In the shadows

 

I have drawn this picture when I was in Cuba. This is a girl walking in shadows upon the burning ground, but the flames are not hot; they are rather soft and comforting but they will suck the light away from this girl if she stops. Iguana is riding her cloak since I was in Cuba and why not. She holds her hands in that way to concentrate on her goal and do not sway. Her face is concerned yet still beautiful. On the left is a symbol representing the wind which refers back to her as she like a wind has to keep moving or otherwise she will not be. 

She was inspired by a girl I met while in Cuba. (Iguana was inspired by an iguana I met in Cuba too.) And the darkness came from that rap song I do not remember the name of.

Pencil on drawing paper. Took me around an hour to finish it.

Crysad Royalty

This is another crysad I have drawn in the last month. She is part of the royalty of crysads. The thing about crysads is that three out of four of their kingdoms are ruled by women. They possess all the power, even though men mostly fought in wars while women were tacticians, generals and none-the-less skilled warriors. The royal women generally would wear long dresses made of leather with bells attached to the bottom or sides. Those bells represent both wealth, since the metal is very rare in the forests where crysads live, and power, since they are not only seen but also heard when they walk. When royalty gets together it is like an orchestra when they move.

This particular woman has a weapon made of shoulder crystals which is also rather rare since those crystals has to be properly collected and preserved for them not to shatter. Usually during a disease crystals start to shatter and fall off and grow back when a crysad gets better. They completely shatter upon their death. The size of crystals often represents how healthy a crysad has been during their life. One particular quality of the crystals is that even if they are damaged they still stay sharp for that reason crysads use them for weapons.

I forgot what that leather bag was for. It looks like it is used for storing water.

This picture is rather boring because she is standing facing the viewed with hands down. As with previous picture I just wanted to get the basics of the crysad woman with some fashion thrown in. This picture is  missing a lot of shading especially on the bottom part of the dress but i do not feel like finishing that.

Pencil on drawing paper. Took me couple hours.

Female knight

This is the picture of a woman in a full armor (except helm). Small shield and a light armor allows for mobility. So that she could fight with finesse. Her style of fighting centers around rotating in one spot alternating attacks or parries with shield and sword and disorient the enemy with the cloak. She is very concentrated on the picture lost deep in thought or preparing for battle. She also looks kind of sad as if she feels pity for someone she sees. 

I wanted to remember old times and draw some warriors in the armor thus this picture has come to be. I really enjoyed drawing all that armor detailing even though this picture took me several days to finish. Around three to four hours of actual drawing. This girl also appeared to be too thin after I have scanned it but besides that I really like this picture.

Black ink on white paper.

It is harder for me to draw and post pictures every day than I thought. One day I do not want to draw anything at all and another I finish several pictures. Sometimes I do not want to or do not have time to post pictures, like past several days. So for that reason I post two pictures tonight instead of one. Here is the second one:

This being might be an elemental or a demon or a human in mask and costume. I do not know what it is but I think it is best described as an emotional manifestation of anger or danger. She holds a hand with fingers bent inside exposing the talons. With that hand she stops someone by threatening him or her, but she is also ready to attack if it does not work. In the center of her body is the emotion concentrated into a stone. It spills out of it engulfing her in flames. She stands on her toes to be conceived as being taller than she really is. She has no facial features making her less human and also impossible to understand what is going on in her mind if she has one. The eyes also has no focus point, so it is impossible to glance into her soul if she has one again. No skin makes her look even less human.

As one could probably guess this picture was inspired by an emotion or an emotional state of an angry person (myself most likely). 

This picture is good overall. I am only dissatisfied with the thumb on the hand because it is curled too much inside but that happened only because I forgot how the hand should look like and remembered too late to correct it.

Blue ink pen on white letter paper. It took me slightly more than an hour to draw this not including some rough work I had to do before hand to familiarize myself with the prospective and posture. This picture has a lot of detail so I decided to post a large copy.

A woman figure

This is just a picture of a naked woman. She is a posture of stopping someone coming from behind. (You can effectively ignore that extra face underneath her hand.)

No inspiration here, just a picture I would draw while doing other things on my computer.

I really hate her face and I think it is obvious that I do. At one point I was going to just fill it with blackness (blueness in this case...) so that no features would be visible but in the end decided to keep it so maybe I can learn from my mistakes later. The hands came out really well, I cannot say it happens often on my pictures. The rest of the picture is just an exercise in shading and human body shaping, nothing special.

It took me 20-30 min to draw this on yellow paper with blue ink pen.