Friday, February 5, 2010

Emma & Will

Emma Pillsbury and Will Schuester from Glee
(Played by Jayma Mays and Matthew Morrison)

A really quick sketch. Drew Emma basically with no eraser, and then I screwed up Will. So that's why he looks like Frankenstein here.
I love Glee though, and I can't wait till episodes come back in April! Especially since Jonathan Groff is going to be guest starringg!

I've started a new line art. I don't know how it's going to look, because the face is at an angle in the ref, and I'm really bad at angled faces... I'll probably use this one as a practice at drawing and shading textures though because it's almost a full body shot. And he's wearing jeans.

FINALS ARE OVERRR

Sunday, January 31, 2010

hello!

Just a quick post to apologize for the lack of posts recently. Finals are this week and, although I haven't been studying as much as a should, I promised myself to put off drawing until they're over. Horrible, I know):

I'm not going to lie, my second semester schedule is really, really, really busy, but hopefully I can get through it with a decent amount of sleep! I'll try to draw as much as I can. My goal for 2010 is to end up with at least 20 graphite portraits I am proud of. Right now, the count is: 1. (The amazing Mr. Nicholas Hoult as seen in the post below) Ahaha...

So, in order to (hopefully!) motivate myself, I'm posting a list on here of some famous faces you can except to see over the next few months! I currently have a folder filled with amazing references I've found on various sites, and I already have my next ref printed out and ready to gooo.

Next up!
Matt Doyle (Broadway's Bye Bye Birdie and Spring Awakening)
Possibly On Deck:
Mitch Hewer (Skins)
Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
Kevin McHale (Glee)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 Days of Summer)

I may draw some people more than once because there are some really great references I just can't resist, but it really just depends on my mood... I have a line art for John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness in my drawer right now, but I don't really feel like finishing it haha.

But first, Finals! Wish me luck...

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Nicholas


Nicholas Hoult
from Skins, A Single Man, About a Boy

My first drawing of the year! This is the first time I've used my Prismacolors in a lonnnnng time... but I wanted his eyes to pop out(: So what do you think?

This was another practice with gridding. It really helps and saves a lot of time. This drawing measures 7x4 inches. I drew it on regular printer paper using HB, 2B, 4B, 8B and 2H for gridding. The ref is HERE.
(btw, that's a very nice website. and so is fuckyeahmeninsuits.tumblr.com and fuckyeahmeninties.tumblr.com) :D

Anyways, I've started watching Skins and I absolutely adore it. I love the storylines, the format of the show, the actors, and even though I've only seen four episodes, I've already gotten really attached to the characters. I started watching it because I found out Nicholas Hoult was in it, haha. And I only found out about him because I saw him in the trailer for A Single Man, which looks amazinggg. I want to see it so badly. It's rated R though...

Sorry, I know it's really crappy quality. I don't know why. I probably have a sucky scanner... or I just don't know how to use it properly.

EDIT: upped the contrast and uploaded that image instead.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Farewell

Tenth Doctor as played by David Tennant<3

^^visit(:

I'm going to miss him so much.
Farewell David!

drawing measures approx. 10x14
reg .07 mechanical, 2H, H, HB, 2B, 4B, 8B, blending stump, tissue

My first gridded drawing! I measured out squares on my ref and my actual drawing paper.
I wrote more stuff on my dA description haha

cheers!

EDIT: after watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28ba5Q0NrQ8
(!!!! link contains SPOILERS for Doctor Who the End of Time !!!!)
I love David and David's Doctor even more. if that's possible. which i'm not sure it is.
Matt Smith has a lot to live up to as number 11
David's regeneration scene better be freaking epic.
I am beyonddd excited. but I also don't want New Year's to ever come because then it's really over for Ten):

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Jaejoong

Kim Jaejoong or Hero Jaejoong of TVXQ/DBSK, which I believe is a Korean pop band?
I'm probably wrong about some part of that last sentence.

This was a (slightly belated) birthday present for a friend. She's a fan of this guy. I did not know who he was until I looked him up.

2H, H, HB, 2B, 4B, 8B.
I got new pencils!

Click for full-view. Also, I'm now also posting on deviantART at: SUNFLAKE.DEVIANTART.COM so check me out there!

ref

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

baby

HB only. Sorry if you can see the annoying line across the middle of his/her (I can never tell with babies...) face and the text. I've been drawing on the blank backs of weekly schedules my English teacher likes to print out even though he probably kills an entire forest every year doing that....

Copied from a Sears Portrait Studio ad. Too lazy to scan it in, but I believe the photo is on their website in a flashy little slideshow. The baby's wearing a Santa hat, even though it's too early for Christmas (or at least I think so)

Saturday, October 31, 2009

James

James Franco.
Tristan & Isolde, Spider-Man, Milk, Pineapple Express
(I've actually only seen the first two of the above listed movies)

This was a basic study in proportions drawn entirely in HB. I did this at school in probably under one and a half hours. Copied from a Gucci by GUCCI Men's fragrance ad I tore out from a magazine because it was a good facial closeup. It had one of those open and sniff samples of the eau de toilette that it was advertising. So yes, this drawing smells like man. As did I after working on it.
REF

Yeah, I know, it's not David Tennant. But I think I'm going to practice a bit more on facial proportions before I draw DT, so I don't screw him up.