Art Dump plus one WIP

I was going to make separate posts for all of these, but then I decided that I couldn't really be bothered to.

First up is the sheet of flowers done with Copic markers. I put a preview of this on Instagram with just the lines drawn, so here's the "finished" version. The first one I couldn't really be bothered with. For its size, it was too detailed. The second one is probably my favourite: I like the colours and I like the way they blended together. The third one is too dark but I used the lightest colours so there's not much I can do about that. The fourth one needs Copic white and I don't have any, so that isn't quite finished, and the fifth one looked perfectly blended until it dried, otherwise that would've been my favourite instead. I could probably have played with it more but I didn't want to go back to it. These were completed ages ago - the date is written on the sheet.

Next is the watercolour sunset I previewed on Twitter. It was completed the day after the painting in the last post but I haven't had the chance to upload it before now. This is one of the most relaxing things I've ever painted - I loved every minute of it. I'm definitely going to do more skies!

Then there's a Copic multiliner brush pen scribble of Wish from one of the photos I took of him years ago. I couldn't be bothered to do his markings, especially with a brush pen (he's an Appaloosa) and I didn't want to ruin what I'd done as I was happy with it like this. It practically matches the photo and I couldn't erase anything because it was pen, so I was very happy to get the anatomy done. It's in an A5 sketchbook that I have solely for use with pen and ink and it's the third drawing in there.

The fourth drawing in the pen and ink sketchbook is this one of a (sort of) Rainbow Cobweb Delta Guppy. I bought a dip pen and drawing inks and this is my first try at using colours and doing a "proper" drawing with them. I got a bit carried away with it but the paper held up quite well and I'm pleased with how it turned out. I'd rather not know how many times I had to dip the pen.

Last but not least is a watercolour WIP with horses and stuff. I don't know if I'll ever get around to finishing it. It's been quite boring to do so far, if I'm being honest. I am extremely sick of seeing and mixing the colour green and the masking fluid tore the paper in several places so it looks a mess anyway. I don't know. Maybe I will, maybe I won't.

I'm going to return to the other watercolour flower soon so I can get that other sheet posted, then I'm going to try a few watercolours of people. No green there!

Anatomy Practice: Horses - 2

Might as well post like this. Just pretend that the bad iPhone photos are scans, okay? My iPhone doesn't rotate images when you take landscape pictures and I have no idea why, so here's three really bad pictures instead of a nice clean scan. Anyway.

I used one of my million horse books as reference for these. The first one is the first time I've bothered to try and add a rider/tack. The horse's legs and neck look too short and the head looks too small (to me anyway) but yay half-rider.

The second one is the first time I've drawn a horse jumping, but I didn't really have space to add the rider properly so I just did lines. The reference was TINY, probably less than one inch across, so I was more interested in just getting a general outline done.

The third one is the first time I've drawn a full horse without it being completely side-on. There's a bit of actual 3D going on there, but I didn't draw the fence in and ended up not drawing the front legs as high as in the reference. Oh well. I also couldn't get the head right to save my life.

The fourth was just me cheating because I couldn't find a full-body one to draw that I thought would fit the space. I still can't draw in bone structure etc in my sketches and they're still ending up as just outlines, which isn't going to be as helpful when I'm colouring. There's an art to proper lines when drawing and I'm nowhere near it. I enjoyed doing these though. I'm hoping to take a lot of photos of my model horses soon to aid me in drawing from different angles (they're very anatomically correct so it should be fine), but now I don't have a laptop I won't be able to see the photos for a while anyway. Grr.

Two equine WIPs.

EDIT: WIPs both look really pixelated, they aren't like that normally. Odd.

Two things I've been trying to work on. One is a painting from a screenshot of A Knight's Tale (I love that movie) and I started it a month or so ago, and the other is my attempt at painting a horse sim of mine from The Sims 3.

There's still a lot of work to do on the face, armour and bridle ... plus I need to quickly throw a background together. Most of the work I've done is on the eye and I don't think that's finished either. Painting a close-up image when I have a broken tablet was a horrible idea.

This is Sandy the simhorse. He's a Welsh Cob stallion with very weird colouring - I have no idea what to call his colour. Been a while since I bothered studying horses properly. It's pretty either way, and dappled (which I probably won't even try). Here's a screencap of him stuffing his face. It's dusk here but you can kinda see his colouring.

The painting is from a screencap as well. It's a really cute one of my simcat staring up at him. I'm not sure if I'll paint just Sandy or the cat as well because it's kinda tiny as it is. I'm making the image larger as I go so the end result will be decently sized, but while I'm working on basics it's not a giant image to work on. I prefer getting basics down on a smaller canvas so I can just sketch and scribble. At the moment it's been doubled in size once already and the WIP here is the current size.

Plenty more WIPs to come, nothing finished I'm afraid. Current work in progress is another painting for my mom and my blog isn't allowed pictures of that because she checks it. I'll try to get some more things up soon.