Posts Tagged ‘nfs’
Indiana Bob
Saturday, October 8th, 2011
Indiana Bob sketch by Amy Crook
This started as a concept sketch for a client that ended up going a different way, so I made a few important changes and cleaned it up for a Saturday sketch. I think the fedora came out quite dashing, don’t you?
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces
Tags: nfs, sketch
Watson sketch
Saturday, October 1st, 2011
Watson pen sketch by Amy Crook
Just a little pen-and-ink portrait — I’m practicing a few things about observation and not being able to erase. I did a little tiny bit of tinkering in Photoshop, I will admit, but in the end it only sort of looks like the character. Which, really, given that I’ve got little practice doing portraits or working in pen-and-ink, is pretty much okay.
Maybe the next one will be more awesome.
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: nfs, pen and ink, sherlock, sketch, watson
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Weeble Basement Cat
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Weeble Basement Cat by Amy Crook
Not my usual weeble, but I was inspired by this lolcat to draw my own version of a Basement Cat. What can I say, I spend all day on the internet. At least it’s not Nyancat.
Categories: Daily Art, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: basement cat, cat, nfs, pen and ink
Squamous Turtle
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
Squamous Turtle by Amy Crook
I made this little guy in a very similar manner to the Opera Squid, except I mixed rich quinacridone gold with the grey-green zoisite genuine for his palette. He gets his name from one of Lovecraft’s favorite adjectives, which means scaly, and from the texture created when the granular zoisite settles out of the mix, leaving the quinacridone to stain the paper gold.
Squamous Turtle, 7″x5″ watercolor on paper, nfs (sold).
Categories: Daily Art, Sea Creatures and Other Animals
Tags: nfs, sold, turtle, watercolor, zoisite
Weeble Pumpkinhead
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Weeble Pumpkinhead by Amy Crook
Just a little something spooky to celebrate the coming of autumn! I was in a Halloweeny mood, so I drew this guy up in an afternoon and colored him in the evening, once the day cooled off. We’re having an end-of-summer heat wave here in the bay area, and it’s slowing me way down, so I cheered myself up with a bit of spooky goodness.
Weeble Pumpkinhead, 5.5″x8.5″ pen & ink and Copic markers on sketchbook paper, not for sale.
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Whimsical and Strange, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: halloween, nfs, pumpkin, spooky, weeble
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Opera Squid
Saturday, September 17th, 2011
Opera Squid by Amy Crook
This little guy is made of another delightful real-mineral paint, zoisite, mixed with the eye-searingly vivid opera pink from the same company. The grains of the mineral paint separate from the finer, more staining pink in some places, which gives this cheery little squid a lovely duotone texture. The grey-green of the zoisite becomes a warm neutral when mixed with the pink, ranging from an almost violet grey to a brackish brown.
I had fun with this quick brush sketch, using the quality of the paints themselves to create texture, shape and value. Plus, you know how I do love to paint tentacles.
Opera Squid, 5″x7″ watercolor on paper.
Categories: Daily Art, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Tentacles
Tags: nfs, sketch, sold, squid, tentacles, watercolor
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Arses not Artses
Saturday, September 10th, 2011
Arses not Artses, watercolor sketch by Amy Crook
I was texting my friend Jeff and I made a typo — I intended to say I was going to “make some artses” (aka make some art), and I managed to leave out the t. Being a fan of certain British books and TV shows as I am, I immediately said that I couldn’t guarantee whether or not there would be arses.
I was testing out my very cool new Lunar Black watercolor, and I had some left on my palette from the art you’ll get to see next week, so I decided to pull out my sketchbook and draw this so I’d have at least one arse to show for the session. The paper wrinkled and the paint ran and granulated, so I supplemented it with a little bit of pen and ink work, including the signature, dipping the fountain pen right into the watery puddles of paint still on the page.
I cheated and photoshopped out the buckled paper, but you can see places the paint pooled more thickly. I do love the granulated textures the lunar black leaves, and painting bums, so perhaps I’ll try again on a thicker paper.
Categories: Daily Art, Nudes and Other Sexy Things, People, Figures and Faces
Tags: nfs, pen and ink, sketch, watercolor
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