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.

Two drawings shared today. I made use of a different coloring technique for these and the difference is impressive.

Not only was I able to use less RAM, but it also went quicker than methods I have used before so im certain i'll be doing more like this.

"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

Frog Princess

Just a spur of the moment drawing that I ended up finishing. Not a whole lot about the coloring that is unique. The stupid tweety bird was a problem. I didnt really want to draw it but I also couldnt get it to look like it matched so i just cheated and lowered the opacity.

I've been on a roll lately. 3 pictures in the last seven days. For me that's pretty darn impressive. I guess it's more like 2 1/2 since I actually sketched this one some time ago.

My friend Gemma has had to go sometime without a drawing. She threatend to beat me up if I didnt do one for her. After I won that little fight I still offered to do it. This is the result... so to speak. I stripped her down to her undies and left her tied while I went out for a bit.

Unfortunately for Gemma her rommate came home. There is some bad blood between those two. And as you can see the roomie couldnt resist the chance to put Gemma where she belongs.

I liked the coloring I did for this. I wanted to go for something softer after the last drawing. Im upset about this drawing though. I've long made use of photo references when sketching, but in the past i've tried to make a strong effort to move away from the source photo so that it doesnt just look as if I did some cheap photoshop trick or something. Alas with this one much of the source photo still is represented.

The sofa for one thing. I could have drawn something different but I just really liked how it looked. Plus the body types are more like the women in the photo than Gemma and her roommate (Gemma is more slender and her roomie is shorter), but I expected that.

In the future I hope to again get more seperation between the source material and the end result

Closets do not make for good hiding places

I had come across a story on Deviant Art by a woman who goes by Bondagegirrrl. It was a pretty snazzy story of her abduction at the hands of a complete nutter. I just had to do some art for it, just had to, and this is the result.
This drawing went by relatively fast. The hardest part was finding a photo reference. There is a scene in the story where she is discovered hiding in the closet. I just thought it would make for a cool picture. I kind of wanted to do something different so I had to find references that would make for a somewhat dynamic angle.
At first I had only intended to do a sketch and then leave it for a day or two, but I just couldn't leave it be. Unfortunately I sort of rushed through the cleanup of the lines but then I started to like how it looked. The story is rather rough as things dont go very well at all for the poor heroine. The rough look of the lines sort of matches that. This really isnt meant to be a beautiful story.

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.