Digital speed painting, 30 minutes. yet another simple portrait. A bit of a troublemaking imp this time. Reproductions of digital art available starting at $10.44
Ĝena
female
Flustras kun Arboj
Digital speed painting, 50 minutes. A nymph and her tree. This was somewhat inspired by this week’s Illustration Friday theme, ‘Whisper’. Except it seems the tree is the one doing all the talking in this illo. Reproductions of digital art available starting at $10.44
Virino
Digital speed painting, 30 minutes. yet another simple portrait. Reproductions of digital art available starting at $10.44
Bukloj
Speedpainting, 12 minutes. yet another simple portrait. No video for this one, mostly because i’ve only done videos of half-hour ones. I can’t remember if i didn’t have time to do a half-hour on this day or if the half-hour one was just really atrocious. (I am maybe a few days behind on uploads.) Reproductions…
Spektas
Speedpainting, 30 minutes. yet another simple portrait. Reproductions of digital art available starting at $10.44
Fiksrigardas
Speedpainting, 30 minutes. yet another simple portrait. Reproductions of digital art available starting at $10.44
‘Pensa Du’ Speedpainting
Speedpainting, 30 minutes. yet another simple portrait. Back to two layers but trying to keep up the stuff which is handy in one layer. Reproductions of digital art available starting at $10.44
‘Unu’ Speedpainting
Speedpainting, 30 minutes. Did this one all on one layer (usually i use two). It was a bit of an accident but for speedpainting i think it may actually work better – mainly because not being able to erase properly or lock the transparency of the working layer forced me to actually keep my mask…
‘Mola’ Speedpainting
Speedpainting, 30 minutes. yet another simple portrait. Experimenting using softer brushes than usual. Reproductions of digital art available starting at $10.44
Fantomo Speedpainting
Speedpainting, 30 minutes. Generic ghost-woman. I actually finished this yesterday but didn’t quite have time to upload it. So today may be a twofer day as far as speedpainting uploads goes. Reproductions of digital art available starting at $10.44
Fantine
Speedpainting, 30 minutes. Not necessarily Anne Hathaway’s Fantine, just a sad post-selling-every-damn-thing-she-has Fantine. Someday i’ll need to draw a happier one. If you watch the video, there’s a bit of messing around in the background which ended up being deleted from the final image. Nothing particularly impressive (which is why none of it made it…
Kaŝita
Speedpainting, 30 minutes. Originally meant to be a girl hiding from zombies, but i think she turned into a zombie herself mid-painting. I picked up a copy of World War Z yesterday. I’ve got zombies on the brain. Reproductions of digital art available starting at $10.44
Brigid
Speedpainting, 30 minutes. One of the goddess/saint Brigid for Imbolc. I’m very fond of Imbolc. It tends to come right when i’m ready for winter to be over, and it’s nice to have a little holiday to brighten things up a bit, especially one which primarily focuses on the very first signs of spring. Reproductions…
Anĝelo
Speedpainting, 30 minutes. Meant to be an angel, but there’s not enough detail in this little portrait for it to be obvious. So… this makes my first painting of my speedpainting-a-day attempt for February. One down, twenty-seven to go. Reproductions of digital art available starting at $10.44
Speedpainting – Pensa
Speedpainting, 30 minutes. Just a thoughtful young woman. I don’t plan on doing any speedpainting today but otherwise i would say i’ve been getting a jump on the whole ‘speedpaint every day’ plan i have for February. Also! I finally figured out video recording. Mostly. It’s not a perfect recording (most notably, when i sped…
Speedpainting – Cosmetic
Speedpainting, 30 minutes. A bit of make-up experimentation. I’m somewhat planning on doing a speedpainting every day in February. Maybe by the end of the month i’ll have even figured out videos. Reproductions of digital art available starting at $10.44
Speedpainting – Focus
Another speedpainting, 30 minutes this time. I’m in the process of a bigger painting right now, but i wanted to actually finish something. In the wide world of bizarre coincidences: I painted this yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon i started thinking it would be a great idea to get back into ‘finishing’ an quick study every…
Speedpainting
After ‘Sadness‘ i thought i may as well try my hand at a proper speedpainting: no pencil art and strict time constraints, just an hour of digital work. Stuck to something relatively simple so i could still reach a level of detail in such a small amount of time, and this was the result. I…
Hunger
Just a generic zombie. She’s still got a bit of fight left in her. By coincidence i ended up drawing this right after reading an article about the animals killed while producing vegetarian food. I’d already planned on sketching up a zombie for general drawing-the-undead practice, but there’s a very different thought pattern in drawing…
Sadness
Mira the earth-spirit, rather unhappy at the wilting of one of her little plants. This could probably count as a speedpainting, depending on how broadly one defines ‘speedpainting’. I’ve never really tried it before but i got this painting to the point where the pencil art was unnecessary in under three hours, so if it’s…
Afraid
Started off as something entirely different, but the way i drew her hips made me think of someone partially submerged in water. Considering my current fire-spirit fascination, there was a quick turn toward a fire-spirit fleeing a water-demon. Original pencil art available for $15 | Reproductions of digital art available starting at $10.44
Emergence
Pencil, 9″x12″ A vampire’s victim emerging from the shadows. Not quite turned to a full vampire herself yet, but she doesn’t like the sun any more. By chance, two days ago i passed up on buying some black paper because i don’t draw light-on-dark often enough to justify it. Haven’t in years. But today i…
Burn
Started off as a long-haired Plamya, but ended up changing more than just the hairstyle. My last image of 2012, and one of my favourites. I mostly used it as an excuse to do colour experiments and discovered some tricks i’ll definitely be using more regularly. Original pencil art available for $15 | Print available…
Мира и Друг
Another portrait of Mira, this time with a little friend attached. I’ve maybe run out of patience with black-and-white illustrations and gone back to painting. I like the look of inked work, but when it comes to what i’m creating i’d rather have colour. Original pencil art available for $15 | Print available starting at…
Plamya II
Another portrait of Plamya. I experimented with hatching instead of screentones for this one – or, rather, in conjunction with screentones, as most of the hatching is set at 50% tone instead of being solid black lines. Which is completely invisible in an internet-low-res image, but would be visible in prints. I’m still undecided on…
Мира и Цветок
The title translates to ‘Mira and the Flower’. Unless you use a proper translator, in which case it will likely come out ‘Peace and the Flower’. As ludicrous as it is for some US-born US-living primarily-English-speaking artist to title works in Russian, i got their names from Russian and it strikes me as equally ludicrous…
Voda
Water spirit, to go along with the Mira the Earth-Spirit and Plamya the Fire-Spirit. I’m not certain how anatomically correct she is, as none of the models in my photo references have a body fat percentage over 25. (Clearly i need to expand my reference library.) And i’m skinny enough to still get clothing from…
Mira II
An alternative version of Mira. I think i like the original better, she looks more like a unique person instead of yet another stock model. Despite the ‘II’ in the image name, this is just the second ‘finished’ illo i’ve done of Mira. As far as less-finished illos, there’s been maybe a dozen. She’s supposed…
Plamya
Practising inking my pencil drawings. Yet another fire-creature, this one a bit more elfin than the others. Original pencil art available for $15 | Digital print available starting at $10.44
Buds
yet another nymph drawing. Still going through a bit of a shy phase, but she’ll eventually grow into quite a beauty. Pencil, 8.4″x11″ Original pencil art available for $15
Brighid
Brighid is one of the more famous Celtic goddesses. Or, rather, three of the more famous goddesses, as Brighid is a triple goddess. Rumour has it the Catholic saint Brigid is a Christianised version of this goddess. Pencil, 8.4″x11″ Original pencil art available for $15
Decisions – Pencil
The challenge of choosing the right path… I’m still trying to decide if she counts as a ‘faerie’ or not. She wasn’t originally meant to be and the pattern behind her is even at its most wing-like a very abstract representation. Pencil, 8.4″x11″. Planning on adding some colour in PS as well but this is…
Waterfall
Tree nymphs are a bit more popular, but why let them have all the fun? Water nymphs enjoy the woods as much as any other. Pencil, 8.4″x11″ Original pencil art available for $15
Sly
In theory this is just a generic dancer figure drawing. But i think she’s up to something… Pencil, 8.4″x11″ Original pencil art available for $15
Moss
Mossy nymph or moss-covered stone? This particular figure drawing is a bit ambiguous in that area. Pencil, 8.4″x11″ Original pencil art available for $15
Waxing Moon
Originally meant to be a moon-goddess, but i didn’t do much with her beyond a side-lit figure drawing. Pencil, 8.4″x11″ Original pencil art available for $15
Vine
Figure drawing meets climbing vine, with a bit of piercing study thrown in. I’ve seen snakes, cats, and dragons turned into two-part earrings like this – i won’t be much surprised if i see someone’s done it with plants, too. Pencil, 8.4″x11″ Original pencil art available for $15
Striped Snake
Anthropomorphic figure drawing based on the little garter snake. Random anecdote: I once volunteered at an animal shelter which had, among other animals, a snake. The information sheet on the snake’s aquarium listed them as a stray. I still have no idea what sort of person finds a ‘stray’ snake and brings it to the…
Wasp Queen
The leader of the hive and her little friend. Pencil, 8.4″x11″ Original pencil art available for $15
Smoulder
Not as much of a firestarter as Flame, but Smoulder still needs to be handled with care. Pencil, 8.4″x11″ Original pencil art available for $15
Sea Elf
I suppose she could qualify as a mermaid, but standard mermaids are so rarely drawn with anything interesting about the ears. The defining feature is the not-shown-here tail. Pencil, 8.4″x11″ Original pencil art available for $15
Furry
Drawing a series of human + nature images… something vaguely were-wolfish had to happen eventually. Pencil, 8.4″x11″ Original pencil art available for $15
Flame
Taking fire-dancing to a whole new level. Pencil, 8.4″x11″ Prints available starting at $13.29
Rain
It is irritatingly difficult to make someone appear to be the living embodiment of rain and not just someone caught in a storm, and I’m still not sure I succeeded in this one. I suppose she could be a nature-lover dancing in the rain for celebratory purposes. Pencil, 8.4″x11″ Original pencil art available for $15.00
Root
Generic nymph, just starting to put down her roots. Pencil, 8.4″x11″ Original pencil art available for $15
Summer Nymph
A sequel (prequel?) to Autumn Nymph. Summer has a reputation for being a bit of a gossip, but she keeps more secrets than she tells. Pencil, 8.4″x11″ Prints available starting at $13.29 | Original pencil art available for $15.00
Raven (NSFW)
Somewhat inspired by the Morrigan, but really just a generic raven-shapeshifter. Mostly in human form right now but some feathers are still around. Original pencil art available for $15.00
Sparkle
Taking a few days ‘off’, which translates to ‘draw a generic freckle-faced woman and then fool around with Photoshop brushes to make her sparkly instead of actually doing a proper full-blown painting’. Mostly pencil with some colour washes done in Photoshop Original pencil art available for $15.00
Warrior
This almost wasn’t a cyborg illustration at all – I was experimenting with showing different emotions through the eyes, and decided to give this woman something to be angry about. Namely, facing down the enemy who took out her original eye and necessitated its replacement. Which, of course, requires drawing in a replacement. The scar’s…
Gaze
Started off as another attempt at coming up with an illustration for the ‘Burst’ theme but… maybe not so bursty. (There’s a ‘Daria’ joke in there somewhere…) Just a bit of fancy club wear. Make the eyes really stand out. Mostly pencil with some colour washes done in Photoshop Prints available starting at $13.29 |…
Bubbles
Similar, but different, ‘Projector‘-style implant. I wanted to see if I could work an Illustration Friday image into this series, this week being ‘Burst’. The best I’ve come up with so far was a fireworks projection implant, which didn’t come out too well in my sketches. So, bubbles. Suppose I could have a bubble or…
Musical
An alternate to ‘Wired‘, this one has her MP3 player and headphones implanted for constant portability. Mostly pencil with some colour washes done in Photoshop Prints available starting at $13.29 | Original pencil art available for $15.00
Angel
Another bit of cyborg style. It’s not always about abstraction – sometimes the implants are used to build up such pretties as haloes. Mostly pencil with some colour washes done in Photoshop Prints available starting at $13.29 | Original pencil art available for $15.00
Cyborg Fashion
A cyborg fashion model. Vertical stripes are very in this season. Mostly pencil with some colour washes done in Photoshop Prints available starting at $13.29 | Original pencil art available for $15.00
Technodruid
Pagans can totally be cyborgs, too. It took about ten minutes of working on this image before it turned into an experiment to see how many Awen or Awen-like symbols I could squeeze in and still have it look good. Mostly pencil with some colour washes done in Photoshop Prints available starting at $13.29 |…
It’s Complicated
For when wearing your heart on your sleeve isn’t obvious enough: neuroscanners figure out the initials of your love and match them with your own on the chest implant. Mostly pencil with some colour washes done in Photoshop Prints available starting at $13.29 | Original pencil art available for $15.00
Messy Eater
A vampire after dinner – and looking for her dessert… Mostly pencil with some colour washes done in Photoshop Visit my Imagekind shop to buy a print or my Etsy shop to buy the original pencil art
Sea Medusa
Missing out on the standard snakes here, but she’s still got some interesting hair. Click here to buy prints through Imagekind or visit Etsy to buy the original pencil art.
