Bag of Tricks ~ A Sketchbook ~ November 16 ~ Simley process gif

[Pixie Trick]

Hello everyone. I'm not going to bother boring you with words. Just have fun looking. :)

Edit: So, after a year or so with that utterly boring, pompous and uninformative intro, I've decided to actually say something.

Hello, I am a 17 year old Canadian girl. I had lurked on CA for way, way, way too long without becoming a member, sadly enough, though this has been rectified as you can see. I'm planning on going into something at least vaguely art related whether it be illustration, architecture, industrial design or something else. Crits and advice are always welcome!

[Pixie Trick]

Lol. Pear.

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Some cross between a unicorn, muskox, and a woolly mammoth. Who knows?
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[Pixie Trick]

A cup (plus bad background) , some ears, and a quickie of a character named Sir Goremont. I'm still having issues getting anything I do on the computer to get into focus. Any advice would be welcome.

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[Pixie Trick]

Finally the promised colour! :)
A random fairytale sort of thing (random title).
A beginning for the comet rider COW before I remember that a comet was ice etc. and not rock. The idea was that the comet rider ate the minerals and metals in the rock until it ate through it. It was also allergic to oxygen because all of the metals in it would oxidize it to dust.
30 minute speed paint from ref.
IDOW Power boots: Ruby Slippers! This wasn't really an industrial design but I really liked it. I eventually made a really good sequin brush for this which is now forever lost somewhere in my computer.

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[Niva.]

I really like the glass (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=314200&stc=1&d=1204281374) and the landscape (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=317015&d=1204576418) in the last post.

At this stage you just need to work more and post more - the rest of the stuff is fairly unrefined. Scanning your stuff with higher contrast will help a lot too - or increasing the contrast after you scan.

Keep posting and don't give up because people here don't reply, they're too busy checking out the 5* threads :)

[TheWookieMonster]

nice initial sketches, the pencil work is fantastic, love the cup too, looks like its been painted in oils.

GJ :D

[Pixie Trick]

Profiles out of my head. I must say I like odd noses.
A 15min life study of a pineapple.
Strange animals including a snail thing missing an eye.

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[Pixie Trick]

n1va: Hope the contrast is better in these and thanks. I'm not one to give up. I figure, if I'm fifteen, and the really good people here are minimum twenty five, I have another ten years to get as good as they are. :)

TheWookieMonster: Thanks.

[Ridz]

do it in five and you'll be five years ahead of em ;)
so get working!

[Pixie Trick]

True, very true! :) However, it's not that easy to do if you plan on keeping a 90% average at school.

Planes, a bowl, and hands.

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[Ridz]

mm well.. i finished high schoolwith an 85, but i definitely could have tried harder, it wasnt necessarily a time issue. so it's do-able!

[EvilBunny]

Well, you've already beat me with the awesome colorings. Just keep up with the studies, you're on the right track.

[Pixie Trick]

EEK! No posts for a month. Anyway, here is an absolutely huge dump to make up. I'd love some crits. Please..... :P

1 Coconut crusher COW
2 Horsies! There was originally a person on the black one but I removed his existance
3 Quickies hands. These are only about 2 cm high each so I'm quite happy with them
4 Practicing perspective without guidelines on imaginary chairs
5 Enviro practice
6 Random doodles I liked
7 Bleh enviro
8 This is from that Steampunk Prof, Penguin Chow. I never finished it but I'm thing of it now
9 Apple harvester from IDW. The trees suck, but I really got attached to the concept.

I also did some watercolor studies that I actually like of (like 2 hours each) but I need to find a camera to take some pics. I think I overworked them but I want to get them up here for some crits.
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[KarylGilbertson]

You've got some real nice work here! It's a good start. I think though, that you could benefit from some brush/pencil stroke economy-- try to do more with each brush or pencil stroke. Right now you have a lot of little marks happening, which can muddy things up when you're painting and/or make things look really "hesitant". There's a great Prometheus tutorial that deals with, well, everything, but there's a good section on economy in there... here's the link:

http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm

Keep it up! And thanks for dropping by my sketchbook! :)

[Pixie Trick]

Evil Bunny: Thanks. I plan on doing just as you say.
Ridz: In terms of time issues, its getting the extra 5% that takes the work.
Ookchk: Thanks for the link. And you're welcome. I've been trying some marker stuff to try and help with the whole extra lines stuff, but I've been having issues which probably means that it's something that I should work on. :) You can probably see the same thing in the splochiness of the watercolours below.

Here's the watercolours.
Self crits: Splotchy. The bottle is really flat. I think I spent more time looking at the wrinkles through the cloth than actually looking at the bottle. I really, really don't like watercolours.

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[Dan!]

nice studies good to see some traditional mixed in there-- inventive industrial designs. Good work keep it up:)

[Pixie Trick]

Thanks decypl.

Big dump this time. An assignment at school was to write a kids book in french and illustrate, so here are about two thirds of what I have to do so. Hopefully I will have enough time to do some colour and make some other fixes. Also some enviro studies, Mouse House EOW and some random stuffs.

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[Pixie Trick]

Here's another watercolour. Not as bad as the others I think. Please ignore the pinecone. I actually ended up just going over it with some acrylics by the end.

Oh, and I've gotten a better picture of the second water colour
above

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[Pixie Trick]

Well, I ended up cutting out a lot of the images for the book, so here are most of the ones that did get in it. There was a black hole too, but it was scribbles put into liquify filter....fun though :) I also got around to doing some mini-studies in pencil. The deer skull in the other has been slowly flaking apart and bing eaten by mice on by porch so it now. Also some sketches for DEEP, not really going to do anything though.

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[Pixie Trick]

Here's some stuffs. I haven't really spent any tume before now with pen or marker so most of this (incl the anatomy) is just experimenting. Hopefully it will help with the whole line economy thing. I have so many pages of things like the teapots, but I have decided to spare the eyes of CA. I have a real issue with going over things over, and over and over again even if they don't need it... bleh. I have so many excessive lines everywhere in the anatomy... But I really like flowers: no one can tell if you messed them up. :P

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[Pixie Trick]

Hello. I've been in France for a while. I must say I hated it but, but I got some good drawing time out of it. The last is a wip for the cow nectar spender.
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[Pixie Trick]

So, something random as usual. :D A ukrainian mole. (There is a story behind it but not particularly pertinent...) I hope to colour it at some point. In general, just some playing with brushes. I need to quit school so I can do everything else I want to. :P

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Oh, and a better final of that nectar spender. I am actually quite happy with the crature but LAMO flowers, it was sooo empty. I need to work on not cute stuff.

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I've had issues with colour conversion from PSD to JPG. (just look at the one above for an example) If anyone has a solution pleassssse help me! :$ To get this I had to take a screenshot and do some other fooling around. The colour is so much more dull... oh well.

[Pixie Trick]

Since my scanner had been unconnected to the *new* :steph: computer for close to two months, here's some stuff from August and September.

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[ashess]

hey there pixie. great detail still lives there; and good studies as well. notice you like drawing horses. a great thing to do is observe them with a marker and some cheap-ass paper; and just draw what you see. you're gonna end up with a line for the back and 2 for a leg, and then start on a new one within a minute. it give great speed practice as well as make you feel their dynamic lines. uhm. dont really think its right to link to my own stuff in other's threads, but I mean like this:
http://ashess.blogspot.com/2007/08/1min-drawing-exersizes.html
try it its fun ^^

[Pixie Trick]

Thanks for the suggestion ashess. Unfortunately I don't live where I can easily get to any horses. I will try with some birds and squirrels (lots of those) once it's above 5C and less than 30cm of snow :).

Here's some IDW stuff. Lots of pencils but no scanner.

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[bbwolf]

I really like those chess pieces.

[Mokinzi]

First I must say that the colourful pear up there is reallt cool ^^

Nice studies! You really seem to improve a lot with them. And as bbwolf says, the chess pieces are great!
So you're doing pretty well, and you are handling nature and landscapes very good. I would like to see you do even more studies on human anatomy, though.
Keep up the good work!

[Pixie Trick]

bbwolf: Thanks. I couldn't think of anything imaginative really so I went with what I knew. :)

Mokinzi: Thanks. I have mixed thought about humans. I like to draw/paint etc things. As far as I'm concerned people are things, and personally, I'm not too much more interested in people than a really cool seashell, or a rabbit. This said, it really doesn't compare because other people are very interested in other people... mmmm just some rambling thoughts. I like anatomy a lot as I like to see how things work, however, the only books I have are medical ones, and they're not the greatest. You should see the amazing works by the illustrator in Grey's Anatomy. I think the guy deserves an award.

So here's some various sketches for the ___of the weeks. I finally figured out why the computer wasn't liking my camera card. Sorry for the bad quality.

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[Pixie Trick]

And some other random studies etc. The hand is only partway done, but then I moved, and the light moved and never came back. :( And the lady at the end was done during the dress rehersals for the school play. They're kinda warped from the horrible photography.

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[Pixie Trick]

And finally, some ___ of the week finals and wips.

Time machine complete with typos.

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Castle mountain in the snow. Not too castley, but it made me happy. :P

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[Pixie Trick]

So... I was pretty sick with tonsillitis/strep over the holidays (= no art), laziness (= no art :/), and exams x 4 in bio, chem, history and math !!!!!! (= no art...). So here's something that came out of avoiding studying and somewhat fits the current IDW. I've got some 2 sec bird studies too as per ashess' instructions (hint: they don't look like birds) but I haven't gotten to uploading them.

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[Pixie Trick]

I made a fairy village in my kitchen yesterday. I made the house thing about two years ago. I photoshopped the first to get rid of plant tags and odd coloured spots where the kitchen showed through.

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And the setup.

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[Pixie Trick]

More. I hate properly doing plants, so I did a plant. I really need to work on not over doing all my pencils. Oh, and the promised birds. I swear they fly seven times faster than you think they do. :P Crtits anyone?

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[Pixie Trick]

I took me forever to get the appendages of those freaking dinosaurs right. And they're still not right. Arggg.... :P I got a couple of books in the mail this week: Sketchbook for the Artist by Sarah Simblet (It's awsome. I love it.) And constructive anatomy by whats his face that everyone knows. :P

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[Pixie Trick]

Arms from whatshisface and dragon harnesses for IDW.

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[Hive_minD]

Those foot-studies stink! ----nah, not really. Actually they look fantastic!

[bbwolf]

Good to see you doing studies

And I looove the dragon harness design sheets. Very creative.
Any thoughts behind that you´d like to share?

[Pixie Trick]

Hive_minD: Thanks.

bbwolf: Ok. Well, here's more of a run through, but hopefully it'll tell you what you wanted to know.

1) I decided that since the point was the harness, there was no reason to get overly fancy with the dragon itself, so I painted myself a fairly bland dragon in a couple minutes. If I did decide to get fancy, I could always just adjust the proportions of the design.

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2) So then I just duplicated said dragon a couple of times, and lowered the opacity of the layer. Then the fun part was dredging up random ideas. Originally I had an idea in mind, but I ended up ditching it. I think a large part of the process is running out of 'cool' ideas and actually having to think about it. :D I ended up picking 1b which was a combo of a couple of designs from the previous sheet.

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3) A rough up of the design, and possible saddles and buckles etc.

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4) The final.

