Fun With Blizzards!

Wheee, snow! One blizzard after another! (Okay, NOW it's raining, but before that we had more snow than we've ever gotten in years, I swear.) So what with the snow and all I'm dabbling with a snow queen painting of sorts...

Here's where I'm at so far, just roughs and some supporting life drawings. (With extra hand studies... hey, I like hands.) Why don't the hands make sense, you ask... uh, that's because I usually do hand studies from my own hands. So I draw two left hands (or, because I'm usually using a mirror, two left hands in reverse,) and when I do the final art I mentally flip one to make a right hand.

Aaaaand of course in the last big blizzard I had to run all over the park with a camera. So beware, plethora of silly snow pictures incoming! Yeah yeah, lots and lots of pictures of trees-with-snow, I know, I know... (Click the thumbnails for bigger pix.)

Queen Gwenevere by Queen Gwenevere

Behold, a Blog! And what better way to start a blog named "Queen Gwenevere" than by posting sketches of, er, Queen Gwenevere. (Queen Gwenevere the character, that is. Not Queen Gwenevere the blogmeister.) Right. Well, Queen Gwenevere plays a pivotal part in my as-yet-unborn webcomic, and to celebrate the nearing of an eventual launch, I wanted to paint the Queen's official portrait, in full glamorous renaissance style - pillars and draperies galore.

So here's the final working drawing, unless I change my mind (again) - the original is 18 x 24 inches, so there's no way I'm scanning it, so this is the best shot I could wring out of my ancient crappy point-n-shoot camera...



And how often do I change my mind, you might ask. Aheh. Well. This often... here's the sequence of rough sketches that came before the final sketch. Basically there came a point where I had to say "enough already!", pick a sketch, and go for it.

Anyhow. I've picked the last variation, gridded it up, and turned it into the (hopefully final) drawing above... Now I'll make a transfer from that, throw an extra coat of acrylic on a canvas, and start painting that sucker. Labor-intensive? You bet - but once I start painting it'll be such fun.

(Making transfers is NOT fun, though. Watch me procrastinate on that.)

Er, I think you have to click on the images to see them at any proper size... I can't seem to make them display at 100% here... (give me a break, I'm new at this.)