for more detail in my drawings, cuz I need the practice.  Here are the two challenges, hopefully big enough for you to read. I combine the corresponding days in a creative and (hopefully) humorous manner. The original creators of the challenges are in the photos, don't go thinking I came up with them on my own. That comes on challenge 30.

So the first challenge is a self portrait and someone or something experiencing flight. The result is a picture of a couple on a hot air balloon ride. To give credit where it's due, the drawing was first inspired by the book The Kraken King by Meljean Brook. It's a steampunk romance, so I was wary at first. Too much romance makes me want to vomit. I'm not a chick-flick kind of girl. It was mostly steampunk adventure with a little romance, so that was nice. I enjoyed the book and recommend it to others. (No, I wasn't paid to say that.) Anyway, I decided to call it a self-portrait because the female lead and I have similar features, (pale, not-stereotype-pretty, pointy features, small) so I thought close enough. 

Also, forgive the anatomy mistakes and poor man-drawing. This is the first male character I've drawn that didn't look like a morbid concoction of a two-year-old. So here it is, the first step to a medium level drawing challenge! 

Wish me luck. 

PS: If you think of a clever idea for one of the challenge combinations, don't be afraid to let me know! All ideas are helpful!