Study of Morgana
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motetusHey look, I've drawn something that isn't Eagle fanart! Um, it isn't Star Wars fanart though - I feel so bad for abandoning my poor Alphabet Challenge for so long just when I was nearing the end, but I will finish it eventually! And even if I only draw one letter a year, I bet I'll still reach Z is for Zabrak and paint Mal before ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
swcajolings writes the next part of Beacon.
So, this was done for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
drawmelot's Style of Famous Artists and Animated Films Project. I picked John William Godward's Study Of Campaspe - not really one of my favourite pieces of art, but I didn't want to do anything that was too well-known or use an reference that was too high-res or detailed in order to avoid copying too much.
I am... sort of torn on the end result. I had a lot of fun painting Morgana (female skin tones are so much more enjoyable!) but I think there are parts of the background where it's obvious I started losing interest, and I wish I'd managed to keep Morgana's face looking more like the initial sketch and less like the original painting. But given how long it's been sitting in my WIPs file (months! I usually finish something I start pretty quickly so I have no idea why this was such a struggle) I had to just hurry the fuck up and get it done before I had my first abandoned piece of the year.
Has full-frontal nudity, so NSFW. Unless you work in an art gallery.
John William Godward's original:
And my Merlin version (gosh, Katie McGrath is gorgeous. I thought I had no interest in drawing Merlin fanart, but I will make an exception for her):
Also, this was the first painting of mine I had the courage to show to my mother. She disapproved of the nudity. GOD, MOTHER. DIDN'T YOU ONCE DRAG YOUR WHINY UNAPPRECIATIVE DAUGHTER AROUND ART GALLERIES LOOKING AT PAINTINGS JUST LIKE THESE? I do not understand. I think she prefers landscapes.
swcajolings writes the next part of Beacon.So, this was done for
drawmelot's Style of Famous Artists and Animated Films Project. I picked John William Godward's Study Of Campaspe - not really one of my favourite pieces of art, but I didn't want to do anything that was too well-known or use an reference that was too high-res or detailed in order to avoid copying too much.I am... sort of torn on the end result. I had a lot of fun painting Morgana (female skin tones are so much more enjoyable!) but I think there are parts of the background where it's obvious I started losing interest, and I wish I'd managed to keep Morgana's face looking more like the initial sketch and less like the original painting. But given how long it's been sitting in my WIPs file (months! I usually finish something I start pretty quickly so I have no idea why this was such a struggle) I had to just hurry the fuck up and get it done before I had my first abandoned piece of the year.
Has full-frontal nudity, so NSFW. Unless you work in an art gallery.
John William Godward's original:
And my Merlin version (gosh, Katie McGrath is gorgeous. I thought I had no interest in drawing Merlin fanart, but I will make an exception for her):
Also, this was the first painting of mine I had the courage to show to my mother. She disapproved of the nudity. GOD, MOTHER. DIDN'T YOU ONCE DRAG YOUR WHINY UNAPPRECIATIVE DAUGHTER AROUND ART GALLERIES LOOKING AT PAINTINGS JUST LIKE THESE? I do not understand. I think she prefers landscapes.
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Date: 2011-08-04 07:19 pm (UTC)Oh hon, I LOVE the vivid colours, and I have come to the conclusion that you draw the prettiest toes ever. I also love how she is a LADY WITH SOME BOOTY (as is lovely Katie ♥) Best of all, I adore her facial expression - so proud and commanding and utterly assured of her power. Your pictures are so atmospheric - this one also has sounds in my head, like I can hear cymbals and sistrums and ululating minions in the background :D
Ha ha, oh, your mum's reaction, lol. You've reminded me of when my parents first started dragging me around art galleries when I was about five/six, and I was MORTIFIED AND OVERCOME WITH THE MOST PROFOUND SHAME AND EMBARRASSMENT BY ALL THE NAKED PEOPLE EVERYWHERE. They sort of impatiently tried explaining the difference between nude and naked, while I wandered around with my eyes fixed firmly on the floor. I was having NONE of it.
How things change XD
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Date: 2011-08-04 08:41 pm (UTC)Hahaha, I am finding it very very difficult to picture wee!prudish!Ainsoph. NO, CAN'T DO IT. I think I was too busy sulking to get embarrassed - god, what a little shit I was as a child. Now going around art galleries is my idea of a good time - oh god, I'm turning into my parents, aren't I?
(no wait, I'm only on my first drink of the night by 9.40pm, not my 11th. Not quite like them...)