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[Pixie Trick]

I was realizing while doing the bridgeman stuff, that it really wasn't making any sense to me, mainly because I wasn't getting what the blocks he had were representing, and it was irritating me. So I decided to get some more medical texts and straighten out what goes where etc. These are from "Human Function and Structure" Some of the proportions are ridiculously off, and lopsided, etc but it's all getting sorted out in my head. I also tried flipping the images in my head to get both sides, and it worked with variations of success. More is coming. (oops, the last page is upside down, but you get the idea)


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[Pixie Trick]

An IDW Baba Yaga's house thing I have many, many complaints about. If you actually want to see the complaints, pop over to the wip thread for IDW. And a self portrait and eyes, and noses, and mouths. Wearing glasses sucks because either a) it distorts everything, b) you can't see when you angle your face away enough to get profile-ish, and c) getting hit in the face really, really hurts when it happens. And some hands, I decided to do some very gentle playing with in PS. Faux chalk. I've noticed everything on the right side of anything I do tends to be higher and I'm trying to fix that by just being conscious of it, but it doesn't seem to be helping.

On another note, in art class, were doing history which means that when I have to do little thumbs of old artworks, I get to make Jesus look however as I like. I laugh and laugh and laugh until the people next to me start moving away slowly. Fun. :sungod: That and I think Mary and the saints were drawn after aliens because their fingers are so boneless and long. Actually, if you look at Egyptian stuff they have the same thing going on. It's a conspiracy!!!!! The mother ship is coming!!!!! Run......... *ahem* .....well.

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[Pixie Trick]

Soooooo, I'm off to France again on the 22nd so two and a half week no update for a while. Meh. It will be better as my partner this time seems really nice. I did some more foots and hands and bones and stuffs. I seemed to be in a happy place for drawing for like three days, and then yesterday, I tried to draw any thing properly, and I came out like mush. It made me sad. :( The feet above in pen, I was actually seeing the random bumps that Bridgeman has, and was getting that is was all a matter of accentuation of minuscule bumps and ridges and things, and then its like boom and nothing's working in my head and hand and the connection's gone. Ahhhhhhh..... Ohh, and I just noticed I've actually been updating semi decently. Weird. Anyways, If you can actually make out which body part goes where, and if it actually is a body part you get a prize. Actually, you don't but you get the idea. Sorry for bad photos.

Enviro I gave up on the trees in, baba yaga sketch I really like.
stuff.....and last is a really imaginative, girl holding a knife.

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[Pixie Trick]

Some idw stuff.

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My IDW final. I can't spend any more time on this. I've got to pack!!!!

Herre's the write up.
This is a set of eating-ware that is made for the first interplanetary travelers from Earth. It is made of stainless steel to be easily sterilized without precious water. This set has an integrated gravitational unit in each of the pieces in order to keep the food from flying off your plate in space and on low g. planets. The units can be switched off to save power, and the cutlery (knives, forks and spoon, or spoon and chopsticks) clip into the holders on either side of the plate in this situation. (The knobs on the ends keep them from slipping out.) The cup can be clipped onto the plate so it can be let go of while eating, has a lid with attached straw that keeps liquids from being knocked out. When the cutlery is clipped in, cup attached and power off, the whole set can be attached to a belt and moved as one piece.

The closeup is a view from the bottom of the plate showing some of the mech, and tech, and a miniature of the same is what is used with the cup. All cutlery have smaller units in the handles.

And the pic.

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[Sorknes]

Wow, great studies! :) And the dragon harnesses looks like a really good brainstorm.

Thanks for your IDW advices, I'll be sure to try to follow them, your IDW's looks really good.

I do have a soft spot for that little fairy village you made though, hehe. Keep working on those studies!

[Pixie Trick]

Sorkness: Thanks. I really do hope the crits made sense. I loved that village too. My family just shook their heads and tip toed around it. :P Studies are lots of fun too. I find them really relaxing.

So, I'm back from the trip. Went to the Louvre, and only had two hours, so I got to the Byzantine period, realized I had used and hour already, and rushed through the rest. It was literally painful to walk past and not look. I fell in love with these really cool rolly beads. They were like rolling stamps.... anywhooo.

I didn't do too much drawing, but here's what I did get done that was semi-decent. The bus was pink on the inside, and got Christened the love bug/shagg wagon. Fun times.

Anything shaky was on the bus.

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[Pixie Trick]

Some school assignments. The paper bag looks weird, but I double checked while I was doing it and the shadow on the top was the same/a little darker than the side in real life. The whole dark next to light = looks darker than it is, thing going on I think. I started another drapery one, but my helpful mother put my towel away. :( I'm getting more and more attached to pen, and I think it shows in the pencil.

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[strings]

Very cool ideas and your studies have come a long way after only two pages. Impressive stuff, I'd like to see more of tricks, please!

Oh, I notice with one of your landscape studies in B/W has this eerie before/after feel compared to one of speed paintings I did a while back. Random, yeah.

see link: here (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0Qfxk8Or5Hc/Sb_5utcVpdI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/eRJJhdYUXZE/s1600-h/landscape_comparison.jpg)

[Pixie Trick]

strings: That is really, really creepy. That, and great minds think alike. hehe It might only be two pages, but they're spread over a year and three months. It's only recently that I've been updating regularly. Tricks.... you insult me!!!! I do no tricks like a common pheasant! *harrumph* ... wait, I mean peasant. :P


Actually, thinking of that reminds me that I've done no colour studies in almost a year. ...must do colour study, must to colour study...

So here's some more IDW. Alien tripod. It's getting busy, but this is mainly for fun. It may have a screaming face and a sprinkler at some point. Crits?

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[strings]

You've got some funky designs here, and perspective too, like it! It's fun to look at, and its nice to kick back from the busy.ness

I have some suggestion for lighting, although this is supposed to be colour study. I've made a few quick tweaks as suggestions. Increased the Levels & Brightness Contrast* on some areas to push the lighting. What you could do is switch between black and white / colour when you paint digital, may help significantly. Keep it up.

[ashess]

hey pixie! like that time machine final. though the ground plane with the foot-markings kindof looses its direction in the final piece. same problem with the mountains. you need to show a little clearer what directions plains are going. still, great improvement, and lovely fresh ideas.

[MrSmith]

you are definitely improving!

[Pixie Trick]

strings: Ummm, I ment the image was getting busy from all the things I kept on adding to it, but it's true that it was fun to just have fun with it. (...and how is this a colour study? I think it's the most balant usage of every candy related colour on Earth, sadly enough. :P) Thank you for the compliment. Also, thanks a ton for spending the time to try figure out what I'm doing wrong. I kept the highest contrast in tone in one object to the tripod to help keep it as the focus, and it was a bit on purpose keeping the rest rather toned down. A lot of this was figuring out why I had done something in the original sketch, and how this worked compositionally. I think where you placed the house's shadow may be a tad off. I will admit that I placed my shadows by eye, but for all the light came from behind the viewer, and not from behind the house.

ashess: Thanks. I do have issues with planes, but I have no idea what sort of things I can do to remedy this situation. I get the idea, but I have no idea how to translate that to an image.

MrSmith: That's something that's always nice to hear.

Actually, on that note, I looked through some of my old sbs, and took some pics. These are from 2006, when I was thirteen. I find it neat that I can look at something I drew three years ago and remember the moment exactly. Better than a photo. I do find it sad to see how little I've progressed. I love the tree one more now than when I made it. Look at the detail! It feels like another person did draw it.


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And the final of the IDW.

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I've signed myself up for the CHOW The final Dr. Who (how could I not with my avatar?) so that's the next week's project. The last CHOW I did was a year ago (and believe me it was hideous) so I'm a bit apprehensive. Thank god it's a two week time limit and not one. Eeeek!

[Pixie Trick]

So I have nothing in colour, and nothing to show for the CHOW yet, but I have most of the junk from class for last week. I did a portrait of my Dad that actually shows a resemblance which is nice. So anatomy stuff. Actually the page of only feet is from memory except for the bad looking one which was from life. Weird. Anywhooo, massive dump of sketchies. The page with the grid is horrible I know. We got the muscles for each appendage separately, and I had to piece it together in my head, so It got kind of out of whack, so I stuck a bucket on him. Currently we are drawing our teacher so that'll be showing up soon. Another current project is a mosaic, done in little, tiny pieces of paper. It's horrible to do and to see.

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[knoxie]

wow!!!! you've got an awesome mix of creative sketches and studies from life and anatomy here!

You're surprisingly dedicated for someone so young! That's a rare talent, so keep it up! If you can get your hands on "Scott Robertson's Rendering Matte Surfaces".. i think it could help you get more realistic lighting into your creative sketches!

Keep it up Pixie Trick!

[strings]

Great studies, WHOA! you can actually draw your entire drawing arm.

[Pixie Trick]

knoxie: Thanks. And thank you for the suggestion. I'll have to see if I can get a copy. A bit out of my personal price range, but what else are birthdays and chistmas for?

Actually, that reminds me, I had a teacher who used to be a uni prof in China when I was between eight and ten, and for two years we did 30min-2hour still lifes of white cubes and spheres, and finally fake fruit and cups and stuff. After that we finally got to use oil pastels to do the same. It was the most boring thing on earth after a while, especially when you're eight, but I think she tried to teach me the most out of any art teacher I had since. She also had us (my brother and I, he was only seven-ish) adjust all the pictures in her house to be perfectly level, and to find the exact centre of a sheet of paper without measuring. She also used to tell us how she used to be in a class of fifty girls, and one eraser. I miss her.

strings: This is for you. There's probably one or two of these spread out somewhere in this sb. This is fun, but you arm gets numb after five minutes or so. Elbows look so cool from this angle! I love how the perspective gets all funny when your shoulder is only a couple of inches away. I think it would be fun to do a drawing all the way up to your nose (or however hgh you can see) of your own body. The only problem is that you kep on shifting without noticing and things start to look really weird really fast.

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[bbwolf]

Heya Pixie Trick

Very nice studies again. Imho you´re best when you do studies. Also shows that you´ll be quiet good if you´ll keep practising. Glad you had a good teacher, albeit a boring one from time to time, who showed you the importance on studies and introduced you to stuff like the drawing of white cubes and stuff. Sometimes I wish I had the opportunity to go to art school. Any art school. *meh* I did okay by myself long enough and then there was internet and conceptart. :yayca:

Keep it up. cya ´round.


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[strings]

That's mind bending, I've gotta try that drawing exercise.

[Pixie Trick]

bbworlf: I know that my studies and real life are the best. Basicly they're just copying. I don't go to art school. Any art education I have is from that one woman (once a week in her basement), various week long, once a summer, kid's art courses at the local community college (pottery mainly, only one year drawing), various jewellery courses (actually, I started silversmithing last summer, but I never have time for it now), one pysanky course, and highschool art class.

Strings: Try it. It's fun! :D It's not all that different than just looking down at your foot and drawing it, but just at a much weirder angle. Have you ever gone on your stomach and looked at how your kitchen table + chairs looks from underneath or down low? (okay, stupid question) It's the same thing as the top, just a bit less ordinary.

Here's a portion of what's been keeping me busy for the last week. This hideous thing took about twenty hours all told. It's about 10 inches by 8 inches. It took foreeeeever to do and I'm not overly fond of it. I got lazier for the last two hours or so. The first photo is colour adjusted, but the second is on. After that is a portrait from a photo of my grandmother and I. I think I looked adopted when I was young. I know her eyes are too far apart but it was ten at night alright! More to come, but I haven't photographed much of it.

