Portfolio: we have lift off!

Big news! (prepare, have a seat, take a breath, then click the link)

Portfolio is done!

http://andreaurei.daportfolio.com/

That's it, right there, just above this sentence, in case you missed it ^_^ Or click the word "portfolio".

It's exciting for me bc it took a while to get one up. I'd been determined to have my own domain name and something fancy and glorious, but instead I found a nice free portfolio that DeviantArt provides :)

In other news: I'm helping at the merchandise tent this upcoming weekend at the BareBones 19th Annual Halloween production, "Chicka-Boom". I donated three paintings, with 10% of profit towards the theater. Good show!

Got a few drawings here to get into the Halloween spirit/ghost:

Again, right click and select "open in new tab" to be able to zoom in (I think I said left click in my last post..)

The second picture is from a Terry Pratchett book, Carpe Jugulum:   "Agnes met the gaze of a thin girl in a white dress, with very long black hair and far too much eye makeup. There is such a thing as hate at first sight."   They turned out as rather stiff poses, so I gave Agnes the broom to hold to try and liven it up. And it's hard to see in my uploads, but both of the women in the 1880s gowns are vampires. Note: larger fangs needed :)

das doodlen

((If left click edit:right click and open in new tab, then the images can be zoomed in.))

Doodles = things I drew with no purpose and just for the heck of it, usually at 4 in the morning.

The first compilation ranges from late August to October. The red dress and the blue-and-green dress are both loosely based on the 1940s. Then there's the Edwardian lady in the lower right: wow, Edwardian corsets made for weird posture! Doing the see-through cloth on both her hat and on the running 1940s woman's stockings was quite fun and easy, and I think something a bit more extravagant with see-through fabric is called for in a future doodle :D  The upper right is a girl who's come to lecture hungover and has had the luck to sit next to the class hermione, which never happened to me, I swear...

Second compilation is all from August, and I posted it to my Deviant Art  a while ago. Mostly random pretties, some mermaid bust ideas, characters, and obligatory period fashion drawings. The character with the orange braided hair (who I've named Imogene) I like and would like to do something with, but her lover looks strangely like mine... so much potential psychology in why I drew him with another girl! XD Or maybe it's more that I'd like to look like here, which yes, I would!

Peace and doodles!

self-portrait

 

Self-portrait! Same process: pencil, then color in photoshop. And I kinda fixed the top of the hat, and moved my ID. And this she-creature you see is from when I had long hair, and was trying on a hat at the Renaissance Fair.

Lady Sybil Ramkin

I don't like Paul Kidby's version of Lady Sybil Ramkin-Vimes at all (she's 8 characters down on that link). FYI: this is a character from Terry Pratchett's discworld series, a series which has gripped my brain and hasn't let go for at least the last 7 years. Anyways, Kidby's version is way too fierce, but this is actually a good thing! All his other discworld character renditions are superb*, which means that I have a hard time drawing any myself without copying his. So I'm glad I don't like Kidby's Sybil, bc then I can try to render how I imagine her:

line art:

 colored in photoshop, with my id moved to the upper left:

Trying to capture a character who I envision as aristocratic, large, motherly, down-to-earth, well-endowed, tall, and fierce when she needs to be. I don't think I captured the "tall" part of her character, but am satisfied that I got the other features. And I think I could have exaggerated her bosom a bit more: the reason I dressed her in Edwardian/Victorian garb was bc that era had massive chests. This era also worked for her hair, which is described as big and chestnut colored, and which is actually a wig since her hair has been singed away by her dragons' burps lol. She's also holding a shovel since she's probably on her way to muck out the dragon pens, and I purposely stuck out her pinky finger, since she's still aristocratic at heart. I love that Pratchett writes big, gentle girls into interesting characters <3 Who else does that? (seriously, does anyone know of anyone else who's done that?)


...awesome, the discworld bug has bit me again. I think I'll reread "Guards! Guards!" (again) :D


*I always hear "superb" in my head in a snobby east-coast accent, something like "soo-pawb" or similar

Scanning in arts

For the past week, I've been focused on scanning in as much of my old artwork as possible. The original goal had been to scan these in so I could get my portfolio website up, but I discovered that I had a lot more pieces than I'd anticipated.

A light sampling:

From 2003, freshman year:

more recently, when I bought a book ("Perspective for Comic Book Artists", by David Chelsea) bc I wanted to learn more techniques about how to tackle perpective:

from 2008, some lifedraw pictures (from a drawing class I took that was so not worth it's cost in tuition, but I took it anyways bc it was an excuse to draw instead of studying my actual major ^^). and i suppose it was worth it since that was the class where i met the guy i've been dating for almost 5 years now  :D

For other arts, I also recently started a DeviantArt: kayananas.deviantart.com


Coming soon: a website |D lololol my original goal had been August 30th, but turns out you can't learn the interwebs in just a few weeks, darn-didditty-darn.

Pretty dresses from September

Line art:

Colored in Adobe Photoshop:

Line Art of Disney's Merida, from their movie "Brave":

Colored in Photoshop:

It's been since 2009 that I've posted anything to a blog, and it's nice to start a BlogSpot, since it links to my gmail account :)

Here's my old blog.