Am I Blue?
Posted on July 15th, 2010
Am I Blue?, 5″x5″ pastel on bristol board
This is another piece done using S as a reference, I think off one of the photos I took of him. I swear I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to draw people from below without it becoming all about their nostrils, heh. This was also a practice in not-quite-monochrome, using only various shades of blue, from blue-violet hair to blue-green lips to soft powder blue skin. The darkest shadows are the only true black.
This piece is done with soft chalk pastels on a thick bristol board, and really ought to be framed. I’m sure I’ll get to it one of these days!
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces
Tags: for sale, pastel, s
Weeble Wednesday: Gretchen
Posted on July 14th, 2010
Weeble Gretchen by Amy Crook
My friend Gretchen is visiting from far, far away, so I’m posting her for Weeble Wednesday! I hope you all have a lovely week, I’m off to do fun stuff with friends.
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces
Tags: cartoon, closet, copic marker, nfs, pen and ink, weeble
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Headless Bunny
Posted on July 12th, 2010
Headless Bunny by Amy Crook
He’s a little like a headless horseman, only cuter. Sorry it’s late — busy week!
Categories: Daily Art, Whimsical and Strange, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: bunny, nfs, pencil, sketch
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Absinthe Snape
Posted on July 11th, 2010
Absinthe Snape by Amy Crook
A while back I did some silly doodles as gifts for online friends, and this one ended quite polished. I think it was the absinthe glass, which just wanted a level of fine detail to go with its fine contents, plus the style was just fun to draw. There’s just something about drawing Snape that’s engaging for me, with his unrelenting black clothes and scowling face and big nose.
I’ve never actually tried absinthe myself — I have a friend that’s a big fan of it since it got re-legalized (something about lead pipes driving people crazy rather than wormwood), but he never manages to pony up and give me some to try. Perhaps this year I’ll make it to his absinthe bar at Dickens Faire in SF.
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: Harry Potter, nfs, sketch
Tattered Koi
Posted on July 10th, 2010
Tattered Koi sketch by Amy Crook
Just a little sketch for the weekend, this fish looks like he’s seen better days. His eyes came out a bit evil, so he’s rather like a zombie koi, lurking in your pond, craving your delicious brains.
Categories: Daily Art, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: fish, nfs, pencil, sketch, zombie
Fallen
Posted on July 9th, 2010
Fallen, approx. 11″x4″x1.25″ bronze sculpture
I have a whole series of little nude people in singles and pairs, several of which I’ve already sold over the years. Unfortunately this is one instance where my terrible photography skills come into play, since it’s hard for me to capture the nuances of texture and color in these pieces. They were all created in a soft, malleable wax and then cast in bronze using a method that destroys the original, so they’re one of a kind. The color comes from a chemical patina that has slowly developed with age. All of the figures in this series are in the same scale, though many of them have a rather more adult theme — I’m starting tame.
This particular figure always reminded me of a fallen angel, and though I had several ideas for adding wings over the years, I ended up liking him as is. He’s designed to lay on his face on a flat surface, but you can see the front of the figure is fully detailed, below, except for the actual faces, which I left eerily blank. I keep him displayed on a black surface under my glass coffee table, a subtle surprise for anyone who notices it. Not that I have a lot of people over, heh.
Fallen, bottom view, by Amy Crook
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, Nudes and Other Sexy Things, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books
Tags: angel, bronze, for sale, sculpture, sex people
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