Fan Art Friday: A Regency Couple

Happy Boxing Day and Happy Fan Art Friday. Today there will be one fan art. As I am currently working on completing the last part of part one of Aunt Rebecca's triplet sons in comic form.

Today's fan art is about the historical romance genre of the Regency. I came across this genre when I was twenty three and have loved the genre since. The genre was recommended by an awesome school friend of mine. We managed to spot each other at my local library. We briefly talked about life, work and books.

I have always enjoyed reading this genre because of the history behind it as well as the fashion and hairstyles that are mentioned in great detail. These were the books that made me feel lost in history. Especially within the the time span that the main characters are in.

I decided to pay homage to this genre by making a drawing of a couple in regency clothes. This is a pen sketch in black pen.

There will be more fan art next week. Thank you for visiting my blog and please write a comment！

Head Casts Sketches, Clothes and objects from the Victoria and Albert Museum

Hello Everyone! I hope you're all having a brilliant November so far. Two Sundays ago, I went to the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and it was awesome. I did some sketches on clothes, a couple of objects and head cast sketches.

The first batch of sketches are of clothes from China:

The next batch of sketches are clothes are from Korea and England:

These sketches are of objects from China, Korea and England:

The final sketches for today are of Head sketches. All of the are women:

This final sketch is part of a huge sculpture. I'm thinking of creating more sketches of this piece just like I did with the last Head Cast that I did a while ago.:



























There will be Fan Art Friday tomorrow. I hope to show you more fan art from comics or books that are great! Also Happy Thanksgiving!

Head Cast Sketches from the National Portrait Gallery 2 \(^_^)/

Hello Everyone,

I hope you are all OK! I thought that I would show you some more Head cast sketches that I made last Sunday. It's been a bit of a while since I've did these. Most of the head casts are of women who have made a significance during the early 20th Century and also a few men from the Victorian Era. I hope you like them:

I chose to do the same head cast that you saw in my last post. I will draw her again but most probably from different sides.

I loved drawing the male head casts particularly with beards. I found it quite experimental to draw. The last head cast was quite difficult to to and I felt had to take my time completing it. It took me around 15 minutes to complete.

There will be more Head casts soon. Most probably within the next two weeks. I'm looking forward to doing more. The next batch will be of only men head casts.

Fan Art Friday: Joss Stone, Sky Hunter, Mateo Cardea from Tall, Dark and Disreputable by Deb Marlowe and Nurse on Call by Edith Cotterill (^_~)

Hi everyone, I know this is might a bit a late. Some of you might have already finished Friday, either in the middle of it or about to start it. Either way, Happy Fan Art Friday. Today I’ll be showing you four fan arts. All of them were created by pencil and watercolour paints a 2B pencil.

I thought I’d start of with an old Children’s programme that came out during the 70’s but was re-mastered and shown during the early 90’s. This programme is called SkyHunter and it was part of a production company called Look and Read. The show had a very interesting plot involving a crow, an endless collection of birds’ eggs, bird thieves, an inspector (Who was known as ‘The Bird Man’) and three children within their pre-teens solving a case. I was about four when this series was released, but I didn’t watch it until I was about eight or nine. I watched this show alongside my class back in primary school. My old music teacher Mrs Perry had the videos and she made a habit of watching at least one episode each Thursday morning. The series was really interesting and I what appealed to me the most other than the plot was the songs that took place whenever there was an interval. These songs were useful because it taught English words in every form to a young audience. Most of the songs were really cheesy but very catchy. This picture has the three preteens. It was drawn by memory. Oh and I just wanted to add, in the re-mastered version, you get to see the three pre-teens in the story as adults, but only during the intervals, they looked like they were in their 20’s. This put a huge smile to my face. (^_^):

The next fan art is Mateo Cardea from Tall, Dark and Disreputable by Deb Marlowe. Mateo has been introduced in a previous novel that Deb had written, (I will not say which one; you’ll have to find it. (^_^)

Drawn by Cherish York © Deb Marlowe

The next fan art is of the novel that I’m currently reading, which is called ‘Nurse on Call.’ As I have previously mentioned in my last post, I will be making more fan art on the novel. Here we see the next stage of Edith’s journey of being a nurse:

 

Drawn by Cherish York © Edith Cotterill

The final fan art I thought I’d dedicate to the musician Joss Stone. Last year, I won her album ‘Soul Sessions Vol.2’ on Magic 105.4’s Test of time. I managed to guess the year correctly through the musical clues and the music played within that year. The year that I guess correctly was 2005. After listening to this album numerous times throughout the rest of 2012 until now, I felt that the least I could do is do a watercolour painting of her.:

   






















There will be more fan art next week! Thanks for your patience and for visiting. Please leave a comment!

Head Casts Sketches from the National Portrait Gallery (^_~)

Hello Everyone, I hope you are all having a great week so far. Today I thought I'd show you some Human Head Cast sketches that I drew at the National Portrait Gallery two Sundays ago. I've made it a habit of mine that every time whenever I finish church, I would visit this gallery to do sketches of some of the portraits, that I find quite appealing. Also whenever I sketch, I listen to Classic FM. I was inspired to draw head casts because while I was drawing portraits I noticed an art student who was drawing casts. I thought I'll give it a go as it has been a while since I have drawn casts.

I yearned to make a post of these casts as I didn't want to add it to the usual Daily Sketches that I do each month.

What you will see here are about thirteen sketches of human head casts, four of them are in blue ink and the rest of them are in blue. By the way these sketches are of people who are from the Stuarts, Georgian, Regency and Victorian periods. I decided to start with Queen Victoria at the beginning, because it was the first cast that I drew and it turn out to look really good. Also she is featured at the end:

This sketch here will be used for a future project that I'll be starting very soon. I love the look of this head cast a lot so I decided that I would take my time in drawing it. This one was successful out of all the sketches that I done. I will also try and draw this head cast again, in full view because it wasn't just the features that seemed to create a spark, but it was also the bottom part of the cast which made me decide to use  it for future projects.

There will be some more head casts that I be sketching from this gallery. You'll get to see them hopefully during the month of September.

Mascot Characters for Memenda -Seven 2

On Monday morning while working at the cartoon museum, I created some more character mascots for my company Memenda-Seven:

These are the first two that I made, I wanted to add a bit of a Regency feel for the first character. As for the second mascot I thought I make her a bit contemporary.

For these two mascots, I thought I would create a medieval dress, but still include the spectacles. As for the next mascot character I thought I start drawing guys. This is the first one that I thought of. He looks pretty cool and I love the clothes that I created for him.

Here are another two guys. Still using the Regency clothes, and similar body positions. I've made one characters hair long and the other short.

These are another two guys, where one of them looks a bit like a police officer...well slightly, as for the other character I thought I'd put a sailor clothes on him. It sort of came to mind, since at first I wanted to create some contemporary clothes for him.

These are the last two mascot characters that I created, where I chose to do another girl in a suit and another  guy. I'm quite impressed with these two. I still have to make a couple more decisions before I decide the two mascots for my company Memenda-Seven. I'll also have a look at the Previous Ones too.