Pink and Black

Colored Pencil
13 x 14 1/2
Newest piece. reworking of an old idea from probably 1992-ish wow, the technique has definitely changed! Don't know why the black and pink hit me as the background color for this but once it was in my head, that was the only option. Here is a shot from before the background went down.

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Spiral (needs a better title)

Spiral
Prismacolor Pencil
35 x 22

It's done! I started this in April, with a brief hiatus to work on The Collector. This is the biggest and most complicated piece of this type that I've attempted. I figured I would be able to work on this off and on with other pieces in the meantime. But it ended up being the only thing I could work on, and it wouldn't let me put it away! So here it is. :)
The idea for it came from a dream where the figures were moving and swirling into a whirlpool. The working title that came to me for it was 'Into the Abyss'. But it ended up not being very abysmal and not as much like the dream. But I still love it. Any ideas for another title? let me have it. :)
For the record there are 955 figures in this one. If I had known the number was going to be that high I would have added 45 more!

What I'm working on... it's taking a while !

This is the work in progress. It's a monster and also the smallest figures I've ever tried to draw. Colored pencil 35 x 22. I'm now starting the people it's going to take a while. I intend on counting them as I finish them. I'm curious as to how many there are!

The Collector

I finally finished it! It proved very challenging to get a full shot of this. And I just realized I'm going to have to get the mat cut for it because it's too long for a standard size matboard so they'll have to order the big ones! Nice :( !

Oh well, The next one is going to be too big too so maybe I'll just get both at the same time!

colored pencil
9 x 35 inches

I love it, she's a little different from my usual girls. I think maybe a little more anime looking? I don't know but I like it. There's lots to look at. :)

Still drawing

No worries, I'm still working on various things.
Mostly concentrating on one piece in particular: 'The Collector' in colored pencil. I've come to the tedious part - leaves and flowers and sky. It's mostly done except for the girl, leaving her for last so the colors stay sharp. And the finest of details at the very end.
Then I'll start the next big figurative piece, I think I've finally got the color scheme sorted out spirals are tough and I've got 2 together in that one, it's easy to draw yourself into a corner. I've done it before where in 2 bends of the spiral the colors ended up the same which threw the entire thing visually out of whack... so I'm being very particular about it this time. It's too big and too much work to mess it up like that.

Watercolor

"Watercolor"
colored pencil
19 x 22
Originally this was a watercolor that had remained unfinished. I wanted to try to redraw it so that I could change some things, but nothing worked. SO I ended up drawing right over the watercolor instead. The areas I liked I just replicated in pencil exactly, like the background. But I ended up changing most of the figures, refining and trying some new color techniques. It turned out better than I thought it would.