Takeover - Initial sketch vs. line-art vs. finshed piece & Aliens

First of all, I'm so so sorry for not posting yesterday guys and also sorry Alex for ruining your statistics. I know I suck. Ffs Alex runs this blog now for so long and has missed how many days? Two? And I've to do four days and already mess up. Sorry.

But: I do have an excuse. I was already running late (yayy, procrastination) and than my internet connection died, but because it was already quite late, I couldn't ask my brother to fix it. 

But on a positive note: As you can see my internet connection works again and so I'm here with what I wanted to show you yesterday aswell as the stuff I had in mind for today.

Part 1:

I decided not to start all over with the Sick Puppies cartoon-thingy, because when I looked at it yesterday I decided that I needed some fixes here and there but wasn't as bad as I had initially thought.

Do you also sometimes feel like your drawings lose a lot of character and life when you turn the sketches into line-art and then into a finished product? Sometimes I think scetches look so much cooler and energetic than the finished drawings...Maybe you can see what I mean:

3. Finished drawing.

2. Line-Art

1. Sketch

For the people wondering why the characters don't have faces and why it's only 'area-shading' and not detailed shading: I'm currently trying to find my own cartoon-style and an the moment I really like the simplified style.

But I have to say I don't like this drawing because the people look rather stiff and not as dynamic as I wanted them to be (especially the guy on the right.) Wow, they look like a 10 year old kid drew them. Damn.

Part 2:

As some of you might know, I love drawing aliens and I've recently been using them as a kind of warm-up exercise. These are some of my favourites:

 So. This is it for me, tomorrow you'll have Alex back :) And then you will finally get more organized posts again and not my random and chaotic stuff.

And sorry for all the talking btw, I just love explaiing what was going on in my mind while drawing etc.

Christina

Takeover - Cartoon style and days on which you shouldn't pick up a pencil...

 Do some of you also have those days, where you really feel like drawing something, but nothing turns out the way you wanted it to be and you just get super frustrated? Yeah, right. Today was one of those days for me. And I figured the best thing you can do in those situations is just stop and try again tomorrow. But since I promised Alex I would run the blog for a few days I can't leave you without a drawing today, so I'll just show you my failed attampt compared to other drawings that turned out the way they should. I always think it's interesting to also see an artist's worst drawings and not only the ones that turned out good. So here ya go:

This is what it should look like:

Sidenote: I gave this to the band yesterday at their concert and they said they liked it! (Or they were just being polite, but whatever :P)

Just line-art, but you get the idea.

 This is what it looks like:

 Sorry for all the band-related stuff by the way, I know it's probably quite uninteresting for you. Tomorrow I'll hopefully be able to show you a new, better and finished version of the Sick Puppies drawing but on Wednesday (the last day) I will show you something that has nothing to do with my band-obsession, I promise ;)

Takeover - Jimmy Urine

Hey there everybody! :)

Alex already warned you: You're stuck with me for the next few days. Sorry for that :P

But since Alex asked me just yesterday if I could run the blog while she is in Finnland, I didn't really had the time to prepare something special for you guys. But I dug out a drawing I made about half a year ago for an exhibition (yes, this one), so some of you may have seen it already but I really like how this one turned out so whatever. It's Jimmy Urine, the singer of Mindless Self Indulgence btw.

(Sorry for the big-ass watermark btw)

See y'all tomorrow with some more (hopefully new) art :)

Christina

Takeover - Eyes

Hey guys! It's me again, Christina :)

Sadly Alex has a cold and is not capable of posting something today but I offered that I could do it, so here you go:

Currently I'm trying to improve my ability of drawing naturalistic portraits and I'm doing it step-by-step, starting with the eyes.

I drew a lot of those recently, but I decided I will just show you my two favourites:

 

I hope you guys like them!

