Portraits from Imagination

11.03.2015:

Best day ever! I met with a new possible client today and it was great. He is really nice, knows exactly what he wants and we agreed on the contract :3 That said for the next two months I will be flooded with work, but I will try and keep up my daily sketches.

Yesterday evening I went to celebrate with a friend of mine over dinner which we also used to draw. I don't like the little fellow above very much but I learned a lot. You will see what I mean in my next upload tomorrow : )

portrait profile from imagination (sketchbook, pencil, copic markers)

After I drew the last sketch, I felt really bad because I didn't like it at all. That said as soon as I was home I sat down again and drew this little fellow. And I'm in love! I'm slowly getting the grasp of where to discontinue lines, where to increase their thickness and how to hatch. Also he looks like a man, which for me is amazeballs! Normally all my characters have one face which is very womanly, haha ^^

portrait from imagination (sketchbook, pencil)

Princess Bubblegum

02.03.2015:

princess bubblegum (w.i.p., photoshop cc)

I really love 2015. I made a lot of decision which hopefully will help me to grow as an artist and a person and therefor I'm really excited to see the results end of the year. For now I just enjoy the journey until then.

One of those decisions was to start doing fanart. I mostly kept away from it in the past, because I somehow feel it limits you in your creativity. Because the design, clothing etc is already defined. But the good thing about it is, that you really can concentrate on an interesting composition, pose and art style.

So here are the sketch, lines as well as flat colors for my interpretation of Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Time. I love this series a lot! ♡

I created my own costume for her based on the original design and went with my own color palette as well. Next will be the rendering. I really would love to give kind of jelly see-through hair.  Let's see if I will manage ;)

princess bubblegum (sketchbook page, pencil)

Viking Girl III.

22.02.2015:

And I revisited her yet again! =^.^= I sketched her back in Nov. 2013 in my back then new sketchbook as part of a contest. I never submitted the image, because she didn't look viking enough. But I always liked here.

I while later I painted her in photoshop again. But somehow messed up her face, which resulted in losing a lot of her character.

Now in regard of my personal challenge (inking and colouring all pages in my sketchbook) I revisited her again. She was already coloured, but very pale so I spiced her up. I really like how it came out and I'm getting more and more comfortable with copic markers.

Here the links to the old versions: sketch & digital 

coloured version of my viking girl (sketchbook, ink, coloured pencil, copic markers)

Hermione studying as always

15.02.2015:

Hi guys, it happened again. I'm currently really enjoying to fill my sketchbook with color, so here the main part of the second page - my Hermione ♡ Original sketches are from Nov 2013 >> Link

close up of hermione (sketchbook, ink, colored pencil, copic markers)

whole sketchbook page (ink, colored pencil, copic markers)

Character Portrait

09.02.2015:

After deciding to fill my sketchbook with color I still wanted to keep sketching and create new stuff. Simply now I would directly ink and color them so that my sketchbooks will never be grey again : D

One evening we had a lot of friends over for D&D and one of them asked me if that's a sticker book? (pointing at this page of my sketchbook) Haha. Due to the bold egg shaped background it must have seemed that way from afar^^

character sketch (sketchbook, ink, colored pencil, copic markers)

Running

03.02.2014:

Hi guys!

I'm currently experimenting with different art styles and try to learn a lot more about line weight an such. Here my current progress so far on a new personal piece:

base colors (photoshop cs6)

line art (photoshop cs6)

sketchbook page (one reefed, rest from imagination; pencil)

Happy 2014!!!

29.01.2014:

Hey guys!

Welcome to a new exciting year! I hope you all had an awesome christmas as well as new years eve!

I spend the last weeks finishing up my new Online Portfolio. It went online on January 1st. The results you can see here: http://sandrapinkertportfolio.weebly.com/

Besides that I finished my current contract with Pyrrhic Studios and started my new job hunt. I'm already in contact with some possible clients.

That said it wasn't much private drawing going on in January.

