IF : Instinct

By instinct, they were drawn to each other....

Getting there....I'd say it's just a little under halfway completed. I'm hoping to work on it more tonight, but my drafting table is in our bedroom, and my husband will soon want to sleep. I don't have my own studio at the moment ( oh how I wished I did). I do my best work when I can listen to my music while drawing. Current music for this piece...Anuna. If you haven't heard of them, I highly suggest doing a search on Amazon for some mp3's.

Beginning the transformation. I finally found some time to get back to work on this. This is the stage ( the twinework, as I call it) that takes the most time to complete.

Ok folks...this one is a work in progress. I have not done a prompt for Illustration Friday for some time, and I really wanted to do this one. As it usually turns out, I end up wasting time trying to come up with an idea..and then other things prevent me from getting started early enough.

I also wanted to show this one in steps anyway, but now, it's just going to be late. But I wanted to get my link logged in time for this one.

Ok, this is just the base sketch, plus a refined outline. It's still very early, and I think this is going to take me until at least the end of the weekend to finish.

PLEASE stop back to see the finished piece!!!

Also, did I mention before about my problem with taking pictures of my work with my camera? I think I did...I really hate it. I just don't have the proper lighting. So every time I do a larger piece ( this one is 14 x 17 " )...I need to use my camera because it's too big for my scanner. And every time, the pictures either come out dark grey, or dark yellow...and I have to use software to " try " and fix it. Notice how I have the word try in quotation marks : )

I can never get it right, and it always ends up dual colored or something ( notices the different colors on the left and right of the image). Anyway, I will be glad when the weather gets warmer and perhaps I can go outside in the day, and make use of the natural lighting for my pictures.

Again, PLEASE stop back to see the finished piece! I know, it's a pain in the butt, but I'm hoping to have this finished by Sunday...perhaps Monday at the latest. I'm terrible with deadlines....I know : /

Priestess II

Ink and graphite, 9 x 12 on 111 lb, Canson drawing paper. This is the second in my Priestess series. The first was an ACEO ( trading card ) sized drawing. I decided to take this series to a larger scale. The figure drawing photo I used for a base sketch was provided by Live Model Books. A big thanks to the photographer, the website and to model Valentine for providing the pose.

I strayed just a bit from the model photo. Due to the texture I use in the body, I needed to move her arm just a bit, so that the staff would not interfere with the figure, and end up blending in too much.

Priestess II © Faeorain, 2009

Shaman V - ACEO

Ink and graphite on Stonehenge drawing paper. The actual size of this drawing is 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 ", ( trading card sized). Ok, I did say I was taking a break from the trading card sized work....I still am. But I figured I would sneak one in ( I wanted to try out my new cream, Stonehenge paper, which I purchased pre-cut in the trading card size.) I will probably sneak a few in here and there, but they will not be my main focus now. I can't get the same level of detail in this smaller format, but I try. The smallest pen tip size I am working with now is 005.

Wadim

Ink and graphite on 90 lb , cream colored drawing paper, 11 x 14. This is another drawing created from a pose by model Jesse, from Live Model Books. Thanks again to Live Model books, the photographer, and to Jesse for providing the great pose!

Wadim © Faeorain, 2009

Awaken

Ink and graphite on 111 lb. drawing paper. This drawing was created with the help of figure model barefootpoet who provided the perfect pose. This was the R&D 235 for the Figure Drawing Factory group. I decided to make the project part of my ongoing series of twine beings. Many thanks to barefootpoet for the great pose!

Awaken © Faeorain, 2009

Doru

Ink and graphite on cream colored paper. This one measures 11 x 14, so I could not use my scanner to get the picture uploaded, as it was too large. I had to use the camera, and, well...you can see the result. I had a really hard time trying to get a picture that was not too dark, or yellow, or even multi-colored. These pics are not the exact representation of the color and brightness of the actual drawing. The pictures kept turning out really dark, so I had to use a photo editing program to adjust the color, and used fade correction to brighten them up a bit. As you can tell, I am not an expert with the camera ; )

The actual color of the paper is a natural cream color, which is just a bit off-white.

I would also like to thank figure model Jesse, from Live Model Books for providing the pose for this piece.

Doru © Faeorain, 2009

Svuil

Ink and graphite. The twine keeps calling me back, so I will be taking a break from the watercolors, and the ACEOs for awhile to work on some larger drawings in this series. I feel these images work best in black/white or greyscale.

I did not have a figure photo to work with on this one, so I had to wing it. There is of course, always a noticable difference when I do not use an actual model pose for a base sketch. I'm still working on accurately remembering all of the details of the human body from memory.

Svuil © Faeorain, 2009