June art

Yet another change in style from Bec!

Well... not really.

These drawings have the same basic feel, which, hopefully, I can tie together with all the other works in the end.

This was sketched in pencil, coloured with watercolours, drawn, shaded and outlined with black gel ballpoint pen and added to with chalk pastel.


Close-up.The second drawing... this was in the same materials and technique, although I left out the chalk pastel this time. My mum really likes this drawing, probably because of the sense of movement in it. I'd also hazard a guess that it reminds her of my sister. That always helps!

Personally I love the way the skirt looks! I also like the basketball (that's what that round thing is).

... And (if you can see it) the raw beginnings of another drawing. I plan to have my spiky-haired guy riding a water buffalo as part of it, with the blonde running (somewhere!) in the foreground.

Finished drawings

The first drawing took me 2-3 days (that is, about 4 hours or less) to finish and was just just after I switched to charcoal as a medium.

Why did I do that?

I was frustrated with pencil because it wasn't giving the firm lines I needed. I swear that the humidity here does something to paper, because at times its fine to use pencil on it, and at other times its basically a waste of time.

I like the sense of movement in this drawing, the energy it conveys, and the slight air of mystery that permeates it. However, the mood seems too dark and oppressive, somehow. The other problem is that I wasn't able to get much detail into the characters.

untitled#1 - watercolour, charcoal, chalk pastel, ink


This is the second drawing I made, which took about the same time and used predominately black ink with some charcoal and chalk pastel, with a watercolour background.

This girl has my sisters hair, which is, I think, why she keeps reappearing.

The pseudo-punk makes his entrance again!