Here the one sketchbook page I managed between all that jazz :D

sketch book page (pencil + colored pencils)

Noah's Art Camp

20.11.2013:

After finishing some of my work I started another imaginative sketch today. Took me around 50mins.

from imagination (photoshop cs6)

Just finished the second imaginative sketch right now. This time 45 mins. Hui!

from imagination (photoshop cs6)

Third sketch for today. Damn coming up with those one after another is really hard. 20-30mins for this one. Also I mainly used the marque tool. Which makes a really interesting working approach!

from imagination (photoshop cs6)

Noah's Art Camp

18.11.2013:

Did a color study of one of Kazuo Ogas paintings. And afterwards tried to apply it as best as I could to the sketch I did a couple of days ago. It looks awful but only through trying I can get better. So here it is!

color study (left by: Kazuo Oga, right: my study; photoshop cs6)

from imagination (photoshop cs6)

Sketches

15.11.2013:

Just filled the blank spaces on the last page.

sketchbook page from imagination (pencil, copic markers, colored pencils)

Sketchbook pages

14.11.2013:

Hey guys! I'm feeling quite creative currently. So I kept working from imagination in my new sketchbook. Colors are from copic markers and colored pencils. The first and second one are based on sketches from yesterday.

from imagination only (pencil, copic markers, colored pencils)

from imagination only (pencil, copic markers, colored pencils)

from imagination only (pencil, copic markers, colored pencils)

Lots of sketches

13.11.2013:

Today is a very exciting day. Because I finally finished my first sketchbook! My whole life i always drew on loose papers only, so having started a real sketchbook in December 2012 I'm glad to announce that after nearly a year I have filled it completely :D
The last sketch is already the first page of my new one. This being Din A4. So I'm really excited working twice as big as usual.

sketches from imagination (pencil)

sketches from imagination (pencil)

sketches from imagination (pencil)

sketches from imagination (pencil)

sketches from imagination (pencil)

sketches from imagination (pencil)

sketches from imagination (pencil)

sketches from imagination (pencil)

sketches from imagination (pencil)

sketches from imagination (pencil)

I also tried a different value structure for my latest piece.

from imagination (photoshop cs6)

Perspective

12.11.2013:

Hello! Today I wanted to see how good my memory is. So sat down and drew my kitchen in perspective from memory. I'm seeing it everyday and still I had to think really hard about where on the walls tiles where and where not.

kitchen from memory (perspective drawing, pencil, sketchbook)

Illustration

07.11.2013:

Great day indeed! Finally started an illustration again. I'm so proud atm. I was mainly drawing for work the last months so doing something for myself feels really good!

sketch for the illustration below (pencil, sketchbook)

Took a reference photo of myself to get the hands right :D

progress so far (Photoshop CS6)

Sketchbook page

02.11.2013:

And there the November is. Really looking forward to the christmas holidays this year. Can't await it!

sketchbook page from imagination (pencil)

First batch

28.10.2013:

Here todays progress the batch I send to the client.

same as yesterday

same as yesterday

new character concept + heads (photoshop cs6)

Mini contract

Hi guys,

I got a small request regarding a dog-like super hero. I wanted to do something a bit different at first, so I went with a worgen like creature. Luckily I also did a more generic super hero type character. Because that's what he wanted to go with in the end ;)

Here the initial sketches (I didn't send them to him yet, he got tomorrows version):

worgen-like creature (based on sketchbook-page; photoshop cs6)

experimental (photoshop cs6)

dog heads (photoshop cs6)

Sketchbook Page

26.10.2013:

And I keep doing those imaginative sketches. Today also some body parts next to all the faces. Look at that ass :D Like the guy with the mustache. Finally getting the hang of the profile of the face. Yeah!

sketchbook page from imagination (pencil)

Sketchbook Pages

24.10.2013:

And I kept going. More sketchbook pages. All from imagination. Plus I worked on hard/soft edges in Photoshop. Face looks totally off, but the edges are nice. haha (used referenced for that one)

sketchbook page from imagination (pencil, colored pencil)

sketchbook page from imagination (pencil)

sketchbook page from imagination (pencil)

sketchbook page from imagination (pencil)

photo study, concentrating on edges (Photoshop CS6)

Sketchbook Page

23.10.2013:

Hey guys! Another great day to do some sketches. Like the girl on the bottom left. Couple on top is from reference.

sketchbook page (pencil, imagination at bottom, reference used for top)