Christine’s Journal

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 updated the gallery on my website portfolio with some studies. You might notice I have tweaked the layout a bit as well (groan…) for easier navigation around the site. I’m still not sure if I’m happy with the mermaid design really, it might be a bit too naive of a design. I did think of making one based on the aztecs, but at present I am a bit too busy working on other things.

I’m feeling a lot better as well, might eat something more than porridge soon.

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

Just to say, I’ve got a twitter account now at twitter.com/fuzzymushroom. I plan on tracking how much tea I drink in a day amongst other things.
I’ve also added some stuff to the resource section in case I haven’t already said.

I re-designed my main portfolio site at www.fuzzymushroom.com.

Please have a look and see what you think. I designed a mermaid sea and coral theme for this re-design.

I thought I should write something here about what I’ve been up to lately and a few plans etc…

I’m currently wearing my eyes away coding the next incarnation of my website which is going to be a lot more illustrative this time. I’m pretty bored of the minimal look already, seems everyone is doing the glossy web 2.0 thing these days.

I’m also trying to improve the portfolio section and have as few or no pop up gimmicks as possible this time around.

My jaw has just about closed again after looking at the new trailer for tombraider underworld and the gameplay … Continue Reading

Not that I went anywhere of course.

Sketches and practice things will be posted again soon just to show I’m still alive if anyone wants to know.

I’ve been working on many things over the last few months towards setting up my workplace and business so I apologize for the hiatus of work so far.