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Hello all,

If you still check this blogger thanks! But unfortunately, I'm going to stop posting here. Blogger and I have never really been the best of palls, and I feel that Tumblr better serves me. So! If you would like to keep following my art, meet me over there! You can find me at: http://lostreachmove.tumblr.com/ . All the same content will be there, but also from the convenience of your dashboard if you're already a tumblr member!

Figure drawings in ink

A sketch post, in which I post figure drawings that only I am sure to like.

Had a get together with friends, and we all took turns posing and drawing. About half way through we moved over to gesture drawing, which happens to be my favorite. It gives me an excuse to be super loose (I usually worry too much about accuracy) and have fun with the medium. This time around, it was ink, in different forms. The first set there is with a brush pen. Then I moved on to using a crow quill and bamboo quill, and experimenting with it and water. It started off pretty rough, but by that end image there, I’d found a way to work with it I liked.

While these may look like glorified scribbles to some, I’m actually rather happy with them. I like the amount of movement here. The amount of abstraction. My work tends to get too stiff for my liking. I want to bring some of this life into more finished pieces.

Cat Dragon Commish

Commission for a good friend of mine who has also been incredibly patient. I was asked to make a sphinx cat dragon. It was a really fun challenge. So many wrinkles <3 tons of fun to draw.

Cat Dragon belongs to http://dreamingwhileawake.deviantart.com/

Textures by Hibbary http://hibbary.deviantart.com/

Just a Holy Fool

Commission for a friend of mine of our two characters from a 1890's western RP we do. Virgil is mine, and Ruth is hers. They don't have the most healthy of relationships. There's several things going on in there to symbolize that. From how well they're rendered, how polished they are, body language, facial expressions, state of dress.
 
Virgil belongs to me.
Ruth belongs to http://seiranimart.tumblr.com/

Yukon Living

Collab between myself and Rek. It’s the icon for a forum RP we do that takes place in the Yukon during the 1950’s with serial killers and murderous polar bears. Good times! She thought up and drew the original image, I cleaned up and colored it.

It's transparent! Click it! 

original for sale SOLD

Original for sale! This little guy was loads of fun to paint, and I’d love to see him get a nice home! There’s only one of him so once he’s sold that’s it!

SOLD!

Air

Done for a Halloween trade on Facebook with friends. My prompt of choosing was Air, and so I did a piece reflecting all the things that remind me of it.

example

An example image for my students for their next project. They're making masks! This is a vectored version of a self portrait originally done in pencils. We were to portray ourselves as some kind of cultural mask. Naturally, I took the Tibetan route.


I also now remember why I hate vectors and the pen tool. So tedious and boring. x_x

Mogget

Uncropped version of a little icon painting. It hurts too much not to have this somewhere, after all the work put into it. x_x

Sometimes I like to draw elves with terrible senses of justice.

Put your-

A tribute to Mother Monster that I’ve been wanting to do for far too long. I don’t know why I never knocked it out before. But a few years back, I might not have been able to get it to work. So maybe it was for the best to wait to do it now.

Pretty simple stuff. Classic good design colors, also heavily inspired by the Bad Romance music video, which is probably my favorite to this day. I wanted to draw the Mother as a real monster. :P Since I am a little monster who draws…monsters.

ILU Gaga. Keep being a badass and giving us all the inspiration to keep pushing for what we want in life.

Shame

A slightly belated birthday present for haikujaguar of her character Shame. This is the second time I've drawn him for this occasion, but what can I say, I like him. :P Plus with Black Blossom now being released, he's been more present on my reading list. He also helped me break out of my "how do I draw faces" drawing derp. It took a few tries though. And it seemed he'd only cooperate if he got to look right. I tried giving him a bit of a critical face, as if something not necessarily good just caught his attention.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Jaguar's writing, you should definitely give her stuff a read. I'm pretty partial to Ai-Naidari aliens myself, so I recommend reading both The Aphorisms of Kherishdar and The Admonishments of Kherishdar . Once you done that you can catch up to Black Blossom and then keep tabs on that one as it's released. Shame doesn't feature until Admonishments, but he's in Black Blossom as well. It's been interesting to see how the Calligrapher and Shame interact with each other. Every new piece of the story is a highlight of my day when I see it update.

Shame belongs to haikujaguar
texture by Hibbary 

too small a space

This is a piece I’m doing for a jurried show. The only requirements for the show is that the pieces were not to exceed 6” in any direction. So I did a little painting of a rather irate monster being crammed into a too small space.
I had originally scanned this, but my scanner devoured it. So I ended up photo documenting it. It still doesn’t totally capture the image, but it’s a lot better. The image is done with acrylics, colored pencil and some ink.

Bonus silly monster thumbnails. :P How I planned how how I wanted the monster scrunched in the space. I had the idea to have bits of the monster poking out of the frame, but then the image on the whole would have had to shrink to keep in the size restriction.

Little media study monsters. I'm making pieces for a show where they all have to be 6" x 6", and I'll be doing monsters (who would have guessed!) in traditional media, so I did these two to warm up and remember how to use paint.

Done in a watercolor moleskine book, acrylic paint and colored pencils.

Parkour

Second commission for a good friend of mine. Her character Ramla doing some parkour.

Referance used.

Dinner and a Movie

Locust, my cyberpunk character, eating ramen while surfing the internet, at the same time. Truly, this is why he spent so much of his time making said arms, and learning how to use them.
Just a quick, maybe even under an hour doodle.

Been on a cyberpunk kick, and I haven’t really drawn Locust at all, save what I had to to get his appearance down, and figure out his extra arms. No refs used, and it shows. I think you can tell where I started to lose my attention span on it as well. >.>

Everything's better with werewolves

Commission done for fellow WW RPer and friend Fran who's only prompt for this was "Anna and Lou hanging out." and the rest was left to me. Needless to say, when you have werewolves involved, something awesome must happen. So here we are, Lou getting the best piggie back ride ever. :P
please reblog if you like!
Anna Teeth-Gnasher (the big monstrous werewolf) is mine. Lou the kinfolk is Fran's.

Skin Topography

 

Photo Colab between myself and Sarah Walker. For the rest of the set, visit My Flickr Set

Photos taken by Sarah Walker
Concept/camera lens/model/edits by me ( Erin Conley )

The concept started as taking macro shots of the veins in my wrists, and evolved into how much we could abstract my hands and arms. Turned into a project of movement, lighting and color. I love the expressive quality of hands, how much can be said with them.

These were shot all getto-fabulous, using a bed sheet as the backdrop, and a plastic blue poncho as our 'color gel' over our light source. :P

My Websites: lostreach.blogspot.com/
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Sarah Walker:
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Survival Horror

A quick concept/speed paint thingie. Friend Fran wanted to a theme art trade, and she gave me the prompt “Survival Horror”. The colors are ala my survival horror game concept, and I used Dahlia as my little person. :P

When I think of survival horror, I think of man vs the unknown. And how when we’re placed in an unfamiliar setting, everything seems hostile.

Vice

Done from start to finish on Livestream. My tiefling, Vice. Just wanted to draw horn danglies, really. :B Good practice, learned a lot, played a lot and found some new ideas for the future.

Livestreaming notice

A little notice image for when I livestream. I'm hoping to settle on a definite day and time, once my life settles down a bit. Like the image for it, so posting it here. To be notified of livestream sessions, like me on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Reach/120421084710480