Two new pieces uploaded

Hello! I’ve finally gotten around to adding some more work. Unfortunately I still don’t have a camera or a viable scanner, so there are pieces that I would like to add, but am currently unable to. But, you have the digital piece Space Girl (awful title, I know, I’m open to better suggestions), and the creatively entitled Untitled-1, featuring a nude girl drawn in charcoal on textured paper.

Space Girl features a lot of textures, which I found on the excellent site http://www.cgtextures.com/, and was created solely because when asked for ideas, someone I know replied with, “OOO, draw a unicorn fighting space banditos!”. [Long story short - I have another work in progress featuring a space unicorn, and there was some discussion as to whether the unicorn would be able to repel space ninjas, space bandits, etc etc]. Anyway as I didn’t feel like drawing more unicorns, but did like the idea of drawing a quasi-futuristic (thank you, Dr Evil) space woman fighting unknown enemies, Space Girl was born. I am particularly fond of the way her hair turned out, what do you think? Slightly influenced by the webcomic “Yu+Me dream” (http://rosalarian.com/yume/), although using textures in this way isn’t exactly a new thing for me - just a thing I hoped to improve upon.

On the subject of Space Girl, I recently discovered that on the website http://zazzle.co.uk/, it’s possible to design not only posters, t-shirts, etc, but also shoes. Specifically, converse style canvas trainers. They are fully customisable, and upon playing around with it, I found that Space Girl looked fantastic (in my humble opinion) emblazoned across these trainers, in a very graphic novel/comic book style sort of way. The picture itself is not the most suitable for this purpose, but I am hoping to create some more in a similar style for the express purpose of customising these trainers, and perhaps offering them for sale. Watch this space!

This brings me to Untitled-1, another piece in need of a more creative title. I actually drew this last summer, when visiting my partner (the man who created this lovely site for me, who can be found at http://connorhd.co.uk/). It bears a slight resemblance to another digital piece I did but which I didn’t consider to be of a high enough standard to upload here (it can be found on my deviantArt), and was mostly created out of nothing but boredom and a longing to once more use charcoal for a proper piece. I also created two self portraits, which I am debating uploading, but once again the lack of a camera or scanner causes problems.

I’m working on another traditional piece, and have thus far got a background which is a little different from usual, for me. It’s a lot of bright colours, and a lot of textures using fabric, paper, and masking tape, and I have to say I love how it’s turned out. Over the top will be painted the head and shoulders of a person listening to music, (although this is liable to change, knowing me), and in my mind’s eye it looks good, at least Hopefully I’ll be completing that and uploading it for your viewing pleasure :p