Stuff

Hi!
It's been a while, hasn't it?

How are you?
Good, i'm glad you're okay, i kind of like you.
me?
Well, i got the place i wanted at university, and will be changing course in september! (woo!) This is fantastic news. I've been doing loads of really creative things recently, and will be uploading pictures shortly.
Heres some of the stuff i've been doing:

- BIG paintings
- making sketchy b's.
-sewing posters
- making huge, abnormal theatrical masqurade masks, from a variety of materials.

(at the moment i'm the most proud of the one i'm doing for jake, because it's a crow, and theres black sequins and feathers everywhere.) ALSO (speaking of jake he's on the otherside of the world right now, which sucks, so i'm distracting myself with art - which does not suck. It's awesome, and i'm having a whale of a time :D)
- working with charcoal (i'm getting much better at this woo!)
- small scale collages

Alll these wonderful things i'll be posting as soon as i can get pictures (jake took his flashy camera with him, so i have to borrow my dads.)

young beth

So the final one of these now 0.o
This is good because they need to go to print on thursday.

original image is nice, but scruffy.

For example there is no detail in the eyes.  This is layer 1.

This is layer two. I have begun to work into the original image.

 This is layer 1 and 2 combined. (looking better than the first one already!)

Having created a third layer by this point, welcome to layers 1,2, and 3.

layers 2, 3 and 4 (yes4!) are developing nicely, with layer 1 hidden.

Old Beth Development

 Woo the chair has been added! this is only layers 2 & 3 so the orgional drawing is out o' here!

 Started to do the dark swirls before realising they're in the opposite direction to the way the light falls. RESTART!

This is better :)

Added the light deffending old beth.

then decided to take her eyes out, since they detracted from the image. It works because it links to the "magic" in the goggles.

Witchy. and stuff.

do it a bit more subtley beth!

 any suggestions? comments, questions? It would be really good to get some feedback :D inbox me?

Old Beth (creepy!)

so, i built this for "Beth (now)"

The steps are as follows:

 

Original drawing.

 Keep the chair, and the original outline, just change    the clothes and add about a billion wrinkles!

Completed origional drawing, needs a professional finish to it.

Enter beth with new leite ninja skills

Working over the origional image, face starts to gather some depth. I copy pasted, and altered the eyes from "Beth (now)"

This is creepy! I've hidden the original layer. AAAAANND this is the top layer. 0.o

 okay, so the lips are horrifying. Yes, horrifying. I'll have to do something about those sharpish.

 this is all selected so it can be filled in.

the face is starting to work out. those lips still need sorting out though

Beth (now)

okay so most of you lot have seen this before, but good stuff is happening to it!

^ Original photograph 

by Jake Jones Photography

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jake-Jones-Photography/113570338670687

Second image was for a project, but now i'm polishing it off for my portfolio.

This image contains so much more detail than the last and it is also a vector image. For those of you who don't know: Vector images are beautiful things. They can stretch as much as you like and will not pixelate. This image will be printed and mounted on A1 size paper next week.

okay so i realise this actually looks worse than the last one BUT it's like when you tidy your room, and you decide that the usual bodge job won't do, so you tidy under your bed and everything. Before you're done it looks wprse than when you started, but then when you ARE done it's all sparkly. This is what's happening here :)  ... i swear...

so SEE. i told you, the dress is now starting to come together. I might get there eventually.

look closely at the detail in this small section. The piece of work is starting to become stressful after hours and hours (lots) of work. Still with another two piece to complete to finish the set.

Okay so heres a couple more things to do with this: 

-clean up the hair

- make the goggle beams more prominent

- sort a background of some kind

- do a bit more work on the tones

- clean up and "fancify" the chair

and finally 

- do the hands.

All this is giving me a headache now though :( so going to start work on the second of the set "old beth"