2002

[ellenmillion]

My laundry isn't dry yet, and 2002 is pretty short.





This was about the time I got back into drawing. With just graphite as a finished product, not using pencil just to sketch in lines for a final ink or color piece, but really shading. I also started working from photographs to try to get my faces a touch more realistic. (This one was not from a photograph, but you can sort of see that she's starting to look more real than my older pieces.)



Resla (from Kadanzer) was and is still eating my brain. A lot of sketchy rough illustrations of her have gradually improved my grasp of anatomy. I think this was from a photo, though grossly changed from the reference. The model was pretty, for example, and I think the shot showed only the shoulders up and was about an inch in size.



I wrote a lot this year. (In part because writing is something I could do at work, unlike art.) I started delving into my Torn World plots, and really expanding the whole snow-unicorn storyline. This is Kativa, pain in my muse. I never wanted her to take a front role, she was just a background character. Pff... she's got more stories written for her than anyone else, I think, though Birka will start to get more of a face once I get off my butt and finish up a few things.



OMG - color! Returning to my deep love of prismacolors.



And an illustration for Mushrooms, which can be found on my site, if you promise not to laugh. Okay, okay, you can laugh...

Comments

[carmensylph.livejournal.com]

You have such a great style, Ellen! I really enjoy looking at your art through time. :) It's the FAE personal progress on LJ, yay!!

[valdary.livejournal.com]

I've posted you a signed EMG page ready for when I want to upload that calendar piece, just kicking myself I didn't include it with my PA paperwork. Anyway winging its way, I definately have more ideas for that one than I have time but I should be submitting at least one piece.

[pixiewildflower.livejournal.com]

Super pictures!