This is Barquiel. He’s a character in Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Legacy books. He’s a snarky bastard. I’m not sure blue is really his color, but the magic of ~digital coloring~ is that I can always go back, I guess. Stupid Courcel Blue.
Sidonie from Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel Series.
Ehh, I got bored tonight and wanted to experiment with coloring again. I can never quite pick the colors I want.
Yeah, not funny.
It’s a bird! I drew it for Emma. I didn’t want anyone else to have any sort of copy of the original, hence the text.
Just a doodle I sent to one of my frenchies for her birthday. Hopefully she won’t mind me posting her cartooned face up here..
My thesis novel writing starts tomorrow, to kick off NaNoWriMo. These are 3 out of 4 of my main characters.
A worldly heir of nobility/fortune with secrets to keep & graces to maintain.
A young lady, tempted by power, who must choose between practicality and risk.
A student, full of potential, who tries to find the proper outlet for his intensities.
Not included – A displaced (& disgraced) courtier sent away to re-establish himself and learn a bit of humility. [He is not pictured because I'm combining two previously pictured character designs to make him - am getting rid of the knight from a few posts down below]
It’s time for some old pieces from one of my seventy three neglected moleskine notebooks.
Anand. From like, aaaages ago when I made him pose for me while everyone was at the diner.
Umm, we’ll see who he is. He’s based on a man I merely glimpsed at while I was in Brighton a few months ago. He was standing outside a bookstore looking perfectly happy and content with life. Then I drew him and it was nice. Then I inked the pencil sketch and he ended up looking a lot more dangerous than I intended him to look. Oh my!
not to be confused with gary oldman, obviously
This is a sketch of an old man I saw on the bus in Grenoble in late May/early June. It’s more accurate than is really polite (he really was wearing slippers and had mutant-caterpillar-Martin Scorsese eyebrows). He was too incredible looking not to draw.
Don’t even ask.
Click for bigger, and I warn you now: it’s huge. This is for the Press, obviously. Header done in Illustrator, linework in Photoshop, coloring with Painter. 124% accuracy.
Umm and for the hell of it I’ll throw these guys in here (Mavros and Imriel from the book Kushiel’s Scion):
(Click it for the bigger version)
“The blood beat in my ears, with a sound like bronze wings clashing. A red haze veiled my vision. Kushiel’s face swam before my eyes, cruel and compassionate.” – Kushiel’s Avatar
Ooh, a proper colored version. It’s part of an illustration I sent a friend depicting a confrontation scene in the book Kushiel’s Chosen. Originally it was just colored normally, but the rest of the panels looked sort of bland. I decided that, since the books are from Phèdre’s perspective, and she was about to watch an absolutely scene-stopping fight take place, it would only be fitting to have the scene painted with the signature color that clouds her vision any time she is asked to enforce the will of Kushiel, the punishing angel. If that made no sense to you since you don’t know the books…well, I hope you enjoy the picture anyway.
I don’t know if I’d consider this completed, but it’s not a work in progress, either. Just some fooling around, playing with skin tones. This is my friend Greg. I make him look a little Asian, but he’s convinced people that he’s half Asian, so I think it’s ok. This is a picture we took when we were putzing around Brighton Beach in England a few months ago. We live glamorous, jet-setting lives, you see.