My Business Card Design: Initial Ideas to Completion!

EDIT: OK, the quality is ULTRA bad on here - here's a link to my deviantart account - for some reason it has loaded on there far better! -> http://daiskianimej.deviantart.com/#/d3gw8xb

Never under-estimate the difficulty of choosing an illustration to use for your business cards!

It was a fun experience (of course) - though a very difficult one. I'm very indecisive.

Though from this, I've realised how much fun it was thinking about different things to draw. Once you latch on to an idea - it blossoms! Really great fun! :)

Also, I apologise how appalling my hand-writing is too!

---jkl

Me. I think... #2

A quick sketch of myself in side profile.

The face we see the most out of all others is our own, is it not?
It is for me. I thought it'd be a good experiment to test my memory from time to time, and try to occassionally draw myself without aid of reference or mirror.

Obviously, this is only the second sketch I've done. More will follow soon I hope!

I can see an improvement from my first sketch. I really can see so many errors in the first one actually. But I won't delete it - after all, it is the POINT of the whole experiment!!

---jkl

Little Sura...(Business Card Design)

My youngest cousin. Design for my business cards.

Copic markers, brown fineliner and Photoshop CS5.

---jkl

Spoilers...

I don't even know why I drew this...

I don't even like River Song that much. I find her annoying tbh.

But I am excited to see what happens in episode 4; "The Wife of the Doctor".

Excited for series 6!! :)

---jkl

Life Drawing... 14.03.11

2 hour Life drawing class... Glad to be back!

Fab fab fab session. The model was encouraged to "act" out poses slowly, so he was constantly moving which made it fast-paced and captivating. LOVED IT. I started off with a few pencil sketches (for the warm-up walking poses) and then moved on to Quink with a small brush for the rest. Brilliant session.

Apologies for the bad quality photographs. They're all very large so scanning wasn't an option.. Click on images to Full-view.

Walking Warm-Up Sketches - 5 mins each. 5B.

The model here is sitting on the floor making a (pretend) fire out of sticks and a lightbulb..

In these studeis, the model was standing with a basket reaching up and putting things in it..

These last few are just some random poses. I loved the hand poses.

---jkl

Vikki.

A little life drawing of my friend, Vikki (on a Cintiq!)

Done whilst having a little drawing session with friends, Gemma and Vikki :)

Why green? Why not!

Desperately need to go life drawing again! I miss it so much. Literally the best thing in the world.

---jkl

Doodles...

Poses of women...

My little cousin...

Biro doodles of Rapunzel...(and one of Alice In Wonderland) done during an ever so slightly boring lecture

---jkl

Me. I think...

20-30 minute sketch done in Photoshop of myself from memory. No mirror, no reference.

I wanted to see how much I can 'remember' my own face. My plan is to draw more of these throughout the years and see how I progress in this 'memory' task.

So, it's an experiment I guess.

---jkl

"A Little Princess" Sketches...

My housemate and I watched the 1995 film "A Little Princess" a few days ago. I love how everything is so green! It's actually beautiful! Such a nostalgic film :) Need to watch "The Secret Garden" now too!

---jkl

Monster and child...

Wanted to draw a big monster-type character. Ended up looking like Headless Productions' "Sam" from "I'm a Monster" completely unintended.

Oh well.

Attempted colour. Not sure about it really.

---jkl

Yet Another DrWho SketchDump...

I completely forgot about these!

The top 2/3 of sketches were done over Xmas 2010...Forgot to scan etc.

The bottom sketches were done a few nights ago when I was able to catch "The Pandorica Opens" episode on BBC3. I miss it! Can't wait for the next series! I need more drawing material! :)

---jkl

Ariel: Digital Doodledebobski...

Wish I could be...Part of that world...

Blergh... A spare hour or so on Photoshop.

---jkl

A Rapunzel SketchDump...

I love sketchdumps :)

These very rough sketches; except for the bottom 3 sketches, were all done prior to Tangled being released over here in the UK.

