LILITH Our mission is to get better and grow as artists by practicing every day and posting to this blog once a week.

Bout halfway done with the Captain America print~ Still got Thor, Tony, Hawkeye and Black Widow plus a Tiger and Bunny one.

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Edit: adding another WIP

So cloooose

Thought I'd try something that's still pretty new to me~ Watercolor!
I just went over some drawings I already had in my sketchbook. It's a little frustrating to use since I don't really paint but I'll try! XD

TOOOM HIDDLESTOOON <3

Last one has some color pencil too~

I think Jessy and I are going through an Avengers craze right now.

Anyway, I wanted to practice painting and used Iron Man as the subject. Found a reference from Google to create this portrait. I think the hardest part was trying to mix the right colors for the gold part of Ironman's mask...without using gold paint. At first I just added black or white to the yellow paint that I had, but it kept looking more like green vomit. I was thinking that maybe compliments would work better, so I created a purple palette to mix with the yellow. It worked out better than I thought. It also made the greenish color look less like vomit, which made me cry tears of joy.

I might paint over the background with a lighter color instead of just black, because his suit is kind of getting lost in it.

Other than that, I am happy with how the portrait turned out. (:

Sorry for the crappy picture XD
I'm working on some Avengers prints for AX. TOTALLY LAST MINUTE so I hope I get them finished D8
I still have a ton of other prints to finish too :S Haven't really had time for painting but once I get all this done I'll hop to it!

This past week I've been reading the book, The Help by Kathryn Stockett. It's a good book...so, I watched the movie. Bad idea. Novels made into movies are always disappointing. Always. Btw, my favorite character was definitely Minny. Now go read a book!

So, I have a hard time drawing guys...I tend to make their features very feminine. Here are some 15 minute studies of male features. Gahh, now I need to make my males look less...scrawny. Enjoy. ;)

These are a few sketches I made during the week. I have several pages full of gestures, but I decided to just post these drawings for now. Not sure if I'll make finished rendered work out of the character pieces (Marceline, Capt. America, Toph), but I am thinking about rendering the smoking divas. I have to re-draw them of course, because I sketched them without reference and they look unproportional. Sigh.

Also, for those of you who don't have the opportunity to go to drawing workshops or are too lazy to go to one, I suggest using this website I use to draw gestures:

Practice. Practice. Practice.

One more for this week :P
I was bored this morning so I decided to try out my pastels that I got 7 years ago LOL I think I'll do Loki next again, scan them once I have a fixing spray and make prints 8D I'll probably tweak a few more things before I do that.

Edit 5/20/12

I scanned it! I asked Rebecca Kimmel about fixing sprays and she said not to use them on pastels so I just scanned it in as is :)

Edited contrast and saturation in photoshop~

So I think you guys all know that I've been on a total Loki trip XD I will do a tighter color version for next week :)

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TEST horsey...