I come bearing fanarts!

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

Lots of good postage lately, I just had to put in my two bits as well!

The other night I was doing some gesture drawings with my roommates. (Living in an apartment full of art majors is just all kinds of awesome. You should all envy me.) A gesture drawing is just a general sketch done very quickly so you can get the general idea of the form and movement of your model. Anyway, after my roommates were done, I stuck around to doodle. My brain was still in gesture-drawing mode, so these are pretty lose, but here they are:

(These are all kind of big, I don't know how to make them smaller. Help?)

First, the most random and sketchy: Aulus, the Eddisian Nanny, resting his feet on a table. He's not big enough and the table isn't small enough. This is me, moving on to more entertaining drawings.



Next we have a quick doodle of Costis (younger version of Teleus, no sense of humor), who seems to have lost the back of his head. Sorry about that, Costis.



Dancing under the orange trees! (Remember! These are very quick doodles! Not finished drawings!)



Poor Gen. I hope you can read my handwriting...

Another of that same part, which I don't like as much but whatev...


Finally, Attolia with Gen in the back. This is right after Relius has been arrested. Pretend that Gen looks... better. And that Irene has both her hands. (Heh.)

Comments

[tearoha.livejournal.com]

These are lovely :)
My favourite is the first one of Gen covering his face... aw Gen *huggles*

You know something strange? There are very very few Queen's Thief fanarts out there that show Gen's stump. Actually, I can't think of any. So well done you :)

Does that say 'sneaky, speaky Gen'?!

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

It says "sneaky, sneaky Gen." My handwriting is... generally readable, but not... clean? Its not as precice as lots of girls' handwriting.

[zumie-ashlen.livejournal.com]

Oh, the orange trees picture is just GORGEOUS. *luffs you*

[willow-41z.livejournal.com]

I think the Costis one is really well done. The planes of his face, and jaw, look very soldierly and appropriate. I can imagine the muscles in his jaw twitching at something Gen says or does.

And I like Gen in the orange trees!

[thelasteddis.livejournal.com]

LOVELOVELOVE.
I so totally wish I could gesture draw like that... my art teacher has us do those with charcol, so I'm not very good with lines... meh. I'm just working on that right now.
I do love the QoA ones... poor Gen. *Huggles*

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

Thanks!
*deletes long ramble about gesture drawings*
Bottom line--your sketchbook is your friend! Carry it around and use it constantly if you are really serious about improving!

[thelasteddis.livejournal.com]

WHY OH WHY DID YOU DELETE THE RAMBLE ROSIE DEAR???
I love rambles, especially about art. And the gods know I've rambled a lot on here.
I've been doing a lot of work with contour lines recently, using them to express depth and shape. I've done a lot of Eddis and Attolia portraits like that... and one that I like a lot of Attolia and Gen. I should post those sometime...
Along with my vivolo and zumie inspired history doodles. Everyone in my class found those very funny, despite not having read QT, much less the lolspeak QT.

[viviolo.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love the ones of Gen covering his face! He looks so defeated, poor bb. *wishes to reach into the screen for a hug*

Also, I like the hands. Yeah I know it's a weird comment, but hands are hard dangit.

[pigrescuer.livejournal.com]

I love poor Gen's little stump! *huggles*

Did you mean to only give Attolia one hand? Do you know something we dn't know about the next book?

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

Well, the page was full of doodles and I drew her head first, so that hand ended up on top of where there was already a scribble, which I got rid of because it looked really ugly. So now she has no hand instead of a scribble.

[ulkis.livejournal.com]

These are great!

[ilysia-039.livejournal.com]

*jumps up and down*

Yay! Fanart! The one with Attolia under the orange trees is particularly lovely. That scene has always been a favorite. And now I love you for drawing it.

[jesusphreaq.livejournal.com]

Very nice! You ARE very good at hands. ^_^ But you don't know how to resize images huh... well, back when I had a Windows computer, I remember loving a great little free program called IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com/) which did pretty much everything I wanted. Check it out.

[traboule.livejournal.com]

Oooh, pretties!

And I love gesture drawings! I wish I could do them, but since I'm still struggling to get the correct proportions on a figure standing still (for costume rendering; not even real drawing), it's going to be a long time before I can do any...Back when I was dancing, my friend used to bring her sketchbook to rehearsal and do gesture drawings of the variations. They were beautiful.

Costis is pretty special too. Thanks for sharing!

[kitsune-rains.livejournal.com]

Wow. I really like the last one. I like the way you portrayed Attolia, and even though Gen doesn't look quite how I would imagine, the emotion is portrayed so well it doesn't even matter.
These are so cool!

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Gen doesn't look at all how I imagine him either. Other characters I can do alright, but Gen never looks right when I draw him. (Notice how I cleverly did the other pictures of him with his face covered. :-)

[crazededdisian.livejournal.com]

LOVELY!!!!! And these are only SKETCHES!!!?! They are Not! Love them!