Two tiny portraits (8 x 10,5 cm) on Hahnemühle Bamboo, which I had to try sooner or later after all the times cabepfir has been singing its praises :). And yes, it's a very nice paper and fun to work with! May have to get a larger block...
I just love doing little portraits... I'll have to do a new Elrond too :P.
There will be more ASoIaF fanart ahead. It's just too much fun.
I never really posted about my all-new membership of westerosorting... I rather predictably ended up in House Tully, and now it is my duty honorably to win points for my family.
This picture was painted for the Modernisation contest. The challenge was to reimagine ASoIaF characters in a modern setting. For some reason, I started wondering what car the Starks would drive if they lived in a modern-day Winterfell, and I ended up with this. I don't particularly like cars and I don't think I've ever really drawn one, and while I was sketching this I repeatedly considered leaving the ugly thing out altogether, but that would rather have defeated the purpose of the whole picture, so I persevered :p.
Okay. I've actually started re-reading Game of Thrones now. It's rather fun: I have only arrived at page 80 and already I have come across a lot of (evoked) characters about which I promptly forgot on my first reading. Howland Reed is one of them. Also, having been asked a question by cabepfir about who I thought Jon Snow's mother was, and having stumbled across some ASoIaF theories, I'm paying extra attention to that part of the story. I'm now rather convinced that one particular theory is very probably right.
By request from thirteen_ravens, I present to you Brienne, the Maid of Tarth, and Ser Jaime Lannister, commonly known as the Kingslayer. Brienne is too pretty, but despite that, I really like how she came out. As for Jaime, meh, he could be better.
I ship these two, obviously. Is there anyone who doesn't?
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I have been trying to draw Sandor Clegane, too, but in case anyone has failed to notice, I'm not particularly talented for gore or ugliness or that kind of stuff, so when I try my hand at a burned face it will come out as an ever so slightly blemished one :p.
In the works: Jon, Sansa, and more Cat & Ned (of course!).
These are on Canson Montval paper, if anyone is interested (10,5 x 15,5 cm).
No, I'm not on a major art spree with my broken limb; I'm finding it difficult to ink properly, so in fact not so much is going on art-wise. BUT this picture was painted a while ago, on the same day as my portrait of Lord Eddard in fact, as a birthday present for my BMF bettyboop_comic.
Little Bran Stark is one of my favourite characters in ASoIaF. He's one of the few child characters in the book who is actually childlike, though I guess that he, too, is rather mature for an eight-year-old. I'm not sure I like Bran's plot points, but I like the kind of little boy he is.
I'm particularly pleased with the colours in this one. I am awfully bad at mixing greys (I'm only slightly better at greys than blacks - the latter I don't manage at all), but that day the greys went swimmingly. Yippee! The texture of the paper (Daler-Rowney) did the rest...
I finished my portrait of the Starks. It was more difficult than I thought it would be with only one arm - after all, I need only one hand to hold a brush. Mixing paint was less easy, especially if paint has to be squeezed out of tubes, and just taping my paper to a board was simply hard :p. The worst was that I splattered paint over the top of my painting - not too much, fortunately, but enough to stain my original lightly :/. All in all it came out fine though :).
The complete image is large-ish, so I put it behind a cut. Have a detail first:
...I think I must have been halfway into A Dance with Dragons: Part 1 when I suddenly felt the need to draw chibi!Ned. I've never drawn chibis before... XD
Everyone: meet Silly Ned Stark.
Eddard Stark seems like the last character to inspire a silly version - but maybe that's why George R. R. Martin drove me in that direction. ( Collapse ) And with that, I'm almost running out of ASoIaF. I am currently 240 pages into the last volume and 6 episodes into the tv series. It has dawned on me that soon I'll be waiting for George R. R. Martin to publish new stuff. *sigh*
Also, I'm thinking of joining westerosorting, and have discovered that I can't decide on a third favourite character. After Ned and Tyrion, I can't really think of one character that really rises above the others. So I'm trying to decide between - Cat Tully - Sam Tarly - Brienne of Tarth - Jaime Lannister - Bran Stark - Jon Snow
It's difficult... If I sift out the characters who have character traits that I really don't like, I'm left with Bran, Jon and Sam; but Cat and Jaime are more entertaining than any of them. Cat I don't like entirely because she reminds me too much of myself. Jaime I don't like entirely because, even though he's improved a great deal, I still can't stand his swagger. What to do?
This weekend I have only line art for you. The idea is to colour it, but since I spent the best part of today doing the inks, I find I haven't the time to finish it before the end of the weekend... It's not that this drawing is particularly complex, but it *is* time-consuming. Probably just because I am really slow -_-.
I pencilled Lord Ned and his Lady Cat last Monday, on my day off, and transferred the drawing to watercolour paper. Today, while doing the inks, I made quite a few small corrections, so here's to hoping the paper hasn't suffered too much, or my painting is doomed before I start :/.
...Obvious Ned Stark love is obvious -_-. My love for House Stark is partly related to my love for Gawain - more about that below the cut, for people who can't be, or don't mind being, spoiled for ASoIaF.
State of the AsoIaF: am 140 pages into A Storm of Swords: Part 2. So if you haven't got that far yet, and are afraid of spoilers, don't go behind the cut...
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cabepfir has been singing its praises :). And yes, it's a very nice paper and fun to work with! May have to get a larger block...
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