So I was pursuing my gallery as an artist on an ego(-killing) trip is wont to do, when I realized something. OH MY GOSH, MY STUFF IS SORT OF SUPER DUPER SHODDY YOU GUYS! Oh noes.
SOOOOooo I’m going to be revamping most of my pictures. (because they suck could do with a face lift) Don’t be alarmed if most of the pictures in my gallery up and disappear. It’s only temporary. Unless I’m in a terrible disaster, and can’t re-upload anything because I’ve lost both my arms.
Ok, and now to the good part that should make you all look like this:
because I am such a totally awesome person. That’s right, I’m fantastic.
That being said, I’m offering 4 Free Sketch requests. to prep. up my sub parTOTALLY AMAZING ARTZ SKILLZ before undertaking my summer commissions.
I’m warning you though, the quality of these super-duper-free-and-awesome sketches is all random, so it’s gonna be a caliber gamble.
You might get something extra awesome (don’t count on it because I suck ROCK) or you might not.
I’ll accept any request so long as it wouldn’t need a mature filter on DA, and doesn’t involve more than one character. You can still request more than one character actually, but your chances of getting a more detailed picture decreases significantly. Don’t want a character? Have a deep yearning for a pastoral scene or maybe two cacti duking it out? I’m down with anything. Visual examples increase your chance of a more detailed picture FYI.
If you wanna make this an art trade I would love that, but it’s not mandatory.
First 4 deviants to comment get in.
Also check out: [link] Make a little dude or dudette and fight me. It’s fun!
Oh hey. The emotes stay too. Cool.
On the bright side, me realizing what’s wrong with my images means I’m improving right? RIGHT? DON’T TELL ME IT’S BECAUSE I’M A LOST CAUSE OF AN ARTIST! MY WEAK HEART COULDN’T TAKE IT!
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Here are some examples of the last time I did a free sketch giveaway. Don’t judge me ok! These are from 2006, which was ages ago.
Everyone likes journal polls right? I mean I sure do. So because I love all of the following terms, I thought I’d incorporate one of them in a drawing. I’d do all of them but I don’t have the time. So dear reader please pick one of the following words, and I’ll sketch a character with whatever design element you choose. This should be fun.
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Time to learn some new words. All the following are design related words and are pretty good to know for internet searches if you like this sort of imagery. There are some great images out there, and I find browsing through them pretty inspiring sometimes.
Damask (Arabic: دمسق) is a figured fabric of silk, wool, linen, cotton, or synthetic fibers, with a pattern formed by weaving. Made with one warp and one weft in which, generally, warp-satin and weft sateen weaves interchange. Twill or other binding weaves may sometimes be introduced[citation needed]. The term originally referred to ornamental silk fabrics, which were elaborately woven in colours, sometimes with the addition of gold and other metallic threads. Damask weaves are commonly produced today in silk, linen or linen-type fabrics which feature woven patterns featuring flowers, fruit, forms of animal life, and other types of ornament.
Damask was first produced in China, India, Persia, and Syria, then the Byzantine Empire followed. In the West, it was first known as diaspron or diaper, the term used in Constantinople. In the 12th century however, the city of Damascus, famous for its textiles, so far outstripped all other places for beauty of design that it gave the cloth its modern name.
I never knew the word for this type of pattern, but think it’s great to know. Resource wise, I now have a key word to search for when I want to incorporate damask patterns in the fabric I’m drawing. I also think this stuff would make for great textures. The thing about damask is that it is often so pretty. It makes for more visually interesting fabric which I quite like in a room.
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The next word is much more common knowledge, but is : ‘Filigree‘
Filigree (formerly written filigrann or filigrane; also known as telkari, the name given in Anatolia, meaning “wire work”, and cift-isi, pronounced chift-ishi, meaning “tweezers work”) is a jewel work of a delicate kind made with twisted threads usually of gold and silver or stitching of the same curvy motif. It often suggests lace, and is most popular in French fashion decoration from 1660 to the present. It is now exceedingly common for ajoure jewellery work to be mislabelled as filigree. While both have many open areas, filigree involves threads being soldered together to form an object and ajoure involves holes being punched, drilled, or cut through an existing piece of metal.
The word, which is usually derived from the Latin filum, thread, and granum, grain, is not found in Ducange, and is indeed of modern origin. According to Prof. Skeat it is derived from the Spanish filigrana, from “filar”, to spin, and grano, the grain or principal fibre of the material.
While the word is derived from the metal work, it is very commonly used when referencing those gorgeous, spirally, ornate organic curves you often see used in graphic design nowadays. I’m a big fan of the stuff.
Cloisonné, an ancient metalworking technique, is a multi-step enamel process used to produce jewelry, vases, and other decorative items. (The resulting objects can also be called cloisonné.)
Cloisonné first developed in the Near East. It spread to the Byzantine Empire and from there along the Silk Road to China. Chinese cloisonné is arguably the most well known of all the varieties of cloisonne and enamel making. Russian cloisonné from the Tsarist era is also highly prized by collectors. Chinese cloisonné is sometimes confused with Canton enamel, a similar type of enamel work that is painted on freehand and does not utilize partitions to hold the colors separate.
Ever since I was a little girl my Dad’s been teaching me about antiques. Cloisonné was probably the first decorative metal term I remember learning. Whenever I hear this word I think of my old man and the little trinkets he would get me.
Resembling a large comma or twisted teardrop, the kidney-shaped paisley is Indian and Persian in origin, but its western name derives from the town of Paisley, in central Scotland.[citation needed]
Some design scholars call the distinct shape boteh and believe it is the convergence of a stylized floral spray and a cypress tree: a Zoroastrian symbol of life and eternity.[citation needed] A floral motif called buta, which originated in the Safavid Dynasty of Persia (from 1501 to 1736), was a major textile pattern in Iran also during the Qajar Dynasty. In these periods, the pattern was used to decorate royal regalia, crowns, and court garments, as well as textiles used by the general population.
The pattern is still popular in Iran and South and Central Asian countries. It is woven using gold or silver threads on silk or other high quality textiles for gifts, for weddings and special occasions. In Iran and Uzbekistan its use goes beyond clothing – paintings, jewelry, frescoes, curtains, tablecloths, quilts, carpets, garden landscaping, and pottery also sport the buta design. In Uzbekistan the most frequent item that can be found featuring the design is the traditional headdress doppi.[citation needed]
The modern French words for paisley are boteh and palme, the latter being a reference to the palm tree, which, along with the pine and the cypress, is one of the traditional botanical motifs thought to have influenced the shape of the paisley element as we now know it.[4][not in citation given]
In Pakistan, pais
ley designs are widely termed the carrey design. Carrey in Urdu means mango seed.[citation needed]
One last theory on the shape consistent with the time frame of its origin is that the design is a representation of the leech (Hirudinea): the Paisley design often incorporates pregnant Glossiphoniidae leeches, and a body cavity containing baby Glossiphoniidae leeches.
You see these guys on lots of bandannas and men’s ties. I was actually quite late to learn this word. I had always thought it was some sort of vegetable, but now i think i was mixing it up with parsley. I figured out what a paisley was when I was first doing research on henna designs.
Brocade, the name usually given to a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in coloured silks and with or without gold and silver threads. Ornamental features in brocade are emphasized and wrought
as additions to the main fabric, sometimes stiffening it, though more frequently producing on its face the effect of low relief. These additions present a distinctive appearance on the back of the stuff where the weft or floating threads of the brocaded or broached parts hang in loose groups or are clipped away.
This word sounds rather pretty I think and I’ve always liked it… not that that stopped me from thinking it meant something else entirely. A few years ago I had thought the word meant a type of jewelery I think. A broach maybe, I can’t remember, it was so long ago.
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Also check out this GORGEOUS Kyo-Satsuma Ceramic Tea Bowl (Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum) from: http://www.khulsey.com/travel/japan_cloisonne.html. It’s just so beautiful! I want to own it so badly hahaha.
So, like any responsible artist person-who-draws-stuff-sometimes, I like to do visual research. I also like to bookmark rather fantastic image galleries.
In an effort to clean up my bookmarks I’m going to post the links here.
2Mostly for my benefit again, but this could be helpful to someone else too.
These are tutorials that look promising in some way that I haven’t read yet.
I’l be updating this when i finally decide to clean out my bookmarks. Resources and Tutorials
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Oh noes.
because I am such a totally awesome person.
That’s right, I’m fantastic.
The next post will have new pictures I promise.