Actually, I got the suggestion to set up as a portrait drawer downtown at the farmer's market in the summer and do some drawing there. I may just do that.

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[bbwolf]

Alright, alright. It was ten at night. And then.... there´s Photoshop to cheat an aceptable out of an "too tired sketch". Hmm?

The Mosaic/Collage is nice. 20hrs? School merit project or what?

[Pixie Trick]

Just wanted to mention the thread I started for my Pysanky. It's in my signature.

bbwolf: Nah, just school project. There's a girl that I have a bit of a 'who can figure out what the teacher wants better and then do a better job of it', thing going on. Keeps me motivated anyways. Healthy rivalry and all that. I would have done nearly the same amount of work anyways. Why not do a good job?

[bbwolf]

ah, scoring brwonie points. Yes sometimes going the extra mile is rewarding.
Doing kinda boring monkey work is also a good prep for the working life, hehe.

[Mokinzi]

Man, I just love that collage portrait! I don't care what you say, I think it's awesome with a really nice style and great colours and everything.
That drawing of you and your grandma is lovely too:)
And keep up those studies, they're great!

[Pixie Trick]

Thank you Mokinzi.

Long time, no post. I had an indecisive week or two where I couldn't figure out if I wanted to do something enough to start.

A three week old portrait of my dear dad (20min or so as he would only sit still for the end of the show he was watching) Sketchies for sculpture in class: I started the first gown lady, only to have her fall in half, get a tear in the clay going halfway across the skirts and generally be miserable on the fifth day. I'm doing the rag girl now. She seemed the most structurally sound, although I'm having problems with her cloak. Wip for six legged steed for cow.

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[Sorknes]

Feet and hand studies are always good! ;)

I really like that mosaic portrait you made there, you managed to get most things in the right places and at the same time make it interesting. And the fabric studies as well, I'd like to see you push those further. :)

[Pixie Trick]

Srokness: Thanks! Will do (at some point... :P)

Another wip for the six legged steed. It seems soooo static though. I over render things and it really bugs me.

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I think I might enter this weeks teen challenge. I just discovered it. A wip for that: topic -> garden of impurity. And since I challenged Unidcolor to do an enviro that had a ratio of 8x3 vertical, I decided I might as well do one with that sort of sizing as well: 3.3x11.1.

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Here's the finals for the above two. I'm not sure about the sand being sprayed up by the feet, but it's more interesting this way... choices, choices...

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[Pixie Trick]

This is what has been keeping me occupied for the last week. Whenever I'd finished whatever else I had to do, I worked a bit on this. My brother was getting fed up with not being able to move the scoop so he could touch the counter, and I was getting bored, so I guess it's as done as it's going to get. Lots of issues, but I'm not going to get too caught up in it. Crits etc. are very, very welcome.

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Yo Pixie Trick! Just wanted to come over and say hello! and yeh keep on working and have a nice time while doing it too!=) its looking great.

im sorry but im not very good at critique, but I think the latest one is looking good, the final part would be to polish it, but yeh time can be an issue, you did a good job blocking it all out so you couild stop at any time without anything left blank too!=) I feel your pain of your brother, what if he needed a calculator!, but I guess those exists on computers and phones these days hah.

Keep up the good work!

[engelhardt]

Hi Pixie Trick, nice sketchbook! Good that you try many different media. I really like the ideas for the chessmen. The digital stillive is good, but the very inhomogeneous holes in the dipper (the big spoon?) are a bit disturbing. Are you going to post photos of the caly stuff you do? - that would be great!

[Pixie Trick]

UnidColor: Nice to 'see' ya! My brother can just suck it up, though next time I think I'll do something smaller, but more refined.

engelhardt: It's nice to know what you like. I've been thinking about which things I've done that people like, and trying to make a connection, but there doesn't seem to be much of one. The list is something like: chess pieces, collage/mosaic, time machine, studies. Studies I can see why more so, but other than that, I have no clue!?!? Frustrating because the ones I like, on one else seems to. Weird. I don't do a whole lot of clay work, but I've taken a course or two. I have one statue that I mentioned to you in your sb, and is mentioned earlier in this threat, but it is currently on display with my life drawing of my teacher. And what do you mean about the holes being 'homogeneous' and 'disturbing'? They're in the wrong spots perhaps? If you could clarify that'd be great.

Mehhh...some stuff. I really haven't gotten much done, and I'm feeling rather burnt out for no apparent reason. I just don't feel like doing anything. Here's some week or two old stuff. Porous exo-skeleton final and garden shears from multiple angles.

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[strings]

(@Pneumopod) I bet it taste just like chicken , Mmm ;)

[CastorFiber]

I really like the first picture, great job!

[Pixie Trick]

Thanks to you both for stopping by. I have no idea what is tastes like: I'm a vegetarian, but I can sent some to you if you want. :P

Here's what I spent a wonderful, marvelous, absolutely charming hour doing. Everyone else had bought out of class to watch the girls rugby game (I hear one got sent to the hospital with a broken collarbone), I decided I'd do some french work. This turned up instead. Actually a friend of mine drew a dragon across the same length of board and it was up there for three weeks in April. The only truly random thing is the cheese. Everything else is either connected (at least in my mind) or has some purpose. I love doing things like this. Puns, inside of randomness, inside of puns. FUNNNNNN!!!!! I got really weird looks from the entire five other people in the room. And thank god for auto-align.

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Also, any suggestions on this gal's cape? Something still strikes me as off. This is the sculpt mentioned earlier. I will get better pics later. Everyone ignores the girl and goes, "Kittiesssss!!!!!" and picks them up and talks to them. Skin colour will get adjusted later too.

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And my art teacher. Meh.

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[HerrleerzeichenS]

for sure, here is some very cool stuff!
and great improvement!
kepp it up

[Pixie Trick]

Thanks! It makes me happy when someone sees improvement, because I can't seem to find it in too many places. :P

Some stuff. A continuation of the anatomy. I think I managed to find the one book that doesn't have a non cut away angle of the back of the leg. Now to find a second book... Oh well. And I was playing with CRAYONS!!!!! for the first time in ages. Funfunfunfun! It's neat what shows up sometimes. My favourite is the nail polish bottle. It's actually an aqua sparkly colour in real life with a black lid. And last but not least is Mr. Wire Monkey Feet Man! I tried to show how he moves in the set of photos.

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[quackart]

i love the last wire-man :) awsome... also u should probably do more studies... i should too i know it :D

[Pixie Trick]

Thanks quackart. I love that little guy too. No one expects him to do anything, but he moves!

Selkie for teen challenge. I'm trying to keep away from naked lady coming out of skin, as that seems to be what everyone else is doing. Going more for the symbolic view. She was caught (the net), and is trapped in the human world (closed window and in a house), while she can't find her skin (I know it's right there, but the idea is that it is being kept 'over her head'). I'll probably add some water on the bench where she's come back from standing in the water. I'm not sure if I should have the skin chained or caged or something. I don't want to add any more strait lines into the mix, so I think cage is out. Also, I want the dress to be white, or at least light coloured, and I'm afraid of making is blend with the skin. Ahhhhh..... Crits as always are very welcome.

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Hi Pixie Trick,
sorry that you did not understand what I wanted to say. I still did not figure out how to put it in better words, so I decided to make an overpaint; hope thats okay.
The monster from #72 is very cool and the whole painting looks good!

[strings]

That's great! you're still up to snuff with the anatomy studies. And .. what Crayons? never heard of such things :)

You have some clever ideas with the wire monkey, I am going to try your hand/and feet wiring method when I start a new armature for my next sculpey attempt :D

Interesting image on the last post, keep it up :)

[Pixie Trick]

engelhardt: The overpaint is perfectly alright.

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Here's a picture of the actual spoon. It's curved so the dots wouldn't be in a grid shape like you have shown. They have to change position and shape to match how they warp because of the perspective going on. Thanks.


strings: Go right ahead and use the hand idea. I hope it works. Thanks.

Some really random and un-connected stuff this post..... An acrylic 30 min paint that got ps adjusted so it looks funny + overworking of shadow. About 4x6. I got the primaries in Golden paints when I was in Toronto ages ago and I love it. And a cloud with rain and wind that jingle when moved (I gave it to someone who wanted it so it got a bit bent, but you get the idea).

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[revenebo]

Great studies! Keep up with life drawing and painting from observation!

[Pixie Trick]

Thanks revenebo!

Some really random sketchies.

On the subject of "What if I were a space cowgirl". I was also suggested, what if I were a strand of hair? What if I were a slug? What if I were married to Spock underwater where everyone is a mer-person..... I think I took the safest one.

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Random. I still have to watch how stuff warps upward to the right of whatever I do... grrrr.

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A continuation of the cowgirl thing (I'm not sure about the moon in the corner... opinions anyone?), and the tentative first four pages of a kids book. The moral will be "Worry gives all things a bigger shadow", of something to that effect. Basically, she's worried that there's ghosts etc, and therefore she sees all sorts of scary shadows. She then goes back and sees that they were all ordinary things. I'm trying to keep the pages to half and hour each.

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The 'as finished as it's going to get for now' copy of the book. My three favourite pages are the Ahhhh!, the cabin with the mountain, and the raven. The cat is hideous. It took soooooo much longer than it looks like it should have. Meh. I might neaten and fix it up, then make a copy for my small cousins. I think they might like it.

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[strings]

That was awesome! Great storytelling really, it reminds me of Aesop's fables. It has a great look, simply amazed. I see continuity with the panels, it's essential to really include elements from previous ones to keep things flowing.

Looks like somebody has been busy this week.

[Pixie Trick]

Strings: Thanks so much. It means a lot coming from such a great storyboarder. The continuity in this case had as much to do with time constraints than anything. Find something that works and stick with it. Hugs to you. In a non weird way... if possible.

Anywhoooo, 'tis exam time once again, and most of this is stress reliever hence some really creepyness (The dude I love you guy in a tutu was inspired by a sprite + w.o.w. ad... sleeeeeep :P). I need to do some more pen or something 'cause my strokes are reverting to scribbly right to left. Actually, I'm not using it, so I'm losing it, it seems like. Meh I'm still working on the space cowgirl thing. It's now on an approx 12.2x16.3 board (or some horrible numbers like that) that required transfer by grid + calculation of squares. The cow is all white, so it's a lesson in making something white look not flat. Add to that it's done with only black, white, and the primaries it's a bit difficult. Fun, but difficult. We shall see...

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Ummm... Barney mated with a giant octuopus and then the offspring got angry when his stuffed animal was taken by the bullies.... got to admire the capability of children for pure hatred and meanness. Specially if your dad is such a wimp.

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Some stuff. Magazine faces that are mildly warped. An illuminated letter that's quite old.

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HUGS! You're too kind :bow: and again kudos to you for finishing those panels.

Love the new WIP, although I'd have to say the two pieces of wood in the air seems to be placed awkwardly for me. Maybe it's because it forms an X and it destroys the rhythm of the composition. Well, since it's still in progress and maybe it will work out when you add few more floating debris. I also think you can push to make the composition a lot more dynamic. Just by tilting the image, as film makers would call it the dutch tilt. I don't know if that even made any difference but keep going, it's kickin' ass! :uzi:

[BlackDelphin]

you vary your studies a lot! great job!!
and i just love your still life, especially those fruits...pineapple are my nightmare, after ruining two tries haha

[Pixie Trick]

Strings: I played a bit, and this is what I came up with. The angle of the water is bugging me, but overall this does feel much more exciting. The pieces of wood were put there to add interest because it just looked so empty there. I need to work on the colour a bit too... so much to learn....

