Christine’s Journal

Banshee concept, just a quick colour study in Painter. I want to do more reference on this yet, so I’ll save the description till later.

Banshee colour concept

An asrai is a type of water fairy from around Shropshire. They are very small and are female in appearance. Apparently they live for hundreds of years, but if sunlight touches them they dissolve into pools of water. They have long green hair and webbed feet and hands.

Quick concepts, no reference used yet, I’ll have to decide what they are going to wear at least.

type of water fairy from shropshire

I’ve decided to have a bash at doing an alphabet themed project on fairies (what else…) and magical creatures. I was going to do one on animals, but I could not think of an animal that begins with Q or X. I think it will be good fun and I’m going to attempt drawing things that I have not drawn before such as ogres and troll wives.

Not sure how long it will take, but I still have a bit of research to do on a few of the obscurer fairies I’ve chosen to illustrate.

I’ll be posting sketches of my progress.

red head fay bigger version

This is a fairy I painted tonight as practice/ therapy etc…

Funny Faces of Mermaid thingys

Don’t know where these come from really, just listening to my music and channeling some random faces as usual. I was reading about the mythology and origin of Norse elves (Alfar) last night so I think it might have something to do with that. The book always sends me straight to sleep though.

Tired ramblings:

random thoughts

And an study of an Aztec blood letting ritual: Please don’t try this at home kids, its not clever.

Aztec Ritual Threading

Incidentally…I saw the sculpture/relief carving of this in the British Museum earlier this year when I went to see the Terracotta army with my Fiance.
I was asking one of the curators (I assumed he was any way…) where the Mayan stuff was, and he … Continue Reading

I’ve uploaded some of my custom brushes to the Resource section : Christines Custom Brushes.

These are made in Corel Painter IX.5. They may work for earlier or later versions but I can not guarantee it.

Hope you find them useful.

I’ve updated the resources pages and the work in progress section. In the resources section I have made a pdf. file of a mind map I made for digital painting tips.

I’ve also put a video montage of the Sharon Stone study from the last post in the work in progress section.

Here is a quick study I made yesterday of a princess I saw in a museum in France this year.

archaeological Remains of an iron age princess

These are some relatively quick study paintings based on a photo of Sharon Stone I found on Miles Teves website. (Link) It is not a complete copy of the picture as such; I made the hair bigger, and I don’t think it looks like Sharon Stone anymore. I think she would make a great elf noble. I thought the layered hair was really interesting to paint.

I did a version with the scratches down her face as well as one without, which though a tad morbid was surprisingly fun.

This is using some brushes I have been working on over the … Continue Reading

treehouse

A costume study

I thought I should stop procrastinating and just get back to the drawing board. Bit like the old saying “stop trying to hit me and just hit me” or something like that.

I’ll be working on an illustrated book project to get rid of my art block, learn some new skills and update my portfolio with something a bit more in depth than the usual “fairy”. I want to show … Continue Reading