May Sketches...

Heya!

So, I've been having a very creative period lately. I have been sketching and drawing alot as I've been working on my portfolio and I have quite a few drawings to share. The first four are old drawings I did ages ago but I decided to come back to and try out various tricks, lighting effects and brushes on them to see how they would turn out. They were originally done as part of a project back at uni, and back then I didn't really know Photoshop and so just used pencil and watercolour. But now I've gone over them in Photoshop I've been able to experiment with the lighting effects. The inspiration for these drawings came from Terry Pratchett's 'The Colour of Magic'.

 Gambling Gods

I really like this one now. I found it challenging figuring out where the light would fall on the gods since they were lit from underneath and it took me about two days to figure it out and test things out but I think I managed to capture that eerie mistical atmosphere I imagined.

 Death's Garden.

The World's Edge

I really liked how the world's edge drawing has turned out as before it wasn't one of my faveourite drawings but I think the rocks I added give a really give it a sense of vertigo and the foaming water and mist looks more convincing now... shame about the whale, but there was no room for it.

the old original drawings

 I also went back to another piece I'd originally done as a birthday present for a friend. I really liked the sketch but looking back on it I could see all my original mistakes (mostly with her proportions and the lighting) so thought it would be fun to come back to this piece and give it a make over. I also wanted to make her much more colourful than before. I've recently joined Deviant Art and have been checking out the works of artists Loish and Benjamin who's drawings are amazingly colourful.

2011 makeover

2008 original

Finally are some random sketches I drew just for giggles. The first one is of my friend Pete who has a very manly way of keeping in shape.

the last one is of a bizzarre character that Pete and I encountered on our way to a party in Manor House...

the lego guy really exists, I kid you not. Enjoy!

Maria Xx