First drawing challenge theme finished

I worked on on the "solitude topic" for a while, it turned out better than I thought it would. It was difficult to move further into a topic I know so well. But I think I did well overall..The image is something personal to me. Solitude can make you feel lika a corset does. it straps your heart into your chest and prevents you from breathing. is it tightening or growing more loose? those kind of things differ for various people. I myself have a love-hate relation with solitude. I like being on myself, but sometimes there is that aching feeling of emptiness gaining in on you and preventing you to breathe, like being strapped into a corset...

anyway, I have discovered adobe illustrator. What a great program for sketching! It helped me a great deal in working out some concept sketches. I tried out using different color channels on photoshop. That gave some interesting results:


solitude stuff

Here is some other stuff I created using illustrator, it's not exactly artsy or anything, but it was fun to play around a bit.


final work edited in photoshop of the "queen cobra design" I tried to work it out in raw lines rather than details to see how it would turn out

sketch for the queen cobra design, created in illustrator

some random image I made to test out illustrator, just posted it for fun

charcoal in illustrator. "first day at a new school"

and last but not least, some sketches.


inspiration, some of my own work, for the "flying" subject


bridge over the river styx, the last crossing. for some reason the image got turned. it's an image of the ferryman leading the lost souls to their final destination.


sketch for some 3d contraption involving shibari ropes


anatomy practice.

"A hundred thoughts" drawing challenge

I'm not sure how many people are familiar with "the" drawing challenge so I'm just going to provide a short description of what I know etc.

The 100 themes drawing challenge was thought up by deviantart and has no time limit and anyone can enter. rules are that you must use your own work, photo's may not be altered etc.
well, without further halt:
1. Introduction
2. Love
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can't
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation

I however decided to not all the themes in a tiny booklet I made:



of course I absolutely had to go and make it even more complicated so I took a made a hundred tiny notes like nya:

neatly folded them in four and deposited them in the oversized hourglass I made for 3D one time. this took me more time than I expected ^^U

Anyway, yesterday I took the first tiny paper and I got the subject:

SOLITUDE

wow...that's just a great theme to start of with >.< ....
not really. I've done some research, looked up the exact definition and some inspo and just started drawing something to the theme of alannis morissetti's "Fear of bliss" so: to kick the first ball in the field:


I'm not terrible happy with the way it turned out, but I sure do like the bright color contrast for some reason. Maybe the whole colorfield-thing is starting to rub off on me