Life drawing 11-11-14

First pose

2nd pose

As the light changed, I painted over the picture, the light got a lot more dramatic in the evening, with the glow of the heater showing up more.

Life drawing 14-10-14

Poecilotheria metallica

My P. metallica spiderling eating a cricket!

This ornamental tree spider comes from the forests of India where it hunts flying insects by grabbing them out of the sky. A rare gem in the hobby, this species is critically endangered due to logging on the single forest it resides in, thankfully it readily breeds in captivity.

Life Drawing 7/10/14

Chocobo Sculpture!

Acanthogonatus pissi!

A new addition to my collection: Acanthogonatus pissi, or Chilean Zebra. It's a beautiful gold spider that makes lots of webs, here's a picture of mine!

Meet my new friend!

Came in the post the other day, a Salmon Pink Birdeater Spider! This species is the 3rd largest spider in the world, with a legspan that reaches 11 inches, so this guy has a lot of growing to do!

Here's an adult one:

Commission - Vesprae

A custom sculpt for a client, made with polymer clay and painted with acrylic paints.

New Blog for a project

Check out my new blog for a self assigned project of mine at: https://pokealphabet.blogspot.com!

Finished Rengar Sculpture

Finally got my epoxy glue so I could finish him!

Painting almost finished!

Just waiting for some apoxie glue to arrive in the post before I can continue!

Rengar Sculpture finished

Next I need to paint it!

Life Drawing Megapost!

I haven't uploaded my life drawing for a while, so I thought I'd post it all right now.

I was trying to loosen up and settle on a style, so I've been testing various methods of digital painting.

I used large brushstrokes loosely here.

Cooled the background down to push it back, maybe a bit too cool!

I always seem to do better with backs and laying poses.

My favorite part is probably the cloth, with the light shining through it.

Trying a slightly different style with bolder lines and colours.

I switched to Paint Tool Sai from Photoshop and find it much nicer to paint with!

Sculpey Rengar WIP

WIP of a model I'm making!

Spider Etchings

I've been doing some copper plate etching recently, my subject this time being spiders!

Jumping Spider

Jumping Spider close-up

Hanging House Spider

Close up

Some more life drawing

The past few weeks of life drawing:

Black and white Conte Crayon on brown paper.

Black, sanguine and white Conte on grey paper.

Digital work, trying to loosen up more.

Faux fossils for sale

Some wood engraving prints that I've collaged onto quartz pebbles, I've made an edition of 20 of each type. Selling them on my etsy!

Sculpey models

Some of my recent models.

Enjoy!