Broken
An old android, no longer functioning as she should. As per usual, prints are available from Imagekind, but now I also have an Etsy shop. And by ‘I have an Etsy shop’ I mean I renamed my abandoned jewellery shop to be a little broader and put this one single solitary pencil drawing in it….
Analysing
A more calculative cyborg Prints available through Imagekind
Wind Dancer
There had always been loose clothes to flow around her body and jangling bracelets to ring on her arms, but with the magic bottle, she could finally dance with air itself. Prints also available through Imagekind
Maid in the Moon (NSFW)
Probably should have made her older, considering this is clearly a waning moon. Suppose we can just pretend she’s from the Southern hemisphere… Prints available through Imagekind
Autumn Nymph
Most of the leaves have fallen, but she’s found a new friend for the winter. Prints available through Imagekind. Might sell the original pencil drawing someday, too.
Sketch: Dancer’s Gift (NSFW)
Just a sketchy little experiment
Fire & Wind
Mira (NSFW)
Just a practice illustration, but I like her. Some sort of earth-spirit. Prints available in my Imagekind shop
Sketch: Dragon Lady
This one actually started out as an angel. Fun thing about random sketches is they don’t have to end up as they started. At all.
Sketch: Floating
Sketch: Defiance
Sketch: Sitting II
Sketch: Sitting
Sketch: Plain Meets the River
Plain Cambot in, what, a waterfall? Fountain? Didn’t particularly think this one through, setting-wise. Story-wise the Plain has somehow been introduced to a water sprite of some sort and they are about to go on some grand adventure together.
Sketch: Blue Girl
blue girl with blue hair and blue jeans and… blue gun.
Sketch: Stained Glass Eve
Unrepresented Religious Character #1…
Sketch: Orion Slave Girl
Playing around with coloured pencils, which i haven’t used in ages but which used to be my absolute favourite medium. LOVE. Why did i ever stop using these? Oh, yeah. Monochromatic pen-and-ink phase followed by the discovery of Photoshop.
Sketch: Sitting III
contour = dead to me.
Sketch: Contour + Gesture VI
starting to actually get the hang of these blasted contour drawings, i think.
Sketch: Contour + Gesture V
Reaching the point where i kind of like the final sketches. Don’t yet like actually doing the contours, though.
Sketch: Contour + Gesture III
Not sure this one counts as contour and gesture… seeing as i pretty much scribbled out the contour with gesture drawings 😛
Sketch: Contour + Gesture
Another totally-cheated-on contour drawing with a much-happier-to-draw gesture drawing of the same pose
Sketch: Contour Drawing III
Almost no cheating at all on this one… sort of… Traditional contour drawing allows the artist to look back down if e has to lift the pencil up, in order to find where to put it back down. So whenever i did that i zoomed my screen in so the next line would fill the…
Sketch: Contour Drawing II
Slightly better than yesterday? Maybe? At any rate, i cheated less.
Sketch: Contour Drawing I
I kind of hate contour drawings. Like, ‘almost threw my iPod across the room in frustration’ kind of hate. But, if i am to ever properly get the hang of drawing on a tiny touchscreen, i need to be able to do even the stuff i hate. Gaaaah. (for those who have never been unfortunate…
Sketch: Pinup Girl IV
The Sports Illustrated edition.
Sketch: Pinup Girl III
Not sure this one actually counts as a pinup girl; she looks more like an avenging angel ready to pounce on some unsuspecting blasphemer to me.
Sketch: Pinup Girl II
A little more so than the last pinup girl.
Sketch: Pinup Girl
Actually not much excuse for a pinup, she’s not stretched out enough 😛
Sketch: Alien
boring standard humanoid alien
Sketch: Plain Light
pretty much the same as yesterday, but better lit 😛
Sketch: Plain
back to the robot amputees again.
Back
simple back pose
Glare
Not as intense as i was originally planning on making her, but she looks fairly irritated.
Rooftop Perspective
For the Illustration Friday theme, Perspective – a simple illustration of Yo getting a rooftop perspective of town.
Sitting II
‘Nother boring sitting pose.
Sketch: Stretching
Just stretching out… I love the angle of this pose. PoseManiacs FTW.
Sketch: Dancers
Some dancers from my night at the Banshee. The woman had been teaching a little line-dancing class at the pub before the band started playing. The man was more fun to watch; not quite as good a dancer, but he was so damn happy. He reminded me of a bit in Twilight Watch, where the…
Sketch: Bubblegum Girl
Ai. Haven’t posted a ‘daily’ sketch in… um… a while. So. Here is a pretty pink floating girl.
Focus
For the Illustration Friday theme, Focus. I’ve been wanting to do some stuff for the webcomic idea i’ve had bouncing around… Which this, technically, isn’t; it’s in a similar style to what i’ll probably end up doing the comic in, but i only have one female character thus far and she doesn’t dress like this…
Sketch: Moss Girl
Little moss-covered statue/goddess/fae… i didn’t particularly think it through. February 2nd is the halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS THAT MEANS IT IS ALMOST TIME FOR IT TO START GETTING WARM OUT ZOMG YAYZ. *likes winter. also likes temperatures above three degrees once in a while*
Sketch: Mutaciintino II
Another fashion model from the mutant town of Mutaciinta. This one has rather small, underdeveloped legs, but they’re strong enough for the runway.
Sketch: Blue Girl II
Semi-monochromatic; there’s a bit of green but as it’s a mostly bluish-green i don’t suppose it really counts as polychromatic.
Sketch: Yellow Girl
A little sun-god’s temple girl… I am having entirely too much fun experimenting with different colours.
Sketch: Red Girl
Quite the opposite of yesterday: i like the pose but my colours are too muddy.
Sketch: Pink Girl
Not really my favourite as far as the body goes, but i love the colours on this one.
Sketch: Relaxing II
More lazy sitting around.
Sketch: Relaxing
Just hanging around.
Sketch: Exoskeletal
If i’d had time i’d have made her a full dominatrix. She’s certainly holding the pose for it.
Sketch: Demon
The best kind of demon-woman: the hot kind.
Sketchvlog: Blue Girl
[original YouTube link] From my Plain Duonaj sketch. Somehow occurred to me halfway through this i’ve been doing almost exclusively blue sketches lately. Dont think it counts as polychromatic if theres only one colour.
Sketch: Plain Duonaj
See? Arms! Somehow occurred to me halfway through this i’ve been doing almost exclusively blue sketches lately. Don’t think it counts as polychromatic if there’s only one colour. Also only somehow just occurred to me using very transparent brushes is almost like having pressure-sensitive brushes, in that i can go over an area multiple times…
Sketch: Plain Duonaj-Kruroj VI
Next one will have stubby little half-arms. For reals this time.
Renewal
Been kind of slacking in the art department lately – working on bits and pieces of various stuff has been no problem, but actually finishing anything… yeah. I haven’t done anything traditional in a while, either. Forgot how much i love pen drawings. So, for the Illustration Friday theme of ‘Renewal’ – a young woman…
Sketch: Plain Duonaj-Kruroj V
Not quite finished, but i like her as far as she goes. Looks like a little blobby sketch wearing a well-rendered corset.
Sketch: Plain Duonaj-Kruroj III
I think this is the same pose i used for the Christmas sketch, but with legs. Methinks i need to get some new reference material…
Sketch: Plain Duonaj-Kruroj II
Only five minutes, this one. I think it shows… shoddy legs. 😛
Sketchvlog: Sunbathing
(original YouTube link) from the sketch Sunbathing
Sketch: Plain Looking
Um… looking for Santa. Right. …Not much in the way of a Christmas-themed sketch, no. But the Christmas tree gift tag is still up, if y’all still need to do some wrapping.
Sketch: Plain Experimentation
Hm. Nothing i tried in this one looks any different from how i normally do things. experiment fail.
Sketch: Torso VI
Hey, one i’m pretty satisfied with. Now i can start practising adding heads. Expect a whole pile of Plain cambots 😛
Sketch: Torso IV
almost good.
Sketchvlog: Plain Green
Yeah. Another one. From the Plain Green sketch Plain Green on YouTube
Sketch: Torso III
Yeah. Still at it. I think i got the proportions okay on this one… but didn’t really take time to render it well.
Sketch: Torso II
Meh. Better than yesterday. Hips still suck.
Sketch: Torso I
Probably going to do a whole bunch of these, i need to work on my proportions. Like the hips of this chick… way too small in proportion to the rest of her.
Sketch: Sunbathing
Relaxing…
Sketch: Plain Green
Yeah. Another one.
Sketch: Plain Bronze
Bronze model. Popular amongst those who prefer a steampunk or earthy décor but can’t afford an entirely custom chassis.
Sketch + Sketchvlog: Plain Blue
Been a while since i did one of these… And! Because i am actually doing the vlog for this one on the same day as the regular blog post, i’m going to be lazy and just put them both in one post: Plain Blue
Sketch: Mountain View
Double-checking the level of destruction… ’cause it doesn’t count without visual confirmation.
Sketch: Dancer
Simple bar-room entertainment.
Sketch: Bad Hair Day
Didn’t actually take the time to finish this one… which is most obvious in the shoddy hair.
Sketchvlog: Shadow Nude
Video of Shadow Nude. One of these days i ought to come up with sound to go along. Or just make them longer than fifteen seconds…
Sketch: Shadow Nude
Still trying to get the hang of variable width lineart on a device which is not pressure-sensitive.
