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I was browsing around for examples of character design when I happened across this great illustrator on ConceptArt. So I checked out her blog and put a watch on her Deviantart account. <_< No, I'm not a stalker... I really liked her stuff. So anyway, on her blog she has this tutorial. Well, being as I'm trying out new things, I figured, why not?

Well, this is the result. A lot more practice and maybe I can get it to look as good as hers. I think next time I'll use a larger sized drawing... ATC size probably isn't good to practice on. o_O

You should really go check out more of Steph Laberis' stuff! ^_^

Anyhow, I was going to do something else for transition but I think this is more truth for me... I am going through some transitions in my art. I hope you all enjoy my learning process. lol

I was trying something new. The scan absolutely destroyed this drawing, and the colored paper didn't even show up properly so I did a quick background in Photoshop while attempting to adjust the colors.

Just goofing around and thought I'd share. =]



My husband suggested that the goddess needed a counterpart. Again I distorted an image, drew it, colored with prismacolor pencils and added a background in photoshop.

My plan is to quit trying to find a style and 'just do it'. I'm going to draw more animals and landscapes. I'm going to keep looking at other people's art but quit trying to make mine look like theirs. I'm just going to do it.

I started the year off with a drawing of a girl and a cat that my daughter seems to have run off with and then the tiger for a friend.



Oh, and there was a post a while back about drawings we did when we were younger... I found this one that I did in 1993. That would have made me a junior in high school and around 16 years old.

When I copy from someone else's work, I try to copy the signature too so as to give credit where it's due. If I remember right this one came from a greeting card or a calendar. I think it was a calendar. H. GoodwinE

Sometimes my daughter pretends to be a cowgirl and will tie up anything including the poor dog. Poor Yogi. I can tell by that look he gives us that he must be thinking - It's all your fault... You told her she could be anything. Heh. Yeah, I did.

After doing the wonderful portrait of me, I finally talked JC into allowing me to return the favor. *wink* But I couldn't keep two little fairies from hovering around my head while I illustrated her. So I added them. Meet Lily and Heather. Lily couldn't get over how beautiful JC is, and Heather just wanted to say hi to a fellow fairy lover. *grin*

MondayArtday is extending a week of illustrating your favorite Artday illustrator to two weeks. I'm still fairly new, so rather than emailing people randomly I asked in the Chatbox if anyone would allow me to illustrate them. Eslina is the only one brave enough to let me try, so far. lol (Thanks Eslina!)

Her portrait that she sent was so beautiful that I wanted to do her justice. Rather than doing a more cartoony version of her I did it in a style that comes most natural to me. So cartoony-realistic it is... Does this style have a name? lol

It was fun! Thanks Eslina! And Bearuh! lol

Some random characters to practice inking. The puppy and elf in the middle were drawn from looking at other people's work. The rest of the crazyness is mine.

(from DailyOm)
A woman's life is filled with stages, milestones ushering in wondrous experiential apexes like the coming of fertility, motherhood, and wisdom. Three aspects, maiden, mother, and crone, have traditionally represented the bounties and new beginnings represented by each stage. The maiden is the aspect of new beginnings, youth, playfulness, spontaneity, and learning. A woman in the prime of her life can be said to be living under the aspect of the mother, who personifies fertility, strength, and stability. She is the gentle nurturer as well as the fierce lioness. Lastly, and by far the most misunderstood and yet in many ways the most deserving of reverence, is the crone, who holds within her all of the wisdom of the journeys of womanhood within her.


(from Wikipedia)
Maiden

Among Pagans and Newagers "The Maiden" represents enchantment, inception, expansion, the promise of new beginnings, birth, youth and youthful enthusiasm.

Mother

The Mother represents ripeness, fertility, sexuality, nurturance, fulfillment, stability, power and life.

Crone

The Crone represents wisdom, repose, death, and endings. Like the moon which waxes once again after the new moon and like in the year, where spring always follows winter. The Crone is an end, but she is always followed by the Maiden once more. It is death and rebirth, representing the common pagan belief of reincarnation as well as the renewing cycles of the moon and of the year.

Triadic imagery

In The White Goddess, Graves said:

the New Moon is the white goddess of birth and growth;
the Full Moon, the red goddess of love and battle;
the Old Moon, the black goddess of death and divination.

This relates the three life-thresholds of birth, procreation and death with phases of the moon. It should be noted that this order is not consistent with that usually cited by some Neopagans and that the triadic structure is not dependent upon the division of the lunar month into three phases.