Get well soon, Alex! :*

Good night, 

Christina

Takeover Day 14 - Goodbye! :(

Hey guys! :)

This is the last day of the takeover; tomorrow you'll have Alex back *Yayy*

It was a lot of fun running this blog for the past two weeks, but I have to admit: that having to post something presentable every day is harder than I expected. 

Respect to Alex for doing this for one complete year!

I hope you liked my art and if you are interested in seeing some more of it in the future, you can check out my deviantART-accout (Sorry for the self-advertisement, Alex :P).

Okay, for the last day I wanted to have something really, really cool for you and I really wanted to finish yesterday's alien, but my lovely gimp-programm decided today that it would be a good idea to refuse to connect with my graphic tablet -.-'

So sorry guys: No alien.

The only thing I can offer you is a linocut of Hayley Williams I made in art class some time ago and a Synyster Gates WIP. Sooooorry.

The face is kinda messed up, I know -.-'

Soooo...thanks for taking the time to look at my work!

By the way: I already had the chance to look at some of the drawings Alex is going to post over the next days and I can tell you: The look really cool ;)

Have a nice evening,
Christina

Takeover Day 13 - Coloured Alien WIP

So, I've got another alien for you today :)

As you can see I started colouring it, but I'm still not finished and it takes me waaaay longer than I had expected.

I'm not even done with the head, yet. The body will take me foreeever -.-'

I really hope I can finish it tomorrow, but I can't promise anything.

The thing it is holing on the leash is its alien-pet, isn't that cute? ^_^

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm thinking about changing its eye-colour because the red doesn't seem to work so well with the green. What do you think?

Have a nice evening,

Christina

Takeover Day 12 - Alien Lineart

Hey guys (:

Nothing really special, but atleast I drew something today.

Currently they're just lineart as you can see, but I'm thinking about colouring them :)

Drawing aliens is really fun by the way because you can basically do whatever comes to your mind and nobody can say it's wrong :P

 

Hope you like them!

Good night,

Christina

Takeover Day 11 - Random lineart, sketches and other suff

No, I didn't forget you guys, how could I?

I just procrestinated for like forever and now that I didn't draw anything presentable today I had to look through my old stuff to find some drawings I could post. 

Most of it is just lineart or unfinished things and I don't really like them, but whatever.

I just loooove robins. They're my favourite birds I think. Aren't they just super cute? ^_^

Okay, I don't even know what this is. It's just weird. Like a guitar-flower or something xD

Something  I drew in art class some months ago....

Haha, Alex is gonna hate this xD She always complains about me making too many lines while sketching :P

WIP of  Sebastian Bach. I had no idea how I could make the hair look naturalistic, so I just left it unfinished.

I should give her a face actually.

I'm not really good at using a ballpoint for drawing. In my defence I have to say that I made this like 1 1/2 year ago, so I probably would do better now.

This one sucks. And that's logical because I drew it in like 3 minutes.

Sorry for all the crappy stuff. I really really hope that I manage to draw something better tomorrow or atleast finish some of those.

Um...live long and prosper,
Christina :P

Edit: Wow, that was close. One minute later and it would have been too late xD

Takeover Day 10 - Brand New Eyes

Um....fan-art again. Sorry.

No shadows and stuff. Just black and yellow. I'm not in the mood today for something special or challenging..

Hopefully tomorrow.

Have a nice evening,

Christina

Takeover Day 9 - Billy Talent III

Another digital painting I made a while ago. It's the cover of the 3rd (or 4th, depends on how you count) Billy Talent record. 

Damn, I love this band waaaay too much.

Kinda boring, I know. 

I'll try to draw something other than fan-art tomorrow...

Have a nice evening,
Christina

Takeover Day 8 - Africa

Sorry, I'm a little late today...

This is the other digital drawing with my favourite colours I mentioned earlier.

