The Aunt Project

This is what I've been up to this whole week I call it the Aunt Project. Recently my aunt's dog passed away and her other one is really sick. My brother, I would say little brother but he's taller than me, comes up with the idea that I should paint our aunt a picture. This was a great idea so I got to it. I did a thumbnail for the sketch, after that I sketched it out and inked it up, and lastly painted it. I used pastel watercolor pencils so as you can see it's kind of sketchy and needs some work plus I used one brush for the entire painting which was good but had its limitations. It was my first time using it which was frustrating at times because I had no clue what I was doing but it turned out ok. So here it is the Aunt Project. Also I bought some more brushes which were on sale Saturday and framed it for her which was good and only cost me $6.00, thank you Hobby Lobby. I just wanted to say if you have a talent don't keep it to yourself. Well that's it for now, I'm working on something for my cousin & I'll show y'all later. 

thumbnail

the sketch plus some paint

framed and wrapped

final

Alexander the Great [rough draft]

The reason why I have not uploaded a sketch of the day sketch is because I've been working on this all day. Actually, I've been watching football, cleaning, and doing this today so I've been kind of busy. I had this sketch in my sketch book for a while now and I'm just now doing something with it. Here it is the rough draft of the end product. I did the sketch, cleaned it up a little and then put it in the computer for some practice. If you notice it is just like my header, well the gold part at least, I like using real textures in some of my work. The ART BY JERI part is debatable if I want to leave it on there or not but it is growing on me. Anyway, here it is: 

And here is a frame version:

Sketch (Coffee Chick)

There is a story to these photos. When school was in I use to sit at the end of the hallway waiting for class to start often times bored. Being an observant person I would draw whatever is near me at the moment no matter who or what it may be. Trust me you will see as I show you more pictures as time progresses. This time I caught someone slippin her name slips me at the moment, even though she told me about a hundred times, but she was practically posing. We would always talk about whatever, no really we would talk about anything she was a very out spoken person at times. On this day she was tired so she sat at the seat across from me and fell right to sleep. Slowly taking my sketch book and pencil out I did a quick sketch of her. To me honest I was practicing on my ''life drawings''. It took about a minute if I could remember correctly, this was the fastest drawing I have ever done of a live person. This is one of my favorite sketches in my book for now.

When I first took the picture I had to go over it again a few times just so it could show up on camera even with the light. Like I said before I really like this picture so going over it again hurt a little inside. Also I like making my female characters look like Native American warriors so I had to fight that temptation. I will further explain that as time progresses because it sounds strange but I have a good explanation for that. The picture quality sucks but what else can u expect from an IPOD camera. I’m trying to save up to buy a camera but you gotta work with what you got so I’m not complaining. More stuff on the way with hopefully a better camera...ENJOY!!!