Artist of the Week - 1 New stuff!!!

Hey everyone!!! I was hoping to post up a little example of using different pencil types to create different effects today, but unfortunately a very kind and slightly absent minded girl (you know who you are!!) was looking after my sketches and pencils, she took this a little too far though, actually 30+ miles away from me too far!!! So now I'm gonna have to wait till Monday to post them up

However I am going to take this opportunity to make a little announcement!! Since my blog is all about encouraging artwork in up and coming artists, recognising talent and sharing our skills I have decided to introduce a little feature called: 'Artist of the Week' this feature is dedicated to displaying new people's work and ideas from all over the place. To this end I posted up a couple of requests on some forums and got some fantastic responses, one of which I'm happy to introduce to you today!! This is an open invitation for everybody to leave as much comments as they would like to about any of my posts, feel free to leave constructive criticism, and also if you would like to get involved by featuring your artwork on my blog just get in touch through my comments or my deviant art page (a fantastic website in itself!!!): http://theantidoctor.deviantart.com/

I am really excited about the range of fantastic artists that we will get to have a look at through the coming weeks. So without further ado I will hand you over to the best person to introduce you to her artwork, herself:

Introduction

Hi, my online name is Aareyn and I am going to tell you a little bit about my artwork and some of the techniques and inspiration and equipment I use to create it.

Inspiration

A big part of my inspiration comes from movies I watch or music I'll listen to while I draw. But when it seems I can't even get inspiration from these things I often turn to some of my favourite artist's work to boost my morale.

Techniques/Equipment

I always use a 0.7 mechanical pencil when I draw and I always find it handy to have a kneaded eraser by my side, but when I do digital work I like to use photoshop mainly to touch up my drawings.

Well my technique is unorthodox to say the least, half the time I don't even know what I am going to draw until I actually start sketching out a light figure. It's kind of like dropping a bunch of building blocks into a pile, I don't really know where they are going to fall. I really don't recommend this as I find it easier to draw when I do have a general outline before I start drawing.

Examples of Work

1. What I like a lot about this drawing is the facial expression, it came out exactly as I planned it to be, and as an artist you know most things never work as planned!







2. I always found armour to be one of my weaknesses but sometimes I surprise myself, and i do it correctly!






3. I like the idea of this picture more than the actual drawing itself. Even though she enjoys dressing as a bit of a tomboy she is forced to play the role of a girly girl.

Thanks for checking out my artwork, I hoped you liked it! :)


For more info and more fantastic artwork of Aareyn's please check out her deviant art gallery and personal page!!! The link is: http://aareyn.deviantart.com/gallery/

My Personal Comments
One of the first things that caught my eye about Aareyn's art is her very high level of draughtsmanship with a pencil. This ties in nicely with the themes around this weeks tutorial. Another thing that I like about her drawings is the way that she often leaves construction lines in her sketches which allows the person viewing the picture to almost follow her thought process. I think that a lot of beginners/intermediate artists often get hung up on constantly making sure their sketches look perfect, but of course this is often very difficult, time consuming and can often be demoralising! If you do a 'bad' sketch/drawing then try and continue with it and use it as a learning experience, rather than another addition to the waste paper basket!!