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Black Delphin: Thanks for stopping by. Still lifes are fun! Just keep trying and they'll get easier.

[strings]

Thanks for your feedback on my sketchbook, that clarified a lot of things. You singled out that one fish, made me lol.

Yeah, I also forgot to mention that canted/tilt shots work best on a panoramic frame. It helps establish the horizon line and the water wont bug you as much, also use the sky to help establish the tilted horizon. I don't know what else to suggest about it, you could render the water more violent to compensate for the angle, though that just leaves to more work. I leave that up to you :)

Keep it up, and great work on the octopus tentacles.

[Pixie Trick]

You are wlecome and thanks.

So I took a bread from that thing, and here's some other stuff.

Colour study of a walrus. Taught me tonnnnnnssssss!!!!!!!!!!! Texture overlay has some issues tho...

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Some oldish posters that don't really qualify as ca material, but whatever.. I had to draw the printing press so I guess it kinda does.

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IDW vacuum wip/ideas.

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Actually, more thoughts on the walrus: What is the plural of walrus? You can put an i on a lot of things that end with an s sound, eg. cactus -> cacti, but some go funny like, mice -> mouse, or moose -> moose. So, would walrus stay the same and be plural? Same goes for the platypus....

Here's a self portrait that has minor resemblance to me, and some more on the vacuum. Not particularly happy with it, or the title, but I made some pretty neat brushes for this.

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[strings]

Good study of the walrus there, and the wrinkle texture is a fine addition. It's nice to see that you pushed the vacuum idea to final stage, I like the choice of colours (damn it there goes again) and the base seems like it made of carbon fibre material? A logo would be nice to go with the design, tho you've already got some nice flame-like decals on there. The shadow may be conflicting with the subject, or if you like to have a wall there maybe use that for something like an electric socket. Great piece overall!

I hope I made some good comments, you give a lot of feedback to my work. And plural for walrus.. a walrie? sounds like wall-e (no stereotype intended)

[BlackDelphin]

oooh you did the vacuum project
yay!
it looks very creative!
i just think the colour scheme could have bin better, especially that background magenta bothers me..try a vivid orange? ^^

[Sorknes]

Ooh, walrus :D

I actually really liked those posters though, CA material or not - I don't think anything drawn or sculpted is "not CA material" anymore, heh.

The vaccum kind of needs more of a focus point, getting a part of it more shiny or detailed.. it ends up being a lot of empty space but it's not really leading to anything... Not sure I can express myself right here or that if I make any sense at all :P

[kikindaface]

Really nice stuff ! You should be careful with your values, maybe a bit more contrast on your paintings will be better ! Keep it up !

[Pixie Trick]

Thank you all! I apologize for my extended absence: I've been on vacation dodging elk droppings (they make some pretty massive piles) and praying for running water each night, then getting up and climbing 700m vertically. Lots of fun. :sungod: Enjoyed myself immensely and did absolutely no drawing. Oooo, and now I know what a big horn sheep burping sounds like. It's hilarious. Trust me.

Strings: Thanks for the crits and ideas. It turned out I ran out of time, and all I added was the diagram I did earlier minus the explanation to fill under the title. I hate painting shiney things from my head- study, study, study....

BlackDelphin: Well, this wasn't intentional, but after some thought as to why I may have chosen the colours I did unconciously (I didn't think too much as you might be able to tell :P) might have been that I have some variation of the primary colours (Pink bg-> red, Aqua vac -> blue, Limeish headlights -> yellow) . I think you're aiming for the opposite on the colour wheel. I'm not so much bothered by the colour scheme myself, but that really means nothing.

Sorkness: WALRUSSES!!!!!!... or whatever, really, really rock. Yeah, considering CA has a toy section now, I'm not sure if there is really even going to be 'not CA material' soon. The more the merrier in my opinion. If you're talking about the empty area to the right of the vac, I added the diagram that I did earlier, but I agree about some detail or something- it's quite bland right now.

Walid D: Thank you very much. My contrast sucks and leaches excitement from many things. I shall practice.

Anywhooo, a vase. Natural light changes fast. Bleh..

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I think one thing when using ps, that I need to work on, is changing my brush size every now and then. I'm too lazy to even do that sometimes... typical.

I hereby present to you.... Milky Way. It still needs some details fixed, and I'm thinking of adding an actual milky way, all nice and swirly in the background. I think some PS practice is needed before I attempt that though. Crits before I go much further? I know the gal's leg is funky....

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My first oil ever, and a matching watercolour.

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[DKHutcheson]

Along with fixing the gal's leg, you might want to move her body a bit higher on the rock so it looks more like she's riding it. Right now it seems her non seen leg is inside it.
Also, I was having a hard time figuring if that was a goat or a cow. (still am actually. : O ) Maybe give it a bit more fat if it's a cow?
But it's looking pretty fantastic so far. : > It's a neat concept. I do like the idea of an actual milky way in the background.

[strings]

I Lol'd there , great play on the title and the subjects. Seems like you enjoyed working on that piece, its very imaginative and a great illustration. I almost want to see the entire planet rather than having it cropped on the corner. And you've already pointed out her leg and while you're working on that part, maybe include small pieces of the rock/comet trailing it. The animal scores a perfect 10 for me :D

Great to see traditional work getting done here, and great job on the vase study up there. I have to do those light excercises as well, especially bouncing light and refraction. GAAHH (insert frustration face here)

[Pixie Trick]

DKHutcheson:I've fixed a few things in the following pics that might be better. Thanks.

strings: Nice that someone other than me is making the same connections. In the following ones I've added some space to the right since the composition seemed to call for it. I may be able to do some adjusting on real one, but I'm not sure. Thank you

Two different versions. Which do you like better? I'm starting to thing a blend of the two would be best.

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And a nice happy zombie to top it all off. I know anatomy is really of but he made me happy :D

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Some dragons. I finally did some (bad) pose maniacs. Body parts. Boring stuff.

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I did a ton of stuff today! Made four pairs of earrings and a necklace, cleaned, sketched a bunch, and then painted this stuff. My eyes hurt now, but I'm happy.

So..... Dragon. Tried two different colour combos, but decided on this. About six or seven hours. I'm shocked at myself. Is the smudge a bit too much? Crits?

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Then tried to do skintones from my mind just to see if I could.

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And did some airplane sketches. I'm going to do an acrylic with one of the thumbs, so which do you think is best?

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[HAJiME]

Nice sketchbook. There's such a variety going on here. The only thing I would say is free up your hand a bit, some things look a bit static? Maybe practise drawing loosely. Awesome though. Weird and wonderful stuff.

[strings]

This update is kick@ss! Pixie_Trick, and it is really refreshing to see you've been consistently mixing up the technical and organic studies. Is that an Avro Arrow design up there? On the dragon piece, I think you've made good decisions. Even if you don't think so, take what you learn from it I guess. I'm really digging the lighting/shadow work in this. I sort of like the mirror flip version of this composition, though that can really vary. I also think that the colours of the bg elements should be somewhat muted, less saturated.

:asspat:

Awwww man I'm inspired to draw up some airplanes. Who knows, I'm all beat up today.

[Pixie Trick]

HAJiME: Thanks! Right about the hand bit. I've got some 4 foot tall paper I think I'm going to go draw the neighbor's deer with. Should help with that!

Strings: Nope. No avro arrow. Mainly the Mirage 4000. I think most have little labels next to them tho they're a little small in the pics. I'm kind of worried about this because it's for a pilot. *eek* You're right about the bg I thinks. It needs some general touchups, which are staring at me. The best compositions are the ones that work in both directions I've heard! Go draw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Small post -> Godly gift wip. I think the mb perspective vid is leaking. :P It needs some major reds in there. I might go with something altogether different from this. Who knows? And what's really weird is that I'm feeling sickly from not doing a study two big-ish works in a row. studystudystudystudy

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Some stuff. A process of the plane. Lots of work left. It looks a great deal better in real life. The bottom is actually a nice turquoise-ish colour, but I painted over some crappy(er) background and put on a yellow glaze which the camera doesn't appear to like.

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The centre hand is larger than life for some size comparison. Goal for the week is an orange fabric study, and gold study. Someone kick me If I don't do them.

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Gold study. Sucky. I think I need to do another on red paper or at least some other colour.

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The second gold thing. Gold is one horrible thing to have to paint. The bead isn't too bad but all the decoration on the other thing is a menace to my health. Some IDW stuff for Pink Tractor, and some more work on the Teen Challenge.

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Some landscape studies that aren't as horrible as past attempts and still aren't even vaguely as nice as I would like at all. I used a texture-ish brush!!!!!! I'm proud of myself. :P

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And some more IDW. Still have to do orange cloth and maybe actually draw.... like.... uhhhh....with a pencil maybe?

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IDW final-ish. Sketchies. Imaginary orchids. Bad heads.... Scans this time!!!!!

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[whisperss]

hello :) thank you for stopping by my sketchbook :)
you have nice works !! I love your objects design works like your "vacuum" so original!!!
good continuation and see you !! ^_^

[Pixie Trick]

Whisperss: You're welcome and thank you. :D

Critters. Stuff. Ya........ Wisdom tooth extraction sucks.

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A thing and IDW. I really don't know where the first came from.

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[BlackDelphin]

hey there! thank you SO much for the help back at my sketch book!
i came to give you some love :)

and dang! i love your studies!! that gold one is one of my favourite
and then i like your pose-anatomy studies...do you use a pencil or a pen on those?

have a lovely day~ :)

[Pixie Trick]

Black Delphin: You are very welcome for the help. The blue gold one is much better than the second, so I'll just assume you're talking about that. :P I got irritated with the second. The pose maniacs is done in PS.

Some more IDW stuff. A study. Sketchies.

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yes i am, and about your newest post, i like the perspective gig you did on the ellipse-fountain there!
ellipses always get to me when done from a more side view >_<

[Pixie Trick]

BlackDelphin: I cheated for the ellipse :P, it's the marque tool put to ellipse and stroked.

Some IDW and Teen Challenge stuffs. The snake guy looks washed out even tho he's supposed to be albino and is a wip so crits...... I know he has no hands. And he looks like he's just hanging there instead of the flying I wanted so he may need to be sitting on a cloud. I am a bit lost on this one.

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[BlackDelphin]

you cheater you! :p
and you should update MOWR!!

[FiftyFortunes]

I'm digging your sketchbook :). The perspective looks off on the domes of your reflection IDW. The colors go very nice together though :). Keep it coming.

[Sorknes]

That cow is so awsome, hehe!

When it comes to the paintings though, maybe just putting them to BW/grey for a short while and figuring out where the shadows should drop might be a good idea? Focus on your light and darken or desaturate or whatever the area where the shadows falls, both first and secondary, it might help you get some more depth and 3d in your images? Then go back and work from what you found?

[Pixie Trick]

Black Dlephin: I've been away so I haven't been able to update.

Valve: Thanks. I did a lot of making up for the bg on that one and I guess it shows. The trees were actually a big random, "let's see if this looks nice" move.

Sorkness: I love that cow too. :P Hence the avatar change. Thank you very much for the suggestion.

Spent a week at my grandmother's out in the prairies.

