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My latest WIP.  I'm going to do this using the same technique I used on the Eleven/Amy piece.  Right now it's just the line art and rough blocking in of shadow, obviously, but I'm going to do a highly rendered drawing again with a color tint.

Also, the Muse is INSISTING I draw Gallifrey in the background.  You know, the domed city and all that.  Sigh.  I intended for this to be an easy filler piece.  Muse is finicky and capricous.

Ugh. I'm really quite snappish today. I'm trying not to be. But I've been biting the heads off of everyone I've seen so far this morning. Of course, it doesn't help that everyone I've seen today keeps asking me to do things for them. As soon as I finish doing one thing, it's all, "One more thing!", on endless repeat, with no real gratitude or acknowledgement. I'm not a freaking serving girl or personal maid. I understand that they don't feel well today, but where were they when I felt like shit last week? Maybe I'm just being selfish. I dunno.



If all goes well, I'll be leaving in the late spring. I really hated having to come back here in the first place, but I didn't have much of a choice. I couldn't work in the condition I was in-- I could barely even stand or walk. I'm feeling much better now but I still have to get a minor surgery done at the beginning of the year to remove a filter before I can go anywhere. And the place I'm looking into doesn't even begin the hiring process until February; the season starts in May. I really want to go there, though-- it's the hotel that inspired Stephen King's The Shining. Looks like a fascinating place. It's supposedly really haunted, but I suspect the staff plays on that reputation. I'd be interested to see how much is real (if any) and how much is invention.



I should probably hide today. I'm going to (finally) settle back in with the Eleven/Amy piece and try to at least get a good chunk of it out of the way. Will post updates to Tumblr as it progresses.

I was extremely dissatisfied with my sketch of Eleven and Amy that I posted last week, so I decided to use the grid method to get a better line drawing.  This basically entails sketching a carefully measured grid over the photo, transferring and enlarging the grid to the art file, and then drawing freehand using the grid lines as a guide for placing angles, features, etc.  I think I like this sketch better.  I think I'm going to try to spend a little longer on this one and do it as a somewhat more realistic greyscale drawing.

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I can't even begin to describe how hard it's been for me to get into the mindspace for creating art this week.  I've done some sketching, but that's about it.  I really hate when I get into an artistic rut because I start to feel guilty for not doing art.  I start to feel as though I'm not fulfilling my purpose, doing the one thing that I'm at least somewhat good at.  I know I wrap too much of my identity self-worth in this, but it's really hard not to.

I have been looking at some successful artists, such as Amy Brown and Jessica Galbreth (the latter of whom, I discovered, recently found religion and denounced all her previous work as satanic, claiming she was demon possessed when she created her pagan/goddes/faery oriented art... wtf.  It gets hard to remember that not all Christians are of that sort when they're EVERYWHERE)  Anyway, I digress.  I was looking to see what might have made them successful.  Seems to be having a broad range of venues, effective advertising, a recognizable style, and coherence in genre (i.e., faery art or pagan/goddess art, or some similar motif).  My work is at least on par with theirs in skill level, but I tend to go all over the place with my subject matter, mostly keeping it fantasy/faery related, but with little coherence between the pieces to tie them together and make them recognizable as Amyla's art.  Anyone familiar with Amy Brown's art, for instance, would instantly recognize her work by its subject matter and technique.

I've thought of this before, and am considering again the possibility of doing a series of faery pieces.  Not necessarily the classical, Victorian-esque faeries you usually see, but faeries in my style-- a bit whimsical, a bit magical, a bit dark, a bit scary.  Light and dark, refinement and chaos, beauty and predator in a single entity.  

I've already got one that would be perfect for the series-- .  


Also, I just sketched a woman turning into a panther.  Dunno if that'd fit in the series, but it was one of those images that hit hard enough to take me by the brain and shake me until I gave in and sketched it.  It's kinda awkward looking still; I need to find references so I can refine, but I might pursue that as a painting as well.  (Caution: enlarged version isn't work safe)  

Won't have much time for painting today, of course, but I'll hit Monday at a run.  Metaphorically speaking.

Did a little speed painting/color sketching today to warm up.  I might explore this one further later on.

Reference by Faestock.

Well, my Zazzle shop is up and ready to go!  Amyla's Designs

Now to figure out how to get traffic there...

I should put a link on my DeviantArt.