Pin-Up Girl .2

Pin-Up Girl 2

Ok this is the second sketch in my Pin-up Girls series. Tbh, I'm not 100% happy with it, I don't know why, I think Ive been looking at it for far too long. 

If anybody can tell me what that think, if you think there is something off with it or if it looks ok because I don't really wanna carry on with it if there is something wrong and I go past the point of changing it down the line. 

Pin-Up Girls .1

Pin-Up Girl Sketch 1

I thought for a change I would try drawing some new subject matters, so as I was watching TV I saw the advertisement on sky arts 1 programme about Dita Von Tesse and that's when I got the idea to do some classic drawings of Pin-Up Girls. So here is the first sketch of this new direction. More will come and they will have much higher quality, I just got excited and felt I needed to share this rough draft. 

2013 R.I.P - 2014 Come on down!!!!

Well as 2013 is now over and done with I thought I would do a little post with a couple of drawings I was proud to do in 2013 as a little recap for new visitors as well as reminding me of how much I have improved over the year and to help me get motivated to continue my efforts in 2014. 

Enjoy! 

 

Art 25. Random Art

This is a random piece of art inspired by Tattoo designs.

Art 13. Gypsy lady tattoo design

This is my Gypsy tattoo design inspired drawing. 

This piece I drew about 6 weeks ago after looking into traditional tattoo designs on the internet. 

I started the drawing by setting out the lines of the facial features and then sketched out the hair placement. After drawing the hair placement, I then had to decide where i wanted to add the pearls in her hair as well as the bandanna. If I was going to change anything about the picture now, I would want to change the flower which I drew in a hurry once the figures face was drawn. 

Tattoo Design 1.

This is one of the first drawings I did that was originally inspired by a tattoo.

At first I started this drawing by practicing my realistic drawing skills by drawing a skull mainly focusing on the shading techniques I would need to improve. 

However after watching a number of tattoo based television show, I decided to draws some revolvers behind the skull. It was only after drawing these revolvers I realized how empty the bottom of the designed looked.

I was first tempted to draw some scroll work with some lettering but I didn't know what to write on the scroll. So I ended up drawing some roses on the bottom as I have practiced my flower drawing before and I know that many different tattoos have skulls associated with roses. 

Art 1. Joker.

This is my development of my Joker sketch to the finished piece.

For inspiration on this piece I looked at the promotional photographs as well as the film "The Dark Knight" to get an idea for my Joker drawing.

As you can see from the first image, I used sketching pencils to first draw a circle which would be the head of the character. I then sketched a central line to position the eyes, nose and mouth in the right positions. I then roughly drew the eyes and the skin creases joining the eyebrow placement and the top of the nose. I then moved from the outer corners of both eyes and moved down in a diagonal line until both lines met with the central line. I then referred back to the images and drew out the nose. Followed by the placement of the lips. I then focused on where the hair would be flowing alongside the face and how the hairline would reach up to on the top of his head.  I then decided to place more details such as the creases on the forehead with would be highlighted from the face paint the character is wearing, along with the extension of the smile which is classic of the Joker character.                                                                                                          

Once I had roughly drawn all the positions of the characters features, I then used different pencils to bring out the details of the eyes, to show more depth within the character stare. the shading around the eyes needed to be darker than the other parts of detail with the pencils as I needed to show the darkness of the black face paint which was used around the Joker's eyes in the film. The hair was the next area i focuses on to give detail to as I needed to display the different directions the hair was flowing. 

When I finished sketching the Joker and placing detail with my normal graphite sketching pencils, I decided to colour the piece in. I used standard colouring pencils to add skin tone in areas of the face in which the face paint the character was wearing had been wiped or faded from perspiration or fighting. I then used red for the lips and showed the darker tone on areas of the lips to help the shading of them. I then decided to add colour to his clothes, the classic green and people suit from the comics and the jail scene from the film came to mind.

To finish the drawing, I used fine liners to add detail to the shaded areas to give more depth to the piece and details to specific areas such as the underlining of his lips, eyes and shirt.