Okay, so I figured I better clean out my gallery and at lease upload something. After finally finding some good art work (thanks, friends, you guys are so encouraging I think the site has abated down- I'm trudging through a lot of crap, but then again, what site doesn't have their load of junk? ), I think I'm ready to upload again!


I liked how this one turned out, which is why I'm uploading this one (I did numerous of drawings, but all of them really sucked). This one has a funny story.

I just watched the History Channel's "Angels: Good or Bad" and it featured a lot beautiful, old artwork containing angels. I was inspired by the story, and one of the professors on the documentary said a quote I really liked: "A person who does good, for the sake of good, and not seeking an award- that's an angel." (or something of the sort...)
So, after watching that, previously, I had found some really beautiful vintage photos from old movies. Since I was too lazy to print the reference out, I drew straight from the computer. For some reason, it came out NOTHING like the reference- but it came out great. THERE'S AN ANGEL NEAR ME, I TELL YOU.

Well, it turns out the reason it came out nothing like the reference is because I had the screen tilted back too far so I could barely see the reference. No angel there.

The baby was inspired by a statue, and due to the fact the angel looked pretty empty by herself. Yeah, the baby looks like he's on steroids instead of pure baby fat, but let's just give the good ole "didn't use a reference" excuse. :
So that's the story.

And you know what...I know it's an outline...but I have NO idea what to do with it. I printed numerous of copies, trying different techniques (shading regularly, coloring with colored pencils, coloring with GIMP, using crosshatching+ hatching, using just hatching, using just crosshatching) and every time I did so it made it look like angelic junk. My sis told me not to worry about it, but it still looks incompleted. There's something missing....



I'm DYING for a critique!


Same ole tools- and I lost the reference for the girl, and I'm not sure what movie it was, or what her name was- but she played Estella in the black and white "Great Expectations" (She was the PRETTY Estella, not the Estella in the new version. She looks like a freaking hooker in the new version, seriously, how is that "pretty"? But that's another rant for another time)