And /Another/.

This was my final paint for DGT class. Did it in about 3 hours with some tweaking.
(Hahaha, perspective? What perspective?). Real paint is 8x10, 300dpi.

This I did last night. I don't know where it came from. I really don't. I think I've been looking at Oliver's stuff too often.

On a side note that squiggly thing in the corner I have dubbed my new signature. It's C.W. if you look hard enough. It's easier than PSing a mark into it, and I think it's cool it's a snail (grin, grin).

Im in ur tubes, updatin' the blogz.

Or just mine, whichever.
These are a collection (really, the only halfway decent) of sketches from the past Sketch Jam avec Graves and Co. (aka You guys don't live here?). Much fun and celebration, some booze, got home at midnight, was up until 4, slept until 2pm.
Sounds like a good start to the holidays, don't you think?

Top right and bottom left are people sketches, top left and bottom right are imagination territory.

Also woke up with Song of Solomon 8:6 in my head. It might be a sign, but a sign of what?

A house with a scanner is a beautiful, beautiful thing.

My goodness, another update, so fast? (Hardy har)
More marker doodles, this time without the under building, nor the shading.
First!
Doodles of a girl that I had to force myself out of half sleep to scribble down.



Doodles of El Reznor, moping.


And on the left, a woman named Betty Coltrane (tell me one of her consorts, and you'll get a cookie) and on the right a whiny, magenta, anime goth girl.


That's all!
The marker fumes either help or hinder me, but it's fun to doodle something and it already looks kinda finished.

Now for a REAL Update.

First, the Royal Winter Fair!





Some continuations on Lorenzo and Isabella!





(my favorite/ their Christmas photo)

And finally, a drawing where I tried markers, and a sketch smear of a character for animation (Either myself or Thalia, or both).

Updating

Really need to get ahold of a scanner or camera (or a power cord to the scanner in the living room) so I can post some sketches I've done over the past few months. Really, the only thing I've done digitally is this:


(This is Isabella, she normally wears skirts, but after listening to too much Daft Punk, this fell out. After all, with a re-animated head for a boyfriend, it helps to boogie down once in a while).

Done on MS Paint (!), and PS 7. Time: About 20 minutes.
I like her curves and her tiny hands and feet.

Doodle

Was thinking of this while getting groceries last night avec Oliver and Dino, and threw it down.
Kinda cool, walking through a field in the dark, and knowing it's Toronto.

Empty Planet

For digital, the end of the world in Toronto.

Life Drawings!

Omg!It only took a year, but I'm finally posting life drawings! These are a few I liked from the past three weeks. I need to go more often, and I need to pay my desk fee, seeing as I've been 'banned' from LD, which I'll have to guess how they'll enforce. But I'll pay the fee tomorrow, all $20 of it. All art Copyright Catherine Wideman 2008

Jekyll to Hyde Transformation, and WIPs

With a whole load of WIPs and some finished. Well, one.


^^^ Came from Thea speaking about an Alexander McQueen show where a model wore antlers. After seeing the video, the model got away with wearing them in a different manner than I expected, but this was what came to mind first on the idea.



^^^ This came from thinking about high heels too much, and the sort of aura of femininity and ferocity that comes from them. Or they just look nice, whichever.


^^^ This was inspired by Kate Beaton's short comics (which I find brilliant), and a short series from them where she spoke to her 9 year old self. The above is exactly what I looked like when I was 9, wonky hair and all. Not as funny as I thought it would be, but I'll put it up for posterity. And Laura Ingalls books still kick ass. Little House in the Big Woods, woo hoo!

^^^ The above was a scene from the story involving the man on the right (and is involved with the following image). The anatomy on the figure on the left is terrible. On the right I'm happy with.

And Finally:
WARNING DISTURBING IMAGERY IN FOLLOWING FULL VIEW: GORE, EXTREME SITUATIONS. RATING: OVER 16

Jekyll to Hyde Transformation 2008

Ah, and this piece.
This is the 10 pose Jekyll and Hyde that I'm rather proud of. Theodore Jekyll has a very bad situation go worse. No, he doesn't transform into the monster, his twisted shell of a body just took up too much space, so it hs been forgone for composition's sake.

Any comments and questions about anything? Comment, and I'll answer!

WIPs

Might as well post these, since I haven't in a while.
1. Orientation for the ex, today, and tomorrow.
2. Leave for a flight, tomorrow, as well.

Was going to post another, but blogger wants to change the colours in it drastically. Like, blue to red, here.

Nudity!

Omg R-rated painting!

Like this, mostly because I put more work into it, as well as the posing. This was essentially what I wanted that 2-week painting in Digital Tools to look like, to a degree.
I like her hips and the clothing and the ropes. Her face could use more work, but I like how her nose turned out. Maybe I should work more in the background; the past paintings have straight blue, green, or red, nothing varied.
Eh, for the next painting, then.

Because I am my own fangirl.

Hush, you knew this was coming in some form or another.
Basically, these are submissions for a DeviantArt contest, using my crappy slap together painting style. I like it, I know I could go further with it (ala More detail, bright colours, some form of graphic design employed) but I choose to half-ass it. And I might just start working on other paintings. This is getting catchy~



Theodore, with summary.



Claire, with summary. I FINALLY got her to look right, not some weird variation of a 12 year old girl with huge eyes.
Well, okay, not as much, then. :\

ANGST. Angsty angst angst.

A little more painting. Basically, this was an idea I had when I was 16, and went through with it in my usual 'Show full body everyone', and pencil crayons.
This, I think, looks a little better (richer, mabye?).
Yes, I couldn't think of anyone else to draw except these guys, and the idea suits them kinda well. :P
I have nothing against the Church, I'm just toying with pictures and ideas, here, really.

Went there over again.

Well it's true. Those plums were mine. You could have asked me, and I'd have said yes, but you just took them. Don't say that, it's the principle of asking! Come back here! You owe me plums!

The Fam.

Yep, this is the family, by request of the one in orange, there.
Please ignore the blatant perspective and anatomy errors, I'll fix them tomorrow.
For those who don't know:
Me, Jake, Mum, Dad, Jo. All generally to scale, in clothing I usually recall said people in. Our noses aren't always circles or triangles :o)

Went there again, because I forgot something.

Oh, I went there.

I totally went there. This is what I have come down to. There's little to do while job searching except more job searching, so I've come down to this. I trust it'll only last as long as my unemployment does.


The above is part of an art trade with a friend of mine from Oakville; this is Elegy (Elly) from an RP entitled 'Hiccups'. She drew Theodore for me~ Frankly this is the first major finished work I've done in a month and a half.



This is spawned from finishing the above, and still wanting to draw. Pestered another friend of mine on MSN to tell me what to draw, and this was suggested. Ignore the lack of perspective, and my total loss as to what Front Street looks like.

Ra-Ra-Rasputin, Lover of the Russian Queen.

Well! It seems a miracle has occurred, and the connection 'I' used to have is working again, so I'll just upload what I can before I'm back to 1Mbps only near windows.

All from May 16th onward:

TTC

TTC

TTC

Imagination in Tottenham, ON

Borrowed Anastasia from Jo, who has special edition (!!) with Don Bluth teaching the kiddies how to draw the characters. Anastasia and Dimitri, frankly, came across as boring, and I had much fun drawing Rasputin, as above-

And Bartok, flipping out in his way.

A Theodore, just to show he's still kicking about my mind, looking as however he does.

And a Theodore as he would look if he ate enough, dressed properly, got enough sleep, and generally felt much better than he does, now.