Rather simple, but I like it. And I'm proud  that I didn't use a reference for this one (:

Have a nice evening,
Christina

Takeover Day 7 - Sweeney Todd linocut

Today I have another linocut for you (:

It's Sweeney Todd, because...well, I love that movie so much (go watch it, if you haven't, yet!) and I thought he would look good as a linocut xD

I don't like it as much as I like the one of Ben Kowalewicz, though...

Have a nice day,

Christina

Takeover Day 6 - My Grandma's garden

I visited my grandma two days ago and she has a beautiful, beautiful garden in which she invests a lot of work, so I asked her if it would be okay if I took some photos of it. 

She said yes and guess what I have for you today? (:

 I feel like it is nessecary to say it again at this point: I don't know anything about photography and I've probably broken a lot of basic photography-"rules", but honestly, I don't really care. I like the photos (:

Have a nice day,
Christina

Takeover Day 5 - Punk Outfit

Hey guys! (:

Remember when this blog used to be about fashion?
To bring some of that spirit back I have a punk outfit for you today (:

I know, I'm a complete failure when it comes to fashion, but I just wanted to try it and well, it could have turned out worse, don't you think? (:

 

Have a nice day,

Christina

Takeover Day 4 - Hand

Sorry, I'm kinda late today; hopefully that's not becoming a habbit, because I have a serious procrastination problem and I really want to try to get rid of it ^_^

Okay, I have to say: This is one of the very few drawings of mine that I actually like and that I'm proud of. 

I know it's not perfect, but I think it's the closest to naturalism I've ever come and to me naturalistic art is the most impressive one.

I drew this about two years ago in art class and then kinda forgot about it, until I found it again in between my other drawings some weeks ago.
As far as I remember the task back then was to draw a naturalistic hand holding an object that is important to you, so I drew my hand together with drum sticks.
I just noticed that there were some mistakes in it, so I re-did some parts of it lately and improved other stuff like increasing the contrast, blending in the contoures and so on.
Sorry for the raster; I used it to get the proportions right but my stupid self two years ago forgot to erase it before starting to draw and now I can't remove it without ruining the complete drawing., but it adds some interesting effect to the drawing I think.

Damn, I talk waaaaay too much. Sorry for that. Whatever, here's the pic:

Have a nice evening,

Christina

Takeover Day 3 - Sky

Usually I'm not really into photography, but every evening I have a great view on the sunset when I look out of my window and sometimes it is so beautiful that I just have to take a picture.

Here are some of my favourites:

 

 

Even though I find it hard to believe, I didn't change the picture with gimp or anything like this. This is what it really looked like. The only thing I did was adding a mirror-frame.

I have to say I'm probably as far away from being a professional photographer as one can be. I don't know anything about it (except what I know from Alex's photography reports) and my camera sucks so please don't judge the photos by the quality. xD

Have a nice day,

Christina

Takeover Day 2 - Bee

At the moment I'm trying to practice digital drawing/painting as much as I can, because I find it fascinating what amazing things people can do with just a graphic tablet and a photo programm and I want to be able to do those things, too.

Unfortunately it's way harder than I thought, even though I love having the option to just remove the last step I made.

This is a random bee I drew and I thought it would be cool to also show you some WIPs of the picture (::

Oh and btw: I just loooove the combination of the colours red, orange and yellow. I always have, I don't even know why, but in my opinion those are the best colours ever to combine ^_^

There will be another digital drawing with those colours soon (:

Have a nice day,

Christina

Takeover Day 1 - Ben Kowalewicz Linocut

Heeeey guys! :)

This is day one of the big blog-takeover!

A big thank you to Alex for letting me post my stuff on here and I'm excited to show you guys some of my work over the next days!

I'm rather self-conscious about my drawings and stuff, so please be nice *puppy eyes*

I hope you enjoy it!

Sooo...today I want to show you a linocut I made of Ben Kowalewicz, the singer of Billy Talent :)
I forgot to mirror the picture before cutting, so I had to mirror the end result, but whatever.

I hope you like it! 

Have a nice day,
Christina