okay so i decided to get to work on my 10 free sketches thingy since it’s been almost a year or some crap since i posted that on my DA XD!! here’s some preliminaries for holly’s punk ladeh. i’m not sure if the ref dollies she gave me are actually her or if it’s [...]

so these are old too heh. from like 2007 XD! i’m not going to back post these mind ’cause they’ve never seen the light of day (at least i don’t think they have except the mermaid). so technically they’re new DX
   

weapons of choice: staedtler mechanical pencils 0.5, pigment liners [...]

the preliminary stuff that started my modern tribal traditional thingy original work here
   
weapons of choice: staedtler mechanical pencil, pigment liners, gold leaf and matte medium to set it, winsor newton india ink in burnt sienna (that i spilled all down the spine of the sketchbook making it look uber hardcore [...]

oh man did i fuck this thing up XD! i tried to upgrade but i had this prob on my server where it was not giving me permission to delete certain files! giving i’m trying to trim things down that didn’t go well with “delete happy” me and i tried deleting whole oekaki boards as [...]

okay just back posting some old stuff  ’cause i’m bored and i want my blog to look fuller XD.  stole this from my DA scraps…
strong>weapons of choice: staedtler mechanical pencil 0.05mm, printer paper XD, photoshop 7 for line recolour and 1px pencil tool for the pixel thing
sources: japanese prints, and wikki-ness!
so this is supposed to [...]

stolen from DA scraps again. i’ve always had an obsession with faes, art nouveau, and more recently doing pixel dollish art from sketches so that’s what this is about. it’s actually quite far along but i’m having issues with the colours/garments etc. i would like to actually get to finishin’ mind.
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did these way back in the day XD. they’re rubbish and they are done from referencing a fashion illustration book. it’s a really great book of my mom’s that talks about the industry, illustrating for the industry and is full of a gabillion full body and head shot photos categorized front, back, feet, [...]

okay i was going to back post these exactly as they appear in my LJ by date and such to be a nerd but it’s better to just post two dumps rather than a bunch with like one sketch per post. beh. so here’s some hands…

most of these are me referencing my left [...]