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Today’s sketch reference is by senshistock

Good news, I found my favorite drawing pencil! I will have to clean the clump of hair it accumulated after the kittens deposited it in the dark recess of my office, but now I can sketch and admire the teenie tiny teeth marks left by my little furry friends.

Comment time!
I’m fighting with my mechanical pencil, it made this sketch so blurry! So I am glad to have my favorite pencil back! Anyway, yes, fuzzy lines, ew. I think that’s my major issue with this sketch. I think it came out just fine for a reference of a girl wearing elegant heels, some sort of leotard, a strange headband and wielding a sword. Honestly I think the approach Erika took was much more appropriate, her sketch captured the feeling the stock photography girl intended I think.

Today’s sketch is from sitara-leotastock, and if you slide on over to Raven Girl’s Nest you’ll see a couple more renditions of this stock image after today.

I think soon Raven Girl will be posting on twitter our choice for the day so others who might be interested can join in on the fun. So check back for more on that.

Ok comment time!
Overall I didn’t pay much mind to the ambient light here, I should have, I think it would have made this better. And I am not a fan of feet (they totally gross me out) so I kinda shaped the foot, big toe (starting to feel faint) and the ankle. The actual picture was super blurry on the hands, and while I got the outline of the fingers pretty well, when I shaded it with my unsharpenable mechanical pencil it became more of a blob hand, so if I hadn’t shaded it at all I would have been much happier. I do enjoy the pretty folds of the fabric and the overall composition. I measured from the top of the head then used that as a reference to measure her length. I had to do something because I couldn’t see the picture well enough small to find some features, and when I had the large picture up on my screen I couldn’t see but 1/2 the picture at a time. And oh, I almost forgot, I had to focus on making this sketch realistic, I really had the urge to do a more exaggerated bend at the waist and give her much more muscle tone, that was interesting.

That’s about it. Feel free to post me a love note and tell me what you think.
Thanks!

After sketching this last week, I was completely in the mood to paint. So much so that I didn’t want to conceptualize anything, just to smooth that lovely, slimy stuff onto some nice white gesso paneling. I instantly knew what I wanted to do, take that pretty, pretty photo of “Banshee” by Marina Bychkova and recreate it to hang on my wall. And my wall alone!!! MINE! …

my precious…

Anyway, so here it is, and I’ll be submitting it to fan art gallery hoping she’ll fall in love with it like I fell in love with her unbelievable porcelain dolls. Look through her amazing gallery if you want to just be absolutely floored and, dare I say, Enchanted.

This sunny Saturday I sat down to surf.

This sound like Susie sells seashell at the seashore doesn’t it…or is it just me?

Anyway, after checking out Fridays’ project Must Sketch over at Raven Girl’s Nest I surfed on over to Dean’s etsy shop, Gongamutt Studios on Etsy.

Can you just say WOW?! My eyes have just been blown away by these AMAZING SUPER saturated color posters! All digitally done to remind you of those 3D Pulp Fiction posters.

Did she say 3D posters? Yes I did! Somehow this creative genius made his artwork 3D, how I don’t want to know, I just think it’s so very cool he did. You just order the fun 3D glasses and BAM!!! Aliens are in your living room!

Now if I can just get him to make a Zombie poster with 1 Latin chick and 1 Japanese chick that would make my day. /wink Or female ninjas…do they have ninja’s in sci-fi? hehe.

Today’s stock resources at deviantart were kinda, well, different. I don’t think I’ll ever understand why people post their prom pictures, dirty feet stomping on teddy bears, and some other really funky crap as stock art. Yet some more professional stock image resources are more worthwhile, like today’s pick : Octoberjoy

So if you feel like it, check out the image I referenced, and look at what I did. And comment if ya feel like it.

My good friend Ravengirl and I discuss art frequently, mostly, what we want to accomplish with our art. She aspires to be an award winning illustrator. When I was 4 years old my ambition in life was to be a mailbox because I wanted letters from friends (that was before I knew about bills or we had such things as tweets). Now I’m an aspiring artist, I don’t care what I illustrate as long as it’s from my heart.

Our main discussions are focused around making money from our art. And, short version, first you have to practice, then produce, then profit (hey that was cool!) the 3 P’s, very important.

So she started sketching, trying to do it daily, and now she’s recruited me. Her idea was simple, choose from the stock resources at deviantart.com and do quick sketches. So, today we chose this. And here is my sketch.

She’s inviting comments on her work, and so am I. What do you think? Any feedback would be great, like they technique? No? Hate the skirt area? Love the eyes? Let me know!

Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m so happy to announce that Little Linas Lovelies.com now has artwork in an Art Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina. Man’s Ruin was awesome enough to display “Legendary” and the new “Her Wings” on their walls. Prints of all the artwork sold here are also available at their Gallery.

Man’s Ruin, Tattoo, Piercings and Art Gallery in Asheville, is owned by Heather Ruin. She has been tattooing for about 10 years and has held the title of “Best of Asheville” for 7 years and running! The shop is a very cool place, which is run by a female crew, who decided to display the art of locals to support the community, a great idea! Jenn Sumo manages the Art Gallery and all 36 artists who have their work there, special props to her for accepting my work!

This display will run from Sept. 1st, 2009 through Jan. 31st, 2010, so if you are in the area, stop in, get your nose pierced and perhaps a tattoo, and see Little Lina’s Lovelies all framed and kick-ass looking on the wall!

Very quick sketch for this friday.
The theme was Caution and since recently wasps and rashes from poisons have taken over life as I know it, I was inspired to do this piece. The leaves in her hair are poison ivy, I know they aren’t so detailed so you can tell at first glance. I really intended to paint this one this week, but time was not on my side.

I have a lot I want to say about this piece, and no time! It’s for the illustrationfriday theme of “wrapped”.

First of all I firmly believe that the word butterfly should actually change to flutterby. Think about it, they don’t like butter nor are they flies, but they DO flutter by! It’s my personal campaign to rename these beautiful creatures.

About this illo, I rushed rushed rushed to do it, and to make this post, so I hope you like the illo.

Lastly, I will have this as a print up for sale in my art section asap, just not tonight.

Thanks for stopping by!

My illustration for this week’s illustrationfriday.com theme of “Modify” not only is a modification of my usual logo for littlelinaslovelies.com, it is also to let you know:

I’m now officially on Twitter > www.twitter.com/linaslovelies

Now you can keep up with my everyday antics. I sing the following song to you (sung to the Styx song Come Sail Away) Come follow me, Come follow me, Come foooolllow meee Today! Ok, that’s lovely, I hope I entertained you in some fashion.

Anyway, I hope you like this modification to my logo, I think the bird is adorable! I might be bias though. I also tweaked some things about the eye area that I didn’t like before.

Hope to see you on Twitter my fine, artistic friends!