Wanted To Try Something A Little Different In Terms Of Style, And I'm Really Happy With How These Two

Wanted to try something a little different in terms of style, and I'm really happy with how these two came out.

This is Finneley Hannigan and Ophelia Melbury. Finneley is the quiet and very shy gardener at a huge country estate and Ophelia is a polite and very imaginative daughter of one of several aristocratic families who frequently stay at the estate most the year.

Finneley comes from a magical family and is the youngest of 7 children and lives in a house just inside the woods on the estate grounds. His mother, Mabel, and Finneley have the same kind of magic, which is the growing and nurturing of plants and animals. Mabel's magic is best used through singing and dancing, but as she was getting older when Finneley's magic finally revealed itself (he was quite a few years older than his siblings when they discovered their magic), she began to forget how to use her magic. Except for her singing, which she taught Finneley.

After I came up with Finneley's story I realized that I basically made a male version of a Disney princess and I absolutely love it.

I hope to actually make some comics with these characters and this story this time ...

I couldn’t resist drawing my favorite sketch of Ernest H. Shepard’s illustrations from A. A. Milne’s second Winnie-the-Pooh book, The House at Pooh Corner. When I was looking at Shepard’s drawings online I found that he also did the illustrations for The Wind the Willows, which was (and still is) one of my favorite books since early middle school. I wish that children’s books today had this level of quality in their illustrations. You would think with the advent of technology that we could produce high quality illustrations like this in an even shorter amount of time, but I keep seeing these really cheap looking books that saddens me to no end.

Bought these wonderfully amazing water soluble brush pens from Arteza, and I AM OBSESSED. So, of course my first drawing with them had to be from Studio Ghibli.

Tried taking some photos of my very scribbly and sketchy garden gate study, but it's too light and my phone camera can't focus in on it the way I want 😢.

Gonna just have to wait till I get my hands on a scanner to see if that works ... hopefully ...

First post of 2018! YAY!

(but it’s already May ............ woops)

Experimenting with Autodesk Sketchbook and these schnazzy little art figurines I got as a birthday gift. Here’s a link to show what they look like:

https://bodykun.com/products/body-kun-models-for-artists?gclid=CjwKCAjwiurXBRAnEiwAk2GFZr50NEnBkwGwqo4Q5UCekREKbt7aKk-5PUDmUtPbJfExCMg4MJClURoCBnQQAvD_BwE 

Start to finish didn’t take as long as I thought it would (though it was still probably about 2 hours). It seems I can be very efficient sketching-wise with the figurine, so that’s super neat.

Still not 100% satisfied with the coloring of his hair, but with time comes skill, I guess.

Repost of all of the sketches I couldn't help but doing during classes