Sketches & World of warcraft commission
Pencil sketches of a Dreaming Tree, Galadriel from Lord of the Rings, A window to another world, and a commission of a World of Warcraft Nightelf and her MistSaber
Memory from Memory’s Wake
This is not a fully rendered digital painting, more an expanded sketch. I did the original piece within an hour, earlier this month as a part of sketchfest, then spent another 1/2 – 1 hour refining it so I could enter it in a competition at http://memoryswake.com/fan-art/. I rarely do fan art, though I do enjoy the occasional foray into the territory.
Sketchfest January 2012
Sketchfest January 2012. The pencil sketches are available for sale from the Sketchfest site, with most being under $30 including shipping. Sketches include Fairies, centaurs, fantasy landscapes, and characters from Selina Fenech’s novel Memory’s wake (which is a fantastic read).
Women in IT and computing – a female geek’s perspective
Some of you may know that I work in the IT (Information Technology) industry in my day job (computing/ programming) and that I’m fairly passionate about women studies. That being said, people would probably box me in the ‘nerd’ or ‘girl geek’ category easily – and that truly doesn’t bother me. I’m happy to wear that badge of honour. I’m a computer programmer, I paint fantasy and sci-fi imagery, I love the whole genre in fact (read, watch and play), I’m involved in medieval recreation, I game (though rather badly) and I even wrote an animation assignment at uni on Anime (back in 1997, way before Anime became the ‘in’ thing).
Anyway, it got me to thinking about ‘girl geeks’, in particular women in IT, and why we seem to be rare (and often at odds with the stereotypes). It also got me thinking about how I ended up in a male dominated industry which hasn’t really changed in numbers, in fact I think I see less girls coming into IT these days than when I was just beginning my career.
2011 in review – art across the year
A summary of the last 12 months through artworks and sketches. There are elf boys, angels, demons, knights, barbarians and pinups. This has been taken from my Deviant Art Meme so all the links point to my gallery over there, however pretty much all of the artworks are available on my site in the galleries and blog posts.
Ruchira & Ipsita commission process
I recently published a commission piece to my galleries called Ipsita & Ruchira. I thought I’d share a little bit of the behind the scenes that goes into a commission. The client contacted me and gave me a very detailed description of her characters, how they looked, thoughts on the background, and then let me ...
Sketchfest December 2011
As per usual, I made it to Sketchfest and this time got a number done. My computer seems ok to work in photoshop, but I can’t run my second monitor for long periods of time like I normally do, so only one digital painting. (I watch a lot of catch-up tv on the laptop when sketching, ...
The Lucet
A lucet is a two pronged tool used for making a square braid that is springy. I’ve seen various reports on when they were used, but most seem to agree that they were used during the Elizabethan period, and the versions with the slightly turned out prongs are considered to be Victorian. There’s also evidence ...
Medieval Sphinx – playing with gouache
This is a really quick and dirty painting , playing with some cheap gouache and watercolour paper I hate . I’ve only ever done little bits with gouache as I tend to play with watercolours or acrylics so this felt a little weird. A friend lent me a book on illuminations, it’s glorious http://www.amazon.com/Illuminating-Renaissance-Triumph-Manuscript-Painting/dp/0892367032 I took a ...
Sketchfest November 2011
Sketchfest, November 2011. My computer’s playing up a bit at the moment, so did more pencil sketches than digital sketches. Trying to figure out whether I get a new laptop, or try to build a new computer. Both are expensive for what I want, but I fear the constant overheating is eventually going to make ...
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