Project Element, Part IV

Wind - coloured pencil, pencil, and ink

Howcome I always have to update at night? Might be because of the inspirations I get only during the hours I'm supposed to sleep. Here we have it, the last peace of the Project Element; wind. I just hate skanners but I'm visiting my parents and they do not seem to have a proper camera to bring out the colours in this one. It might have also something to do with my very bad skills with cameras. The hair is quite big but I'm growing rather fond of it. Besides, who says elementals should look natural.

Project Element, Part III

It's almost 2 AM, but I had to write a new entry. I just finished the third element. I must say that my friend was my inspiration when I colored this piece. He suggested that I should do a sunset in the background, so I did my own version of it. I actually had to use an orange crayon, because I didn't have an orange coloured  pencil. I wanted to make this picture look peaceful but still powerful and I hope I have achieved it. Not the most common view of fire, eh?

Fire - coloured pencil, ink, and crayon

Sketching fire

What-ho! I started to draw the third part of my project element: fire. A little sneak peak for you guys. I'm not quite sure yet how to colour this, but I'll think of something.

Sketching, sketching...

Project Elment, Part II

Earth - coloured pencil and ink

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new element: earth. With the first element I used only different shades of blue but now I decided to add a bit of brown to the greens. Unfortunately you can't very well see the brown I added to the eyes of the character because that's the thing I'm most proud of in this picture. I tend to scan my works and play with the contrast, so it would bring up the colours more. Unfortunately it's never perfect. Perhaps I should learn to edit my pictures with a computer.

Project Element

Some time ago I started a new drawing project, and yes, I do have projects like these quite a lot. My project is to draw the four basic elements of the western culture: water, earth, wind, and fire. Here's the first one of the elements: water. It is my first drawing with coloured pencils, so I'm quite happy about the way it turned out.

Please do not copy my pictures.

Water - coloured pencil and ink