Miaow, Meow, Mew

(acrylic on paper, A4)

Do black cats consider themselves unlucky?

Mantis style

-My style is the best, and so I challenge you! 

-Aha! But my style is better!

- Generic kung-fu flick dialogue

Just testing out some new colour pencils I have. Insects are cool.

Vintage

Another drawing in charcoal.

This time I tried to get the proportions right so that she didn't look like she jumped out of a cartoon. Drawing a different pose also helped. I wanted to draw her whole body, but the paper was too small and I don't think I can capture fine details with charcoal just yet.

Charcoal is so damn messy, but so much fun to play with. OK, time to wipe the dust off my table :)

Illustration Friday: expired, Part 2

Here's a little something to balance out the diabetes-inducing sweetness of my last IF submission:

(soft pastel on black paper)

Your time's up.

Illustration Friday: expired

My entry for Illustration Friday. This week's topic, "expired":

I think one of the eggs might be a bit off...

New medium

2 posts in 1 day? Well, yeah :)

I've always wanted to try drawing with charcoal (drawing on concrete floors and walls excluded). My interest was renewed after watching the title sequence of The Pacific. Now what I've drawn is hardly in the same league as the aforementioned title sequence, but I think still decent for a first try. I also found it much easier to use than soft pastel, probably because it's even softer and monochrome.

I referenced a random picture I found on the internet, so I don't know who the girl is. I was just drawn to her hairstyle and dark hair which translated really well in charcoal. She also looks a bit cartoonish and child-like because I drew her eyes bigger than normal. Yes, I messed up her facial proportions ever so slightly, but we'll call that artistic license :)

Think fast, sketch faster, part 2

More sketch practice. This time I brought my camera with me so I took photos, which meant that I could refer back to them and sketch people on the move. Again, no real detail, just shapes and lines.

Girl with a dog. It's supposed to be a boxer but it looks like a mutt :)

Boy feeding a swan