New Update: Lioness.

I've been telling myself for a while that I could do with having an acrylic piece on the site, not to mention, you know, actually using my acrylic tubes and brushes. I admit the folly of that decision now...they're just so odd.

Well, okay, they're not that odd- they're just not my cup of coffee.

I would say tea but I don't drink tea. You mean you're English and you don't drink tea?! No, no I don't. Back to the piece- I just get so confused about acrylics and how to use them.
It's probably (painfully) obvious that I changed the style of this piece a good few times from the first brush stroke to the last... (read more)

New Update: Vigilance.

Ever since I saw some of the absolutely delicious art in various graphic novels revolving around the stories and characters of Batman- this is something I've always wanted to do! Admittedly, I don't do it half as well as some of those artists but it's a start.

Before such a thing could be possible I would have to remove the fear of working with a brush and ink. I usually use lining pens but recently I picked up some drawing ink.

I was rather hoping to use it to create ink works/ink wash techniques but it turns out that you can only dilute it with distilled water... (read more)

New Update: Alice v2.

Now, I know what you're thinking, "Moggie, why don't you leave your art alone?"- I will when I'm happy with it. I wasn't happy at all with the original request for my friend so I redone it, rather oddly in coloured pencil.

Oddly for this is the first piece of coloured pencil work that made its way onto my site.

I've nothing against coloured pencils I just have very little experience with them and have very little understanding of how they work. Or how you use them.
Or anything beyond "Woah, these Polychromos are fancy!" So, yeah, I decided that I could try redoing this fine feline in... (read more)