This is a tribute to the greatest writer of whom I’ve had the pleasure to read from during the last year and a half. This is to Katharine Kerr.
Katharine Kerr is mostly known for her today fifteen parts long book series called the “Deverry Cycle”, a “high fantasy” tale with strong influences from Anglo-Saxon and Celtic culture. And this is a tribute and a contemplation, if you will, of the first four books in the series, also known as the “first act”. For this book series, and especially the first two books in the series (Daggerspell and Darkspell), have left a special mark on my heart. They have opened my eyes for a kind of Fantasy I did not realize existed, and with its great writing and lovely characters that left me feeling nothing else but pure fan love for this now twenty-six years old book series.
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Some more stuff, enjoy <3
And just a quick note on the first image, it’s an anatomy practice I did, and I started out by drawing to this as reference. So I’d like to thank StudioQube for that awesome guide, it helped me out a lot. So the first two drawings to the left on the first image (the one with naked dudes in blue lol xD) are drawn straight from his tutorial as reference.
But while drawing those two first I studied the layout of the body and muscles and such, and the two others (the leg and the guy standing on his hand) are both drawn from mind using what I learned from that quick practice. Someone who’re skilled in Anatomy, like my masterful friend Dile, will notice that the muscles don’t sit or stretch realistically on those… because I’m a beginner at this stuff.
But I’m waiting for my copy of Dynamic Figure Drawing by Burne Hogarth, the one book of figure drawing and anatomy, so when I receive that I’m going to submerge myself in Anatomy studies.
Have a nice day, and again, hope you enjoy!
Update: I added a better version of the male anatomy picture that I had made black and then sharpened, because I noticed it was a bit too faded in blue.
This is a longer concept series I started recently of designs for spaceships to a single race. It started out with the “Heavy Fighter” and then it grew from there, I had pretty much defined the unique style and core concept of the ships after I had done the “Crusier” ship (Which ofc should be “Cruiser” but my spelling sucks).
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Okay, here’s the latest update in my sketch book! Not much this time tho, because honestly I haven’t really done much lately. Hopefully I’ll have more for next time. And if you wonder why two of the images have a dull bluish color (Ceil Blue), that’s because it’s the background I draw against to minimize eyestrain, and because they are just sketches I haven’t taken the time to change the background color, because then I would have to “resharpen” the lineart to fit against the new background, which is more work than it sounds like actually.
As always, enjoy!
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Here’s my latest creation. I used this as my reference. It’s drawn on a sheet of A5 paper using Derwent Studio Color Pencils. Sadly I did not have that many colors (only 24 to be specific), so I figure I could have made the image better and more vibrant if I had had more hues of each color to pick from. The image itself took somewhere around 2 to 3 hours. The process was first rough sketching to get all the proportions right, then erasing and defining the lines that I wanted. Next I started coloring and whenever I reached some of the linework I erased it out so I could have the color define the shapes instead. I started the coloring with iris of the eye, which was the part that took the longest and was by far the most complex part of the image. And then I just kept moving outwards from the center iris and ending with doing the eyelashes.
