The caterpiller did it!

 

First of all, I introduce to you my earthy shaman and his buddy. This I made completely with coloured pencils and a white marker for the body lines. Was lots of fun to do. I love to exaggerate the size of the hands as I see them as the fundamental tools of creation. It's what I do all do time: create with my hands.

This guy has leafy wing(s) but I drew one and the caterpillar coming out of where the other one should be to show the importance of his friend. I always like to create a little story with my finished pieces.

 

Next is another of my psychedelic doodles. This one I like a lot as it's not too overcrowded with lines and more basic.

Enjoy!

Layers

Scanned this image properly and added a different background to it.

Never be afraid to let go of the 'old' self. We have many layers. Let go and become the new self. Reshell, thank the shell and move on.

Purple and Green

I love purple and green!

First is a little drawing of if I ever make a comic book, it will look something like this.

I would probably end up making the lineart in different colours and overloading it with more colours until your eyes want to puke. 

This little lady is just a little practice of styles.

I want to more and more incorporate my psychedelic style with a funky comic style, so this is one of my initial steps.

Totally hand drawn, then some quick Photoshop colours done on my laptops mousepad again. I really need to retrieve my drawing tablet.

 

 And here ladies and gentlemen, is a box.

This is a little capture of a dream I had many years ago, about 4 or 5 years ago. I dreamt a friend of mine walked up to me slowly (he happens to always dress like a Victorian gentleman as a choice) and he presented a three dimensional cube within his left hand. I looked at it and saw the whole galaxy inside of it. So to commemorate this epic dream, I drew a purple guy presenting it.

This geezer was also another practice. I coloured him in with normal highlighters: the pens you normally use to highlight text. These things actually work really well and the yellow and orange also glow in UV light, so that was a pleasant suprise.

The original piece looks very nice under UV light and makes me want to do bigger, more detailed images in the future with this tool.

 

Thanks for looking!

<3

Not your ordinary fairy

Never been too into the usual looking fairies, I much prefer them like the one I drew here.

The usual fairies you see look like made up models to me. My twist is a more earthy, rough character. This little fellow is part dragonfly, also a magnificent creature in my eyes. 

-Drawn using a ballpoint pen then colour changed to a brown tone on Photoshop.

Dropping in

Just dropping in this little doodle.

Was done on an A5 piece of paper, mindless drawing that became one of my more favourites.

Probably make it into bigger deco one day.

<3

A drop of water

 

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Above is something I created with coloured pencils. Pencils take more time and patience with my work, unlike using a pen, I have to keep going over the same lines instead of (like below) having one definitive line after the other. So when more time is spent on lines, I end up creating an image with more recognizable forms eg. faces, hands, eyes. With the pen, I become more abstract, so I can end up creating imagery more about shapes and three dimensions.

I've come to learn that with each tool used, there comes a different outlook with this style. If the tool is delicate on the paper, the image becomes more delicate, if the tool is more straight on the paper, the image becomes the same.

 

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Also, when it comes to my pen work, it also depends on the feeling I have when drawing. So at times I creates images like this one that has a lot of recognizable forms (refering to the faces, skull and so on), but otherwise I create images with less things that the brain can recognise instantly, so you end up creating for yourself what you are seeing.

 And this is the part that interests me the most, the main reason I have been evolving this style. What I see, you will probably see different. So with this style the viewer has a unique experience to themselves and also, I found that if I keep looking back at the same image, I end up seeing new things that I didn't before.

One side of life

I had an interesting christmas this (gone) year. The week around christmas day, and a little after. I spent time sitting and just drawing one picture after another. When you are sitting with no television or internet or even books as distractions, your mind starts wandering a little (understatement).

I didn't have a big family feast on christmas, no, I drew this picture (which I later edited on Photoshop quickly, again on my laptops mouse pad), as well as many others.

Anyway, this image is one of my renditions of what life means to me, or at least how I see life. I have endless ideas of the old question of 'the meaning of life', but this is one of them.

So for the celebratory season just gone, I didn't lather myself with the materialistic tradition of buying and receiving presents, instead I spent it sitting and creating with a good friend of mine who spent the whole time gaming xD

One of the more beautiful christmas's spent <3

Like all my imagery, I like to let the viewer decide on what they think it means. So if you have any bubbling thoughts about what this picture means/creates for you, let me know.

Lady of light

Yeah, cheesy title, but here's why:

I took a quick, not so good quality image of a drawing I made.

Yes, it's super lame quality image, but I have no access to a scanner at the moment and this was the best I could do.

So then I got a little adventurous on Photoshop, and again I currently don't have any access to my drawing tablet, so all the colouring and editing was done on my laptops mouse pad thing. Took longer than I thought, but it was fun.

Then I slapped on a background of one of my linear drawings to see how two of my more prominent styles look together, and voila!

I really dig the multiple arm thing at the moment, so expect to see more characters like this in the future.

 As a bonus, here is a sneak peak of a fluo painting I'm making. It's still in it's super rough stage, but soon, when I find the right moment for it, it will be painted with more than just one colour: