a comfy chair

"Comfy" is an odd word 'cause it always looks wrong to me even when it's spelt right. Anyway, this is the pose I wanted to do. The rough overlayed over the illustration really does cover up a lot of the subtle gradients I'm working with.

Shapes & Models

Here is a really rough test I did to see if a posed work 'cause I was having the hardest time drawing it out in pencil. I need the shadings and shapes to let me know if it could work. It's very stylized and art deco-ish in my mind, but it's looking cool. My next illustration will be based on that pose and I really wish I had a model 'cause I don't feel ashamed to admit, I'm not the best with thinking up poses out of my mind. I've got my own sense of anatomy and sometimes it works and sometiems it's just "wonky" as my old life drawing teacher put it.

Girls

I'm starting work on the top illustration right now and it's fairly simple. I like using bright and soft colours. It's very cheerful. I ended up adding a body to the rest of the head for the second illustration. I just couldn't get the head right everytime I redrew it so I just patched it on digitally. I might soften up that orange, but I like how it turned out.

New Hat

Been sketching again to try to get a pose for the next illustration. I liked how this little pose turned out.

EDIT: So I felt like adding some colour to it. It's looking nice, but I'm kinda unsure of the palette.

Evening Wear

This piece is relatively simple and when something is simple you have to get it right or else it just shows. I wanted to do something with the flow of the gown so that's the main focus of it here. Well onward to the next piece which will be more complex.

Something old, something blue, something borrowed and something new

The colours changed quite a bit from start to finish to get things to fit together better, but I like how it turned out. Watch me not live up to it, but I think I'm going to try to do an illustration with a girl in it every day this week. I've got something planned for later though the roughs aren't working out well enough yet.

White Chair

So I'm working on more graphic things with less line work again. It's fun and I realize how much I shift things around when I work on these. I should really get a light table one day so it'd be easier to shift things through analog means. I just didn't get the left leg right and ended up shifting it around quite a bit while working on this. I'm not sure if any of this will be the final colour. I mostly wanted to get the shapes down first to get an overall feel for the piece. Blocking things out really helps when you're doing anything very graphically.