I’ve been absent for... AGES and I’m going to just throw up what I’ve been doing with no explanation since I don’t think anyone visits this anyway hahaha.

First I approximated the original sketch from my sketchbook into the canvas, after gesso of course. 

Some basic colors for background 

Clouds and figures 

Almost all the little details. A few things around the campfire need fixing but otherwise this is done. 

DRAWCEMBER week one

Doing a little re-cap of what I've been sketching out for the first week of Drawcember. For those of you who don't know what that is, its a lot like NaNoWriMo, where you do a drawing a day. Most people go a lot more in-depth, doing a fully rendered comic page a day, or a whole painting, or a completely different art style each day, but I use it as a way to keep up the discipline of producing a daily level of artwork. I've definitely been slacking.

BUT! Here's my first seven days of Drawcember (not necessarily in order:

Some of these I'll go back later and re-tool and finish into paintings, I hope.

I kept swearing up and down last year that I'd do Drawcember this year, and godamnit, if I can do NaNoWriMo two years in a row, I can certainly.... wait, wait, shit, it's Dec 1st already?!
:: scribbles frantically ::
Okay, rough start but at least I found an eraser!

Music for Beasts

Here's a pair of sketches I plan to do a little more with, hopefully for a series of watercolors. I'm a big fan of how the violinist turned out. Still tweaking the bear and his ity-bity fan girl. In the works are a flute-playing wolf and a goat bassist.

And a peek at a Welcome to Nightvale tattoo I'm working on!

Faces

Played around with portraiture today, not sure where I'm going with it just yet. Even tough I picked and chose which shadows I drew out each time, I think they turned out fine. I'm not one for selfies, but I had no other model but my own stupid face.

I should brush my hair.

and even more fauns

So, coffee never happened. Instead, more fauns happened. And now, I think I'm going to go get another tattoo.

Here he is with the flowers sans all color and texture... and the texturing still is what needs a lot of work. Going to come back to that in a bit. Want to step away to get my head into something else for a bit, so I can focus better. Still off-kilter.

WHO NEEDS SLEEP

NOT ME.
NOPE.
GONNA MAKE A FAUN INSTEAD.
YEAH.
WITH THIS PICTURE OF ALAN CUMMING.

YEAH!
GONNA DO IT.

BAM.
FIRST LAYER.
IT'S THREE AM.
GONNA PUBLISH THIS AFTER I NAP.

Edit.
It's noon.
Why did that turn out so well. Why do I blog like a hyper teenager at 3am. Oh sweet Jeebus I need coffee. Like, all of the coffee.