FIFTY SHADES OF BLUE PEACOCK

I'll admit, the name is cheesy and a little misleading, but I think you can see the reasoning behind it. Anyway, this arose from one of my friends (shout out to Aishya) wanting a drawing of a peacock, and I had a bit of time on my hands, therefore, what the hell, why not? So I drew up the design and my mate then asked me to paint it all different shades of blue. Now I cheated a little with the different shades of blue as there are only two different kinds; the body is pthalo blue and the tail and cobalt blue. 

This was created with a 2B lead pencil, a 4 round paint brush, and a blue water colour palette.

Until Next Time . . . 

 Yσυ Fσυη∂ Hєя

THE FAULTS IN OUR STARS

This is the cover for the up and coming movie 'The Faults in Our Stars', originally a book by one of my favourite authors, John Green. My friend Gabby actually introduced me to this book and I have been reading his work ever since. THANKS GABBY. She is also an up and coming artist who thinks up a lot of her designs faster than I can snap my fingers. She doesn't have a website as far as I know, but if I get a hold of any of her pictures, I'll be sure to upload one. 

Anyway, back to the drawings. The ill-fated girl, Hazel Grace Lancaster, (who has the same last name as the previous member of Mayday Parade, Jason Lancaster) is lying on the grass with her ill-fated partner, Augustus Waters. The original picture has so much love and colour in it that its impossible to know what the story is going to be about, until you see the cannula on Hazel. 

I guess the part of this picture that I am most proud of would have to be the curls in Augustus' hair. It's my FIRST EVER ATTEMPT at curly hair and took me ages the figure out.

This picture, all in all, took a surprisingly short week to complete (mixed in with school, a diminishing social life, endless chores, and a dreadful amount of home work).

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PATTERNS AND EMUS

Again, this is not my design, but I also didn't choose it so thats probably why it seems so out of place. My mum found this picture of an emu and asked me to paint it for her. I said "yep, just wait until I finish this one first (Anywhere But Here #2)", so it was finished a week ago I think, because I wasn't happy with the emu and did it again. The flash on my camera has changed the colours on the beak of this flightless bird, so I'll just have to describe what it actually looks like. The beak is open and the inside is burnt umber, whereas the outside of the beak is textured (which you can slightly see) and is a mix of yellow oxide, burnt umber, and burnt sienna, with a small gold streak down the middle and also on the tip of the beak. 

All those circles that can be seen are actually a series of dots and thats what took the longest.

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ANYWHERE BUT HERE #2

I know I have already drawn this picture, but a couple of weeks ago I was sitting on my bed, going through my posts ('cause my life is just that great) when I stumbled upon the drawing and thought to myself "Holy s***, how cool would this look painted, and I have the perfect size canvas". So here it is, Anywhere But Here #2. For anyone who is new to this website and hasn't seen the drawn version of this, just scroll down a bit and you will eventually find it. I'm gonna have to say I prefer this version to the drawn one, because the red doesn't look so out of place (probably because there's more of it) and also the contrast of light and dark between the white collar of the shirt and the lapels of the suit. If you look closely at the collar, you can see that where it finishes, the shirt behind it is slightly darker. This was another pro for Anywhere But Here #2 because its more of a creamy colour than grey. The person underneath the umbrella (I call him the umbrella man or red umbrella man) is a lot darker than I intended and I think to dark for the picture. He's more of a silhouette.

Until Next Time . . . 

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