Sketch: Underground Princess
Royal heiress of the mole-people.
Sketchvlog: Test Post
Sketchvlog: Vampire Used the Brushes app on my iPod Touch, as it’s really the only software i have on anything which automatically creates the video as i go along. The alternative is to use screen capture software on my Mac, which a) requires me to always remember to open the second bit of software when…
L is for Little: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book
A little faerie-girl, with her big bad demon shadow backing her up in case of temper-tantrums… Originally i was going to make the little girl really little, more like toddler-aged; but the whole small-child-as-a-demon thing seems a bit overdone. Yeah, even by me. I like doing child-demons. But not for this one. Temperamental pre-teen was…
Sketch: Choppy
Tried laying down colours with Sketchbook Mobile X’s brush tool instead of the airbrush… eh. I should really just splurge on the full version with actual transparency options already.
Sketch: Airbrush Girl
Airbrush Girl. So called because she was done using mainly the airbrush tool… I’m not always very creative with names 😛
Sketch: Blue Girl
Got my iPod back. More tiny digital sketches 😀
J is for Joint: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book
A half-breed fae of two different races. Originally, she was meant to be an amputee with a steampunk-style wing replacing the amputated one, but i liked the idea of a half-breed child flaunting her mixed heritage better… plus it seemed like a prosthetic wing would be more likely to be designed to imitate the original…
iPod Test: Brushes
Another quick iPod sketch, this one done in Brushes.
Sketch: Kicking
Time for martial arts practice.
Three-Minute Sketches
Couple of three-minute sketches based on some models from PoseManiacs.com
90-Second Sketches
90-second sketches based on some models from PoseManiacs.com
90-Second Sketches
90-second sketches based on some models from PoseManiacs.com
90-Second Sketches
90-second sketches based on some models from PoseManiacs.com
Sketch: Vampire Attack
Prepare to be eaten.
Sketch: Hearing Aid
I’ve got a fascination with the concept of hardware which is powered by blood instead of batteries. I think this hearing aid reroutes a bit more than is necessary, though.
Sketch: Crazy-Eye Cyborg Chick
Just a fun little doodle. I’d send her off to live in Mutaciinta, but soshjosumaja s robota hardly counts as a genetic mutation.
Sketch: Touching
The latest model in prosthetics – programmed to give their owners a neck rub.
Sketch: Cyborg Princess
Not sure what the tear-wires are supposed to connect to… they just seemed like a good idea at the time.
S is for Strong: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book
A faerie facing down a particular type of Celtic ogre, the Buggane. The buggane typically don’t wander far from home, and (most of) their dealings with the Fae involve faeries sending them out to punish humans who have ticked off the Fae. This little sprite must have done something awfully horrible, then… but at least…
A is for Anthropomorphism: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book
Based on the legend of the Selkies, seal-like creatures who could shed their skins to become beautiful humans. Selkie legends claim if a Selkie’s skin is stolen, she loses any ability to return to her seal form or the sea from which she came. Typically, the legends only describe instances in which a fisherman steals…
B is for Bean Sí: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book
Zomg two pages together! Um, the final book won’t actually have any two images together like this, because there’ll be descriptions and legends and maybe even some outright faerie-tales mixed in – which is good, because compositionally speaking, these don’t look so great together. But i wanted to see what the book would look like…
Sketch: Mutaciintino
From now on whenever i screw up proportions unintentionally, i’m just going to say the resulting freak is from the small country of Mutaciinta, which was put under a spell by a well-meaning sorcxistino. The plan was nobody in Mutaciinta would ever become ill again; the result is everyone’s DNA is tweaked to make them…
Sketch: Faerie-Watching
One of those people who’s always distracted by something nobody else can see…
Sketch: Miss You…
First day of school, far from home.
Sketch: Access Granted
Inputting the code to gain access to a top-secret facility. Now, whether or not she obtained said code legally… that’s still a bit undetermined.
Sketch: Last Vamp Standing
Been a rough day of tracking down and slaying the vampire-hunters. Now: Snacktime!
Sketch: Dancers
Androids like to have fun, too; it’s part of their sentience programming. Here, a Baletistino and one of her friends at a nightclub. No accounting for style here.
Sketch: Floating
A damaged Baletistino chassis from a travelling spaceshow. Her hard drive was worth keeping, but the chassis itself was chucked out the airlock.
Speedtoning: Baletistino
Quickie of an android ballerina, waiting for the show to start up. The Baletistino model uses a patent-pending joint structure with a lightweight frame to make it the most flexible android model there is. However, they’re somewhat more fragile* than other droids; the joints are quite likely to become permanently warped with overuse and the…
C is for Caution: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book
Roughly based on the scene in “Macbeth” in which the witches bring forth three apparitions to prophecy to him, including a head which warns him to beware Macduff. I’m not a big fan of Shakespeare – “Macbeth” is one of his few plays which i consider at least tolerable. I don’t find the overall plot…
Speedpainting: Kitty Toy
I’m not sure this actually counts as a proper “speedpainting” – it was done in about half an hour, but using Manga Studio, which is more “laying down blocks of tone” than “painting.”
Sketch: Catgirl
yet another catgirl sketch.
Sketch: Snake Dancer
Pretty sure i’ve done this sort of drawing before, but it’s not as common as the ridiculously many cat-people or robot amputees. yet.
U is for Unwrap: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book
Another Depressing Faerie Letter which was supposed to be for
Sketch: Witch Attack
Specifically, witch being attacked by her own flying monkeys.
Speedpainting: Bean-Nathair
A little speedpainting i did last week, as a study for the bean-nathair in P is for Patience. And then i ended up making the final bean-nathair look entirely different anyway. Ah well.
Modified Fae Skateboard
Yep, there’s now a skateboard for the M is for Modify faerie. Available in eight different styles for all your skating needs.
P is for Patient: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book
Another new page for the Depressing Faerie Letters. It was originally meant to be based on the Illustration Friday theme again (this week: Impatience), but i’m already pretty happy with I is for Idle and ended up doing opposites instead – the impatient little fae, whose tiny wings haven’t yet developed enough for her to…
M is for Modify: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book
I kind of babble in this post. Read the whole thing if you want to know the backstory of the fae. Or skip ahead to me squeeing over skateboards. New page for my Faerie Alphabet Book, inspired by the Illustration Friday theme, Modify. There’s a documentary show called Taboo, which i haven’t seen in years…
I is for Idle: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book
New page for my Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book, inspired by the Illustration Friday theme, “Idle”. (Dead counts as being idle, right?) I used Manga Studio instead of Photoshop for this one, and really loved it. I’ll probably be using it to do the rest of the DFAB illustrations (and redoing the shoddy screentones in the…
Sketch: Superhero Aim
For when the bad guys are smart enough to not get within punching distance.
Sketch: Superhero Punch
Getting a good fight in on the bad guys.
Sketch: Faerie, back view
Back view of a faerie-creature.
Sketch: Robo-Girl
I probably have a few almost identical sketches like this, but it’s been a while since i did one, so… another robot chick.
Sketch: Spare Legs
Cyborg with easily-removable legs. Because, apparently, some guys like that.
Sketch: Wood Fae
Quick sketch of a fae wandering through the dense foliage
Sketch: Gremlins FTW
Based on the Twitsketch prompt, “Imp tagging a wall with graffiti”. I used instead of any ol’ imp a gremlin character i’ve been playing around with lately.
H is for Hollow: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book
Another page for my Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book: a fae having her soul removed, and not in the sweet painless “Dead Like Me” sort of way. Not so sure this is going to remain the H page, though. I did “Hollow” because that was the Illustration Friday word of the week… except my illustration “Fridays” usually…
Sketch: Lifeguard
Originally she was going to be a superhero, but she sort of metamorphosed into a lifeguard instead. Which, i guess, is close enough to the same thing, as the important saving-lives bit remains. And swimming seems impossible enough to me for it to count as a superpower.
Sketch: Thorn Warrior
Design for a tiny warrior princess who uses a thorny rose stem as a weapon.
Half-Finished Robot Sketch (Female)
Got a little further along than yesterday’s, but it’s still just random bits and pieces.
Sketch: Tilt
Leaning back to get a better view of the rooftop sniper. This is a situation where having a speaker to warn her boss might come in useful.
W is for Worn: The Depressing Faerie Alphabet Book
Inspired by the Illustration Friday theme, Worn (it’s a few days late >_
Sketch: Extension
For when you need a Plain cambot with a bit more height and flexibility
Sketch: Ports
©2009 Sharon Rosa Some of the various ports standard on most of my bots.
Sketch: Nursing Student
©2009 Sharon Rosa The overachieving kind. Waiting impatiently to discuss homework with Teacher.
Sketch: Safari Girl
©2009 Sharon Rosa Yes, i’m aware that’s an incredibly awkward shooting pose. She’ll never hit anything like that. But she looks big and bad, and maybe that’ll be enough to scare away the wild sandworms.
Sketch: Elf Abuse
©2009 Sharon Rosa In some countries, the “inferior” elves are allowed to be kept as slaves… these elves are typically not treated very well.
Sketch: Foiled Again
©2009 Sharon Rosa Overly dramatic villain whose plans to open a time rift have been destroyed.
Sketch: Privet
Sketch: Zombie Fashionista
©2009 Sharon Rosa Even zombies like to look good, if for no other reason than to attract naïve young men to snack on.
Sketch: Claws
©2009 Sharon Rosa Can’t really tell, but she’s a cyborg with claw-hands. Not convenient for jar-opening.
Sketch: Zombie Maid
©2009 Sharon Rosa Originally done for Drawing Day a few weeks ago – and originally posted on TwitPic as a crappy cellphone shot. Now properly scanned.
Sketch: Devushka Goroda
©2009 Sharon Rosa Based roughly on a girl who walked past while i was waiting for a bus.
Sketch: Yozhinka
©2009 Sharon Rosa A little fae-creature who prefers altered human clothes over that skimpy stuff the other fae wear.
Sketch: Pouting
©2009 Sharon Rosa Another drawn-when-bored sketch. If i’m bored and cranky, my drawings are bored and cranky.
Sketch: Bookworm
©2009 Sharon Rosa Sketched in Barnes&Noble while trying not to look like i was staring too much at a stranger’s ass.
Sketch: Waiting
©2009 Sharon Rosa Waiting for the metro
Sketch: Dark Glen
©2009 Sharon Rosa A dark elf in her favourite shaded clearing
Sketch: Prisoner
©2009 Sharon Rosa An imprisoned catgirl
Sketch: Elf Girl
©2009 Sharon Rosa Shy little elven girl…
Sketch: Nyota
©2009 Sharon Rosa Bit of Trekkie fanart – was meant to be Nyota Uhura as portrayed in the newest film. About halfway through i realised i don’t remember Uhura holding a phaser at any point in that film. Come to think of it, i don’t remember her holding a phaser at all through the entire…
Sketch: Circus Princess
©2009 Sharon Rosa Everyday average dancing clown-girl or the spoiled daughter of the Ringmaster?
Sketch: Catgirl
©2009 Sharon Rosa Just another catgirl sketch…
Sketch: Fightin’ Elfish
©2009 Sharon Rosa Any humans wanna try taking her on? No?
