Sunday Watercolour Drawing (2/5)

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a great sunday so far. I thought that I'd show another watercolour drawing alongside the one that I made last week. This time I have chosen to draw a guy. He's a lot different as to how I draw men in the other drawing that I made in the past however I thought it would be great to create a different approach. I drew a floral background out of random. The reminder of what this drawing has from last week is that the top that he is wearing is based on medieval clothes.

There will be another drawing next sunday. Thank you for visiting and please write a comment. :)

Fan Art Friday: The Powerpuff Girls by Craig McCracken

Happy February and Happy Fan Art Friday. Today I will be showing only one fan art today. This fan art was made using watercolour paints and a mechanical pen with 0.9 red lead.

Today's fan art is about a cartoon network programme called The Powepuff Girls by Craig McCracken. This programme came around during the years of my preteens and around the time it was on TV it was part of a segment called 'Cartoon Cartoon'. The show is about three girls called Buttercup, Blossom and Bubbles who were created using a children's nursery rhyme called 'What are little girls made of'. The person who made these girls were called 'Professor'. I don't think I can remember him having a name. After adding the ingredients into the mixture he accidentally adds one more ingredient. This is called "Chemical X".  The mixture then explodes and then the girls are then created. It's still one of the programmes that I can still remember that made me laugh and also dance. There was also a narrator who was absolutely hilarious. He would always made me laugh. Each cartoon were incredibly short, I assume around 15 minutes, but it was still incredibly awesome. I still kept watching the series even in my teens. I also adored the ending theme song. There was one episode that I can remember that had a song that had the phrase 'A signal in the sky'. The song was pretty awesome and it was a similar to music from the sixties. The episode that had this song involved a new neighbour that was going to live next to where the girls lived.

The drawing that I have made uses the colours that the girls wear and also a green background with spirals.

There will be more fan art next week. Thank you for visting and please write a comment.

February First of the Month Drawing!

Happy Feburary everyone! Today and every sunday of this month, I will be posting new drawings. This week I made a couple of drawings. Some of them took a while to complete hence there will be only one drawing today.  I decided that it would be great to improve on my skills on traditional materials so most of the drawing that will be shown this month will be in watercolours. In this drawing I have drawn a couple in medieval clothes. I'm not only please with the clothes but also with the creation of the clouds. Although it looks very abstract I decided that I will leave it to you to think about what the drawing is about.

Enjoy your weekend. Thank you for visiting and please write a comment.

Fan Art Friday: Chibi-Usa from Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeguchi, Belle from Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (Movie version by Disney) and Beatrix and William from Miss Potter Movie

Happy Fan Art Friday Everyone! Today I will be showing three drawings. All of them are watercolour drawings.

The first fan art is of Chibi-Usa From Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeguchi. I decided to draw her because I finished volume twelve of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon and I will be moving on to reading the short stories. I'm not sure what to expect but I have a feeling that it is going to be great. The anime of Sailor Moon which is called Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal is also good too. The next series will be starting soon and so far Chibi-Usa has appeared. In the manga she is very interesting and I'm quite intrigued by her abilities as a Sailor guardian. There is a very interesting story about her and if you haven't read the manga yet, please do. I really enjoyed it. As you can see below I have drawn her with a dress that I have made up myself.

The next fan art is of Belle from Beauty and the Beast. As I have mentioned in a previous post this was a movie that I watched constantly with my brothers. It is another favourite after Aladdin. I decided to draw Belle because I found out something very interesting. Apparently Emma Watson, will be playing Belle in the live-action version of Beauty and the Beast. I'm looking forward to the movie when it is released. Belle is a great character and I love and I adore the concept that she reads. I loved that when she read and her excitement expands. Everyone around her thought she was weird but I thought she was incredible. I've drawn her in yellow dress.

The second and final art of today is of Beatrix and William Hellis from the movie Miss Potter. I first came across the movie five years ago. It was shown on BBC iPlayer and I love it. It told the story about Beatrix and how she became an successful author. The screenplay was written by Richard Maltby Jr. who also wrote the novel too. I loved how the movie had small animations where Peter Rabbit would animate. No one would see but Beatrix. At some point she hangs around William and this was around the time of her teens. I thought that it would be great to show both of them walking.  I had the chance of reading the novel and I really enjoyed it, Richard has really bought the novel to life. It felt that I was drawn to the world of Beatrix life. There were a lot of moments that would love to hug Beatrix.

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

Fan Art Friday: The Pink Panther by Friz Freleng, Blake Edwards & Hawley Pratt

Happy Fan Art Friday Everyone. There will be one fan art that I will be showing you for today. This drawing was a red pencil sketch. Next I used watercolours and black pen for the outline.

This fan art is of the cartoon character The Pink Panther. This character was created by three people. They are Friz Freleng, Blake Edwards & Hawley Pratt. I am very familiar with the cartoon series which appeared back in the 60's and also in the 90's. I knew of the cartoon series from the 60's because it appeared in the 90's and the early noughties. 

Both series were really good and what was also pretty cool. In the earlier episodes the pink panther never talked but in the 90's version he did and I thought that was awesome. There were also new characters introduced in the 90's as well as the other known characters the ant and the aardvark and Inspector Jacques Clouseau. The theme songs were pretty good too. The older series had an immense sense that it was part of the past and the 90's cartoons version was a remake of the original theme by Henry Mancini. It's probably the theme song that I never had forgotten and what I can associate with this character.  

I have drawn the Pink Panther winter clothes because I yearned to make a huge sense of the season which is currently present. As of yet it hasn't snowed yet but it is cold chilly and windy. :D :

There will be more fan art next week, thank you for visiting and please write a comment. Have a great weekend.

Fan Art Tuesday: Gwyneth Herbert from Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section (Updated!)

