Ballerinas (ballerinae? Ballerinuses?) ... ballet dancers *firm nod*

For some reason, I've been sketching ballerinas all day. And on a whim, I took one of these to a watercolor finish.





Unfortunately, it wasn't until after I'd sketched it, inked it, painted it, and inked it again (note to self: watercolor and gouache layered over ink is a bad idea) that I thought, hey you know what would've made for a better pose? Almost anything else. /=\

Well. Lesson learned.

On the left are some quick studies for a more dynamic pose, along with (for some reason) a colored shoulder/bicep study.




Cristian.

Portrait practice

I've never been great with portraits; drawing people, whether it's cartoony or semi-real, presents its own challenges each time, but is easy by comparison.

That said, I'm pretty thrilled with how this came out. Even working from a photograph (which is considerably easier than working from a live model, since you can take as long as you want without the subject moving or getting bored), this went wrong from the beginning. But I managed to pull it around, and came out with something I'm pretty happy with.




A couple of in-progress shots.... I keep meaning to take more of these, but it always slips my mind until I'm nearly done. =/







Also, my niece, Odelia. "Leah" for short... or so I keep trying to convince her parents. =P








That's it for now, but I've been doing a lot of drawing lately (if not necessarily a lot of posting*), so there will be more updates soon.

*-- to make up for sparse posting, here's some cute piglets with wings. Enjoy.