Sketch: Orion
©2009 Sharon Rosa Orion slave girl, relaxing after a long day of dancing for her master
Sketch: Alien Dreamer
©2009 Sharon Rosa Daydreaming (nightdreaming? Spacedreaming?) against an alien sky
Sketch: Resisting the Cyborgs
©2009 Sharon Rosa “Resistance is futile.” “Resist THIS!” *boom*
Sketch: Casino Girl
©2009 Sharon Rosa Quick character design of a Vegas girl hitting the slot machines
Sketch: Convertible
©2009 Sharon Rosa Most dogs just stick their heads out the window. Doggirls get driver’s licenses and buy convertibles.
Sketch: Messy Eater
©2009 Sharon Rosa A vampiress cleaning up after a quick snack
Sketch: Werewolf
©2009 Sharon Rosa Not so intimidating as she could be.
Illustration for ‘The Theater’
©2009 Sharon Rosa Originally for the Illustration Friday theme, Theatre, but i was a bit (read: a full week) late finishing it. I guess it works for Hierarchy, too: one girl dominant, one submissive, stuck together forever. The line at the bottom is from The Theater by Sir John Falstaffe, describing Plato’s theory on how…
Sketch: Trouble
©2009 Sharon Rosa Sexy clothes and nunchucks. We’re all gonna die.
Sketch: Bad Kitty
©2009 Sharon Rosa And you thought furniture-scratching was a problem…
Sketch: Svetlana 500H
©2009 Sharon Rosa The Svetlana model is a warrior droid with the ability to focus energy and heat through various points on her body. The 500H shown here is pretty much only able to use her weapons through her hands, but more sophisticated models are able to use any point on their bodies.
Sketch: Elf
©2009 Sharon Rosa Quick elf sketch. Nothin’ special. I did have a bit of fun tweaking the ear style, though.
Sketch: Dancer
©2009 Sharon Rosa Meh. Don’t really like how this one came out. But it’s hardly the worst thing i’ve posted :/
Sketch: Tricky Fae
©2009 Sharon Rosa Okay, she looks all sweet and alluring, but i smell trouble.
Sketch: Grackle Woman
©2009 Sharon Rosa I should call her a crow-woman or a raven-woman or some similar bird which Most People Actually Know About. But a grackle’s the only bird i’ve ever seen scare a cat. (Well, a hawk would probably do it, too, but they’re less likely to sit right outside my house staring in the…
Sketch: Alien Warrior
©2009 Sharon Rosa Meant to be an alien. Then turned into a sword-fighter. Then was given alien eyes/ears so i could pretend i knew what i was doing all along. Some days… some days i do not focus very well.
Sketch: Cockatoo Woman
©2009 Sharon Rosa Cockatoos. Cute as birds. Funky hair as humans.
Sketch: Cyborg Warrior
©2009 Sharon Rosa A rather unauthorised modification of the Malrompita, the Soldjat is usually someone who started out as a human soldier, but either couldn’t get enough action after the army switched to heavy ‘droid use or was injured too badly to be kept in active duty without significant modding. The resulting Soldjats are really…
Sketch: Stretch
©2009 Sharon Rosa A rather overworked Plain cambot. Really, there should be more than one if she is to be expected to watch so many places at once. Note she’s not as shiny as most Plains, either – cheap plastic version. You can tell her owners are really skimping on security.
Sketch: Race Over
©2009 Sharon Rosa An android specially designed for running at high speeds, relaxing after a long race.
Sketch: The Other Mother
Based on the Other Mother from Neil Gaiman’s book, Coraline. I say “from the book” and not “from the film” because i haven’t seen the film. And probably won’t – not because i didn’t like the book (i did) but because my taste in books and in films are so ridiculously different. I think the…
Sketch: Tiffany
©2009 Sharon Rosa Roughly based on the Malrompita model, Tiffany is meant to be a spy. She can be skinned to look like virtually any human female. There’s also a child version codenamed Taffy, who was designed later but is turning out to be far more popular. Who doesn’t trust a kid?
Sketch: Sleeping Elf
©2009 Sharon Rosa Or dead elf. Whatever.
Sketch: Four-Arm
©2009 Sharon Rosa Quick sketch of a four-armed alien. One of these days i am going to work out a proper guide to alien anatomy.
Sketch: Medusa
©2009 Sharon Rosa An attempt at sketching something out using Illustrator, instead of Photoshop. Vectors aren’t really made for sketching. 😛
Sketch: Direct Line
©2009 Sharon Rosa Bio-vein implant takes the freshest, most recently oxygenated blood directly to the brain. Internal fiber-optic wires draw energy from the heart in order to power biologically accessible memory implanted near the brain stem. And with all this extra brain power, she still can’t get her hair right.
Sketch: Doggirl
©2009 Sharon Rosa I could’ve done a catgirl, but i think i’ve already done a few hundred of them. Come to think of it, i’ve probably done plenty of doggirls, too. I need to expand my furry repertoire to include lynx. I’ve never done a lynxgirl before and the ears would be awesome.
Sketch: OMG IT’S A NORMAL PERSON.
©2009 Sharon Rosa No androids, robots, comic-book characters, etc. today. Just a normal person. I’ve been playing around with a generator script the past few days and put “normal person” as one of the “subject” variables. It’d never happen otherwise.
Sketch: April Fool
©2009 Sharon Rosa Dunno what she’s up to, but it’s probably not good.
Sketch: Armed Elf
©2009 Sharon Rosa No fancy-shmancy bow and arrow for her; she goes straight for the gun. Though, if her aim is anything like Legolas’, i don’t think it matters either way. Seriously, pitch-dark cave and he gets an Orc right between the eyes from a hundred meters away? Can you imagine what an elf could…
Sketch: Wind
©2009 Sharon Rosa A hyperactive elf with windblown hair. Doesn’t actually look too hyperactive right now… she’s starting to wind down for a nap.
Sketch: Daydreamer
©2009 Sharon Rosa In the full sketch-which-i-never-finished-inking (i know, i know, bad habit Sherry, stop not-finishing your pictures!), she’s wearing a basketball jersey. And is obviously quite short.
Sketch: Wild Elf
©2009 Sharon Rosa Wild woodland elf. Or water elf. Or something. *is too lazy for back-story*
Sketch: Lost
©2009 Sharon Rosa More inking practice: a lost girl, looking out for help.
Sketch: Punk Elf
©2009 Sharon Rosa All pierced and mohawked up.
Sketch: Sleepy Elf
©2009 Sharon Rosa More lineart practice. Yes, i messed up the resolution twice in a row. Gotta change my Photoshop settings for the “sketches” template.
Sketch: Gremlin
©2009 Sharon Rosa Trying to practice my digital inking skills. Didn’t take into account i normally do my digital sketches at only 72dpi… oops. This is the second dammit-i-should-know-better mistake i made with regards to digital art this week.
Sketch: The Rano Tea-Party
©2009 Sharon Rosa They can’t all just sit around being bored.
Sketch: Party Fae
©2009 Sharon Rosa All dressed up and the other girls she gossips with around the punch bowl still aren’t half-ready. Tsk.
Sketch: Wingless Fae
©2009 Sharon Rosa A tiny little water-fae. Ditched the wings as they were just one more thing the tadpoles were nibbling on.
Sketch: T-Shirt
©2009 Sharon Rosa Originally i was going to put some sort of design on the shirt. We’ll call this the limited-edition “Write Your Own Funny Quote with a Sharpie*” shirt. *Sharpie not included.
Sketch: Gym Teacher
©2009 Sharon Rosa A character for a comic strip i (very briefly) considered doing. For about five minutes six months ago. I don’t even remember the basic premise of the comic, just the four main characters were all female, two still in high school, one their gym teacher.
Sketch: Shoddy Self-Portrait
©2009 Sharon Rosa Ten-minute self-portrait, didn’t bother to clean it up much.
Sketch: Bored Rano
©2009 Sharon Rosa There’s only so many variations of a bored Rano waiting impatiently for her next job i can do… and i seem to be trying to figure out every one of them 😛
Sketch: Magic Harp
©2009 Sharon Rosa A modification of the Plain cambot, a custom job for a man who wanted a little company in the form of someone who would sing to him. This particular cambot also has vibration enhancers and synthesisers in her hair, which allows her to mimic the sounds of many instruments, though she came…
Sketch: Kuda?
©2009 Sharon Rosa Eh? And where do you think you’re going now? Guess you shouldn’t have assumed she wouldn’t notice you sneaking off.
Sketch: Distractions
©2009 Sharon Rosa Paying attention to someone else, today. Perhaps you should sneak off, while you still can.
Sketch: Ja Smotru Tibja
©2009 Sharon Rosa Nothing to worry about, just a Plain cambot. NSA’s not advanced enough to use these yet. We’re fine, really…
Sketch: Spying
A Plain Cambot which has found something interesting to look at…
Sketch: Plain Manoj
Trying something different with images. May screw up the RSS/email subs (in that subscribers might no longer see pictures). This makes me cranky. But, enough of that. This ‘bot is the Plain Manoj model, a cheaper version of the Plain Cambot, Retail Model, for shopkeepers who don’t need or can’t afford another security cambot but…
Sketch: Plain – Retail Model
©2009 Sharon Rosa Because sometimes a regular Plain cambot isn’t quite useful enough. Especially in retail stores, where looking pretty is never enough – even the cambots need to push the merch! Enter the Retail Model, designed to display merch or advertisements while keeping an eye out for shoplifters.
Sketch: Rano Prototype
©2009 Sharon Rosa One of the early prototypes of the Rano model, now obsolete and doomed to sit on a shelf forever.
Sketch: Medusa Model 1
©2009 Sharon Rosa The “Medusa” is an unofficial model, originally a Plain Cambot. She was hacked up a bit by an MIT student attempting to develop a security system by replacing her original eyecam with a motion-activated DNA detector and laser rifle. The hair mods were originally a joke… but sometimes, late at night, they seem…
Sketch: Malrompita Model 2
©2009 Sharon Rosa The Malrompita Model 2 has a sturdier skeletal structure than the Model 1. She also has fewer component hooks, which many meks considered a disadvantage at first, but in truth most of the eliminated hooks were unnecessary and removing them made her assembly much easier without actually damaging any of her functionality.
Sketch: Malrompita Model 1
©2009 Sharon Rosa The Malrompita Model 1 – self-assembly required. The Malrompita line is actually a basic skeletal ‘bot, rather than a complete android. She was originally designed for battle, as the ability to swap out parts easily means she is both easily repaired and highly adaptable for different situations; however, she’s been more or…
Sketch: Rano Model 1
©2009 Sharon Rosa Working on coming up with proper model names for my little robots. Ultimately i’d like the brand + product + semi-random-number combination so much other tech has, but for now i’ll settle for the basic product name. This one’s a Rano, named with the Esperanto word for “frog.” A basic little spy-bot,…
Sketch: Plain Cambot, Rear View
©2009 Sharon Rosa I think i need to come up with proper model names for some of these androids, especially the ones which show up repeatedly, like the one-eyed limbless cambot. My geeky inner child wants to figure out some sort of code system of complicated number-names, like every other tech company does now –…
Sketch: Random Android Head
©2009 Sharon Rosa Actually, i think this one might be more alien than android.
Sketch: Another Random Android Looking Up
©2009 Sharon Rosa I’ve given up on proper titles for these sorts of sketches, there’s only so many ways to describe them 😛
Sketch: Wrap Job
©2009 Sharon Rosa A gift for you, all wrapped up for V-Day
Sketch: Fallen
©2009 Sharon Rosa Hard to walk with no legs. Harder to get up with no arms.
