Christine’s Journal

Elf face study in Corel Painter

Wanted a finished yet sketchy look.
All done with my custom brushes, mostly the pencil, course water brush and dry media brushes.

I’m useless as blog titles.

This is a study I’ve done today. It’s not really anything I want to finish yet, I’m not sure what it is really. I took some inspiration from a pose in one of Mucha’s illustrations, then just made the rest up.

red and green

detail of red and green study

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