Sketchbook pages 50-53

I've been doodling in my sketchbook!  Hooray!

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1. Gesture sketches.  I referenced poses from a book about Bruce Lee called Bruce Lee; The Art of Expressing the Human Body.  The quote reads, "Knowing is not enough, we must apply.  Willing is not enough, we must do."

2. I read an article about Marilyn Manson's love and use of make-up and wanted to use some red and blue paint.

3. A collage; "Shamanism.  Explore. Learn. Discover.", "Impulse.  Mania.  beauty.  liven up.  day-night.  amazing.  choices."

4. An important reminder collage; "Wake-up call: The 'Not Good Enough' Trap.  Some of us are so used to feeling bad about ourselves, it's become normal.  We have to make a change now, to let go of the 'ideals' we've been taught to achieve, and to stop being ruled by fear.  Essentially, we are addicts, addicted to viewing ourselves in a negative way.  Basically, we're crippled by the fear of not being enough in general.  We have learned...to be afraid of being imperfect - and of being human. That's no way to live. It's tiring and uncomfortable and time-consuming.  We need to stop thinking of ourselves as insufficient, as not good enough.  Essentially, we are addicts, addicted to viewing ourselves in a negative way. A wise woman once told me you can't just stop thinking something, because that leaves a void; you have to replace the old thought pattern with a new, healthier one. What if we replaced our negativity with positivity, replaced the hate with love?  I look in the mirror everyday and say, 'I love you; you're beautiful.'  My mind didn't want to break the habit of hating myself. But the more I did it, the more natural it felt...until it eventually felt good.  I'm over feeling bad about myself."  "Be your beautiful you."  "Kick the habit."

"artsy fartsy" sketchbook pages

New pages from the sketchbook!  I guess I dredged up old art school exercises 'cause these are all blind contours & "artsy fartsy" type doodles.  Remember, you can see all my sketches together in one place in my online sketchbook ;)

cups cups cups...(drinkin' out of cups...)

 

use your eyes - can't you tell this is a hinged box?! jeez!

all these cups are beginning to look like the Mad Tea Party!

...at least we got some color in that last one...

...but wait!  there's more!

partners always make good subjects!  

when he saw these he said, "cool! looks like ghosts playing violins and stuff!"

right on.

It was nice to draw on paper with some different physical media again.  I actually started wishing I could be drawing on the tablet when I was working on those shaded pencil cups - who'd 'ave thunk it, me, actually enjoying drawing digitally more?!  Haha!  It's pretty exciting to me, honestly.  You can almost see the disinterest in these sketches...I'll just have to get on my tablet and sketch it up and see if this feeling is true!

deviantart and old art

It's amazing what patterns one will find when looking over old projects.  I recently got back on deviantART and while looking through tons of files of my old art, I couldn't help but notice certain palettes I would come back to, certain themes, certain angles I draw faces from; it's given me some good insight into the kind of artist I was and glimmers of the artist I hope to be.  Good food for thought!  I also found some of my original ideas/sketches for completed pieces.  For instance:

The original sketch:

Followed by the finished painting:

Interesting to see how the piece morphed (I had honestly forgotten about the ink sketch, I had grown so used to seeing the painting).

Or like this POS:

Sketch:

Final:

(This multiple face thing came up again throughout the years).

Fun stuff!  But, yeah, totally back on deviantART again so check me out there as well as ConceptArt.org!

Some show-inspired Sketches

I've been on a semi-nostalgic anime kick recently (I mean, who hasn't?  The whole industry is exploding with blasts-to-the-pasts right now {google Sailor Moon Crystal if you need a reference}).  I've currently been engrossed in Dragon Ball Kai (currently on the Majin Buu Saga woo! can't wait for the new episode tonight!) and Revolutionary Girl Utena, the latter of which I have never ever seen and it has been exceeding my expectations beyond my wildest dreams (who doesn't love esoteric-alchemical-inspired-japanese-goth-rock during sword duels with upside-down-floating-castles in the background?!?!?!!!!  slash those gender stereotypes to bits!!!)

Needless to say, I've been sketching a tad during episodes to keep my hands busy.  Here's a few:

I was really touched by a couple of the dueling songs' lyrics, so they made it in here (I made a separate blog post about them if you wanna know what I wrote).  There's the Rose Bride Anthy Himemiya summoning the power of Dios and Saionji-practicing-a-fighting-stance reference quick-sketch (warm ups to get my hand going).

Here we have a silhouette of Nanami and the backside of Utena walking during the opening credits song as well as hair and mouth practice (I really like the rendering of the mouths in this anime - very androgynous and sensual and the hair reminds me of the hair animation in The Last Unicorn). 

I also loooove the eyes!  Here I've drawn stylized feminine & masculine eyes.  There's also Utena's profile, done in a mix style of my own and the show's.  Anime hands and legs (because all I seem to draw is heads and busts!!!)  The words I have written are, from left to right, as follows; "The angels who were passed over don't need wings to fly.", "I'll believe in myself because I want to believe.", "Absolute Destiny Apocalypse."

Now we're into the DBZ stuff!  Here we have all sorts of Space Armor!  The longer your spandex, the higher your power level!  The more armor you have, the higher your rank!  Or so it seemed to me...I'm probably way off (better check the fandom for that!)  I love how space armor seems gender neutral.  

Ah, the Prince of ALL Saiyans (or Saiyajins...I'm not picky).  I love how Vegeta specifies that he is the Prince of ALL Saiyans...like, all 2 1/2 Vegeta, all right.  I love his little angry cat face!  And, yes, that does say "legendary super butt" with a little heart next to it.  Don't judge.  We all have our extreme fan moments. (Also, yes, that is Usagi of Sailor Moon making an "oo" face with a horrendous attempt at a cartoon rabbit on the right there).

The purpose of these sketches was to attempt a cartoony/comic book style; I'm not necessarily going for realism...though a realistic drawing of Vegeta's ass might not be a bad idea...

CLEARLY I NEED MORE BRANDY IN MY TEA.

Digital sketching

I've been practicing on the tablet. Here's a couple sketches that I'm proud of:





I hope to have more soon!

Some Sketches

A couple of sketches of mine form recently. First image in graphite with wine stains. Second image also in graphite but with magenta-coloured marker.

More of my work can be seen at: Strange Art by Teresea

Doodles

Just some silly Snape doodles 'cause my brain is preoccupied with this silly fanfic I'm apparently writing.


Ickle Snape


Snape-o's lovely face.

:P

Sketch Dump!

Hooray! Finally, some sketches! Here's a bunch that I've done over the course of, like...six months? I'm not really sure...but here they are!

Warrior, Teacher, Visonary, Healer (the "Warrior" bit got cut off in the scan):


Techno Elf Babble:


Tree Sketch:


Sitting Siddharth:


Sean's Face & Stylized Sun:


A Vortex(?):


Sick:


Sick II:


Channeling Symbol:


Yoni Birthing Eye Within Radiant Triangle:


Eye-Maze-ing:


Rose Journey Encounter:


Love Smoke:


WIP (this is a sketch of a rather large painting I am working on at the moment):