more studies

I try to do pencil studies of nude photos a little more often lately, because I figured not only does it help me to understand the human body and also lightning and shading better, but it also helps me to have more and more control over my pencil, and improves the intuition.

Hot and Cold

Here is a little something I did for the drawing jam over at the drawingboard

My first sketchy attempt:


the final piece:


I just totally love what you can do with illustrator: pattern brushes, opacity masks, blend modes, its just an amazing programm.
I started with this sketch:



I decided instead of whining about it I'd rather embrace the cold weather:

Finally something new!

These are some random sketches of the last moths.


This is a beautifull scuplture in berlin near to were I live http://www.borofsky.com/public/moleculeman%5Bgermany%5D/index.html

I did these nude studies all with references from: http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/
here are the links to the actuall work:
http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/art/Snake-Charmer-53081108
http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/art/Priestess-5-54272732
http://mjranum.deviantart.com/art/Simplicity-36740742
These are some random doodles, (no references used ecpet for the one under which it says jason wu, this is from a photo I found of his show at new york fashion week):

revising old art

While going through my files, I found some old pictures that i still really like, but I fell like there are to many things wrong with the color and compostion. So I sat down again, an worked on them again, here are two examples:

old:



new:



And the other:

old:


new:

geisha in the sky with noodles

I dug out another file out of my archive of unfinished stuff. This was actually the first thing I tried out with illustrator, it turned out, this was way to ambitious for a first try. But I like how it turned out:

New girls!

I'm always trying out new styles, some of these experiments work out, others dont, I'm pretty happy with these though.
This was inspired by a good friend of mine, which is indeed a bookworm with style. I used to do latin translations with her, which was always fun, because we were both eager to find the really truelly correct translations. She is actually a red head, this was inspired more by her character.
Photoshop on a pencil sketch:




This one was actually waiting to be finished for half a year, it had awful colors but now I changed them and am quite happy with them.
Vector forms, Photoshop gradients and colors:

she-faunus

I was playing aurond with vectors in Photoshop, which can be a lot of fun. I like how you can combine the intuitiveness of Photoshop-brushes and the exacteness of vectorshapess. This is what came out, I might actually do more in that style: