An example of music inspired-drawing: this was done to "Free Your Mind." I was going to add wings to the picture, but ran out of time.
My family went camping near the sea, and we took a walk down a fantastically windy trail. It was pretty fun: you know, the kind of wind you can lean into without falling. Well, at one point I was standing something like this, and decided it would make a good picture. Some time later, I drew it. The character in the drawing is Tran, whose original species I have yet to determine [Tran's something of a shapeshifter].
I remember the days when I couldn't draw human-type faces that didn't all look related and rather dumb. Then I took a face-drawing art class, which was mostly lots of practice. It was enjoyable, and afterwards I discovered I could sketch stuff like this [which sorta surprised me].
Before I drew frames for the animation thingy The Race [in the moving pix section], I'd sketch 'em out using stick figures. Here's the unmoving first draft of The Race, complete with some stuff that didn't make it to the final draft. There are eight pages of this here, each with nine little panels.
Once upon a time, I decided I wanted to learn to draw raptors better. I practiced, and came up with a character who appears in the story Jax Runner and I have yet to finish writing. But here's some early drawings of Aurora Jerboa [known by either name, both, or AJ]. The first name is because her coloring is kinda showy, and the second is a testament to her jumping ability [a jerboa is a type of kangaroo mouse/rat].
ColErase practice: a capricane girl perched on a roof or something, watching sketchy human passersby. Only one human sees her, and is understandably surprised.
Once upon a time, Jax Runner and I had a griffin-drawing contest. This is the odd-looking catburd I ended up with. [Hers turned into a winged puma.]
This was a birthday comission for my dad. It was worth doing of its own merit; I like the way it turned out. Feathers are a pain to draw, but the effect can be worth it.
Colored pencil practice that turned out pretty well: three headshots of dragons.
In the story we're writing together, my friend Jax rides a warhorse and I ride my raptor pal Aurora Jerboa. AJ's pretty intelligent, and is very good at not waking me when I fall asleep during a long ride :)
And since Jax and I are illustrating the story we're writing, she suggested that I come up with a new [more interesting] outfit. I agreed, and started looking at clothes, and pix of clothes, and drew the interesting ones. The is the outfit I ended up with. I like it; it looks like something a mage would wear [well, some mages].
An action shot in that new mage's outfit. Yes, this was drawn on graph paper. I had plenty of graph paper I wasn't using, so it was delegated to my at-school sketch folder.
There's a pattern in the knotholes of the ceiling in my room that look like this dragony-thing if you stare long enough. When I told my teacher that I'd seen it in the ceiling, she remarked that I'd probably seen a praying mantis, then walked off before I could explain. Ah well. This was going to be in the school yearbook, but the yearbook staff did a Very Bad Job that year. I think this ended up on the other side of the page the authorities tore out of each book [something questionable had been missed]. So, it was going to be in the yearbook. Oh, and that upside-down dragon was "scribbled" by Jax. I drew the little guy saying "Oh no, it's spitting water at me!" [Unless you take your time drawing fire, it looks like water].
Sketch page! Starting from the top, there are two pix of me and my brother [these scenes do occur], two tries at drawing myself spiking a volleyball, some sketches of horse morph legs [with mine for reference], and at the bottom left are expression and perspective sketches. At the right is the first drawing of myself when I "updated" a bit: browridges for expression, better ears etc. The little pic above is for comparison. |