What's going on

Pittsburgh has been (along with a lot of the country, I hear) been suffering miserable heat this past few days.  We had a dreadful weekend, the first day of which, my air conditioner simply couldn't even keep up...but even once the temperature had dropped out of the hundreds, the apartment was only just tolerable.  

Hot weather makes drawing not good for my brain. Makes brain not good for drawing?  I don't know...either way, when it's hot, my art suffers a lot.  I am not a happy camper when I'm sweating. 

I worked on some freelance. 

I tried to work on some personal stuff but didn't make a lot of headway. 

I'm in a pretty consistently frustrated place with my art lately.  I feel like I'm going backward.  I don't know if that's true.  I think part of it is just that I haven't really had time for any intensive personal projects lately, so everything I'm posting is quick and dirty, and not much that is thrilling me -- I think I'm doing more 'that's good enough because I want to get this posted' than is maybe good for me.  I feel like I can't draw anatomy but I don't know if that's because I'm actively deteriorating or because I am trying more challenging poses that I'm not quite sure how to tackle.  I like to think the latter, but maybe my brain is broken.  I'm cranky today.  I think I'm tired. I got to bed a little too late last night.  But it's also the weather.  And I need more caffeine and I'm almost out of creamer here at work.  Blarg. 

ANYWAY, here are a couple favorites from last week's warm-ups: 

(the second one came out quite nicely, don't you think?) 

and also a couple smatters of fan art: 

^ a fan art doodle for the awsome and fantastic web series, "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries" (a modern vlog adaptation of Pride and Prejudice...MARVELOUS.  Go watch it.)

^This is a bit of Sherlock fanart based on a ficlet by Cara McGee.  I was playing with layout and type, obviously...not an area in which I'm super strong.  

Anyway, not a lot else going on today.  It seems like someone got overzealous with the AC in my office today though.  Brr. (I know, I know....I'm never happy.  Too hot, too cold...)

Comments

[Briggs]

Oh my god! The balloon girl image is freaking awesome!!

[Rachel Corn-Hicks]

Thank you, I do like how it turned out...but I can't really take all the credit. I mean, it was a photo study, and the photo I was studying was pretty freaking awesome.