New Wacom Tablet! :D

I adore my new little Wacom Bamboo Pen Graphics Tablet, it is so easy to use and smooth to draw with. To break in my lovely new tablet I thought it was about time I tried painting on Painter Tool Sai, an amazing software that is much like what would happen if you combined Microsoft Paint with Photoshop, it’s a magnificent piece of software and I would highly recommend it to people:). I sketched a drawing out until I was happy with it, then used the brush and water tool to paint and blend the colours. I chose to do a colour version of a character I drew a little while ago, and am looking forward to doing alot more painting now I finally have a tablet that works, huzzah! :D

Will post more paintings up after I get back from another celebratory weekend with good friends!

Bye for now!

Sashie x

Copic Ciao = Love

I love my Copic Ciao marker pens, and the Copic paper pads I managed to find on Ebay last year. I adore then so so much, the go on so smooth and blend so easily. I am still getting my head around the best ways to use them, but the vibrant colours are perfect for pictures and I can't wait to use them more on various things. I have also aquired some fantastic Digital Painting magazines over the week so need to dedicate an evening and several cups of coffee to have a good read through them and their various techniques, picking out which ones I want to try.I look forward to it!

 Here are the two pieces I have done in copics over the past month or so, hoping to keep this up and get a few good bits of art done for J Culture Con in Derby later in the year. I shall have an art table, and it will be glorious!

This is titled Bolt Candy. The little Rabbit Robot is named Bolt, and the girl at the moment remains nameless. This is once again a victim of my Persona Art phase. I love technology recently. It's beautiful.

The line art I showed last post but this is the finished article. One day I will add a background...one day! >>;

Until then please enjoy Chroma with her black space that she seems to be happy floating in. She will be a reccuring character over the year methinks.

Thats all I have for the moment, but am currently working on some little comic characters whilst I am doing my uni work. Hope to post some up soon.

See you later!

Sashie

Just wanting to quickly upload some pictures I am working on atm outside of uni work. Both drawn in the past few days and screaming out to be marker penned and outlined. They are both inspired by a combination of Persona and Kobato. I adore persona! Persona 4 is THE most addictive PS2 game ever, and I thank my lovely friends for getting me back into it and I shall never leave it be <3

Enjoy 8D <3 bye for now!



Dr Sketchy - Highland Fling

Right now I am sat in bed with a big glass of juice watching the ever more gory film Apocalypto feeling absolutely nakered! But the tiredness I feel was worth it. Saturday was another Dr Sketchy event in Nottingham this time held at The Glee Club on the Canal side with a glorious view of the Canal and the train station, huzzah! Alot nice than the previous venue. After a good three hours of drawing and burlesque (including the whole new concept of Boylesque which was rather cool) me and my Uni friends who I had adventured with set out to the Yo! Sushi  : D it was marvelous! Tiring, but marvelous. Though after a day of not moving much other drawing I seemed to have shifted a small bit of ache.

Although it took a little while to get back into drawing from real life again I got back into the flow of it ok and it was a really enjoyable day out. I want to post up my two favourites from the event, one of Cherry Loco the male model who did the Boylesque and another of one of the female models ( whos name escapes me ahhhhh ;A; dangit) who wore the most amazing greenwig, it was an enormous mass of curls and loveliness and was amazing to draw.



Anyway I am off to finish my film, catch some Pokemon because I am so cool like that 8D, and get some sleep to talk to my lecturer tomorrow without making an idiot of myself, will post more work up soon. Bye for now :3

Sashie

Circus!

Our latest Univeristy module has been Circus. Whilst I have set my dolls aside for some much deserved rest and thank them for the grade they manged to obtain me, I am, after a long art dry spell, alot more fired up for this project.

Once again we have to create a ten double page illustrated book, much like I made for my Digital work last term. You can do it in which ever style you like, children's books, artists books etc and at the moment I am stuck in the middle, but as I am continuing to experiment my work seems to be more focused on children's books. So I decided to just roll with it!

I am majoritly using inks at the moment and am enjoying using a mixture of vibrancy and patterns in my work. I chose to focus on Indian Circus as my starting point so I began looking into henna, decorative jewelry and the decoration and colours used on elephants.

Unfortunatly until my scanner stops being a jerk and starts wokring I only have three illustrations to put up. These are very rough and very inky illsurations of figures inspired by Indian Circus I did recently using inks, crayons and many other media. Hope you like them.

I love the figures in this, and nothing screams happiness to me more than dribbling food colouring down pages :D

Not one of my favourite illustrations but I was developing basic figure movements and how to represent them and enjoyed doing this one alot.

More movement and pose development, love the leotard though so continuing to use that throughout my illustrations.

Thats it for my univeristy work scanned at the moment and when I eventually win the war again The Beast (my A3 scanner and printer) I will put some more up, until then I will stick to these and an illustration of a character I designed whilst having some time away from the circus work at uni.

This is Soleme, and will develop her further during my summer holidays. Until then she will have to go around without a past or an outfit!

Signing off to do some more circus work! post more up soon :3 ciaooooooo!



Revived!

I find it almost silly I have forgotten this dear blog. It was born from the flames of pushy University lecturers and welcomed this strange new internet child with open arms as I figured out how to post images and change banners. Then simply forgot to post for a while. Oppsie daisy I say!

Well now is the perfect time to begin to renew and revive it as I start back at University. We were given the amazing topic of 'Circus' for this term and I am very much looking forward to unleashing my inks,  pens and what-nots! onto paper and begin to see what I focus on. I have a few ideas but nothing can be for sure until I finally sit back at my desk and begin to experiment!

All I can offer in work I have done recently is my Doll Illustrations. My brain pretty much melted by the end of it, but it got me a delicious B so I was very happy in the end. I need to post some new illustrations up soon as even I am starting to want to see something other that dolls, so bring on the circus!

    Here is some development sketches.

as well as some final images that managed to turn out how I wanted them to.

for now my dolls are resting in my art folder. And will scan and post up my Circus work when I do enough to warrant showing it!

sighning off for now! ciao! 8D x

Doll Obsession Cover Illustration

This will be a short post as it is late and I have spent the last 10 hours sat at my desk mind numbling illustrating for a second book project at uni, so please bare with me if I seem a little drained from this post.

Basically, I have finally begun doing my final images for my Doll Obsession project and wanted to put up the cover design I just finished. I am currently sat waiting for it to dry as it is fresh from the printer. I didn't want the cover illustration to be busy as, from my point of view, it would put people off, so I went for a simple one (much like the one already featured) using the original taller BJD cut outs I have done. For the back, same, simple with two of the BJD cut outs, both side view. I then have to create a fake isbn and bar code. The bar code image was off of google and the ISBN is made up, still it fits the criteria I guess so I cant really ask for more :3

I hope you like this, will put more of my final ones up soon. Sadie(Sashie) signing off to sleep finally D8