Rapunzel is very hard to draw, but so adorable! I love Tangled so much. It is beautiful. I need to draw some 'Kingdom Dance' scenes though - one of my most favourite parts of the whole film! :)

Update! -Rapunzel Acrylic Painting WIP

07/02/11

Rapunzel acrylic painting WIP - A little update on it now after working on it yesterday(06/02/11) for a good 4 hours or so...

Hands are so difficult to paint! I enjoyed doing the hair and face so far though.



Also, here's the painting I am taking reference from. Specifically, the female on the right:



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A Work In Progress acrylic painting of Disney's Rapunzel based off the painting; "Double Portrait of the Fullerton Sisters" by Sir Thomas Lawrence. (Which is the cover of my copy of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice")


Done in 3 and a half hours. Will finish this week :)

Rapunzel...

Literally cannot explain how much I love this film. I'm going to see it again tomorrow hopefully. And I'm seeing it twice when I go home in two weeks too.

So yeah, I'M SEEING IT 4 TIMES.

Isn't Rapunzel beautiful? I absolutely adore her. I have been doodling some sketches but she is ridiculously hard to draw! But, gah, I just love it. Too much.

More to come soon! I'll draw more characters too!

(c) Disney Tangled 2010

Art - Me!
Time: An hour and a bit
Used: Wacom tablet and Photoshop CS5

More Youtube Life Drawing...

Life Drawing Class on Youtube... Great to do for half an hour or so to relax...

Link:- http://www.youtube.com/show/lifeclasstodaysnude

Today I did the Judy Purbeck and Humphrey Ocean episodes.

Used "quink" black ink and cartridge pen.


Deadlines are nearly over for this term, so I'll upload more work soon!

---jkl

Youtube Life Drawing...

I found this a few months ago, but finally got round to trying it out. It was actually really brilliant. And the best thing about it is that you can go back and watch it as many times as you like and (hopefully!) see your own progression and improvement.

(Click to full view)





I did the 'Gary Hume' and 'John Berger' ones. There are 5 episodes. Great for a little wind-down life drawing session if you miss it! Can't beat the real thing obviously, but I think it's fabulous even so.

I bought a cartridge pen with several different sized nibs and a black ink pot the other day, and used them for this. I'm looking forward to using them more. The black ink is "quink" which I assume is quick-drying, and not the artist black ink, but it will do for now.

Link here: http://www.youtube.com/show/lifeclasstodaysnude

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The 'Bonnie and the Toys' Sketch...

I forgot to upload it before. Sketch was done 27/12/10.

A Few Life Drawing sketches...

Click to full view...

Ice-skating at Windsor Park with the cousins on Christmas Eve...



-sketch of the view of Windsor Castle
-sketch of youngest cousin (eating a marshmallow lolly)
-two sketches of men (both with cameras)
-sketch of the carousel set up next to the Ice Rink
-(top left) view of cousin's garden (under snow)

Sketches from New Year's Day with the family...



This first page shows sketches of my youngest (girl) cousin, Sura - She is literally ADORABLE. I didn't want to let her go! I miss her! She's a beautifully placid child, and so so chubby! I loved having cuddles with her :) She looked adorable in a little brown pinafore-style dress, brown top and white tights.



This second page shows more of Sura. The third page shows my (4-year old) cousin, Joe. And bottom-right is a sketch of my auntie and sister hugging on the sofa.



This last page shows my dad sitting on the floor. In the notes to the side of the drawing I have written "Dad sitting on the floor playing a game with Joe, David (Joe's dad) and Grandad".
Also:
-Bottom left: sketch of my (10-year old) cousin, Ellen on the sofa.
-Bottom right: sketch on my (8-year old) cousin, Mollie on the floor, drawing. She's very skinny and flexible, so her head is resting between her knees and her arms are wrapped around her knees as she draws.

I LOVE life drawing. I had forgotten how much fun it really is. It really is one of the best things to do when you're out and about. Life drawing FTW! :D