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Aeryn Sun – Farscape Season 2

Carde — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:34:01 +0000

An unfinished sketch of the lovely Claudia Black, once again, this time from a screen capture from Farscape Season 2, an episdode called “To Kiss Princess”, or something like that. It’s right as she is offering a vial of liquid to John Crichton which can determine if two people’s DNA are compatible. I didn’t start watching Farscape until I heard Ms. Black’s voice over work for Morrigan from Dragon Age, and then I discovered that: 1) Claudia Black starred on Farscape and 2) I could so very easily watch Netflix on my Tivo. Easy peasy.

Ok, I really have to finish one of these pictures one day, but for now I hope everyone has a lovely Easter.

Yikes

Carde — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:15:54 +0000

I started off so well this month with posting pictures, but I seem to be slacking now. Ach. In previous months (or years) I would say that I was playing too many games, but over the past week or so I’ve been inundated with work, so bear with me as I try to get some more pictures up soon. In the meantime, for those who haven’t, check out conceptart.org and drawingboard.org, two sites you can visit to view other people’s art work for inspiration. Conceptart.org‘ s mission is to teach art as well, so check out their streaming and downloadable content (some you pay for) to learn more about how great artists practice their craft.

Jaelen – World of Warcraft Priest

Carde — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:34:52 +0000

In an attempt to draw a more complete picture, I have decided to try my hand at drawing Jaelen, my Blood Elf Priestess from the World of Warcraft,with a fiery conflagration in the background (hey, I thought I would keep it simple). So this is a cropped portion of the picture at an early stage. I say early because it it still very rough, but it still took me a couple of hours to get to this point. I work slowly. Anyway, I may not post any updates until its complete, but then I’ll post a picture showing the evolution of the image.

I have one last “month” of the calendar for Ultima Online that I started 2 years ago. I will do this last one a little differently by attempting it all digitally using Photoshop and Painter. This picture of Jaelen should be good practice for it.

Aeryn Sun

Carde — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:07:17 +0000

Claudia Black/Aeryn Sun Sketch

A rough sketch/painting done in Painter of the incomparable Claudia Black as Aeryn Sun, from Farscape.

Another Tali’Zorah (aka a woman with green skin)

Carde — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:29:01 +0000

Another attempt at Tali’Zorah? Hmm, maybe. . .

Can’t Find Tali

Carde — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:25:44 +0000

Ok, my brain wanted to try and draw Tali’Zorah from a reference of Julie Ordon, making some changes to her to make her look a bit more alien, but. . . . well, this is still a sketch. Let me see what I can do with it. Done in Painter with a new left shoulder courtesy of Photoshop.

Quick Sketch

Carde — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:06:35 +0000

Poor Man’s Sarahyba

Carde — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:23:18 +0000

An attempt at Daniella Sarahyba as she appears in the recent SI swimsuit issue

Another Go

Carde — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:38:09 +0000

Another Tali?

Carde — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:44:22 +0000

Here is another very early sketch of. . . .well, I suppose just another fancifully colored female. I have a lot to work on with this one. Perhaps I’ll see this one through to the end. I used Michelle Ryan this time as a photo reference.

Ach, the poor girl. She looks like the different parts of her face and hair have been stuck on like stickers…