Cecily Steele

Maybe I am. I doubt it. But I am interested in how ideas change, evolve, devolve, flourish … it’s a state we rarely access as human beings. We focus on the product; the end product that was successful. Here’s a little evolution of a tattoo design. I haven’t reached the end product, because this is a collaboration between two people; myself and my friend who wants the design. I can’t guarantee that there will be a successful end product, but here’s where the ideas have gone.

Just a side note. The first drawing I’ve done of this design is missing and was done while I was camping. These drawings are what I recall from that drawing and moving it according to the client’s ideas.

Also, I captured these with my digital camera so I could upload them quickly to get feedback. They are, therefore, a little blurry.

This is why I like having sketchbooks around. I like being able to practice, practice, perfect, refine, re-define, and work things out until I like where they are at. I recently stumbled on some studies of feet I’d done a few years ago and it reminds me that I need to do more of them, because these feet were pretty rad. Some people spend thousands of hours perfecting their ability to do something in Warcraft. I should be able to do at least that to get better at being an artist.

Go ahead. You want to point at his eyes and go “PEW PEW PEW”. Don’t you?

Well. It’s looking better at least. I have to say that this creamy, peachy, tabby coloring is a BITCH to paint.

This commission is for another artist, asked for by a mutual friend.

Two Leaves

I did a lot of this painting while watching/listening to the TV series “Lost”.  So, I find it fascinating that the lady looked more and more like the actress who plays Kate.  She doesn’t so much anymore, but for quite a while I wondered how much watching that show was influencing her features.

The strong shadows and the muscles on her back have been particularly difficult to make look “correct”.  this is one of the many times I wish I could step outside of myself to set up an accurate pose to work from … yes, I took a lot of blurry photographs to work from and none were quite right.  So, in this case, Frankenlady is a hodge-podge of model photos, photos of myself, and a lot of idealization.  It still needs a lot of work.

Enjoy.

I have a lot commissions in the works, including a painting of Bunny Molecules by request!  Here’s a little peek at something new, a quick study for a much more detailed and lovely painting of a beautiful cat named Cy.  Click the picture for a larger look.

The website is back and ready for action, thanks to the amazing Qbot.

Apple Moogle, originally uploaded by Gothbunny.

Final Fantasy Moogle done for the Genius team at the Apple Store.

The painting which has appeared here (tentatively titled “The Lady and the Cat”) and on my Flickr Archive finally has a frame. My father gave me a hand trying to cradle the the painting to prevent any future warping, and to give it an attractive border and filigree of sorts. I really, really wish I could have gotten a photograph of my father and I building the frame, but alas,it will persist in my memory. Right now, the frame has a few small fixes to take care of, staining a gap that appeared in one corner, puttying the unavoidable gaps, and giving the whole of the thing a good coat of UV Crystal Clear or UVLS Varnish. Soon, it will be in the hands of my friends who were married in July.  Only a month late so far.

* I found that saying here. I know the way it physically is written is “Nichi ma kore koujitsu nichi”, which if someone can explain to me why, when the website notes that it is said “Nichi nichi kore koujitsu” I’d be quite grateful.