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Been a busy week but I managed to sneak in this sketch. I’ve had this in my head for a few days but the detail was much more rich. Maybe some week when the ideas aren’t coming, I’ll re-visit this concept and try to make it match up to what’s in my brain.

She gets up with her head swung down low down
Steps into the room
She says
Please listen while I sing my song to you
’cause it all slips away, it ends
Too soon

How in the hell did I get here
I still hear her cry the blues
Been in a daze for ten years
But I still can sing the truth

Heaven knows where we all go
All we have is what we get
When it’s gone, when will I know
Because I haven’t got it yet

Did you find that ride?
Did you finally fly?
While I sit here, kickin’ and bitchin’
Sayin’ gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Gimme what’s mine

I thought I had it all
I wanted more
No need for you
I slammed the door
I cut you lose
What are the chances that I’d walk in here
And find the truth

“The Truth”, Ain’t Life Grand – Slash’s Snakepit

Finally done. One more to go, and then I explore new themes.

So, I have been trying to get the colors for my winter faerie done for two weeks now. My brain is apparently bored, because I’ve been having a hard time focusing on it. I was listening to the song “Mean Bone” by Slash’s Snakepit, and this girl popped in my head. I figured, rather than forcing myself to do something and ultimately losing another week, that I would just draw her and hope it helps to refocus my mind.

I’ve got one mean bone in my body
and it’s one I want to pick with you

Also, to try and get myself motivated, here’s a sneak peek at Winter.

I also have a little notebook doodle from work that I forgot to scan. I’ll try to remember to post it as well.

This is what I spent my time on for week 7 of my Art 52 project. It is a little piece for work conveying the roots of social media, how brand is the strength/trunk of any business, and how the personality and strength of a brand can branch out into social media and bear fruit.

David LaPlante tells the tale in a much more exciting manner than I.

Click the picture for an enlarged view on Flickr. A plain version of the illustration is viewable here.

I’m happy with this one.

I can feel that I’m started to get addicted to drawing again. A little bit of extra time this week has had me willingly wanting to work on my art, to the point it was distracting some nights.

I could push some of this further – namely the blade – but I’m leaving it here so I can start on the lines and colors for winter tomorrow.

Autumn faerie meshed with the idea of death.

Well, here she be. This is about 60% as far as the coloring job I’d like to see, but part of why I’m doing the art 52 thing is not only to discipline myself (I’ll never put myself and my art as a priority if I didn’t), but also to get used to working within a time frame/deadline. If I don’t find the time to push it as far as I want in a week, it forces me to reference that fact during the next week.

I will probably be posting an updated version of her as I wanted to include a bunch of shiny jewelry with her costume. I’m posting this before the weekend end so I can hop on this week’s sketch and hopefully make myself find extra time for a better coloring job this week. I also want to incorporate the whole life cycle – birth, life, death, and whatever comes after – into each season/faerie. Summer I see as life, thus her creation of energy/sunlight.

Not sure whom I’m doing next – I’ll probably go in order and do fall. We shall see who shows up as I start sketching tonight!

ETA: I’m thinking I’ll be warming her skin up, as well. Didn’t realize the hue is too cold until I stepped away for a few hours.

Eh. . . I don’t like this one at all. I was distracted by the holiday when I started it last week, and now I’m looking on towards the sketch I have in progress for this week. I’m aiming to polish this week’s sketch up more than the last four, so I likely won’t be posting it till the end of the week. What’s in the works? A series of fairies! So far, this one-a-week sketch thing seems to be slowly helping my brain get back into scheming mode. I hope I didn’t jinx myself by saying that.

Anyways. . . yeah. The sketchy look doesn’t work well with bright colors, as the colors demand something more polished than a quick-n-dirty cleanup. Oh well – onward.

PS – here’s a little teaser for my new site. A name change will also be coming with the new design.

I’m a bit late this week as I spent an evening being an utter fangirl watching Revenge of the Fallen.The 80’s nostalgia has taken over. This was started Wednesday. . . fresh from the scanner with no clean up, so some things suck (the hand! I know it’s in the wrong position).

Another possible candidate for cleanup and completion. We’ll see how I feel about it in the future. The pose sucks so I may use this as a basis for a better illustration.

30 minute sketch with a quickie 40 minute Photoshop color job. I was going for a rough ‘concept sketch’ feel, I suppose, just to get my brain back into creating characters. I might re-visit this one in the future and create a finished piece from it. I could see this turning into a fun costume/jewelry and lighting study.

I like drawing dancing people.

Art 52 Week 2 will be posted tomorrow, simply because I feel like adding some color to what I sketched.