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I had the pleasure of designing 2 character concepts for the games release. This my finished concept for the Gentlefolk Highwaywoman and final miniature sculpt by Seb of Demented Games.
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Lara Croft – Art Nouveau style poster based on the Inktober sketch I did last year. I will have this for sale as prints at my upcoming conventions.
Happy Women’s Day! Everyday!
Month of Love: Fantasy
“Fern Heart”
“The Oldest of all, the Queen of the Forest hid her heart
Under lock and blade, By frond and key”
From a very rough thumbnail this painting, along with her story developed very quickly. I found inking the tiny plant details very soothing.
Month of Love Challenge : Weapons
“Love is war: choose your Weapon.”
Eros, the winged Greek god of love, desire, embodies sexual power. Armed with golden bow and arrows he interferes with the lives of gods and mortals.
The finished plush is roughly 8 inches long (not including tail) and stands 12 inches tall including her horn. She is made from soft fleece with felt appliqué detail for the shooting star, eyes and mouth. The design also includes 3D eyelashes made from foam and plasticard re-enforced hooves.
He is made from soft grey, black and dark red fleece with matching red felt appliqué and embroidery details.
The squeezable fat belly is weighted with plastic pellets and the wings are wired to be poseable.
The left horn has 4 black metal hoop earrings – shown in the last image.
The plush ended up being slightly larger then I planned – approx. 14 inches nose to tail (36cm)
Joining in the “Month of Love” February weekly art challenges this year – Just scraping in to this weeks challenge “Heroes, Protagonists and Idols”.
To Hayao Miyazaki – one of my real life heros.
For my grandfather who I watched Princess Mononoke with for the 1st time as a child. He pretended not to be interested but sat and watched the whole thing.
And San as a great hero herself – strong, protective and loving.
I would totally wear bad-ass coats and boots with too many laces. Also featuring my beautiful black rescue kitten, Kuro 🙂
I also involved in a fantastic online course for Art Business – which is turning out to be just the help I need and filled with a wonderful group of artist.
One fairly important priority for 2016 for me is to do more traditional work. Digital has so many positives but I truly love working in pencil, ink and watercolor. I convinced myself that digital was fast, easier (as in no set up/clean up, my computer and tablet are always right there waiting), less stressful (unlimited undos). But in actual fact tradition is more natural to me (its what I’ve done from the very beginning), therefore its faster and less stressful then working on a computer! And not having undo makes the work better – if I really mess up I start again from scratch and the piece is always better for having done it twice.
So with that in mind I bought some new paper and started drawing in ink again the quiet time over Christmas/New Years. Slightly missing white Christmases inspired this pin up girl.
The page with and without text.
