Plein-Air and photo studies

 Fun fun studies

I had a hard time doing the plein-air paintings. The weather was either rainy or really hot, and by the time I get home from work night is almost here. My watercolors looked horrible and i had a busy week-end. I ended up reverting to ipad sketching. I'm not satisfied with them (I rarely am =) ) but I think with a lot of practice, my ipad plein-air paintings could yield good results. Ipads are just so portable.

 

 And photo-studies. I did a few more, but I would like to work on them some more before sharing them.

 

And I also have to jump unto next week's studies. I'm doing materials, with a focus on metals.

 

DragonCon

I have been living in Atlanta for a few years now, but this year I went to DragonCon for the first time! Previous year different circumstances prevented me from doing so, and I am glad to say it was an amazing experience. I'm only posting about it now, as I enjoyed the week to digest the event.

I attended a lot of panels, mainly in the artist and the video gaming category. I got to meet various interesting people and had two amazing portfolio reviews, one by Andrew Silver, who is one of Riot's splash artists (and I will simply call him Jayce, as he was the model for that particular champion and everyone had a blast out of that), and Dan Dos Santos which is one of the most amazing fantasy oil painters around. Both offered me great, helpful critique.

I am sure no one is overly interested in my personal experience there, so I will directly jump into the pictures:

Riot's League of Legends cosplays

More League of Legends. Fiddlesticks! This guys was huge, he was walking on something to make himself bigger, it was impressive.

Alistair from DragonAge! This made me so happy! He's one of my favorite characters ever created, and touched me in a way few have. Also, his romance arc was very well written.

This was during a panel on sex in videogames, which had more to do with sexism in videogames than anything, and was held by the person who wrote Alistair's (amongst others) romance arc. It made me so very happy, as being a girl gamer, it's a subject which I'm inevitably affected by.

Various random cosplays:

 And some sketches from life drawing sessions at DragonCon:

The colored ones were made on my iPad using ProCreate. I'm a bit too slow with it compared to with a pencil, but being able to capture colors without having to set up and paint is invaluable.

It was amazing, and I really hope I will be able to attend again next year.

plane

More ipad art, done on the app 'Brushes' while at a bookstore with my friends. I don't know if I prefer Procreate or Brushes yet, they're both great.

Hawaii Trip

I just came back from a pretty long Hawaii trip. Here are some ipad sketches, both done with the Procreate app:

Cafe Istanbul

Quick ipad sketch on ArtRage as I was out, aprox.15mn




Sadly, people left as I was drawing =(
Maybe sometime I'll find the crop tool in artrage... If there is one.

Location:Cafe istanbul

Flood

I have been silent for a while...again.

My apartment got floodedwhile I was away for a hollyday at my uncle's. It was pretty bad. So bad that the roof collapsed, and that most of my furniture was ruined. Some workers came in the house to evacuate the water in our absence, and while they found one of my cats and blocked it in the bathroom with furniture, they never saw the other one. They left the door open as they were working, and my cat being terribly scared of vacuums, he ran away. Luckily, after two days of crying and calling him he came back and seems happy to have constant food and clean litter. He lost some weight too.

We got moved to a new apartment since the other one is too damaged, and we get to move all our stuff to the thrid floor. At least, no water will fall from the roof in there. In the meantime, I don't have internet for a few days more, and have been too busy to draw much.

I've been drawing from my ipad in my psychology class. I'll post the rest when I figure out how to turn the pictures around on this.

Location:Panera

ipad painting

So I recently got an ipad, which I've been enjoying very much. One of the reasons I wanted it was as an electronic sketchbook. I don't have a stylus yet, but I've been enjoying it already. Here's my first try on it with the ArtRage app:


I must say, drawing with just my finger is hard and clumsy, but kind of fun. Can't wait for my stylus though.

And I've tried another self-portrait, although this one looks more off than the last one: