Racoon

This is really small and kind of rough actually, but I still like it ;)

xoxo Alex

Because I'm happy!

Yes I like Pharrell Williams, no I was not listening to him while drawing this (it was Michael Buble's concert on youtube in fact! :D) but yes I am happy about this picture :)

So enjoy your night, I'll be here dancing to 'save the last dance for me' ;)

xoxo Alex

Swingin'

Sometimes, when you're sitting home alone in your room drawing, you long to be out there dancing. So then you just have to put on swing or latin dance music and draw the people swaying for you ;)

Somehow I really like this pic :D
xoxo Alex

Dota 2-Happy Bday Bro!

Initially I hadn't planned on posting this but there was this request...;)
So anyway, this is the birthday present for my brother, who, as you might guess, likes this game a lot :) I didn't know anything about these characters before, but I have to say you can learn alot from the pictures you can find online-the poses of the characters, how they are so dynamic-it's pretty cool, I have to admit!

It's pretty big actually, so the photo is of shitty quality again, so sorry about that..
xoxo Alex

Bohemian Princess-in color

I decided today that even though I'm not satisfied with it, I still had to finish this piece. I like the hair and the updo with the flowers in the back but somethings wrong about the eye and the mouth :O

Anyway, good night you guys ;)
xoxo Alex

Pose Sketches

Still haven't found the perfect pose for my more sophisticated piece-at first I was thinking of a floppy hat maybe, but then my sketches always turned cow-girl on me and that was certainly not what I'm going for...

So anyway-just sketches for now ;)
xoxo Alex

Further Bohemian Pastel Experiments

Oh god I love this style. I definetely need an idea for a bigger piece in this style! :O

Lots of love
xoxo Alex

Pastel Experiments

So with yesterdays piece I really liked how the ballpointpen was transformed by the hairspray I sprayed on to the pic to fix the pastels-I had to experiment with that more today!
Definetely going to make a bigger piece sing this technique, I really like the colors. Another Boho-Princess maybe?

The people here were just random people that popped into my head :O
xoxo Alex

Boho Princess

Love the boho chic kind of style-next thing I'll DIY will definetely be a floral headpiece <3

I love this kind of hairstyle, maybe I'll make a bigger peice out of this as well :D
xoxo Alex

Architectual drawing pt 4

It is done! :D I really loved working with pastels again after such a long while :D It is really fun because mixing and blending is so easy (blending is something I've really missed since starting to use pen so much..) :D

xoxo Alex

Taj Mahal

Well following yesterdays truly awesome experiment which I can recommend to anyone-I tried myself at working with a limited set of colors and kind of architectual drawing.
I ended up with this piece in pastel of the Taj Mahal..It is rather small and but I think that is why it actually have effect..A bigger piece would need way more contrasts but this looks small and sketchy :D

what do you say?

xoxo Alex

Blond Beauty and the sketchbook :D

Well-welcome to 2013 my dears!

I hope you had a great new years and are as euphoric as I am about the new year! I'm currently reading a book about willpower (here is the link-I'm not quite done yet but until now it is an awesome book) and well it said that new years resolutions are not effective if you have many big ones but you should choose one which you then follow consequently...I wouldn'T be telling you all this if my goal for 2013 wasn't related to this blog so here it is-my new years resolution for this year is to improve the drawing skills :D
I will try to do more "drawing studies" (like the feet one I did in Oktober) so that you can see my progress over time :D
Anyway-we will not start the new year with that though-what I have for you today is a blond beauty :D

Snow City Landscape

Hey peeps-I hope you're doing good!
Isn't it magical when you wake up, you are still tired and had to force yourself to get out of bed and then you pull away the curtain to see a landscape dipped in sugarcane?! I must say-I'm not a fan of the cold but snow can make even the biggest and loudest city seem so calm and peaceful...
So anyway-this picture kind of derived from a very productive english class where I looked out of the window and drew some of the houses-I gave away that piece but then I liked the idea so much that I decided to do a bigger and cleaner version of it...The cool part of the one in class was however that I had liquid whiteout for the snow but I didn't have that at home so I had to use white pastel instead...I think it it still turned out pretty well-so welcome in winterwonderland! :D

xoxo Alex

A bird with wings! :D

Hello there!
After this weeks second pastel picture I now have something a little more multi-materialistic for you XD
It is indeed a bird and it was done with guache colors, watercolor, ink, tusche, pastels aaaaand pencil crayons! It took me a while to figure out how I was going to do it but here is the result! :D

Isn't he cute? :D

xoxo Alex

Pastel Rocker! :D

Hey!

So I have something special for you today! It is not something I usually do but one of my favorite people (you know who you are! ;) ) asked me to do this one so here we go! :D
So this is a pic of Partasah Lillith Fair who is the singer of the croatian band Underdust-check them out!

Again it is only pastels and tusche...
xoxo Alex

Extra-Ordinary people

Hi there!

It was a few weeks ago that I stumbled upon a french page on facebook which dedicated itself to sharing photographs of extraordinary people. Now this was very handy for me as obviously as someone who likes to draw people you are always looking for possible figures and well-I actually did (the original pic is here).
This is the result ^^

(btw-the RJ at the bottom is just my signature-I usually cut it out for the blog but I felt that if I did cut it with this picture, it would loose some of the athmosphere....
xoxo Alex