Sketch: Version 2.0
©2009 Sharon Rosa New model, hasn’t even been fully designed yet. Just a prototype, this one.
Sketch: Talkie
©2009 Sharon Rosa Not much this particular model can do. Watch you and talk to you. She is, however, the latest and greatest from 1984, Inc.
Sketch: Lipstick
©2009 Sharon Rosa I’m not very happy with how the rest of the face came out, but i like the mouth itself.
Sketch: Painted Robot
©2009 Sharon Rosa I think i’m starting to get the hang of this whole “sketching on my computer” thing.
Sketch: Warrior Princess
©2009 Sharon Rosa Running into battle, ready to take on the dragon/evil wizard/bridge troll.
Sketch: Look Down
©2009 Sharon Rosa My little sister’s favourite CD as of late is the soundtrack for Les Misérables. Except she can’t pronounce “les misérables,” so she usually refers to it by the name of her favourite song, “Look Down.” And then promptly proceeds to sing along, in the most bad-ass voice she can muster: Look down,…
Sketch: Weeping Widow
©2009 Sharon Rosa Somewhere in the middle of this drawing i decided i need to head out to New York and hang out at Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art School for an afternoon. Posemaniacs is fun and all but…
Sketch: Superhero
©2009 Sharon Rosa I live in the Matrix as of late. This morning i even lost my spoon.
Sketch: Looking
©2009 Sharon Rosa Just looking around.
Sketch: Mask
©2009 Sharon Rosa Meh… not really happy with this one. But that’s the whole point of doing crappy sketches every day. 😛
Sketch: Working Girl
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2009 Sharon Rosa Always oh-so-busy… floors ain’t gonna scrub themselves… Wait, what kind of working girl did you think i was referring to?
Sketch: New Year’s Revolution II
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2009 Sharon Rosa This year i resolve to think about lost love a little less often.
Sketch: New Year’s Revolution
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2009 Sharon Rosa This year i resolve, no matter what, to keep my head high…
Sketch: Escapist Dreams
Pen & pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2009 Sharon Rosa A harem girl dreaming of escaping over the balcony – or maybe someone else is dreaming of her instead.
Sketch: Amazonian
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2009 Sharon Rosa A warrior princess, having a rather boring day as she’s stuck hunting wild animals instead of going into glorious battle.
Sketch: Chelsea
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2009 Sharon Rosa Based on one of the characters from Scott Sigler’s latest novel, Contagious. I clearly need to get my hands on some decent reference photos of small children – Chelsea is five, but the youngest kid i’ve spent any time around lately is eleven. I know some of Chelsea’s…
Sketch: Escape Pod
Pen & pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2009 Sharon Rosa A girl escaping the destruction of her home-ship in an escape pod.
Sketch: Spoiled
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2009 Sharon Rosa A teenage girl who is unlikely to listen to anyone who tells her “no.”
Sketch: Waiting
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2009 Sharon Rosa A teenage girl waiting for her friends to show up.
Sketch: Voiceless
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2009 Sharon Rosa Not sure where her homeworld is, but i’m quite certain it’s quieter than mine.
Sketch: Optimist
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2009 Sharon Rosa Always looking up, looking on the bright side of things, and smiling like a fool
Sketch: Water
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2009 Sharon Rosa Extremely quick (like, ten-second) sketch of a woman carrying water from a well
Sketch: Astrid
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2009 Sharon Rosa Sketch of Astrid Farnsworth (played by Jasika Nicole) of the TV show ‘Fringe.’
Sketch: Customer
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2009 Sharon Rosa Quick sketch of a customer at the paint store where i work part-time.
Sketch: Blah!
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2009 Sharon Rosa Quick self-portrait, another portrait which doesn’t look quite like the person it should because i was bored and didn’t bother looking up reference pics. Fairly close, i think, i mostly know what i look like; though i gave myself an extra piercing for the fun of it.
Sketch: Distracted
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa A young woman distracted from the task at hand… but by what?
Sketch: Wrap Job
Pen & pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa A young woman wearing a wrap garment covering most of her body.
Sketch: Descending Angel
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Quick sketch of an angel coming down from the sky.
Interpreter
©2008 Sharon Rosa For the Illustration Friday theme, Voices. My original idea involved five arms signing “Sing with me,” but decided to go with a (much simpler) image of two hands signing “interpret” instead. Prints available through Imagekind starting at 9$
Sketch: Insect Eve
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa No deep, thought-provoking allegory here; just wanted to draw a four-armed lady, and Eve seemed as good a subject as any.
Sketch: Na Barje
Pen & pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa A girl refusing an offered drink at the bar. Maybe ’cause she’s with her boyfriend, maybe she’s the designated driver on Girls’ Night Out, maybe she just thinks the guy’s kind of creepy. It’d be easier to tell if i’d drawn him in. 😛 As it…
Sketch: Balancing
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa This is so Not Quite Right, she’s sitting far too close to the edge of the roof/box/odd-looking chair.
Sketch: Swirlygig
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Bit of a difference from my regular plain androids, this one’s decorated for Mardis Gras.
Sketch: Clunker
Pen & pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa A rather clunky android. I kind of gave up on drawing her accurately when the lights went out :/
Sketch: Schoolgirl
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Drawn entirely from my quite faulty memory, a Russian schoolgirl in school uniform. The only time i’ve ever actually been to Russia was during summer break, and the only pictures i’ve seen of Russian children in school uniform are fairly old, so even if my memory were absolutely…
Sketch: Dreamer
Pen & pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Swept away on a river of dreams…
Sketch: Party Girl
Pen & pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa I used to own a dress like this, though looking back on it, i was probably too young to really get away with wearing something this frilly and short.
Sisters
©2008 Sharon Rosa Painted version of Sisters, done up for the Illustration Friday theme, Similar.
Sketch: Alien Eyes
Sketch: Balloon
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Children love balloons! Right? At least this one’s an android baby. No suffocation worries. Though, without proper ventilation, e might overheat…
Sketch: Mary II
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Another idea for a painting which may or may not ever actually be completed. It looks a bit like a scene from “Alien” in this sketch but the finished idea is someone being reborn as a better person – well, better android, in this case 😛
Sketch: Mary
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Random idea for a more finished Robot Amputee-style painting – not sure if i’ll ever complete it or not, though. We’ll see.
Connection
©2008 Sharon Rosa Inspired by the Illustration Friday theme, Balloon. In my head this is a somewhat sappy, romantic piece… if either one lets go then the connection is gone for both of them…
Sketch: Palin
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa An absolutely wretched caricature of Sarah Palin – i didn’t have any photo references of her handy, so it’s mostly just little jokes which vaguely reference her personality. Like some pit-bull-with-lipstick bling.
Sketch: Wizard
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Wizardly woman, getting ready to lay some smackdown spells.
Sketch: Dancer
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa An Irish dancer, drawn at an Irish dance show. Mostly drawn in the dark.
Sketch: Hairlines
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Wanted to do a bit of experimentation with hairstyles. Not entirely sure it worked.
Sketch: Stare
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Yeah, i got no good description for this. It’s a robot, or robot-like woman. Staring. w00t. Oh, and i’d like to come up with a decent excuse for not updating for, like, a month. Except i don’t have a decent excuse. I have a sketchbook full of pictures…
Sketch: Manga-ka FAIL.
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa I need to remind myself manga proportions and normal proportions are not even remotely similar.
Sketch: Suspended
Pen, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Why suspended? Why bald and limbless? Where did the bubbles come from? I should start a new blog category for amputees, or at least start tagging them as such; i draw enough of them.
Sketch: Looking Up
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa I am not even remotely good at drawing people’s chins when they are looking up. Must practice more.
Sketch: Flirt
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Flirting with… someone.
Sketch: Robot Yoga
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa A robot amputee attempting a down dog… she’s actually doing pretty good, considering the lack of legs.
Sketch: Lollipop
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa On the sandy, windy beach with a really sticky treat. Yes… this will end well.
Sketch: Wave!
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Long-necked robot amputee… waving… um. I got nothing. I think my most recent cuppa tea had worn off by the time i did this one.
Sketch: Folded
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa I drew this horribly wrong, and didn’t realise until afterwards, when i tried to actually do the pose the way i’d drawn it… My waist does not bend that far.
Sketch: Resting
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Resting up after almost being eaten by a down-dog.
Sketch: Down Dog
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa I’ve been on a yoga kick lately. The down dog keeps trying to eat me, though.
Sketch: Yoga
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa I don’t actually know the name of this pose… i probably should, though.
Sketch: Violinist
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa A violinist from another Irish band which i can’t remember the name of (next year, i’m writing these things down!) I prefer drums over string instruments, but Celts can do some pretty amazing things on violins and fiddles.
Sketch: Mixed
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Wow. I haven’t even scanned anything since a Celtic festival several weeks ago. Still been drawing, though, so i’ve got a backlog of images to start working through. This is a quick sketch of a fidgety little girl who was sitting a few rows ahead of me in…
Sketches: 90 Second Poses
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Some 90-second sketches done using the Posemaniacs.com Thirty Second Drawing app.
Sketch: Windy
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa I know her hair is technically two different lengths, but compositionally i like it better than i would if it were all the same length. Artistic license FTW.
Sketch: Jacket
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Some of the workers at my family’s paint store (including me) recently got some promotional jackets from Norton, a company whose sandpaper we sell. I’m not one to turn down free stuff, but i’m also not one to wear long sleeves until the temperature hits 5° C. Add…
Sketch: School Lunch
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Preparing a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich for lunch. Om nom nom.
Sketch: Wild Woman
Pencil, 11×8½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Quick sketch of a jungle woman, going to be using this as the base for a vector illustration soon.
Woman
Pen and ink, 11×8½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa A drawing of a woman done for the How to Draw People blog.
Sketch: Eyes
Pencil, 11×8½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Quick study of a pair of eyes
Wind Princess
©2008 Sharon Rosa Quick vector image based on a sketch i did a while ago. Print available
Sketch: Portrait
Pencil, 11×8½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Quick portrait of an imaginary robot. I like the collarbone better than the face :/
Sketch: Stairwell
Pencil, 11×8½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Originally this was an attempt to use J L M’s “On the Stairs” photo as reference for a robot sketch, but i messed up the proportions a bit (like… actually messed them up… not “altered them to be more robotic” messed them up) and, being too lazy to fix them…
Sketch: Model
Pencil, 11×8½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa So she’s a robot and has no fancy fashion clothes to show off. Try and stop her from becoming a model. I dare ya.
Sketch: Pajama Rapper
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Pajama Rapping: Because only the truly badass can still be badass in eir nightclothes.
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Sketch: Falling
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Falling asleep, falling dreams, falling in love…
Chinagirl
©2008 Sharon Rosa Pretty basic vector image, somewhat inspired by the waitresses at an Asian teahouse i used to frequent. Prints available
Sketch: Fae Diva
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Showin’ off her latest outfit.
Sketch: Teacher’s Pet
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Quick sketch of a girl seen on a playground outside an elementary school.
Sketch: Done
Pencil, 11×8½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Okay, Boss, done with this job, what’s next?
Sketch: Weapon of Maid Destruction
Pencil, 11×8½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Don’t come any closer! I know 42 different ways to kill a man using just a feather duster!