Happy Tuesday everyone! As promised here is the picture that I'll posting here on the blog today. The drawing was originally a pencil sketch then watercolour paints were added then changed on to Photoshop.

Sometime in March I got a free ticket to go to BBC Broadcasting house for a radio recording of The Horne Section. This programme is presented by the comedian Alex Horne. Alongside Alex there's his band that play a different range of music. Most of music that features on the programme tend to have lyrics which are very amusing.  This left me in heaps of laughter. There are two special guests who tend to appear on the show. One of them was Gwyneth Herbert . I quite liked Gywneth's singing another thing that I quite like about her was that for one of the songs that she was going to perform, she asked the audience to take part. With Alex's Horne's band taking part, in playing part it was truly amazing.

Another thing that happened was that some of band members had songs that they shared with the audience too and that was awesome. Alex sung too and he seemed to be quite heroic in his singing. (That was a good thing too):

Here's the link to the episode, click here.

Here's the drawing of Gywneth. I drew this from memory and it is somewhat accurate.:

There will be the usual Fan Art Friday drawings that will appear this Friday. Stay tuned for that! Thanks for visiting my blog and please leave a comment.

Happy December! First Xmas Pics!

Hi everyone and happy December! Today as promised I'll be showing you some Christmas pictures. Today I'll show three. These pictures were created about three years ago. All of these were created using watercolour paints orange pencils and Photoshop. The reasons as to why I chose to create these drawings is because I yearned to be in the xmas spirit.:

The last image that is seen here will be part of a Christmas Card. It's part of the Holiday Card Project that Deviantart are currently doing. I'll be sending it on Monday. It took a while to finish but it seems to be a success. Two of the people in this drawing are based on random people of whom I saw on the street and on the bus. The woman on the right was the person that I saw on the bus with her daughter. The guy on the lower right was someone I saw on the way home from work:

I did create some pastel drawings that are based on the Christmas theme a couple of years ago. If you would like to have a look then please click here. Thank you for visiting my blog. Please leave a comment.

Fan Art Friday: Wally from Where's Wally by Martin Hanford, Tintin from The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé

Happy Fan Art Friday Everyone! Today I'll be showing only one fan art. It's actually an old fan art that I created back in 2010. The original drawing has gone but luckily I took precautions and scanned the picture. Back then, I posted it up on the Sweatdrop Forums. The picture isn't seen on the forum so I thought I'd show it here. This Fan art was created using water-colour paints.

The fan art is based on two characters, both of them well-known. One of them is Tintin by Hergé and the other is Wally from the book and cartoon series Where's Wally by Martin Hanford. Both of these series are quite significant because I have watched both of them during my childhood, Where's Wally was probably the first one I watched. I adored the cartoon series and whenever it was time to find him, it was very very difficult. I admired the fact that the people who created the animation when into a huge way of creating scenes where it would be exactly like the book. The books were quite good as well and I can honestly say Martion Hanford has indeed astounded me. Lastly, there were also cards where you also had to find Wally too. At this age now, it's easy to find him as it was back then.
Tintin was indeed another great series. The cartoon was brilliant and the music was a true gem and by the time I reached towards my pre-teens I found a whole range of comic of Tintin at my local library. I read some of them. They were good too. At some point I'll re-draw these characters again. I feel they need a bit of a revival.:

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

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!

Fan Art Friday: Megumi and Suzuka From Captive Hearts, Io Ayase from Real Storm, Mey-Rin from Black Butler and Edith Cotterill from Nurse on Call. (^_~)

Happy Friday Everyone! Here is another four fan arts that I'll be showing you today. Three of them are from manga which are volumes. The fourth fan art is from a memoir that I am currently reading. All of these works were created with a 2B Pencil and Watercolour Paints.

Before I begin, I have to admit something, I've been trying to avoid reading Shoujo comics for the past two years. These types of comics were the reason why I got in to manga in the first place. The reason why I chose to stop was that I felt that I was growing old and I tried to find some Josei manga to even out the odds. Ultimately I gave in and decided to continue reading them. I realized how amazing funny this type of genre is and I have now chosen to continue reading this genre from now on.


The first fan art is from the manga Captive Hearts by Matsuri Hino. I think most of you would know that she is the creator of the manga Vampire Knight. Over the years, I have seen people dress up as some of the characters from this manga. Although I was was aware that she created the series I chose to read Captive Hearts, just to get a feel of the stories that she creates. This week, I read the first volume and I found it really difficult to put down. I read the volume about 30 times. Here are the two protagonists of the story Megumi and Suzuka. I was quite surprised that Megumi is a guy. I assumed that this name was suitable for a girl. (^_^;)

In addition to this story, there is also two short stories, I thought I'd do a fan art about one of them. This is Io Ayase who is the main protagonist of the short story called 'Real Storm' This was another short manga that I could not stop reading. I admired how Io changed from being a shy and quiet girl to a strong and confident girl:

The next fan art is of Mey-Rin from the manga Black Butler by Yana Toboso. She became my second favourite character after reading volume 8. When I finished this particular volume, I realized that a few questions that I had regarding the servants were answered. I was aware of this series back in 2010 I think when the anime was released, but I chose to wait and read the manga. I'm glad I did. I think I made Mey-Rin amazingly sweet here. I think next time I'll draw a better version of her:

The final Fan art for today, is of Edith Cotterill from the memoir, 'Nurse on Call'. I chose to read this book as part of my research of a comic entry that I'll be starting next month. (I'll be showing the process of the comic entry, throughout the month of September so stay tuned.) I began reading this memoir this week and I loving it so far. I decided to do a recollection of what I've read so far. There might be a possibility that I'll do more fan art of this novel, as I am currently reading it:

There will be more fan art next week. Thank you for visiting my blog and please leave a comment. (^_~)