strange and beautiful drawing

Pen and ink drawing by UrbanBones.

character design concept art

I've been looking at concept art for games, and did a little character design of my own using Photoshop & a pen tablet. Grunge background is courtesy of Google image search.

nervous

I did this little cat drawing in a corner of a letter I wrote to my friend Kat. I love how it's expression turned out! I find that impulsive, rushed drawings like this one often has more expression and feeling than the ones that are planned to death. I often kill my art by overworking it.
The paper is handmade by me! I will post pictures of the paper later, it was a good experiment. I like how the drawings I make on it gets lovely textured backgrounds instead of clinical harsh white.

alien friends hanging out on lazy days

A little doodle from my sketchbook. I added colours in Photoshop.

I drew this

I drew this with a marker, and added the bits of colour and the black vignette in Photoshop. It reminds me of Art Nouveau.

a drawing from my sketchbook

I've never had a sketchbook with brown pages before. I think it makes the drawings look really old fashioned.

illustration by Cassandra Rhodin

I'm guessing this is an ink drawing.


Why does this illustration scream "French" and "France" to me? Is anyone else getting that association, or is it just me?

A Visual Guide to Alien Beings

I know I'm not supposed to judge a book by it's cover, but if this particular book is anything near as good as it's cover then it must be really, really good. I want it.
The book is based on interviews of abductees who has explained what the aliens where like and looked like and such. It's fun to see that lizard people/reptilians has been included as my boyfriend has been telling me about this particular alien specie for a while. Also, mr. Chace claims he has been lucky enough to meet a reptilian alien lady, so he must know what he's talking about ;)


The cover reminds me a little of Päivi Laakso's elf paintings (blogged here).

I've read reviews of the book where people has said that they used to be sceptical about aliens but now they believe it all. Oh wow, I also want to believe in lizard people! Someone please buy me this book!

Joseph's moleskin art

It's so much fun to follow the process of Joseph's many art journal moleskins in his blog, as he draws something amazing nearly every single day. And he doesn't do jotted down sketches that never gets finished like I do in my sketchbook - but finished, elaborate drawings.




I have a thing for blobs, like the black blobs around this car.. I keep adding blobs and spots in my own drawings too:




Find Joseph here:

yardapeart.blogspot.com
www.flickr.com/photos/inkandclay

self portrait

This is a super-quick miniature sketch in my sketchbook that I've crudely coloured in in Photoshop. I'm really satisfied with it because it is possibly the best self portrait I've ever done!

a drawing from my sketchbook

I've been sketching for my doll project lately. I like that they are bodies, yet not alive. They are uncanny. I'm using real dolls as my models. I can't afford fancy ball jointed ones, so this one is Barbie's cousin that I ripped the head off because she looked too much like a cheerleader. I then replaced it with the head from a Pocahontas Barbie that I stripped the paint off of because she looked too much like Pocahontas (go figure). I stripped her hair off too, and made her dreads from yarn. If I'm going to paint dolls, they can't look like cheerleaders. I think I just have to work with my dolls, dress them up and pose them and see what comes out of it.


In this sketch, I glued on pieces of yarn for her hair (The turquoise and black yarn is sock yarn that I'm using to knit socks with at the moment, I think they'll be the prettiest socks ever!). I'd like to work more with texture for these paintings, and maybe use a bit of collage, and in general just do less minimalistic stuff than I've done before when I've painted people/bodies.

Sam

My friend Sam died recently. He was such a handsome guy with a heart of gold. He had infinite amounts of cute in him, was so fun to be with and had a contagious laughter. He did the best dance moves on the face of the planet. I can't believe I won't be able to see him again.

His sister asked me to do a drawing of him for his funeral, so I did this portrait of him:

I wish all the evil people would die first.
Life is unfair.

alien aceo

one of my goals for my lucid dreams lately has been to meet aliens. last night i DID meet some aliens in a lucid dream- but they weren't friendly&smiling like this guy here.. i'll have to try again! and remember that they are/should be friendly..


ink drawing on water colour paper.

ambassador aceo

weey it's the ambassador... AGAIN! he keep turning up in my drawings - he must be a man of importance.


this time he is a marker drawing on water colour paper. i love the simple lines and the slimy alien vegetation. drawing with markers is fun - there's no room for mistakes! once you've put a mark down on the paper, that is it. the mark stays.

ambassador aceo

pencil and ink drawing on watercolour paper

psychic aceo

She sees the secrets with her water-eyes.


Pencil, marker and ink on watercolour paper. I love watercolour paper, it doesn't mind water at all.

fashion illustrations by laura laine

i like how these illustrations are dense with intricate thin lines.. just check out their hair. it's a cool effect. i keep forgetting that it's something i'd like to do more in my own work. i also like how the areas with lots of thin lines contrasts with the heavy black bits, niiice.








i like her drawings so much.. but mostly when they're more fairytaleish and not so much when there's too much fashion industry-style. not that i don't like fashion.. i guess it's "industry" i don't like.. but yeah, an artist needs to eat etc. and her illustrations are dark and well done and i love them in spite of the industry.

and talking about fashion industry and fashion style and illustrations and photography; what's up with the SLOUCH?? why is it fashionable to slouch? now i should be happy about it, as i find it hard to remember to sit up right.. but i count it as a bad habit and not something that directly adds to my sexiness? hmm.. i'll do a google image search and see if i can find some sexy slouch pictures.

illustrations by vania zouravliov

vania zouravliov is a MEGA talented contemporary illustrator from russia. he was a child prodigy and had exhibitions from the age of 13!!? i listened to prodigy when i was 13, but that is the closest i got to child prodigy..

michal macku body pictures

michal macku uses a self invented technique called "gellage" to create strange morphed body images.

"The technique consists of transfer the exposed and fixed photographic emulsion from its original base on paper. This transparent and plastic gelatin substance makes it possible to reshape and reform the original images, changing their relationships and endowing them with new meanings during the transfer" link

hasn't he heard of photoshop? although i guess everyone has a computer with photoshop now, "gellage" is maybe a bit more unique.





the first image by michal macku reminds me of some simple body drawings i did a while back. i tried looking for them, but only found one:

michal macku must have seen my drawing somehow and copied me. maybe he hacked my brain in search for inspiration. it happens aaaaall the timeee. i better start wearing a tin foil helmet to stop the psychic theft of ideas.

lady eleven

some lady-person i drew in my sketchbook before going to bed last night. i like big hair and big dresses. it's a pencil drawing.