Too much happening in my life.
Seriously.
And I am sick on top of everything else.
BUT
I wanted to share a little dragonair and
punzel fun with you!
These two tangles are so much fun to draw!
You can never go wrong with either one.
Click the pink link to take you to step outs.
Have fun!
Recently we have worked on a few of the harder tangles to draw. Punzel being one of those. You can see the step-out for it here. It's really fun to draw, all loopy and wavy like a bunch of seaweed. Mix it up with a little dragonair - they go perfectly together. Throw in a herd of clamshells ala printemps, some zingers and flux plant life and you have one awesome underwater scene starting to take place!
Wow! It's really hard to blogpost from the iPad. This type looks huge. If it seems like I'm screaming at you - - - sorry. I don't mean to.
I finally finished the underwater drawing we started in Melbourne, in Meredith Yuhas' class. Twinkling H2Os, some sea salt, microns, graphite, white charcoal, and a gelly roll pen. That's all it took to make this beautiful, underwater fantasy world. So much fun!
The next night I drew this ATC that I sent to my nephew. I figured my dragon was missing horns, so I gave some to this little dragon. Do you think I should start naming my little guys?
I am taking an online class and one of the tools we are using is the Japanese Irojiten Coloring Pencils. I hadn't done any work with straight-to-paper colored pencils before, just watercolor pencils, so this is a totally new venture for me. That's what I used to give this ATC some color. For those of you who don't know what an ATC is, it's short for Artist Trading Card. They are 2 1/2" x 3 1/2", the same size as a baseball card. It's amazing how much detail you can fit on one of those little cards! I am hoping that my nephew enjoys his dragon.
Recently I pulled out the tangle called dragonair and started working on it. Norma Burnell is the Queen of Dragons and Fairies and she designed this tangle. I have admired it for quite awhile, but have had some difficulty getting it to look right. I decided I was going to stick with it till I figured it out. I've been out of town the past two weeks helping my daughter move almost 800 miles away for school. During the day we set up her apartment and ran errands. At night I had time to draw a bit. I drew this on Strathmore Grey. Sporting a small amount of battle armor, I really like the way he turned out. I'm not going to be giving Norma a run for her money, but I have finally figured out the dragonair pattern, and for that I am happy!
I wasn't super pleased with my first efforts with these Irojiten pencils, so I started over. I moved away from the tangles Marie had offered us this week, (I think that was part of my problem - making myself stick with those.) I used some tangles that I enjoy playing with and drew my tile first. I had already started laying down color before I thought to take the above photo.
This is what I ended up with. I like the results a whole lot better than the previous tile in the last post. I used a different paper and didn't concern myself so much with the color wheel. I think I have a decent head for color, so I just went with the flow. I layed in more pencil layers and I really like the results this time. Now, on to the Tombow dual-brush marker part of the class. This should be fun!
