Sketchblog: The Book of Women

Finished the sketch from the last post. Finally.

The Book of Women

Sketchblog: Yinyang Women & Adventure Time

I bought Terry Moore's How To Draw Women, and it arrived a couple of days ago. I read it cover to cover three times. He's the creator of the amazingly good Strangers In Paradise graphic novels and one of my favourite artists.

It's only part one, but it's good, and it's actually useful. And it's already affecting my drawing - this is a sketch I was doing to explore that. The face of the woman on the right is very Moore-ish. Sketched in ArtRage 2.6 because it is still better to sketch with, and tweaked slightly and will be painted in ArtRage Studio Pro.

The floating genie woman on the left was actually inspired by the flying vampire Marceline - floating people are actually amazing boons to artists as you can put them anywhere in any position.

 This is Marceline. I doodled her in the DeviantART Muro program (which is eh. I WANT MY PRESSURE SENSITIVITY). Sadly, there is very little of Adventure Time on YouTube, and even less of Marceline, who is by far my favourite character.

And in inverse order, the warm up fan art. This pairing has taken over the internet briefly since the next clip of the show leaked, showing Marceline singing to Princess Bubblegum in a very... lovelorn manner. The fantastically Awesome Tom Siddell of Gunnerkrigg Court painted them as his very first Tumblr Post, so how could I not follow suit?

I really like the lighting patterns on Bubblegum's skirt. Actually, all the legs are my favourite bits. I should probably tidy it up and finish it sometime...

...and the original sketch, which I drew this morning. I had no eraser on me, as you can probably tell. I like Marceline's face - must try and tweak the painted version so her expression shows properly.

Sketchblog: Random Redhead

Just playing in ArtRage - she was part of another picture, but didn't work with the composition. So I carefully edited her out from all the layers and gave her a save file of her very own.

Felicia Day: Sketchblog

Watched Dr. Horrible at last, and gave up and drew Felicia Day. And by 'gave up' I mean seized an excuse to keep drawing. I am art-starved.

This is the reference - and it's from Google Images, so I don't know if it's an official photo, or a screenshot, or what. From the quality, it's probably an official photo... and half a second with TinEye shows it's actual the main page photo on her website.

And the sketch (ArtRage 3) Not perfect, but was just doing quick practice sketch-painting.

Aaaand the final quick painting on DeviantART (click through for a larger view):

Amazing Fantasy Artwork: Shadowlands by Lytayvea

This painting took my breath away, and I'm seriously considering buying it (not as light a proposition as it sounds, considering the shipping to New Zealand is often tragically high).

Shadowlands by ~Lytayvea on deviantART

The girl is beautiful and delicate, and makes me desperately want to try drawing her. The lighting is gentle and natural looking, and the slanting composition, with the girl and her tree taking up the foreground and the forest stretching behind, makes me feel like I'm looking along a ridge, halfway up the slope of the hills.

On closer inspection, I also find she's literally blending with the shadows, and she has some dusty butterfly wings. The other little details - the haze in the distance, the faintly shining waterfalls, the soaring bird, the ferns - all add depth and space, and reward a longer look.

Some other gorgeously detailed fantasy paintings from Gloria Scholik's deviantART gallery:

Top Five Most Popular Disney Femslash Images of the Month

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It's interesting keeping an eye on the traffic through my Squidoo lenses - and the one that's really taken off lately, in a scary way (Google is finally bringing it up in search results) is the Disney Femslash lens.

So I thought I'd just post up the most popular clickouts of the last month.

Unsurprisingly, the comics were waaaay up there with ~120 clicks each. X-Arielle is pretty much the definitive Disney femslash artist on DA and Nana-51 is right up there with her.

I'll just post them in order here - first two on the left are the original comics from Nana-51, in which Megara decides to try an online... sorry, a magic mirror dating service and calls up Ariel for ...well, some fun. The third is X-Arielle's rather fun response, in which Meg teases Melody (Ariel's daughter in the sequel)

The final two were much less popular with 69 and 52 respectively. They BOTH feature Snow White and the Evil Queen, interestingly.

Number four is a short manga comic about apples, wishes and tricks turning out to be treats...

...while Number five pairs up the Evil Queen with Snow White in chains at her feet, in a nicely contrasting sombre theme (compared to the generally very happy and Disney-bright fan art)



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