Last one I promise; The Fallen.

more of her awesome stuff here

 I am going through some of my work last year trying to tie-up lose ends (by which I mean finally finish whatever it is I started so I can move along) I am finding things I am particularly fond of that I CAN'T BELIEVE wasn't shared here -one of which are these drawings from that book I keep mentioning, "How to draw fantasy characters."

This one, I am PARTICULARLY  fond of because it HAD no instructions. and while mine doesn't measure up quite up to her amazing works (like - I love everything  about this piece - the pose, the colours, the expression and obviously, the background).

Of course, because I love it so much, it came with NO instructions and I cannot tell you how many photocopies were made trying to apply what I had learned in the previous pages (I think I drew every single character in this book) and really DIGEST what I had learned. I used up an entire Steadler eraser before I was finally able to produce something half way decent.

This is a 4" x 6" no named cardstock I got at the dollarstore a loooooong time ago when I was obsessively making albums with( I still have them, I have no idea what to do with them but eventually I am sure I will use them).

 It was the first thing I grabbed when the light bulb went off in my head and it is certainly the only one that turned out much better than I expected.

I used a "skin tone" Copic Marker set for the skin and the the rest is in crayola markers. Completely amazed at my own work and that this was doable with good ol' crayola markers. The only bummer is that with each layer of Crayola, the paper became visibly furry and damaged due to the water-soluable nature of Crayola markers.

Mine has no wings. WHY? because I just could NOT get them in perspective. To be honest, I'm not entirely happy with the way the back look but I dared not touch it, it is as good as it is every going to get. I wish mine had wings, although I have NO IDEA how I would have coloured them with markers and I think that may have been a twinkle of a thought in my mind, which made the 'no wing' idea easier to accept.

As the fairy had no wings though, I felt like mine lost a bit of magic - like she did wrong and was banned from the fairy world - the "fallen" fairy - so I called this piece, "FALLEN" (dramatic, no?).


Quite some time after, I found an old version of Grimms' tales I never knew I owned and I tried to redo this piece again, this time with a bit more context. Some of the lyrics from the song "Happy ending" by Mika and a quote from the movie, "EVER AFTER."

Clearly, I lost some technique or at very least, sense of proportion...super long arms, super short legs....it looks to me, and part of one leg disappears into the void.

I can't even explain what happened to her face.

I love the gradiation of colours - Promarkers and Copic Markers are incredible and definitely worth the investment if this is something you enjoy- but are good at. Although I think the stem that she's sitting on is, Crayola markers. :D

Anyhoo.
I hope you liked :)

Love Always,
Shyni

Freebies - Dooberrie

This is another little piece I found that I had coloured when I was following along the book by J "Neondragon"Peffer called "How to draw fantasy charecters" . I love this little pixie - the way she stands and the drapery and the colour. I wasn't a big fan of the smile showing the teeth and the wings were a bit smaller than I 'd like so I made some alterations - which again, makes me feel that I can distribute these as I see fit - and is now available for you.

There is a little story behind this which you may find either offensive or funny - but I found it to be hilarious.
When I was practicing drawing this lil lady on a 5" x 7" card (I tell you there were many a cards wasted, she's a trixy lil' thing), I wanted her to have the beautiful, vibrant blues, pinks and greens...and just SCREAM vibrant in your face; I was having hard time finding a good reference photo until my friend showed me THIS photo of what I understand to be an incredibly desirable state of weed. With all reservations aside ,I have to agree that the  colour combination here is EXACTLY what I was looking for - I would love to live in a space with these colours!!!





  Armed with this....unexpected source of inspiration for colour, I banged out this final verion which you can download.

There are a couple of other line art available for download as well  - feel free to use them :)
http://shynimoonstar.deviantart.com/gallery/35023426

This is what I ended up with.
I was bend on creating beautiful works using inexpensive materials. While I was making this, a friend of mine suggested that this be a fairy for doobs - bare with me , I promise this is kinda funny - she would be like a toothfairy but for doobies (for those who aren't familar, because I wasn't when I first heard this term - this is a small spliff or a joint or a roll of weed). So, how she would work is whenever someone is getting low on their joint, they would butt it out and then put it under their pillow and BAM! a second later, a whole new joint would be there in place of the tiny one.

*shrug* I don't know I thought it was funny, thus named her "Dooberrie." I hope enjoy,  and let me know how your fairy turns out.

Freebies - mermaid

Okay.
I cannot beeeeeliiieve this isn't on here... I came about this mishap when I told a friend of mine to check out the blog for a line art I made a whilllle back following and incredibly well written and WONDERFUL BOOK by J "Neondragon"Peffer called "How to draw fantasy charecters" which I borrowed from the library;my  drawings are all a modified version of her pieces which makes me feel that I can distribute my version as I see fit. In general, I like to give my characters unrealistic amounts of hair because I like working on them and because I, personally, have unrealistic amount of hair according to my hairdresser.

This book was such an inspiration for me to start drawing again, that I would highly recommend it to anyone who  is pondering about picking up that old art kit your parents got you for art class way back when.  Just look at it - it's so pretty I love the colours, the background and the composition.

Although I made a few of the linearts I only ever got enough gull to try to color the mermaid - I coloured it in markers (crayola mostly - the one to the right), water colors and pencil crayons(one to the left). You are welcome to use the line art and have a ball with it as you see fit , like Lynda did here .

Just click on the picture for the lineart:)