Sketch: Getting Dressed
Pencil, 11×8½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Very quick sketch of the Maid putting on her favourite dress, over petticoats and Kevlar.
Sketch: Watching
Pencil, 11×8½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Taking a quick glance over her shoulder, just to be sure nobody’s watching… Her cap looks a little too fluffy in this sketch, but i love how the face came out.
Sketch: Portrait of a Maid
Pencil, 11×8½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa First in a series of sketches involving a double-agent maid. Bond ain’t got nothin’ on this chick.
Sketch: G’Morning
Pencil, 11×8½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa I don’t wanna get up yet.
Sketch: Chinagirl
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Stereotypical Chinese swordfighter with one of those long dresses which in real life would likely get in the way.
Sketch: Powderpuff
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Ridiculously huge powderpuff hairdo.
Sketch: Warrior. Sort of.
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Originally this was to be a quick sketch of a Native American warrior. And then i finished and realised i’d forgotten to give her, um, weapons. And she has awfully teeny hands, probably very difficult to strangle any bears with ’em. This is why Smart Artists plan their…
Sketch: Saving Space
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa In the future, extraterrestrial travelers will have taken the value of living space to a whole new level. To increase available room, limbs will be removed and replaced with holographic, force-field-enabled limbs which can be turned on and off at will. As an added bonus, nobody will ever…
Sketch: Ballet Practice
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Quick sketch of a dancer, getting ready for the next rehearsal.
Sketch: Teahouse Girl
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa A simple sketch of a girl at an Asian teahouse, which may eventually be made into part of a larger set…
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Sketch: Broken Doll
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa This started out as a sketch of a dancer in the most twisted pose i could come up with… then i realised i’d made her a bit too twisted, and no real person ought bend quite that way. So now she’s a doll. Dolls can bend oddly.
Sketch: Conté Girl
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa I was recently quite randomly reminded of a time back in high school when an AP Studio student made a semi-derogatory statement about the Advanced Drawing class. To which one of my classmates responded, “Don’t mess with the Advanced, APs! We will Conté you!”
Sketch: Watch for Dragons
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa The dragons in this particular city of are the friendly variety, but they occasionally play games and tricks with people. Best to keep an eye out for them.
Sketch: Alley
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa I’d like to do more drawings of Jacqui – i think i already mentioned i’m going to use her in my NaNo, but i don’t think i said my plan for this year’s NaNo is to rewrite it as a graphic novel script and draw it out. Note…
Sketch: Beach Goth
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Observe the rare Beach Goth, now nearly extinct as the majority of the species has difficulty surviving direct sunlight without quickly developing a tan, which is considered lethal to most Goths…
Sketch: First Party
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa All dolled up for her very first night out on the town.
Sketch: Visitor
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa A wee visitor coming to see the Princess.
Sketch: Monkeyfactory Bases
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa I had the vague notion of making a pixel art doll set which was monkeys instead of people. Not sure if i’ll ever actually get around to doing it, but here’s some sketches of the bases.
Sketch: Star
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Even tiny stars make big explosions.
Sketch: Spirit
Pencil, 11×8 in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Saw her once, years ago, and every now and then i try to draw her… but i can’t get it quite right. Reminded of her again after a recent Massive Spoon Disappearance. I don’t think it’s her, but it’s someone, and i’d like to know who.
Sketch: Goblin
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa An auld goblin… better book it before she turns around…
Sketch: Pretty Mutations II
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa More body mods
Sketch: Pretty Mutations
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Stretching, shrinking, and generally just mutating the human body.
Sketch: Split Face
Pencil, 3½×2½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Modified version of yesterday’s two-mouthed skull.
Sketch: Pink!
Pencil, 3½×2½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Customer at the paint store, who was attempting to talk her boyfriend into painting his car pink.
Sketch: Wind Princess
Pencil, 3½×2½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Drawing of the Wind Princess, daughter of the Wind Goddess, currently apprenticed under the Tornado Lord of New Jersey.
System Failure
A cyborg who’s lost control of her weaponry – not a good person to be around! Check out the WiP screenshots if you want to see how it was made.
WiP: “System Failure”
Just one WiP entry this time… i’m still experimenting a bit with how i’m going to post my WiPs.
Sketch: Moon Princess
Pencil, 3½×2½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa A Moon-Elf (also known as Silver Elf) princess.
Sketch: Floating
Pencil, 3½×2½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Quick sketch of a woman floating.
Sketches: Seamus Kennedy @ the Banshee
I normally draw a good bit more at Seamus Kennedy concerts, but last night’s concert was at a pub. With waitresses who bring food and drinks. And TWO renditions of the Barley Mow, a song in which drinking is much required. So instead of just clapping and drawing and a bit of singing, i was…
Watashi wa manga-ka desu? Ie…
Pencil, 11×8½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Well, now that i’ve used up my “attempt to speak Japanese” quota for the year… I haven’t attempted to draw in a manga/anime style for a while now. It’s cute, but it’s not really my style (and i think we’ve about reached the point where any American who…
Sketch: Mini Jacqui
Pencil, 3½×2½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa A concept sketch of Jacqui Roux as a small child. Note she’s already got the vampire teeth.
Sketch: Mermaid Priestess
Pencil, 3½×2½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa True, those who live underwater don’t have much use for anything such as a rain goddess, but that doesn’t eliminate their need for sacrifices to the Kraken.
Sketch: Curious
Pencil, 3½×2½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Quite fascinating. Captain, we appear to have a stowaway. And, Captain? E’s organic.
Sketch: Overexertion
Pencil, 3½×2½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa What happens when an android tries to look over something taller than she.
Sketch: Take Me To Your Cookies.
Pencil, 3½×2½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa I’m fairly sure the first aliens to attempt to take over Earth won’t be adults. They’ll be kids who “borrowed” the UFO to go joyriding.
Sketch: Floater
Pencil, 11×8½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa This sneaky vampiress has narrow royal purple eyes that always appear bloodshot, and that appear to be more set on the side of her head. Her white hair actually acts as a kind of sensory organ, like a cat’s whiskers. She has a plump build. She has a…
Sketch: Adventure Girl
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa This innocent catgirl has round, orange eyes. She has long, luxurious, straight red hair with gray bangs in front, worn in a simple style. Her fur is red. She has a very feminine build. Her tufted ears are close-set. Her fashion preferences are best described as “beatnik.” If…
Sketch: Wallflower
Pencil, 8½×11 in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa This lonely catgirl has deep-set, blue eyes. She has short, straight, black hair worn in a weird style. Her skin is dark, with white fur on her ears and tail. She has a muscular figure. Her ears are pointed, and her tail is short, bushy and carried with…
Sketch: Lizard Lady
Pencil, 11×8½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa This bouncy female vampire has slanted gray eyes that lack any white. Her white hair actually acts as a kind of sensory organ, like a cat’s whiskers. She is short and has a feminine build. Her brown skin is like a reptile’s skin. Her feet have claw-like nails….
Sketch: Jump Shot
Pencil, 3½×2½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa A really tiny basketball player. Mad Playing Skillz: Ability to jump insanely high; ability keep other team from noticing her presence until she nabs the ball from straight under their noses.
Jacqui Roux
Introducing Jacqui Roux! I’ve been meaning to come up with a T*C mascot for ages, and with this week’s Illustration Friday theme being “fierce,” i figured it was the perfect time to create my fierce little mascot. For the interested: a few work-in-progress screenshots, and the original concept sketch done a very long time ago….
“Jaqui” WiP, Part II
A rendered image of Jaqui – no background yet – though the background for this image is likely to be pretty plain anyway, thanks to time constraints. I’m hoping to do some other images of her with cooler backgrounds.
Sketch: Honey
Pencil, 3½×2½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Mostly, i just wanted to draw a cute girl/creature hybrid which wasn’t a catgirl for once. ZOMGBBQ NO CATGIRLZ!?!
“Jaqui” WiP, Part I
I’m finally getting around to doing the mascot for Tor*n Canvas i’ve wanted to do for a while…
Sketch: Curious
Pencil, 3½×2½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa I’m going to try working even smaller than usual for a bit… i’ve been meaning to try my hand at ACEOs or ATCs for a while, but haven’t gotten around to it. Maybe sketching in ATC size for a while will get me to actually make a card…
Sketch: Jinny X
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Quick character design for “Jinny X,” lead violinist for an Irish neo-punk band.
Sketch: Slave
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa An Adistanian gypsy girl who was kidnapped by slave traders as a toddler. When she was seven, her owners noticed she could foresee the future, and began peddling her as a prophetess for quick cash. Of course, she never gets a penny of it…
Sketch: Wired Up
Pencil, 8×11 in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa About to receive some new limbs; she’s in a bit of a floaty position until the mechs get around to attaching them.
Sketch: Rowian Princess
Pencil, 8×11 in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa I’ve had this idea bouncing around in my head for a bit, about a nomadic desert tribe which is world-renowned for its ability to tame and train dragons. It’s one of those ideas which i’ll likely never actually do anything with but which is fun to dust off…
Sketch: Dominatrix Kitty
Pencil, 8×11 in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa This wily catgirl has round, red eyes. She has shoulder-length, thick, straight, green hair worn in a tomboyish style. Her skin is cream-colored, and she has green fur with white streaks on her ears and tail. She has a leggy figure. Her tail is long, thick and carried…
Sketch: Breakdance!
Pencil, 11×8 in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa I picked up a new book on drawing robots a bit ago, with an awesome robotic anatomy section. My robots are going to get a wee bit more interesting in terms of structure.
Sketch: Priscilla
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Priscilla Collins is the best lawyer this side of the Himalayas. Unlike most other high-profile attorneys, though, she doesn’t limit herself only to the rich and famous. In fact, she’s willing to work for free – if you can prove you’re intelligent enough to be worth her time….
Sketch: Calling
Pencil, 11×8 in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa This laid-back vampiress has slitted brown eyes that never blink. Her green hair functions as another limb. She is very short and has a lithe build. Her skin has an odd brown cast to it. Her toenails can extend into claws She has wings that are bony and…
Sketch: Peace Fighter
Pencil, 11×8 in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa This peaceful catgirl has slitted, purple eyes. She has medium-length, luxurious, straight, brown hair worn in a classy style. Her fur is brown with white streaks all over her body. She has a lithe figure. Her ears are floppy and wide-set, and her tail is short, brush-like and…
Sketch: Koa
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Koa and her parents are illegal immigrants who hopped the fence when Koa was a child. Some of her siblings made it over with her… some didn’t. At the moment, two of her siblings are in jail for trying to flee the country, six are in a rebel…
Sketch: Emo Environmentalist
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Started off as a quick little scribble, but y’know what? I want a t-shirt of this. And i don’t even wear t-shirts. Then again, it’s my quick little scribble, so maybe i’m just being egotistical. We’ll see if i have the motivation to polish it up as a…
Sketch: Hunting
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa A vampire on the prowl. Or is the man in the shadows a vampire hunter? Hmm.
Sketch: Protector of the Book
Pencil, 11×8 in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa This confident magical girl has wide green eyes and short, straight, fine, blue hair worn in a practical style. She has a curvy figure. She has strength powers that are invoked by concentration. Her outfit is green and black in even proportions, and it strongly resembles a set…
Sketch: Kitty Love
Pencil, 11×8 in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa This serious catgirl has slitted, red eyes. She has medium-length, fine, curly, black hair worn in a wild style. Her skin is white, with black fur on her ears and tail. She has a very feminine build. Her ears are floppy and close-set. Her fashion preferences are best…
Sketch: Vampire’s Eye
Pencil, 11×8 in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa This courageous female vampire has almond-shaped blue eyes that are like two chunks of lapis lazuli. Her fine, curly, brown hair is very short and is worn in an uncomplicated, precise style. She is short and has a wasp-waisted build. Her skin is pale. She can create illusions….