Rode on both of these. :D

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...and drew. You have to kick the bales a few times to get all the grasshoppers and crickets off. :P

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Almost forgot the final for this. Just liked the texture on the bird, so here's a closeup of that too.

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[10thWay]

Nice concepts and noticeable improvement too!

[BlackDelphin]

i've bin away too recently ^^' so i'm not the right person to complain right now

that aside, i see you've sketched up some nice steadies while you were away; those cows silhouettes are really smooth and nice: not top much info, not to many lines, just perfect :)

[strings]

Way too keep up with the updates, been away but your progress is consistent. I like the colour and saturation of the challenge image. The studies are nice and very loose and also refreshing to see :)

[Pixie Trick]

10thWay: Thank you.

Black Delphin: Thank you very much. Strangely enough cows move more than people so the lines had to be fast and free. The only one of the cattle that would stay still was the bull, who sat down and stared at me, or made sure he was the closest to me. Not reassuring, but useful.

Strings: thankee, thankee, thankee

Some IDW Supersonic Scooter ideas. I have no idea which to pick. And a monkey. (*sings*If I had a million dollars, I'd buy you a monk-ey!) I hate foliage. I have no idea where to start with it.

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Haha!! Interesting! I know i tried drawing people that were somewhat standing still, and it was hard, and you say cows move faster! I can only imagine how hard that is to draw >_<

Really nice scooters you drew there :)
The last two from the last row are nice, and the last one from the row before last, the one from the right corner is nice (i hope i made sense lol)

[Sadetar]

Wow. Awesome darling. I love the fact that you are able to draw so many different things from farm animals to fantasy aliens and tecnical thingies. You have really nice style and you seem to try all kind of stuff. And that last monkey is frinking awesome! Really cool rendering.

Keep it up! :)

~Viliina

[Pixie Trick]

BlackDelphin: They don't move fast so much as they move often. People make faster movements.

Sadetar: Thank you very much! Proboscis Money!!! Ever since I did that I have the song if I had a million dollars stuck in my head.

More IDW. Which you like? 1 window or 2?

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[BlackDelphin]

they look quite heavy now, i must admit
but i like the model you chose to detail out! :D
love the pattern to

what i'd like to suggest though is a thicker and perhaps larger tire? it would make it look more stable :)

take care pixie, and thank you for your help down on my sb!

[ashess]

hey there pix!
wait ta go here; really nice stuff.
I still see a break between your fantasy and your life drawing -but it's coming closer together. I really dig that black statue btw. but you'll notice the front 'leg' in the colored version is a lot higher up then in the sketch -which puts it off balance.
the monkey is great too. whatch your verticle lines when drawing life outside with a pad. it's easier to get distortion b/c of the paper not being in the optimal position.
all in all, digging the progress though!

[Pixie Trick]

BlackDelphin: They do look a bit heavy compared to the sketch don't they. Thanks for the suggestion, and you are always, always welcome to any help I could every give you!

ashess: Thanks for the hint.

The final for IDW - the pizza things cause they're cheezy (ignore the bad pun :P). And a cutesy thing I liked.

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[BlackDelphin]

Aah thank you so much pixie! :bashful:
You are to good to me! :D

And is it really the final version, or are you going to work some more on those wheels? :3
But that aside, DANG!! The second angle, the one on the right, is just so dang perfect!!
And btw..did you start with the square thinking on this one too?

[Pixie Trick]

BlackDelphin: Yep, it's the final final version. The second version is a variation on the simple shapes idea. Here are some links on the general idea.

Link (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=126817)
Second Link (http://conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1093469&postcount=24)
Where the Second Link Came From (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=81332&highlight=concept+art+101) (<- Tons and tons of great exercises in this one!)


I've gotten to the point where it isn't too hard for me to think of things in 3 dimensions, so I have a basic idea what it's going to look like. I would really really suggest learning everything you can about perspective. The 1 point perspective vid from MB even goes over the same thing as the links above too.


Some more landscape studies, and tried to apply them a bit.

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[BlackDelphin]

DANG PIX!! <3 You're overwhelmingly helpful!! Thank you so much!!! Will sketch some right now!
And btw what's your real name?

About the landscapes, i see you got the germ too :)
I personally like the castle (the one before the one you forgot)
It has the best feel...perhaps? try to work like Matt suggested in his gif?

Take care~

[Kuidf^!]

keep it up those digi pieces are improving nicely drawings also :)

[Pixie Trick]

BlackDelphin: Your welcome.... not too keen on having my name out there right now. Yep! Got the germ along with the cold I got a week or two ago. :P

Kudif6!: Thanks!

IDW right now is a repeat of destructibles. I thought the brief was a bit too confining, so I just did one for fun. And Teen Challenge stuff. I've done a bunch of crappy sketching and other things but a) it's crappy, and b) I'm too lazy to scan/photo and adjust right now. With school started again, and life going at 2x speed as usual, I'm just not able to keep up the amount of updating I did over the summer. :(

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[BlackDelphin]

ooh ok ^^
and that is bad, but so so true: i won't be able to upload so much either once schoool starts seriously;
love the mood in your breakable paintings! especially before the plates were broke haha :D

keep going pix!

[Pixie Trick]

BlackDlephin: *happy sigh* O,destruction. Joyous destruction. :D

Sketch dump!!!!!!! Did a pencil sp, but I realized that my eye was out of it's socket by a bit and other dodads that made it rather awful, so that's not here. There's a couple other little sps (that don't look like me...) and stuffs in there. The lady's head is soooooo off too. Avoiding doing schoolwork is most of this stuff.... Eye see you. Mwahahah. Exercise makes me sooo hyper!!! :sungod:

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Some IDW wip. Neck practice finally paying off. Crits welcomed very much.

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[Bendragon]

Liking the still life work! Keep doing those and draw and observe as much as you can from life. They all add up to your visual language and helps inform your drawings so the more you do the more shapes and knowledge you can pull out of the bag. Go go go! :D

[BlackDelphin]

well i really like your traditional this time! :D especially that paprika; the folds give it that special feel in particular~

and the leg you drew has lovely features too!!
that neck, yes, seems really good to me :) perhaps to skinny, but it was a study so..
still...something seems off on that piece to me:try flipping it?

good luck onwards! :D

[bill main]

Love the watercolor hand studies on the first page

[Pixie Trick]

Bendragon: Yest sir! :P I plan on doing just that.

BlackDelphin: Hehe... that's my leg so thanks! No one wants to sit still for me. :( The neck isn't a study, but doing neck studies earlier helped a ton.

bill main: Thanks! Need to go dust those watercolours off some more.

Weeeeelllll... I've decided I'm going to take a bit of a break from digital work. Traditional is just so much easier and faster for me personally. It's more enjoyable and easier to just let loose. Currently I'm..... I don't want to say confused, 'cause I'm not, but I'm just really, really unsure as to what on earth I'm going to do with myself after I finish high school and that's been haunting me. Whenever I have free time, I just kinda wander and do a bit of everything I enjoy (too much reading!!!) and just in general feel a bit aimless. I have no goal or passion or whatever. I'll browse people's sketchbooks etc. and see people who are working sooooo hard to be concept artists, and architects etc. and it bothers me to no end. I just feel that if I had a definite goal, I could be more focused. I don't know.... gahhhh. Emotion dump. :P I've been thinking of this a lot obviously.

And now for the real post.... :D Went to an air show yesterday!!!!!!!! Saw aerobatics with the smoke and everything, and fighter jets, and vintage planes from the 30s onwards. By the end of the day I had sunburn and was too drained and excited to draw properly which can be seen in the worsening of the pen sketches.

So, there's an acrylic study. It turned out pretty well (better than the photo shows). I only have titanium white, cadmium red med., hansa yellow med., mars black, and pthalo blue (red shade). This means that it's impossible to get a good purple or pink because of the such non-blue red. I've had to pick objects to paint very carefully.


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Just random things. I've been looking at the illustration sin by "The best children's books in the World" book, and drooling over the illustrations. My current fave is Dragon Feathers illustrated by Andrej and Olga Dugina. They capture midieval style sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo well. They've actually illutrated some of Madonna's kids books (yes the singer) Looky looky Link (http://www.metakultura.ru/dugin/index1.html)

Had some fun with loading bushes different ways. I actually like this a bit even though it looks a bit faded and washed out. Colour frustrations again! Need a more red blue too....

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I actually wasn't going to post this for obvious reasons, but decided for record purposes to do so. It's also the day a black subject matters shows up and guess who happens to forget that colour of paint at home. I was actually helping out here so it was also really, really rushed which didn't help.

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Meh. The person really isn't that demonic as the first head, and not a snapey as the second.

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And some silverpoint. I had read about this in a few places, and decided if it was good enough a couple of hundred years ago, the least I could do was give it a go. I had thought you needed a special base, but it turns out gesso works fine. Just stick some of my scrap silver in a pin vise and doodled. I don't like it much, but it was good to try. Unfortunately silver isn't listed as a medium in the upload list. :P

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[strings]

Awesome updates! I really like where you are going with the watercolour-ish works. Hope to see more of it. The line work is starting to really improve as you draw more of objects with that approach, great job. Keep exploring girl!

That is all for me :sungod:

[Bendragon]

Yup yup! Good to see a number a drawings added! Keep pushing for more practice. The more you get, the more you are getting better! With that female portrait, be careful about coloring tones the same color as the base colors. So if something is yellow, dont just have the shaded area a darker version of that yellow. This can be quite tricky to understand but you can use some reference to help you see.
If you want to look into the technical side of the color thing I was talking about, you can read up some tutorials on light behaviors. But it can be quite technical though. Best thing to do really is observe as much from life.

[Dibujio::Guru]

Hello there Pixie.

Thanks for posting in my thread and looking around.That tip you give me did help a lot and it's easier to draw. ^_^

OK... Now about your SB really liking your progress from the first page's and you do a lot of studies and your fine art on the first page is great.Also your digital painting is good as while.All i can say as a pointer is to do more shading studies and figure and face stricture studies so you can put that in your box of trick's..But other then that


KEEP ON DRAWING!!

[BlackDelphin]

aah i see :D and you went crazy with neon effect n that neck peace :teeth: really love the shine!!! looks like a lot of fun~
also i dig those colourful works of yours, traditionals.

also i see you working small sized speedies too: highfive on that!

[Sorknes]

Yay, for traditional, and it makes you surer of what you do, as there's no undo option in the same way, hehe. ;)

Jewelry looking nice, a lil more blending and more planning on the colours might've gotten it that one step up, keep at it :) Nice speedies too!

[Pixie Trick]

Strings: Thanks!

Bendragon: Thanks for the tips. :)

Guru: Thanks! I really do need to do figure stuffs.

Blacky: SHINY ROCKS!!!!

Sorkness: Yep. Nothing like making a physical mess of something and having to deal with the results.

Ahhhhhh..... long time no post. School sucks your life out via every pore. Anywho. Here's a bit of the stuff I've been working on. I couldn't help but break my no-PS vow just a little. That's a wip. And watercolours do the coolest things! You can't get anywhere near the same effects in PS. Drips and splats and blends and smudges! I think I'm starting to get arms a bit more. Everything's abit weird from camera flash so please ignore that.

