solstice pictures

[helenic]

Because posting sketches to LJ is far more important than doing any of the urgent things I should be doing. New drawings!

Andy has been getting me into pencilling and inking. He has black markers of joy.

Untitled (solstice)
8" x 8" (I think)
Pen on paper

Automatic drawing starting with the face and working out. I think this is overly influenced by John Crowley's Little, Big, which I am reading at the moment thanks to the kind load of it from whatifoundthere, and adoring completely. Also it looks like a winter scene to me, so I'm not sure what that's about, and I have no idea what's going on with the tree and the key and the crow (oh yeah, that's meant to be a crow, on the dry stone wall there on the left. In case you couldn't tell.) This is pleasing, though, in the same way that interesting, plotty dreams are pleasing, even though you don't know what they're mean and can't really claim creative responsibility for them.

The Dreamer
14" x 10" (I think)
Pen on paper

Sketch of a painting concept I roughed out in my notebook the other week. I'm pleased with the birds - my birds normally look horrendous and cartoony (c.f. the crow in the picture above) but they're the wrong size. At the nape of her neck the birds need to be huge, one or two great ghostly forms pushing out through the back of her skull and resolving into the more distinct forms of four birds, then six, then lots, gradually diminishing in size before they fly off into the distance. Also I have no idea what's going on with her shoulders. Need to get better at drawing figures from imagination.

Comments

[steerpikelet.livejournal.com]

Little, Big is one of my favourite books in the whole world, ever. How far are you through?

[thene]

The second one reminds me of something Vii did a bit ago.

[aiwendel.livejournal.com]

pretty! :)

[aiwendel.livejournal.com]

re shoulders/figures from imagination.

I have this book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anatomy-Drawing-School-Geza-Feher/dp/3833125284/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214137889&sr=1-1
and it is awsome, if you don't have it you probably should; I think you'd like it and find it very helpful for all the figures you draw as it gives you everything you need to construct people. :)

Actually it might be this book that I have:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anatomy-Drawing-School-Geza-Feher/dp/3895082899/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=book
but I think they are the same thing.