Vistlip - Sindra

The dark side of humans... and it looks like Cthulhu?

Number five of Project Inspiration is here! Forgive me for taking this long but I had some serious issues with this picture. Oh dear that sounded harsh... "serious issues"... My point is that this song reminded me, for some reason, of an anime called Dead Note. I did not wan't to draw a picture of the characters of the series, so I really had to listen to this song over and over again. I actually already drew a picture to this song but before I could put any ink on it, I decided to draw it all over again. Now I'm not sure what to think about this picture. The dark side of the girl looks like a mixture between a heartless (from Kingdom Hearts) and Cthulhu (for more information, read H. P. Lovecraft's books). Perhaps I will never have anything but mixed feelings of this picture. Nevertheless, I am quite proud of the amount of colours I have used in this picture. I have never been good with using colours but I'm slowly getting there.

In this picture I used ink, coloured pencils, and crayons. I have decided to buy more crayons because I don't have to keep sharpening them all the time. I have also used my black ink faster than I've expected, so I really have some shopping to do.

My source of inspiration.

Five down, five to go. What shall I draw next?

Tori Amos - Winter

A Creature of  Winter, presumably an elf.

Oh, what a little cliché this picture number four of Project Inspiration is. Anyhow, I decided to draw a cliché picture because Winter, as a song, brought this image to me. I have actually wanted to make a cosplay like this for ages.

I used ink and coloured pencil in this picture. The trees are made with ink and a new thing for me in this picture was that I used more than just black when drawing the outlines of the trees. As you can see, the farthest trees are made by using a light grey where as the tree in the front is made with black.

I hope someone else will be inspired by this song aswell.

What to draw next, you decide. Please, comment your recommendations.

Ladytron - Predict the Day

Machine Spirit, as it was named by my boyfriend.

I find this a very good project for one gets to know more and more splendid songs. The moment I heard Predict the Day I thought of something very machine like, an android, a cyborg, something like that. And before any of you burst in with a commentary of the differences between androids and cyborgs, yes, I do know the difference. However, I ended up sketching a woman attached to something and started to think of cords, lots and lots of cords. I tried to draw hair to this lovely lass but I wasn't happy with any of the hairstyles I came up with, so I decided not to draw hair at all. Same happened with the eye brows. I am actually quite happy with the result, since I have never drawn a cyborg before. I remembered some of my friends' drawings of cyborgs and they were the other one of my main sources of inspiration.

I used both ink and coloured pencil in this picture. The woman is completely made with ink but the cords are coloured with coloured pencils, as is the very light shade of blue in the background. One can't even see it. Oh well... This time I can't even blame it on the scanner for I took a picture of this with my camera. Oh, and my boyfriend invented a name for the drawing: Machine Spirit. This might have something to do with Battlestar Galactica, which we have been watching for quite a while.

Here you can find the song behind the picture.

So many songs, only seven more pictures to go. Please, feel free to comment and suggest more songs for me to draw. Remember to be quick for I shall draw the first song commented in the newes post of this project.

砂月-Satsuki- - In a Lucid Dream

Light as a feather.

Project Inspiration continues with a song called In a Lucid Dream. Quite a simplistic picture I would say. When I listened to the song I instantly thought of a red ribbon and I came up with a concept of a girl with a ribbon. I could have drawn something very complex because in a dream, especially a lucid dream everything is possible. However, I decided to do something more simplistic because the song, to me, seems quite serene and simplistic. It doesn't need any fancy things to be beautiful, nor does my picture. A new thing in this picture is that I sketched it with a pencil but the finished work is all made with ink. Perhaps I should start to use ink more because my coloured pencils are getting very short. Or then I could just nuy new ones. Oh well...

My source of inspiration, if you wish to listen to it.

Please, leave a comment on what I should draw next.

G-Dragon - 결국

"Falling without you..."

The first picture of Project Inspiration is here! First of all, the mirror through which the girl is falling is supposed to be very light purple, not almost white. We can thank, yet again, the almighty scanner for that. And yes, I must buy another black pencil. I so dislike colouring big surfaces with black because then one sees every little white spot when one scans the picture. Oh well, I couldn't help myself. Besides, I can always blame the inspiration I got from this song.

You can listen to the song in here.

So, which song should I draw next?

The Stage Is Yours

As I leave today back to the town I study in I, unfortunately, can't continue Project Remake for quite a long time because all my old drawings stay here at my parents' house. However, I shall start up a new, short, project (Perhaps I should finish my other ones some day...), in which I need your assistance. This project is a ten-picture-project and its main idea is that I try to draw something from a song. I'd like you to write a comment and suggest a song that I could be inspired by. I will draw the first song suggested in this post and when the picture is ready, I will post it here, and the first song suggested in the comments for that picture will be my next source of inspiration, etc. So please, the stage is yours, what song would you like me to draw?

I guess this project needs a name too. I shall name it Project Inspiration because music really does inspire me.

Project Remake - Jedi

Happy New Year everybody! Project Remake continues with a remake of a picture of a jedi. Or at least a padawan, she still has a braid. Those of you who do not know what a jedi is should watch the Star Wars movies for more information. In 2005 I had a huge jedi phase in my life, thanks to the movie Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith that appeared that same year. I had a lot more pictures of jedi but this one is my ultimate favourite because even now I think it is a good picture, even though it has been seven years since I drew it. I say seven, because it's only the beginning of the year 2013 and I'm sure I didn't draw this in January.

When I re-drew this picture I wasn't sure I would be able to draw a better one. My skills as drawer have improved but I was so proud of the picture that I thought that if I could not draw a better version of it, I might as well give up. I decided to create the outfit of hers again and I had to google Obi-Wan Kenobi in order to see, what kind of robes did he wear again. It wouldn't have felt right to draw a robe that was not 'jedi' enough so I copied quite a lot from Obi-Wan's robe. Oh well...


In the original picture I used only pencil and in the new one I used both pencil and ink. I'm quite proud of her hair in the picture, especially because there are two, no, three sources of light. Also the tree's took their time to look nice but I did it. I guess I'm never going to learn to avoid little details. One thing I'm not happy about is the lightsabre. It looks way better in the older picture but try to make it look as epic with ink... Well, nobody's perfect.

...and after.

Before...