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Those arm muscle studies rock!!! I've got to say your lighting and colour has moved up another notch if not, double! Love the storytelling in the first image on the beach. The poor kids! haw haw (Nelson)

[Bendragon]

Nice digi paint! Watch the perspective and make sure different objects follow the same erm.... perspective! :P You have the horizon line quite high up, but if you imagine the turtle on a square base, it looks like its at a quite level angle. Now put that same base (of the turtle) onto the landscape, the angle should be more level too. Just visualize it this way in the beginning and it should help. Keep going!

[Pixie Trick]

strings: thanee thanke!

Bendragon: I see what you mean about the turtle. Actually, I was surprised at how flat sea turtles were. Hm.... as I went on I realized I had some weird fisheye that isn't quite fisheye going on. I know it isn't correct but I kinda like it. Thanks for the catch!

Some more work on it. This is turning out to look semi descent. The girl looks stoned or something... :D O, and summary of the story is that kiddie-kins make their lovely sandcastle, when lo and behold, it starts shaking, pops out of the ground and starts waddling away. Needless to say the childers are traumatized for the rest of their lives.

On a side note, one of the native american tribes believe that the world sits on the back of a turtle.

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[LtPlissken]

The goat reminds me on Arnold on Mars :D

[Sublimus]

Cool stuff! I like those pen drawings of the planes the best.

[engelhardt]

Hey Pixie Trick, you are doing some cool stuff here; the studys from photos really help. The dragon-sketches from #107 are my favorite: very dynamic. Keep practicing.

[BlackDelphin]

pixieeeeee :D i sooo so sooo like the recent idea with the sand castle!!! it is a very creative idea and i can't wait to see you retouch it! about the children..i think the bodies are really good, just the faces have some mature characteristics that shouldn't be there hmmm...try thinking more round? and less detailed? i am not sure, but i just wanted to point that out :)

sorry for being away myself..

[Pixie Trick]

LtPlissken: IT IS NOT A GOAT!!!! :D :D :D. Tis a cow my friend. Unforutnately the only Termninator movie I've seen is #3, which I loved so I'm going to have to see the others some time. Anywhoooo...I'm going to take that as a major compliment. Maybe the cow is now the governor of some alien cow colony? Thanks for the visit. :sungod:

Sublimus: Thankee, thankee my dear! They're fun to do: close to contours really.

engelhardt: Thank you very much!

Blacky: Do some art right now!!!!!! Ya, I see what you mean about the kids. I have such issues refining things!


Ahhhhh..... a bit of a joke of a post today, just to prove I haven't died. I just finished a monster Bio presentation on Biodegradation of Hydrocarbons via Metabolic Pathways, participated in a Gem/Mineral Show for my jewellery..... gahhhh. Anywho, an update with absolutely minuscule changes to the turtle piece (girl still looks stoned......), and just a sample of what my notebook looks like right now.

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Downloaded some new brushes and did some stuff.

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i did some more drawing!! and ahahah thank you so much for the comment on my page
i will try my best to scann in and post the drawings

and you should post some more yourself!!
love your notebook btw tehehe :teeth:

[Pixie Trick]

Blacky: hehe... I got caught drawing on a desk at school...the conversation went something like this:

T: Are you writing on the desk?
Me: Mmmmhmmmm...*emarased from being caught*
T: *sigh* It's the quiet ones you always have to watch.

At which point I did not erase it, but added a speech bubble to the alien/furry racoon/snail with legs which said "Hello Mrs......." as well as "La, La, La!!!" The wrote a note saying I would erase it if she wanted but I just really wanted someone to sit down and laugh.

I should scan in the backs of my French notes too.... :P

Anywhoo...at some point there will be a huge skechdump. I have a bunch, but I don't want to scan so many pages and since I accidentally killed my camera I have to carefully sneak my bro's off some day.

Went to BodyWorlds in Orontonto (Toronto) over the weekend. Bought a bunch of paint. Saw the most grown people dressed up that I've ever seen. I was a Unicorn Hustler. Don't laugh. :D

So some IDW duplicator stuff. Inspired by polymer clay art pendants and the shape of a heart. (Yep, another post will nearly no art...)

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[BlackDelphin]

Ahaha! Well i had this issue too, but now i have a little note book thingy to draw in :teeth:
And i am curios as how will your "sketch dump" look like! :D

Really nice colours and interesting design on that duplicator thing, though i thonk you should boost those values up..

[Pixie Trick]

Blacky: :D

Sketchdump!!!! And a pic of the books I use for anatomy (bridgeman's cut off- oops :P).... I'll have all three human ones open at once if I'm doing studies. :D

Ohhhh...and by brother set up double monitors!!! heeheeeeheeeee .... I can now PS and CA at the same time!!!! Or just stick all the menus on the smaller monitor... the wonderfullness of it all :sungod:

(Sorry for hiddeous mono-jpg dump)

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[BlackDelphin]

Your dump is heeeere!! LoL

Well i like it! :)
I really like the fact that you're now moving on to animal anatomy too!
Really nice muscles studies (for both human and animal) :)

And what can i say?! Take care of your values, and use those books and double monitors wisely ;)

[georgedesio]

those are some beautiful sketches man, hope you post some more up so I can see

[Cacodaemonia]

Weird, I thought I had already subscribed to your sb. :P

I see some Bridgeman studies in here, hehe. I like how that sea turtle piece is coming along. I'd like to see more lighting influence from the blue sky and sea on the children, turtle, and sand castle. Just a few hints here and there of the reflected light.

[iven]

wow wow wow,........you have a very fun sketch book very play full and FUNKY,....
I love the fairy house and this crazy thing which landed in the garden,...........

I improved my Hand drawings a lot when I drew them in boxes first,.....

I love that you also did wire figures I did that too,.........

[Pixie Trick]

Black Delphin: Thank you! I shall use my new weapons with wisdom. :P

georgdeesio: Thank you very much! (look down to see your with granted..... :D)

Caco: Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into that. And thanks for dropping by.

iven: Thanks. Oooo.... I'm blushing! What do you mean precisely by drawing in boxes? Hehehe... wire is fun to play with. You can go the hardware store and get about 50m for about 2 or 3 bucks.

On Sunday, I went to the National Portfolio Day in Toronto. As I was standing in the first of many lines, my mom started talking to the mom of the person behind us. We start talking and I got to see the person's portfolio. I see the first pic and think, "Hmmm... I've seen that somewhere...???" It turns out I was standing next to Zorcron from here on CA!!!!! It's really neat to meet someone from halfway across your Country that it turns out you've kind of "seen" before. :D :yayca:

Anyway, NPD is a chance to meet reps from art schools across Canada and the US, and get feedback on your portfolio. I saw one of Sheridan reps. It was a waste, as the woman was more focused on telling me how great their current students were. She didn't say what she didn't like, did like, why she liked it or anything. The second rep I saw was from Alberta College of Art and Design. The rep said that they'd waive the portfolio part of the application for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's absolutely great to have someone "important" acknowledge all the time and effort into my pieces. I'm very happy to say the least.

So, the art for the last weeks.

Some play. There's some interference paint (<- awesomeness) in there, as well as some beads.

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A SP... thing. The normal looking one is from a mirror, and the weird one is from mind/looking at the first. The pic really looks bad compared to real life. The first is an....OK likeness. Not great, but not horrible as some I've done. Oh, and they're on the front and back of the same panel. I think I need to start using acrylics more thickly.

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[Cacodaemonia]

Haha, the Duplicator is amusing. :) Really like the sketches from when you were riding in the car.

[Pixie Trick]

Cacodaemonia: Thanks! I like the ones in the car too. They're fun to do.

A quick study that got interrupted half way through and I lost the ref. And a landscape. I attempted two landscpae studies but they were so bad I didn't bother saving them. I always seem to get stuck doing sunset in rolling hills with low saturation and texture. Meh. Gotta learn how to use textured brushes without making a mess. (Advice??!?!?!???)

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[BlackDelphin]

Well the quick study certainly helped in its way :)
And once more, i really like your traditional studies and the way you do your studies.

Just..do more please :teeth:

[tja88]

oh you're definitely improving! just keep going with those anatomy studies, they certainly pay off = )

and thanks for dropping by my sketchbook.

[Pixie Trick]

black delphin: :sungod:

tja88: You're very welcome! I shall do so!

Sketchies.....and an experiment


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cool sketchbook! you got sweet imagination and some of your sketchies are quite funny :)
good progress draw more from life.

[Cacodaemonia]

Really like the jeans on the person laying in the lawn chair, and the design of the robed character in the first image is interesting. :)

For the rendering, I would suggest maybe trying to focus less on outlining things, and more in the shapes that different values are making. Some of your sketches don't really feel very 3D, so that may help.

[BlackDelphin]

And here you are with more traditional work, giving me a great example of what i should do :D

Well i really like the first page, with the writing on the sock and the 4th one, with the tiger, the girl and the pants-drawing view :)

And seeing you and whisperss do some of your watercolour work gave me a few ideas for myself!
So let us do more of that together!! More watercolour, more paint pixie!! :D:D:D

[Pixie Trick]

Danny K: Thanks! Will do!

Caco: You make a very valid point. Thanks.

Blacky: The tiger and girl are both from a beautiful book cover by Sam Weber. I have his name on the page but it's too small to read I guess. Link -> Sam Weber's Site (http://sampaints.com/) Link -> The book Cover (http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n54/n271823.jpg)

Some little things. There is so much wrong with the anatomy, esp. the hands so I really don't even want to look at it. The experiment was originally an egg study (you can kinda see them in the bg) but it turned quite hideous, so it became abstract. I need to stop avoiding doing real work by doing 'experiments'.

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Come on pixi!! :D :D I KNOW you can do better!! So DO some!! It will make you feel a heck lot better too! :teeth:

And i see you trying to improve on that anatomy too.
I want to see you posting more! :meow:

AND i see you Xed a hand there on the right. You'd better redraw that pix!!

[Bendragon]

More more more!!!! Keep doing those studies and continue to draw from life!

[Pixie Trick]

Blacky: I know I can do better to. Currently it's more a matter of time than anything else though.

Bendgragon: Yep, yep yep. The words of truth.

This is probably the last, or second last post for this year. I'm soon off on what I hope will be an awesome trip to India. My life has been consumed by catching up on work I will be missing as well as the associated errands that must be done when traveling.

Anyway, in celebration for the trip, I've made myself a sketchbag! It's not the most beautiful, or best crafted by any means, but the idea has been bouncing around my head for a while. Pockets for pens, pencils, erasers and sharpeners as well as two small sketchbooks, or one small sketchbook, a set of dry watercolours and other dodads. It rests at hip level on me.

I've also decorated a sb, which I think is going to become a sort of travel journal. It has 99 pages (used to be 100 :P), and hopefully will become 100% full. It makes good portfolio fodder for university applications anyway. I'm looking forward to how it's going to turn out.

And some sketches. Took BD and Caco's advice to heart. I looked at everything and saw that it was like a colouring book (to a certain extent) and decided I had to fix that. Some hands are good, some are bad. The small ones in the corner separated by a line are from mind. I really like the one of the guy sleeping on the couch. Fairly good likeness, even if he looks a bit happier in the pic than he actually did. I also got a bit of a eureka moment while doing the plane version.

Last thing to announce is that I've submitted a few thing to the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Just got sent to New York today. We'll see how that turns out in a couple of months.

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Ooh :(
Well i hope you're having a christmas holiday any time now to draw some more!

Really nice studies. The hands in particular seem to have some nice hatches.

