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2014-12-14 08:14 pm

December meme: day 15.1

[personal profile] anonymous_sibyl: Have you ever drawn anything based on the series of original fantasy novels you've written? I'd love to see that sometime in December.



This is just the line, hence 15.1, and it's very rough. I'm not sure I'll be online tomorrow, and if I'm not I'll post the colour/cleaned up version on Tuesday.

Hm, okay, these are my OCs, Gwydion and Irene. Bear in mind I usually draw from people whose faces I'm familiar with and not making up from scratch.

Gwydion I kind of think should be wearing his coat so that may change. Gwydion is a beanpole who wears grandfather clothes and is unlikely to gain any semblance of style now, because he's dead/undead and anything he wears at all is only the memory of his living form at work. That's also why he's just looked away and stopped concentrating on holding the book and it's fallen through his hand. I was going to give him an armful of weapons to be dropping all over the place too, but that was proving difficult.

Irene is in business clothes (so this is early on in the 'verse, although she's always going to dress a little buttoned down) and holding her phone well clear of Gwydion (who jinxes technology). Irene's very scraped-back and severe, but at the end of the day really doesn't care to excess about neatness, and that hair that's escaping is pretty much always going to be escaping. Of course she has noticed he's dropping the book in time to catch it. Her hand is, however, backwards: I told you this was rough.

Neither of them are ever going to be icons of style or start smiling and posing cutely. Pulling faces and making sarcastic jibes at each other, more like. But it's love nonetheless. They're pretty much like a married couple from the end of volume 1 onwards.
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2014-12-13 09:39 pm

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I am so close to finishing the Haven novel I started for NaNoWriMo last year. Like, ~3000 words to go in which I know what happens, and I have the closing paragraphs written on a bit of scrap paper.

No December meme today I don't think but I have some art prompts coming up that I'll post in the next week or so, and a few more text ones. Still open for prompts, btw.

General stuff about the art to fill this space:

I'm so not a drawing 'things' art person. I'm a drawing people art person. All the interest is in the expression and the likeness in the face and the lines of tension and expression in the body. I was musing over this as I was posting the picture with Nathan's Bronco in the background the other day and thinking on how the biggest headache to draw by far in that picture was the car. The backgrounds are a kind of hell for me. Ugh.

I suck at drawing thin women. Thin people in general, but thin women in particular. Because my body model is me, in the mirror. And I'm not thin, I'm fairly sturdy. So all my characters end up built fairly sturdy when I draw them. Not so much a problem with Audrey because thank you Emily Rose and I usually manage to thin Nathan down a bit, but Jordan... Jordan is really very slim. I think the fail on this is noticeable in the superhero pic.

Maybe my colours are a bit lurid? Not sure what to do about this. Maybe I'll start sticking a few partially transparent layers on top to dim things down? Or try that... I don't know.

I'm setting out to make Haven Tarot. That's my next project. Already got all the characters and cards assigned here on Tumblr.