Sketch: Desert Guard
Pencil, 11×8 in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Her job is to stand guard. Out in the desert. With nothing to attack them. For long, long hours at a time. She is, quite understandably, bored out of her skull and more than a little irritated with her superior officers.
Sketch: Poses
Pencil, 11×8 in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa More pose practicing.
Sketch: Goatherd Troll
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa This particular troll does not eat goats. She herds them, sells their wool and milk, and in general protects them from the goat-eating Bridge Trolls.
Sketch: Club Luna
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Somewhat based on yesterday’s sketch, somewhat based on an idea i’ve had bouncing around my head for a while. My theory is, the reason werewolves take on wolf form only during a full moon is because a certain intensity and type of light (the light reflected from the…
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Multiplication
©2008 Sharon Rosa “Mom-bot, where do baby ‘droids come from?” I am borderline obsessed with the idea of self-replicating tech and AIs. This week’s Illustration Friday theme was “Baby” and the first thing i thought of was Android Babies. Leave a comment to receive the password for this week’s CIA Freebie.
Sketch: Vegas Vampiress
Pencil, 11×8 in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa I used to play around with the character generators on Seventh Sanctum for art ideas. The other day i was thinking it would be a fun challenge to hit the “random” button and give myself fifteen minutes to design a character. First up: Vampires. This sinful female vampire…
Sketch: Pose Studies II
Pencil, 11×8 in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa More sketches from Posemaniac’s thirty second drawing tool.
Sketch: Pose Studies
Pencil, 11×8 in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Some quick studies from Posemaniac’s Thirty Second Drawing tool.
Sketch: Storm Goddess
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa A quick character sketch for a storm goddess. Not particularly original, but at least she’s not a complete X-Men rip-off.
Sketch: Ripper
Pencil, 5½×3½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa I’ve been meaning to update the T*C logo for a while now. Right now it’s (officially) an asterisk (well, gee, how exciting) and is rarely, if ever, actually used. This is a sort of starter/rough draft of a possible logo. Though, really, it’s far too detailed to be…
Sketch: Goddess
Pencil, 8×11 in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Quick sketch of a goddess ascending from her temple.
Sketch: Jogger
Pencil, 8×11 in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Morning exercise with morning music. I need to practise drawing hands more, i think; the runner’s hands don’t look quite right.
Sketch: Fae
Pencil, 8×11 in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Quick sketch of a faerie take-off.
Sketch: Jazz Woman
Pencil, 3½×5½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa The mum of one of my sister’s friends.
Sketch: Head wrap
Pencil, 3½×5½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Mum of one of my sister’s friends.
Sketch: Prom Queen
Pencil, 3½×5½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa My sister in her prom outfit.
Sketch: Snake Child
Pencil, 3½×5½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Okay, so she’s half-snake. She’s still cute. In a reptilian sort of way.
Sketch: Frappuccino Girl
Pencil, 3½×5½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Study of a girl sitting across the café.
Sketch: Chatterbox
Pencil, 3½×5½ in. » ©2008 Sharon Rosa The sort of person who loves to talk about… well, about pretty much anything.
Sketch: Thinking
Pencil, 8×11 in. Just another PoseManiacs practice sketch.
“Electric Eyes” + Comment Incentive Art
Want a chance to get something free? Scroll down to read about my Comment Incentive Art, and leave a comment to be one of the first to get in on the super-secret artiness. Electric Eyes » ©2008 Sharon Rosa Inspired by the Illustration Friday theme, Electricity: A seductive android, with the kind of electric eyes…
Sketch: Crossing Guard
Pencil, 8×11 in. The cyborg crossing guard gets a gas mask. The kid doesn’t. Good to know where the priorities lie.
Sketch: Youngest Princess
Pencil, 3½×5½ in. I’m not even sure she is a real princess. She’s sure got the MySpace pop-star wannabe look down, though.
Sketch: Mountain Princess
Pencil, 3½×5½ in. A little bit Gypsy, a little bit Amazon, a little bit wild mountain nomad.
Sketch: Spoiled
Pencil, 3½×5½ in. Just your everyday average spoiled little girl, wondering why on earth you haven’t brought her that candy she demanded just yet.
Sketch: Tomboy
Pencil, 8×11 in. She’s up to something. I can tell. That kind always are.
Sketch: Queen
Pencil, 3½×5½ in. The leader of the Greys. She disapproves of abductions, but allows them to keep the peasants amused.
Sketch: Semi-Portrait
Pencil, 3½×5½ in. It started off as a self, portrait, but i started getting creative soon after i started drawing. For example, i totally do not have bifocals.
Masque of the Red Death
Inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe story of the same name. I wanted to get creative with the costume, so over the traditional skull mask i pinned the wrinkling, decaying, bloody skin of one of the Red Death’s victims.
Sketch: Coffee Girl
Pencil, 3½×5½ in. Based on a girl i saw working the counter at Dunkin Doughnuts. Very loosely based, i might add, the hair is different and i’m fairly sure i screwed up the uniform.
Sketch: Spider Girl
Pencil, 3½×5½ in. Most little girls run away from spiders. This one loves ’em.
Sketch: Desperate Housewife
Pencil, 3½×5½ in. I was going to try to write a poem to go along with this sketch, but i haven’t been able to get very far. (I almost had a haiku, but trimming the story to fit in such tight format cut it to the point where it didn’t make any sense.) My poetry…
Sketch: Worship
3½×5½ in. Not a typical religious illustration, but facial expressions like this always make me think the person is focusing on Something Else – something bigger than the rest of the world.
Sketch: Diva
Pencil, 3½×5½ in. I saw this woman at Taco Bell the other day. Some people just look like cartoon characters, without even trying. (I look like a cartoon character too, but i have to work at it…)
Sketch: Alien Eyes
Pencil, 3½×5½ in. Started off as a quick logo idea, and quickly turned into a full-fledged alien.
Forbidden Fruit
Inspired by the Illustration Friday theme, “Primitive”: A primitive woman reaching for the “forbidden fruit.” Which, in this case, is an orange. Creative license FTW! I tried a more graphic approach this time around than i normally do. I like it, but i think it’d be better with a wider variety of colours. More experimentation…
Sketch: Cassie
Pencil, 3½×5½ in. Rough sketch of my youngest sister’s best friend, playing video games while waiting for a concert to start.
Sketch: Jeanette
Pencil, 3½×5½ in. A quick drawing of my little sister, done at the tea-house where we celebrated her 21st birthday.
Sketch: Catgirl
3½×5½ in. Catgirl. Well, kittengirl might be more appropriate.
Sketch: Pirate Princess
Pencil, 3½×5½ in. She was originally meant to be more princess than pirate… i think she ended up the other way around. Must be going through a rebellious teenage phase.
Sketch: Skuchu Tanjetsa
Pencil, 9×11 in. I ended up backstage at a theatre for all of five minutes last night. It reminded me of how much i miss dancing. I miss performing. I miss huddling backstage, quietly awaiting my cue while watching the other dancers fly across the stage. I miss months of intense practise, trying and repeatedly…
Sketch: Catnap
Pencil, 9×11 in. Catwomen don’t do anything halfway. They wake up, they stretch. All the way, man.
Sketch: Insect
Pencil, 9×11 in. Genetically-modified warrior, designed to cause serious damage in hand-to-hand combat.
Sketch: I Win
Pencil, 9×11 in. Cyborg chick versus big, bad robot. I think we all knew what was going to happen.
Sketch: Wind-Up Wife
Pencil, 9×11 in. The toymaker thought he’d made the perfect wife. She would always be beautiful, her every personality flaw could be reprogrammed. She would dance for him, sing for him, love him forever. As he grew older, however, and arthritis kicked in, he discovered her one fatal flaw… He still had to wind her…
Sketch: Felinoid
Pencil, 9×11 in. The eyes creep me out a little. Just a little.
Sketch: Weightless
Pencil, 9×11 in. Zero-G, and the cyborgs are still standing at full attention.
Sketch: Cyborg
Ink and watercolour, 4×6 in. Just a few random cyborg bits. I didn’t feel like going overboard with a full-blown Terminator-style illustration.
Sketch: Colleen
Ink and watercolour, 4×6″ I did the initial sketch for this on St. Patrick’s Day. Rock on, Irish girls.
Sketch: Blue
Ink/Watercolour, 4″ x 6″ I went on a bit of an elf kick again. This is one of the ones i plan to have up for sale soon.
Sketch: Sun Faerie
Technically monochromatic, but when the one colour is yellow it’s just so… not monochromatic looking.
Sketch: Thoughtful
Broke out the coloured pencils today. I’m planning on trying out some watercolour painting soon – this is just a quick self-reminder on traditional colour media.
Sketch: Android Siren
She doesn’t sing, but she’s got the come-hither look down pat.
Sketch: Quick Robot
Very roughly done full-figure robot sketch.
Sketch: Faerie Curtsy
A bit of an experiment in foreshortened anatomy.
Sketch: Tavern Wench Portrait
The actual pencil drawing is much smaller than usual today. I thought, as a result, it would likely scan badly, but it came out pretty good. Yay.
Sketch: Jungle Ballet
Very rough sketch – vine, trees, fun dancing. Listened to a bit too much dance music last night, and now it’s stuck in my brain. Not that i have a problem with that.
Sketch: Jungle Princess
Had a good bit of fun drawing the hair. It’s not entirely accurate, but any excuse for dreadlocks…
Sketch: Waterfall Faerie
Drawing clothing on faeries always throws me off a little. Ended up giving her a bikini top. Rar. She’s just fetching a quick drink here – no waterfall bathing today.
Sketch: Back View
Quick back angle, with a bit of background shading to bring out the face.
Sketch: Elf Portrait
Inspired by the back of a P!nk CD case. Yes, that’s the sort of thing i keep tacked to my wall, and this is what comes out of it.
Sketch: Wrapped Up
In an elfish mood today. Enjoy.
Sketch: Cat-Woman
Been on a bit of a human-animal hybrid kick lately. Yesterday Icarus; today a cat-woman.
Sketch: Mermaid
Random mermaid, or rather an underwater-girl, as she has neither tail nor gills. I’m not sure how she’s breathing, but i’m sure she’s figured something out.
Sketch: 90-Second Figures
More Pose Maniacs practise.
Sketch: 10 Figures
Ten figures, done in ten minutes, using the Pose Maniacs 30 Second Drawing for reference.
Sketch: Rada
Significantly better line work today, though still not as good as i’d like. Also i screwed up a bit on colouring the line work.
Sketch: Angry
Tried something new today. I’m not too fond of the line work, but that’s just a general issue i have with hard brushes. One more thing to practise on, i guess.
Sketch: Chrome Portrait II
Another (skipped) February Art-a-Day Challenge, another android face. It doesn’t look at all realistic, and ironically enough i think that’s because i tried too hard to make it look realistic, and it backfired.
Sketch: Ruby Slippers
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Choose
It’s the party girl’s turn to choose what they do for the evening. [Print Available]
Sketch: Perversion
Lesson of the day: I really ought to switch between brush sizes more often. [Oekaki Animation]
IF: Blanket
Somewhat unfinished, but certainly better than last week’s. If/when i finish, there’ll likely be a caption on it, because otherwise it’s just… odd. Something along the lines of “Why, yes, it is cold in space, but that’s okay, i’ve got a blanket.” Which is also a bit odd, come to think of it, but i’ve…
Sketch: Rain
Yay emo rain. I screwed up quite a bit on the face and i didn’t work on the actual rain nearly as much as i ought to have… but overall i’m happy with this. [Animation]
IF: Tales and Legends
She’s only about half-finished, and i’m entirely discontent with how she looks. If work on her some more, i can make her look good, but the only way to make her look truly excellent is to completely start over. I have neither the time to start over, nor the energy to work on a picture…
Sketch: Dodge
She’s all dodgin’ bullets, Neo-in-the-Matrix-style. Though i suppose, as an android, she’s closer to being an Agent than The One.
Sketch: Running
Same story as yesterday: Addicted to Pose Maniacs. Really random drawing as a result.
Sketch: Model
Normally i have something in mind when i do my drawings… not today. Today is just a random pose. I’ve become somewhat addicted to Pose Maniacs’ Thirty Second Drawing tool, to the extent that my ten-minute drawing for today was a Pose Maniacs model for 90 seconds followed by nine minutes of adding chrome.
Sketch: Secret Agent
Tried to simplify things a bit by not drawing limbs which don’t directly relate to the image. I’m not sure how i like it yet.
Sketch: Cat Burglar
It’s just not a proper cat burglar without a tail.
Sketch: Bounty Hunter II
Ah… the chrome is all over the place today. The reflections don’t even match up >
Sketch: Bounty Hunter
I’m planning on doing some experimenting with different ways to draw chrome… soon-ish. Tomorrow or next week. I’ll post the different methods i figure out when i’m done.
IF: Plain
Inspired by the Illustration Friday theme, Plain. A very plain little android… I imagine she’s really not much more than a relatively interesting-looking security camera. ****Print available**** through deviantArt.
Sketch: New Robot Overlord
Planet Earth didn’t get drawn in very well, but the idea is still there.
Sketch: Angel
Okay, she’s more of a rocket-wing-powered ‘droid than an angel.
Sketch: Kali 3.0
A half-finished sketch of Kali 3.0, a soldier-‘bot roughly based on the Hindu goddess of the same name.
Sketch: Mecha Head
I probably should have chromed up the whole thing, but i like the delicate way the face came out, without a bunch of shiny metallic all over it.
Sketch: Mecha Mermaid
Well, i’ve given up on foreshortening, and i’m moving on to chrome and mecha and all that fun stuff ^_^ I don’t know what the wiring of a cyborg mermaid is like, i would imagine one shark attack and she goes all electric-eel.
Stitch
Inspired by the Illustration Friday theme, “Stitch.” A fallen angel, wings surgically removed; nothing but a few feathers and some scars to show what she used to be. Prints Available. Postcard-sized (4×6″) prints are 89¢; larger sizes (up to 24×36″) are also available.
Sketch: Boxer
Fresh out of metal weapons… now i’m drawing the free ones ~_^
Sketch: Guns V
…I’m running out of weapons-related reference material. Well, except for knives. I’ve always got knives. And a sewing machine could totally count as a weapon.
Sketch: Guns IV
Aaand it’s back to drawing chrome stuff.
Sketch: Guns III
Not sure if this counts as a robot or not. I didn’t feel like drawing chrome today. -_-
Sketch: Guns II
More guns, more chrome, and a half-hearted attempt at a tattoo. Presumably some fake airbrushed-on tattoo – i don’t know of any artists with tattoo needles strong enough to ink metal.
Sketch: Guns
Drawing “light-sabres” is for jedi. Here’s some real weaponry. ~_^
Sketch: Lightsaber-ish.
Completely forgot to post earlier. Oi. Anyway… Yet another fembot. I tried to draw her fighting with a lightsaber* today. Came out looking a bit more like a radioactive pacifier, methinks, but that’s what practising is meant to do… show where the problem spots are, so i can improve… though i’m not sure i want…
Sketch: Chrome
ZOMG, i actually drew metal on my android today. Doesn’t happen every time, folks.
Sketch: Some Assembly Required II
Another mecha drawing, which does not look like mecha because i didn’t bother making her all shiny like proper mecha should be.
Sketch: Some Assembly Required
I don’t think i’ll ever tire of drawing androids and mecha. Pirates and ninjas and such are fun, but robots are forever.
Sketch: Spell-caster
And thus begins a month of foreshortening sketches.The front arm looks okay but the back arm isn’t as foreshortened as i want it to be.
Sketch: Kitsune Dom
I think i ought to spend a whole month or so doing sketches which involve foreshortening in some way or another. I could use the practise.
Sketch: Santa’s Present
Letter from child to Santa: Dear Santa,My Daddy is very worried about Global Warming. Could you please fix it?– Virginia Response from Santa: Dear Virginia,Tell your daddy to go live in an arctic desert for a few centuries before he complains about global warming. I ain’t lettin’ go of my tropical paradise.– Santa Merry Christmas,…
Sketch: Kiru, sort of.
Started off as a sketch of an alien character from a story i wrote some time ago… and then went through a series of changes including Magical Goddess, Jungle Girl, and Anti-Arachnid Super-Hero. Imaginary characters are like four-year-olds; sometimes the only way to get them to stay still long enough to draw them is to…
Sketch: M for МоÑ?ква
I’m actually not sure how common the “M” hand symbol is in Moscow – i’ve only ever seen it once.Then again, i’ve only been to Moscow once, for one day, two and a half years ago. And that one day was not exactly spent hanging with Muskovite hip-hop elite.But – i don’t know of any…
Sketch: Уф!
I love cold weather but some of the other aspects of winter – i.e., half-melted piles of snow which re-freeze into large, sloping masses of ice – i could do without.
Sketch + News: Still alive
Oi, haven’t posted in a while. Haven’t done Illustration Friday for a while, either – but i’ve got a new screen-capture programme, and i think i might make a video of the next digital picture i do (which will likely be next week’s Illustration Friday). Of course it depends at least partly on how much…
Sketch: ПоÑ?мотри!
Seamus Kennedy: People-Watching
Sketch: Huntress
Sketch: Katana
Sketch: Cyclops Assassin
Sketch: Clones
Sketch: Escape
Sketch: Revenge
Sketch: Two on One, Girl Wins
Sketch: Lonely III
IF: Momentum
“I wish it were as easy to stop hating… as it was to start…”– Chakotay to Janeway, ST:VOY / Nemesis I have had a very unproductive week.
Sketch: Lonely II
Sketch: Lonely
Sketch: Hitchhiker
Sketch: Malfunction
Sketch: Over
Sketch: Hero
IF: Alphabet
All sci-fi geeks know the true universal language isn’t Esperanto… it’s math. If you program a computer to make four beeps in a row, it will be four beeps on Earth or Mars, whether you represent it as 4, IV, 100, or – – – -. Likewise, if you combine two parts hydrogen with one…
Sketch: Plotting
Sketch: Vera
Sketch: Eve II
Sketch: Eve
Sketch: Susan
Missing
Okay, so technically nothing’s missing. He knows exactly where all his parts are.
Poem
I have no idea what the plastic-y thing they are wrapped in is supposed to be. I vaguely remember thinking, “He’s absorbing her!” while i was drawing it. So apparently the red thing is part of the guy robot, who is, i don’t know, eating the fembot. With his shirt.
Sketch: Stilettos
Sketch: Без Любова
Sketch: Чай-Девочка
IF: Discovery
They’re not quite sure what to think of each other… Print available here.
Sketch: Smoking
Sketch: Сколько Ñ?тоит?
Sketch: Dalek Killer
Sketch: Dancer II
Sketch: Rebekah
Sketch: Bennie
Sketch: Mary III
Sketch: Karaoke
Sketch: Femme Fatale II
Sketch: Lenina
Sketch: Shoe Sale III
Sketch: Shoe Sale II
Sketch: Randomness
Sketch: Femme Fatale
Sketch: Eve
Sketch: Dancer
IF: Rejection
Didn’t quite finish… ah well. Anyway. We can all safely guess who will be picked last, yes?
Sketch: Lady Constance
Sketch: Rinnie
Sketch: Portrait
Sketch: Mary II
Sketch: Бог
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Sketch: Lilla
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Sketch: Mermaid Attack
Sketch: Walking
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Sketchapalooza!
Gettin’ all the back sketches outta the way at once this time.
Sketches: Caught up!
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Sketch: Midget
Sketch: Battle II
Sketch: Battle
Sketch: Street Musician
Sketch: Working
Sketch: Lisa
Sketch: Mouse
Sketch: Joan
Sketch: Dressed Up
Sketch: Barhopping
Sketch: Anne
Sketch: Mary
Sketch: Daisy
Sketch: Waiting
Sketch: Yoga
Sketch: Up a Tree
Sketch: Answers
Sketches: Caught up!
About a month after i fell behind, and i’m finally caught up with my massive sketch backlog. Yay!
IF: Snap
I’ve never seen anyone do this Z-style of snapping in real life before. On TV, yes, virtually any time i watch anything with my little sister – and it’s always either the “evil” cheerleader doing it, in an oh-bitch-you-just-got-pwned! sorta way, or a complete geek doing it, in a trying-too-hard-to-be-cool-and-failing-miserably way (and why are the…
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IF: Wired
Now that’s a hands-free headset…
Sketch + Random news
I’m leaving for PA tomorrow morning. I’m not entirely sure yet if this will be updated at all while i’m gone… this computer isn’t set up to work with the internet where i’ll be staying (yet), and i’m not bringing my scanner with me. If i can get the internet connection working, i’ll update with…
Sketch: Killer Fae
Sketch: Dancer
Sketch: Floating
Sketch: Slave and master
Sketch: Робот, без рукой
Sketch: Assassin
Sketch: Prayer
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Demon II Jumping
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Internet went out this weekend. Bah. Demon Ð?а баре «Bennigan’s»
Sketch: Cornered
IF: Gravity
Eh. I’m not really happy with this. I like the picture, but to illustrate “gravity…” Then again, gravity’s a tough word. You can’t see it, you barely even notice its effects… even on sci-fi television, nobody really pays any attention to it, unless some malfunction causes the otherwise unexplained “gravity plating” to malfunction.
Sketch: Tangled
Sketch: СемьÑ?
Sketch: Portrait V
Sketch: Portrait IV
IF: Red
So, i’ve been thinking about trying my hand at Illustration Friday for a while now. Last week, i finally decided it was time to get around to doing it. Part of the reason for my decision is that i feel like my art’s been stagnating a bit lately. I mean, yes i draw every single…
Sketch: Portrait III
Sketch: Portrait II
Sketch: Portrait
Sketch: Foreshortened whip (attempt 2)
Sketch: Supamodel
Sketch: Santa’s Grungy Little Elf
Sketch: Dragon Lady
Sketch: Snegurochka
Sketch: Dropped
Sketch: Watching
Finally catching up a bit. Soooo far behind.
Sketch: At the Beach
Making up for lost posts. I’m back at my mum’s house for a full month for the holidays, and my scanner took longer than it should to set up.