Things that make you go hmmm

Long time no see... To those who might wander past this site. I haven't posted here lately and I don't really have a reason for it. Well other than the fact that I haven't been doing THAT much drawing.

What you see here is a gift done for Sandra, the lovely lady at http://www.sandrasilvers.com. She's perhaps not as well known as some of the more "well-traveled" bondagettes out there, but she's just as active, and she's been around for 10 years!

I've been lucky enough to correspond with her and because she's just so darned nice, which she really is, I felt compelled to do something nice in return.

I like the overall look of the picture, but the coloring is not quite where I want to be. I can say im making progress though, and that's usually a good thing.

Finding a pose I liked was insanely frustrating. I don't have the creative gene in me, so I have to mess around for hours trying to find something I want to work with. There was also debate in my mind concerning how I wanted to go about doing this. Recently I've switched back to doing painting as opposed to drawing and I thought I might stick with that, but I felt that I wouldn't be able to get a realistic look using that method, so I went with a somewhat more cartoonish drawing.

Obviously my anime influence still shows :)

The coloring didn't take that long though I think I spent far too much time on some parts, and not enough on others. But credit really needs to be given to Sandra for coming up with the title. Titles may not seem like a big deal but I absolutely can never think of them, so THANK YOU to her for saving the day.

"Well aint this a frosty Friday..."

I'm aware that this is being posted on a Saturday but it was pretty much completed on Friday so the title still counts! And since the error was made on a friday anyway...

What error? Well a fairly significant one. See this drawing was done as a gift for my friend Englishdamsel and was originally supposed to have only one person. When looking for source material I find that I liked the idea of two women and choose to add a friend of ED's named Brittany.

The problem is that the only images I have to off of are second life avatars. There was enough of a similairty between Brittany and another SL lady i've spoken to. I wish I could say I was tired or sumthin, but i think it was just a simple bit of cluelessness on my part that resulted in me actually confusing the two at the end.

So on all the titles and places someone else was given credit for what is supposed to be a drawing of ED and Brittany. Boy was I emberasssed by that

Aly carnapped

Took a few weeks off from drawing before putting this one together. I've become good friends with Alysha since running into her on Deviantart. She'd kindly asked me for another drawing and as is my nature I told her I'd get around to it. Of course other things kept getting in the way or I just wasn't in the mood. Bless her heart for her patience.

Orginally she was supposed to be tied in the trunk of the car but I found that didn't work. Alysha has absolutely gorgeous feet (which I do not do justice here) and I wanted to show them. I would not have been able to do that at this angle if I had her in the trunk so instead I put her in the backseat.

One thing I did differently is that I drew the picture at full size. Usually I do the rough sketch at oh... 1000x1000 and then crop and such accordingly. After that I increase the size usually by about 250-300% for coloring and such. One of the problems with this is that the lines end up being rather thick and I dont like how that looks in a colored pic. The lineart is far less dominating here and im pleased with the result.

The big problem I ran into is what to have her wearing. As i've mentioned before I rarely plan these drawings. Usually I just have a rough idea in my head and sketch until I find something I want to work with. About the only thing I knew is that her legs and feet had to be showing. I debated between just putting her in a top, or a more secretarial look. It was Aly herself who suggested the little black dress and i love her for it.

The coloring went by much faster than I expected. I spent more time playing with the hues and such than I did actually laying the colors down. I really wanted to get a more uniform look to the color so I didn't push the contrast as much as I have in the past (see the last picture for an example of that).

Im not QUITE pleased with how the pantyhose turned out but I cant decide if that is because of the color or the lineart.

Aly takes a turn... for the worse

This is Alysha. Poor girl was wandering in place that one such as her should not be. Went and got herself caught she did!
I usually end up doing something different everytime I do a picture. I wish I could say it was because im just some sort of avant garde genius, but really it's because I lack consitency =) The lineart took forever because I just erased from the sketch. Usually i go and retrace it for clean lines but i really liked how it looked. You can still see that it has sort of a messy ink sketch look to it and I decided to keep that.
The hard part was deciding how to color it. I went and layed down some flats and then just hit a wall. So i just started messing around till i got to this. It's not perfect by a long shot but i do like the overall look of it. I'll just call it an atmospheric piece =D
Took i dunno... 50 billion hours...