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For this month's Drawesome challenge to explore unconventional body shapes and sizes in art. No instagram ready glam here.

I'd been wondering what to draw, then I thought about all the wonderful and various models we've had for our life drawing, so here are a few of my sketches.


Kaz
Kaz is in her forties, a belly dancer and cyclist
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A bunch of folk festival people
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Brenda
I think in her fifties, early 60s, an excellent sitter
Brenda July 2019 30 mins-2
Lady Contrary (Burlesque, you can check her out on Instagram. This was her first time life modelling.)
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Gerald
Ex army, very upright and still when modelling. Early 70s.
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I've left out the models who were more conventional shapes, but we used to have such a great variety of people, I really miss those sessions!
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A tad late but here's my offering for the lovely [personal profile] firesign10, who asked for anything Sam, Dean or SPN-ish.
A quick pencil sketch of Samifer and Dean (from the vision of the future rather than Zachariah's more complex End construction).

2022 Sam(ifer) & Dean (jensen)
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It seems like last minute late night efforts are working for me at the moment...
SPNovember Day 2 prompt was witchcraft and wonders, and it's a complete mystery why my mind went in this direction. Honest, guv.

2021 SPNovember Day 2 Witch Sam
Image description: Black and white drawing of Sam Winchester, head shoulders and torso. He's shirtless and his hair is blowing in an invisible wind. He's turned towards the viewer. His left hand is generating a kind of vortex, and there's a swirl of light or smoke twisting round his back and tangled in his right hand.

I've decided I suck at trying to describe my drawings. Apologies to any visually impaired visitors.

Drawn with Artgraf soft carbon pencil again, with water brush washes and a few touches of fineliner.
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I may well only do one - my record on daily challenges is poor - but here's Graveyard.
Looks like things haven't gone well for Dean.
2021 SPNovember 1 Graveyard
Image description: in rough line and wash black and white, dark trees in the background, in the mid-ground two plain leaning gravestones with a fragile-looking statue of an angel in between. The angel has her right hand pressed to her cheek and holds a bunch of flowers in her right hand down by her side. In the foreground amid unkemp vegetation Dean is prone, most of his body isn't visible. Dean's facing the viewer with his eyes open. There's blood on his forehead and cheek.

Materials:
Drawn using Art Graf soft carbon pencil, washed over with water brushes, then some detailing was done on top of the washes with a finepoint marker and more soft carbon.

Here's the prompt list in case anyone wants to join in - it's a do whatever you want when you want challenge for fic or any media. Post anywhere and tag.
2021 SPNovember Prompt list
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I dunno. I had an idea in my head and it just didn't turn out right. I also learned charcoal pencil doesn't work on top of graphite, and ink is questionable. Plus of course, graphite doesn't scan terribly well

But regardless. Here's a Dean portrait.
2021 Dean sketch, with ink on top
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I only did two fills for spn_masquerade, and now (of course!) I'm not happy with either of them - argh. But for completeness, here they are.

Firstly, someone requested an Aladdin J2 AU - J1 is a genie. J2 gets three wishes.
Filled!Read more... )
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Artpost: Dead man walking
Made for: [livejournal.com profile] monicawoe's fic Breathing,Talking, Dead Man Walking
Rating: Mature
Tags: NSFW, nudity, nekkid Sam Winchester
Summary: Sam wakes up on a coroner's slab.

Art teaser
deadman walking-tease


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Started painting my Cambridge cow this morning. It wasn't too bad in terms of temperature out in the garage, I wore thermals and fleeces and survived just fine, but it's pretty dirty in there, and I kept getting bits of dust and tiny fragments of dead leaves stuck on the wet paint because I had to work with the garage door open for the light. So that's a nuisance and I don't know what I can do about it. I hadn't noticed it being a problem last time I used their garage for the bee and the giraffe - maybe it's because I'm using lighter colours at the moment, for this base coat.
I was going to do a time lapse series but realised my camera battery was too low, so just took a couple of pics.Read more... )
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Title: Samfurter
Movie Prompt: Rocky Horror Picture Show
Pairing: Whatever the viewer fancies
Rating: R, I guess.
Word Count or Media: Traditional art
Summary: Sam Winchester would make a fine Frankenfurter, right?
Notes: I had thought about colouring this but I like the pencil so here he is in all his glory.
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It's been a while.
Trying to capture Jared's cute little nose.Read more... )
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There are no female presenting nipples in this post.

