Inverseria

Fool's dagger! I've never drawn it properly, it's always been sketched in as part of her drawings, rather than being a standalone thing. Every time I draw it, it turns out slightly different, so I wanted this to be a template/baseline - though I think it will continue to change every time I draw it haha, since I haven't resolved all the metal bits to my own satisfaction. It's such a pretty dagger!

Digital studies

Fruit plate - speed sketch with a one hour limit. Not bad, though I spent far too long on the plate (which is skewed too); I went over it 3 times which wasted a lot of time, leaving me less time to go into more fruit detail.

Busking - I messed up the cello so bad because I assumed instead of actually check the dimensions! But It was a fun study for a full body pose I've never done, plus an instrument. This was completed without a sketch outline first, in order to get a sense of how accurately I'm spatially tracking things. I do like it though!

Two Along Their Way

Gosh I am not keeping up with posting all my drawings, I don't seem to have posted the previous picture of Tohmiel and Diadresca. Just another cutesy one :)

Date Night / Dessert Thief

A dual title because this is a combination of two ideas for the same scene! Abek and Peln are on their date night, which in itself is a cute pic. However, in that scene, they’re so distracted, that they ignore the dessert they ordered. Cue Odara, who’s just off to the side and sees this as the perfect opportunity to sneak a second dessert in!

Also from a recent theatre adventure watching the Echoes of Van Gogh ballet performance, there were these beautiful sunflower skirts that all the dancers wore. I couldn’t help but imagine that Abek would absolutely love wearing one, and that he found one at the shops and is talking dirty to Peln – “wanna see a new skirt I bought today?”.

And of course Odara then swoops in for a chunk of strawberry cake!

Echoes of Van Gogh

Woohoo more culture time! I don't know how it is that I keep running into the Van Gogh theme - first my almond blossom teacup, then the immersive Van Gogh exhibition, and then now an Echoes of Van Gogh ballet by the WA Ballet company!

I really like that I'm enjoying watching ballet so much, and this was such a different experience than Swan Lake! This had a way more contemporary flavour to it and was great to experience, especially the sunflower skirts! The sunflower skirts and crow costumes were so amazing!

I think I'm going to aim for one ballet per season or something, it's actually a really fun thing to do!