Cernunnos! Or Billy.

Now available in my shops: "Billy"! I lufs him!

Coming off the holiday haze (and 3 major sewing projects), I was itching to use my pastel pencil again. This one was fast, I could just see this dude so clearly. So wild and smirky! Even slightly androgynous! I just want to WRITE about him endlessly now! Of course, now that I look him all over, I see bits of David Bowie when he was in the "Labyrinth", Alucard from the anime/manga "Hellsing", the ram horns typical of a Pan type god, a deer, and a goat. And he's wreathed in pine needles for the season! That's as close to holiday art as you're going to get from me. I thought about sprinkling pastel dust and slightly smearing it for snow, but I didn't want to chance messing any bit of him up.

I made a new copyright/logo as you can see on his left horn. Strangely proud of that.

I was listening to this song whilst drawing, over and over:



And this one:



"Never knew daylight could be so violent..." I imagine Billy, untamed, unpredictable, his smirk turning into a vicious smile full of bloodlust for the hunt. AH! Does he have an animal's incisors? (Chills)

Welp, I have more stuffins artwise to do, so I'll post again soon.

Oil Pastels

Are marvelous! Now for sale in my Etsy and Storenvy as 8x10 and 16x20 Prints, Moonshine!

Click here for Etsy: (Moonshine)
Click here for Storenvy: (Moonshine)

Project Inside the Pain

I'm working on another drawing.  Hoping to finish it today.

I simply cannot use the blogger app for posting on here. It is not easy at all to place or size photos on it and there's no dealing with the HTML so I can remove the right click and save image capability. It would be nice to find a good blogging app on my tablet since I've pretty much figured out how to get everything else on there that I need to post copies for sale in my store. Do you know of any good blogging apps for android?

Couldn't Sleep

So I made this:

I've named her Liv and she's available in the storenvy store. She was originally supposed to be all tearful because she was only supposed to be a test for drawing water, then she just evolved into this.

Well, I'm falling asleep at the keyboard. Check you later. Aimes out! (Head thump)

Finished

Now in the shop for digital download is "Shade".

I finished her this evening while my old man took the kiddo out to do some grocery shopping. When he came home he surprised me with black cardstock! Little dude got huffy when I squeezed his daddy. He pushed a box of granola bars at me and said, "I got this for you too, MOM!" I kissed that cute little grumpy face and told him I appreciated it. Then he hugged me before running off to wreak havoc in his bedroom. Toys were just everywhere, as is per usual.

We had some friends over later in the day. Much fun was had with Key Lime cake and Diablo 3 while their kid and mine played. But now it's time for bed. Goodnight and interesting dreams!

Solace in Observation

I had a wild hair earlier and decided to rummage through my son's construction paper for a black sheet. I have a single white pastel pencil (chalk type) and I wanted to experiment with lightening instead of darkening. I drew out an outline of a face and some hair, a little bit of shoulder and the neck. Ooooh, it was fun! I think I found what type of paper I'll use for my Narcoleptic inspired drawings. Maybe something a little higher in quality. Perhaps even black matboard. I haven't finished this drawing yet, but it's close.

As you can see, I have a tendency to change things around as I work. Her eyes were terribly annoying to do. Part of my problem is that I am working at a regular old table, not anything I can tilt up to get a better view of what I'm doing. In fact, I wind up having to completely change a drawing because I will see it just fine from the angle I'm drawing in, but as soon as I stand up to stare straight down or pick it up to hold it in front of my face, I'm all streaming profanity and violently crinkled features. Just, no. One of these days I'll have a drafting table!

Overall, I'm happy with how she's turned out so far. I will definitely be exploring this way of drawing further. May just have to ask for pastels for Christmas.

I like posting these progressions of my artwork. It's crazy to see how something starts and how completely different it winds up by the finish. I like to watch others as well and because of my experiment today I searched youtube to find videos of just that. This soothed me as I watched:



It's interesting how at first, it's all just basic shapes and seemingly random lines and squiggles. I spent a lot of my time in the past focusing so much on the end result that I couldn't wrap my head around what goes into it to give it the depth I needed to produce the intended result. Nothing but frustration. Obsessing about how you think it should look can impede the whole process. Let it evolve if it wants to evolve! You'll be surprised by what you wind up with.