I had a fun lifedrawing session last night with my mulitcoloured pencil, so I thought I'd share.

Kaz is a belly dancer among other things, so always does some realy nice two minute poses.

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Time flies! I didn't realise until I checked, but I haven't done an update since December, so I don't feel like I'm spamming you by posting now LOL.

Sketchbook update since January
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This year I drew the talented kelleigh out of the spn_j2_xmas Santa hat. I started writing something, but then Art ensued!

Title: Isn't it about time for a Red Hood/Thor crossover anyway?
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Pairing/Characters: J2
Medium: Traditional art with digital colour
Rating: PG13
Warnings: None
Summary: Jared loves Marvel but Jensen is a strictly a DC man, which means that every year the work costume party causes a little bit of drama.
Teaser:
JP crop
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Ages ago there was a meme on tumblr (or somewhere) to take an old drawing/painting and try doing it again to see what differences there are, if any, in your style, competency, etc. I'd been meaning to have a go at this challenge for ages, then for some reason this old drawing from 2012 got my attention, so...Remix time!

Here's the old pencil drawing which is fiddled with in photoshop or GIMP, because I remember the eyes were in the wrong place. I know I added white highlights too, and some digital shading.Read more... )
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Happy Birthday beelikej!!
I've been really bad at acknowledging birthdays this year, but I couldn't let my lovely fellow spn_reversebang mod's birthday pass without a little thank you gift for all her hard work. Hope you have a wonderful day, J!
I also hope this is recognisable LOL
Teaser
Version 2Large image under cut )
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Haven't done one of these art posts for a while.
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Challenge 8 is to try doing some art using your non dominant hand.

I don't think I've tried drawing left handed since I was at school so this was interesting!
Especially as I forgot that using the left hand I should have started the picture on the right and worked across, instead of on the left - which meant I spent most of the time trying to lift my hand to avoid smudging the damn thing!
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It's supposed to be Captain America. The other interesting thing, apart from how wobbly my hand is, drawing lines, is how basically I made the same errors I do with my right hand. His face is still too long and thin... It was actually easier to control the pencil when I held it on its side more.

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Oct. 26th, 2016 03:42 pm
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I never caught up with Inktober, so I think I'll just keep the prompt list and gradually fill up my little book as I get inspired. In the meantime, my weekly sketchbooking course continues. This week there was no class because it's half term, so I met up with Debbie, the lady I first met on the free walking sketching day.

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I actually got off my fat backside and did something today. I'd signed up for this free event a while ago and was poised on the brink of chickening out, but forced myself to go - and of course I really enjoyed it. It was a walk round Holywells Park and Landseer Park (which I'd never realised were so close together before), and they provided a sketch book and pencils to use. The idea was we would stop every now and then and draw something, but I think I spent more time talking than drawing! The woman I talked to most mustn't have been too put off though, as she suggested we meet up to do some sketching again sometime soon. Which is a nice idea - I need to get out more and to use actual art materials instead of sitting on the sofa using PS6 all the time.

So anyway, here's the results of the stroll'n'sketch:

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The theme this week was DEMON POSSESSION / ANGEL ENVESSELMENT
You can find all the magnificent artings HERE and HERE at  spnartistswap,
I was given this cool Samifer sketch by Nadia to work from.
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I toyed with the idea of doing Samifer in the process of dying, impaled on Michael's sword, but then decided to go with something simpler.
Teaser:
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Full pic and large images under the cut! )

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