[iven]

I can see in #181 what you did with shadows, I always draw in
the subway and I will try to add some shadows, in my gestures
I will let you know if I have something up Mr. PIXI,....

thanks,....

[Pixie Trick]

Blacky: thanks!

iven: You're welcome! now go draw..... :lifedrawing:

Happy 2010 everyone!

I've been feeling bad for putting off posting... here's some of the sb. It's going to take some time to take pics of it all and everything. I'm not going to do all of it. Some pages are solid writing too, so I'm leaving those out. I've been drawing since I've been back too, but that's going to have to wait to be scanned/photoed until I've got the backlog of school and this sb done.

Voila the first couple of pages of art. No particular order other than they're in the front. Oh, and I had relatives going through this every other day, so I apologize for how the pencils got fuzzy in the beginning.


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[Zorcron]

welcome back ! hope school applications are going well for you...
really digging these sketches your line is getting strong

[Pixie Trick]

Zorcron: Yep, all the online applications went off without a hitch, so now there's the wait until portfolio interview in Feb and March. Thanks.

And some more. I could actually tell I was getting better by the end, especially when I had enough time to draw a page or five a day. I also realized that I probably have an unhealthy fascination with the strangeness of animals. They have buffalo with blue eyes there. There's a pic below. There's also some very strange weaponry out there. There's a pic of how a scissor punching dagger works down below.

More coming.

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More... :D

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Done. Now for the stuff I've been doing in the meantime.... :lifedrawing:

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And the other stuff since then. My fave is the dinos and the teddy hug, but my mom liked the goblins tearing meat off of the bone.... ????

No ref for any but the fashion ones.

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[LtPlissken]

Nice updates. You should have done beside those parachuted animals in a comicbook balloon style like they are screaming : "Geronimoooooo!" :D

[Pixie Trick]

LTPlissken: Thanks! I'm not sure that situation of parachuted dinos and donkeys really needed any added bizarreness. :P Thought it wouldn't hurt.... hehehe :D


A landscape and a portrait from my head. I'm not too happy with the portrait (generic, outlined, pinkish, left eye bigger than right eye, non planned bg vs face....etc. you get the point ), but the landscape turned out ok. Exaaaaammmsss....bleghhhhh.


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[lennon]

You're very skilled and a lot of cool things seems to be happening in your head.
If anything, you could try to construct everything more 3dish in your sketches. You don't decompose the shapes into basic primitives, and that only makes it harder for you.
Overall, very cool stuff.
PS: I really like the pig with the hat, it's incredibly funny!

[Pixie Trick]

lennon: Hehe...the pig with the hat is from life and sings "I'm too sexy for your love..." etc. :P You're spot on about the basic shapes. I find it very hard to do so. I shall try anyway!

Another little landscape. Itkshy.... should do some snow studies...
why purple so much i say?

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[Zorcron]

wicked updates, i think sitting down and doing a few long still life sessions with acrylics would be a super healthy way to be working with color
(with acrylics you can work with it for a long time and have a "visual dialogue" with the painting i think its a lot harder to do the same with watercolor or washes
in the beginning at least that has been my experience)

i cant stress the "from life" bit any more, photos just dont do what you see in reality justice

keep up the hard work its paying off :) (line is looking wicked btw )

[tja88]

i see improvement! great stuff. last landscape has lovely colours = ) and those hands from a few posts back are great!

[Pixie Trick]

Zorcron: (lookie down :D )

tja88: Thank you!

A still life on 4x4 board with acrylics. I was pretty happy with it two days ago and now I see issues...gah. The scanning turned it a bit weird (there's random red spots!??!), but overall its pretty close to life. And a design for a building. I used toned paper for the first time and quite liked it. That's white pencil crayon, around 8 pencil and white conte.

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I just realized that I don't have the goblin sketch I mentioned earlier up.

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[Jamie Romoser]

sup Pixie Trick really digging your updates its good to see you arnt afraid to experiment i think its always healthy way to improve and keep your eye fresh for art. Keep those studies up though :)
looking forward to seeing more
have a good one
-Jamie

[LtPlissken]

Those Goblins look good, and you came up with a very original idea. Is that human bone that they are eating?

[Zorcron]

great work with the still life keep em comming do lots more and some bigger sizes would be good 4x4 is quite small

i really love the two goblins on the bottom in blue


keep working hard !

[BlackDelphin]

Wow! You did quite a bit pixie!! :D :D And you varied it a lot!!

the parachute ideas were really cute.
The painting of the banana looks great too. But for some reason, it looks to worked up, like it has one layer to many of paint.

I think you draw what you like, no? So no, drawing weaponry and animals you find interesting doesn't seem weird to me.

Thanks for showing the blue eyed buffalo too :)

Keep updating in huge blocks like that :meow:

[Pixie Trick]

OmertA: Thanks!

LtPlissken: I have no idea. I was afraid to ask. :P

Zorcron: Thanks. Ya, it was small. I had a bunch of board that was pre-cut to that size so I just used it. Lazy!

BlackDelphin: It's great to see you back up and around! The still life was a lot of layers. I'm having trouble finding a balance of how I would like to work with acrylics. You can work with layers of thin paint on layers and get very good effects, but you can also work very thickly and get great results. In some ways they are very much like watercolours, and in others completely different. In this case I was trying to work thicker than I have in the past. I'll just work through it and find a way I like! :) Thankyou! :geekg: You should have seen the monkeys.....

Well, I've managed to get mild tendinitis in my right hand and arm, so I think hardcore artwork is out right now. I got up this morning and just holding doorknobs hurt. :( It's a bit better now, but I don't want to push it.

Here's another snowy landscape sketch from a week ago.

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[Pixie Trick]

A dump from the last week.

A wip. The smaller is a general idea of what I think I'm going to do with the bg. Crits are extremely welcome. (A general comment that I like how her arm turned out.)

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Some fashion sketches from the 1900s to 1920s. Hats are awesome. Men's fashion hasn't done much. They had an interesting illustration method back then.

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Got out the yearbook and just drew faces. Some are better than others.

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Some stuff from school. We are to choose a topic for the semester. I've chosen evolution and am planning on having a series of arms, moving from human to an animal. the one in the test is a lion. I'm wondering which of the methods I've used would be best suited. Opinions anyone?

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Some more "evolution" based experimentation.

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Now my arm/hand really hurts so I'm going to stop.

[LtPlissken]

Ahoy there!
I see that you are doing two things that I am avoiding relatively good: you are drawing a lot from life and you are doing lot of animal drawings. I really appreciate it and I like your devotion to this drawings. I would like to start doing these also, especially drawings from life, like for example drawing people around me like you did, but I just cannot get myself into that dimension :( .

What I like more here is that you have a pretty amount of sketches and you are working overtime and I think that he mileage and the experience will bring the crop in at the end, just keep going like this.

I was examining more your sketchbook lately and I would suggest that you do your pencil drawings in the fashion like you did here, cause this looks the best if you ask me. The shading and the lines are so great, maybe just go more darker with the dark areas:

[Pixie Trick]

LtPlissken: Just get out there and try doing some stuff from life, and animals and anything else you want. You can try it, and it might look horrible, but if you work at it, it'll work out. Working at anatomy etc. and from life is so you can show what you want to say through images and have it look the way you want. (HAVE FUN TOO :D) It's a bit like trying to speak swahili or something and not knowing where to start. You aren't going to be able to do poetry or make a nice story if you don't learn the language first. And believe me, when you try learn a language you make so many mistakes that are embarrassing it's ridiculous. I know I don't like to put myself out there and make the mistakes, so you end up not saying anything and not getting better.

Thank you for the insight. You're right about the darks.

I did some landscape thumbs a while back that I found. Meh.

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And the assignment in English was to create a greeting card that is an analogy. Here's a mock-up. I love this guy!

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[BlackDelphin]

Really nice updates pixie! The last one is really creative too :D

I am glad to hear that your hand is better, and that you are drawing!!
More values in your digi landscapes please. I really can't feel any light source, witch makes it odd. And about your traditional work, i like it, really really do, and it would look even better if you'd do the dark parts even darker like LtPlissken said. :)

[Pixie Trick]

My hand is better, but there's some lingering effects. It's not going to be 100% for another month or so apparently. (There goes my 6ish hours of badminton a week) :( You're band on about the landscape. I get so focused sometimes (especially if it's done in one go) that I lose my ability to judge contrast. I've tried adjusting it but it looks horrid. :( Thanks.

A thumb on the topic of peace.

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Some more work on the gal. With out the bg so you can spot any errors. to crit. I'm not 100% sure what to do with the bg, but this works so far. I will need to do some correcting so the light source sin't only from the right as well as other little thingies. CRITS!!! PLEASE!!!!!

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[knoxie]

bahahha.. i digg that zombie card. I'd totally love to get that in the mail! braaaaiiins!!!!

[MattGamer]

The landscape studies in post #212 are good, though much too many colors. Limit your pallet to 3 or 4 main colors and check out this (http://chapter-56.blogspot.com/2006/11/speedpainting.html) tutorial on speed painting. It has helped me throughout the years.

If you got something from the study, that is worth your time! In fact, any time you sit down and draw you are learning more about art!

I like that zombie card too. Hehe :]

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Knoxie: hehehe.... he just wants a hug. Zombies are misunderstood....or he just wants brains...hehe. :D

MattGamer: Thanks for the hints. :)

I'm slowly being struck by the lack of ideas in this sb. I must do something to fix that... so here's some stuff. The final of the zombie card. Some more evolution practice etc, a wip thing I've been working on in my spare minutes at school, and another colour/enviro study. I think it got a little overworked by the end, but meh. Learned a bunch! I figured out how to make animated gifs too!

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[Asahi-SD-]

nice studies and sketches !! you should work a bit more on the color studie , it could look very cool with a bit of work on it , refine the edges and textures , make it more precise :) keep it up !!

[LtPlissken]

Hi. I was waiting ready for your updates. Great job on this enviro gif. I like how the work flowed. Maybe you should go even more detailed on those objects on the painting.
Excellent Zombie cards, you are really creative. You are running out of sketchbook ideas? That cannot happen :)
I have so much ideas but not enough time to put them down on paper. Just look around you, there are plenty of subjects around in the everyday life to be drawn, and not to talk about our imagination. Just let you creativity flow open.

[JailHouseRock2]

Your digital work has improved sooooo much! Great colours! LOVE the zombies too... "it can all be ended by a SHOTGUN!!" haha great stuff!

Keep up them studies too!
cheers,
matt

[The Whistler]

Hey, thanks for visiting my SB! :)

Some nice progress from page one, especially with the enviros. Love the last .gif you did with the progress.

One crit though - about the bald lady, watch the head shape and the proportions on her face, maybe make her head rounder on top and give her more jaw like in THIS (http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2006/03/tyra-bald.jpg) image? And I'd make her neck a tad thinner too.

Oh, and love the zombie card XD

[The Whistler]

Double post, sorry.

[BlackDelphin]

wow~ that's one interesting way to paint digitally!! :D:D really like seeing the steps too

it's a good example of sketch-block in-detail on top, more please, more!

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Asahi-SD- : Thanks! I'm not sure I will or not. I probably should though! :P (...eat your spinach!!!!....)

LtPlissken: Gah! You were waiting..... I feel so over rated... now I'm blushing! :bashful: I'm not running out of ideas. I was more struck by how much of my sb was studies and stuff like that and nothing that is of my own idea that I'm trying to say something with.

JailHouseRock: Thanks! I love the zombie too! :D

The Whistler: Very welcome. Thanks for pointing those little things out. :)

Blacky: :cheerleader:


I have two university portfolio interviews at the end of the week and I'm scared. One even has a drawing test! :^^;::^^;::^^;:: Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Some pencils. I;'ve been trying to darken up my shading as per advie. :steph: I just realised that the thumb is completely out of proportion to the rest of the hand. Really just warmups/gestures. Applying my 00-20s fashion knowledge. And that shiny bow material is fun!

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[BlackDelphin]

Don't panic, you'll be just fine! :D Art test or not, drawing or not, you'll surely come up with something creative. That's what you do :)

That big,shiny bow looks really fun draw! Shiny stuff are fun to draw in general actually hehe. :3
Guess you know what's up with that hand, so i won't bring it up. I'm bad at rl hand studies so i can't complain xD

GOOD LUCK PIXIE!!
Tell us how it went for ya :cheerleader:

[Bendragon]

Nice paintings, though I think you can define the foliage more. Theres a tendancy to loosely brush in the foliage without much structure to it. Try think of it in 3d space like u do with the buildings.

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Blacky: Thank you so much for the support. It mean so, so, so, so much. :sungod: Truly.

Bendragon: Thanks for the tip!

My arm was pretty upset last week. The tendonitis spead to my elbow, so now I have tennis elbow. Then I got some in my left arm from using it more. Finally I got some golfer's elbow (I didn't even know it existed!) in my right arm as well as pulling my triceps. It's all much better now, but that week was painful. :P

The interviews went well. At OCAD, they let you into the interview room about 20 minutes before the actual interview so you could set up and get and idea of what the profs were asking other people. The profs looked at the stuff for about two minutes, completely ignoring all digital work I had on my laptop. They then spent the last eight minutes lecturing me on how I was perfect for the materials arts program, and how I had to be sure I was doing what I loved as well as another lecture on what the two other 3d-real life design courses were and how I wouldn't like any of them. They finally told me that if you really want something hard enough you can do it. I was completely prepared to start answering questions etc. but they hardly let me say a single thing the entire time. Really, really anticlimatic. Whatever... they liked the work I had out and I got told by the student helping I was accepted, but wait for the letter.

Here's a pic of the waiting room on one side.
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The other one was with about 50 other people at the same time, and the test was really lame. They gave you two articles, had you summarize them, then add two or more pictures. You could either copy the pics off of a set of samples they gave, or make your own.

One of the things I was told at National Portfolio day was that a nice, well done pencil drawing would be a good addition to a portfolio. I made on up for the interviews. Eight hours or so, and a pic of the setup for those interested. The pics has a bit more contrast than the original. I've been doing so much digitally that I've been spoiled by the array of easily achieved values. Pencil just doesn't do BLACK, which upsets all the relative values. Add to that the amount of values that you can pick out with your eye that won't show up in a photos etc....... Learned a lot to say the least. Practice....

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[Turbosnail]

Hey Pixie you've posted some nice updates here. Especially like the enviro/colour study in post#217. Keep up the good work dude.

[Kristoff]

You're doing great! ^_^ MOAR cool studies! +)

[LtPlissken]

Nice to know that your interview went well. So which one is you on that photo then? :)

[BlackDelphin]

WHAT DID I TELL YA!?! EAAAASY :teeth:
I'm sure you'll be getting that letter soon!
I take it they were more interested in your traditional work, preferring it over digital?
Guess i should do more finished, neat pencil work, huh.

It is interesting reading about your interview :)
Makes me understand how things work about that, now that i'm starting to have a shred of a chance at least.

Sketch book is looking great, life-interview too, you also seem healthy, what more can you want?! :teeth:
Keep it up Pix! :D

[Zorcron]

goood this page is a real step up ! ugh i dont think il recover from NPD just so many people i got to see 2 schools >.< i still have nightmares im pretty sure LOL! did you ever take a look at NSCAD ? (they have a really strong program) i was kind of disapointed with OCAD's Student work ...design program looked good but others seemed left out

[n00dles]

Thanks for your comment in my sketchbook :D

The hand sketches show a lot of form, but I doubt your hand really looks like that :P the technique is good, now your just have to .. feel the form I guess ^^

That National Portfolio day looked like a fun thing to do :) For what did they review? Art in general or for games.. etc. ?

Hope to see another update soon :)

[Pixie Trick]

Turbosnail: Thanks! :)

Kristoff: Thank you!

LTPlissken: I'm not in the photo- I was the one taking it!

Blacky: hehe... I'm not sure about the easy bit. I was soooooo nervous. The student was very nice, and probably had something to do with the good response though. He liked my work and said that he 'set me up with the right profs'. :hugsmile: I'm glad someone is getting something out of all this. I'm not sure how art universities work in Romania, but I'm sure they can't be tooooooo diferent.

Zorcron: Thanks! Yea- NPD was an experience. I've never really looked at NSCAD. I checked out their site, but not much more than that. It's a long way from home. :\ The thing about ACAD is that I have two families of relatives living a 5 min drive from the school, so I'm not quite so on my own. OCAD is only a 4h drive away, so those are the two schools I'm looking at. I hear what you mean about the student work at OCAD. I went to their open house, and what I saw was pretty mediocre, other than the design. I like the style and quality of work coming out of ACAD better too. OCAD seems more editorial centred, while ACAD is a bit more diverse. They even have a character design stream there! To tell you the truth, the people there were a bit friendlier too. Maybe it's just because it's a smaller school. Actually, I visited the campus of Emily Carr, and the placement of the school just turned me off. Granville island! Yes it's on the water, but in Vancouver the rent would be horrendous, and there's so many tourists around there.

N00dles: You're welcome! I know.... the hand! I can't believe I didn't notice the size discrepancy while I was drawing! National Portfolio Day happened in November. I have a bit more about it on the previous page. Basically it's a whole bunch of art schools, and you can go get your portfolio critiqued by the profs of different schools from U.S. and Canada. They're not allowed to give acceptances there, however. Here's a video of how hectic it is!: LINK (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQy7wKbD8zs)

A big dump. Not happy with most of it. :(

On the other hand, did you know that whales have baby teeth! And dogs and cats and cows and dolphins and hamsters and any type of mammal! So coooooool! :steph:


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Here's some more work on the peace piece (hehehe..... :geekg:). It's 24 x 16 inches I think. There's going to be a ton of glazing going on, so it looks a bit weird. This is basically under painting right now. And a bit for teen challenge.

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[LtPlissken]

Peace piece..... :) :)
I like that one....

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LTPlissken: Puns...... :)

I did a ton more on the peace thing, but I'm too tired to try and take a good photo. In my attempt to make a warmer blue for the bottom, it kinda morphed into this purple/indigo shade. :( So here's some smaller things I did out of boredom as I waited for paint to dry. It seems all acrylic looks a million times better in real life. The bird one is actually kind of pretty. More work on the cave too. It's turning out better than I thought it would.

Oooo... and made some new brushes too! Fun! :D

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[RickyS]

Those marker sketches from post #234 are cool! I like your teen challenge entry too, it'll be interesting to see how it turns out!

[jskotte]

Hi Pixie,
Your work is great, great cave and I really like all the studies.

[Kristoff]

Wow, love yours environmental drawings =3 I think you could work more on gesture and balance of those human figures, I bet you know that ^_^

[Jamie Romoser]

I really like those sketchbook marker pages on post 234
keep up the hard work
have a good one
-Jamie

[Jasper_]

Cool work in here man. The perspective on that hole in the top of the cave looks a little off, almost like we're looking above it. Play with that a bit if your still working on it. Keep it up!!

[Zorcron]

more :)

[Pixie Trick]

RickyS: Thanks. :)

jskotte: Thank you very much!

Kristoff: Thanks... I think enviros are one of my weaker spots....... figures are my weakest. :geekg:

Omerta: Markers are fun! They make you work with what you have down and keep you moving onwards.

Jasper: Great catch. :) I'm hoping to find some time and get a nice portfolio piece out of it.

Zorcron: :anime:

More work on the peace thing. Not done yet.

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A comic based off of the book No Great Mischief. This is following the story of the dogs in the book. The theme throughout is "trying too hard and caring too much" It turned out so depressing it's almost funny.

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More on the cave. The jpg file seems to bump the brightness up from what I see in PS so a lot of stuff that looks like uninterrupted dark turns out a gross. :( Also, the more I work on it, the more regular the rock formations get. Poo.

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[LtPlissken]

Hello my good friend. Great thing that you posted some new work, that is the sign that you are doing ok and everything is great around you.

The peace subject is going well, keep working on it, maybe do a little more details and all will be fine.
The cave is not looking really realistic, and those things do not look like rocks, they more look like piled up fat, like fat on the human body or something similar. Try to work more there on texture and materialization.

The comic book pages, are ruined, sorry I have to say ruined just because of one thing: the text is on most of the part un-readable.
No matter what you do or how you illustrate your story, no matter how crappy or how good your drawings are, one thing is a must: your text must be done with a clear and readable fonts.
Like this, I have tried to focus on the story and I can see what is on the pictures but at some point I cannot read the text clearly , let's say in the first quarter of the story, I already cannot read clearly and I am automatically losing the concept, the idea of the whole story. That is how the readers will easily lose the interest of the story and will not see what you have tried to say.
You have to think about that the next time, you do a comic book, and make the fonts a little bit larger.
I hope I was not too harsh with these statements.
All I wanna do is help.
I am glad that you tried different things and mediums.
Do more, post more, I will be following.

[jskotte]

I love the tree with the birds in it, and great portraits :)

[BlackDelphin]

The 'peace thing' is starting to look very good :)
The colours make a nice contrast (i like the blue tones so much!) and the way those soldiers hold hands is very touching.

Wonderful overall mood pixie, can't wait to see it finished.
Portraits and everything else looks good too! :D

[Pixie Trick]

LtPlissken: Thanks for the crits. I agree the rocks look a bit iffy. I think part of the problem with the comic is that I posted the images smaller than life size so that you could see them all without excessive scrolling. Here's one page at life size. You weren't to harsh at all. I'm quite happy I'm getting crits and you gave me something to remember the next time I do a comic.

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jskotte: Thank you my dear. :)

Blacky: Thankee, thankee. :)

Got accepted of OCAD for illustration. And Ryerson for Architecture. Gahhhhh..... I've had no time to draw until today really, and boy did I make up for it. I made a 6 foot long painted dragon with movable joints and body for a friend's bday over the weekend. Then I had a badminton tournament today so I took my sb along and did some gestures. Drew some friends on the bus. The girl on the page with math on it is nearly a perfect likeness. (So excited! :rocker:) And did some master value studies/comp studies, but by that point I was completely dead so they suck.

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Other gestures from a couple of days ago. All from imagination. Did a PS thing but it was utter poo so it's not going up. :P

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Oooo... and I added a link in my sig with a thread I'm going to loading pics of my jewellery onto. I figure I mention it enough, I might as well show some too.

[BlackDelphin]

Looking good in here :)
Perhaps some more complex figures? Would love to see. :meow:

[The Whistler]

Hey, you've been busy! :)

I like the studies, you're improving! Love the statue on the page before. It's also great that you did the comic, you develop both figures and enviros that way. It's a really sad story though... :(

Cheers and keep it up!