Eternal Sonata

Drawn from a magazine, slightly changed - Here she looks less like a child...Pencil, then Watercolor...

Rejected Wedding Invitation Card Ideas #1 (by Alex)

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As I told a few people that I'd be busy designing my own Wedding Invitation card for these couple of weeks, and that I'd also try to post something each week at least.. so here it is ^^

I am still working on the card, and I am planning to create several layouts so that we could see which is better and pick the right one. I'm still very new with the Open Source software "Inkscape" which I am using. It's not as powerful as Adobe Illustrator, but hey...it's free and it gets the job done :) So it might take another week or two, but I hope you'll have patience. I promise that once it is final and when the printing done, I'll post it up and share with everybody here. And in the meantime I'll just post things that I won't be using on the card. I am not using this because it's too cartoony.

Thank you so much for your comments and encouraging words in my previous post. James and Carine really like it, and they said they'll slot it into their wedding dinner presentation, so it will be in a big screen and my parents will be there too :) I am really happy that even I can't make it there, some part of me is still going to be present. Thanks James and Carine, and may you both silly bunnies live happily ever after just like in the fairy tales.

James & Carine (by Alex)

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Being away for almost 4 weeks now, and I could already feel that my hands were starting to squeek :)
Anyway, this is a picture I drew for my friends who are getting married in July this year. It is not at all accurate, but I hope they'd appreciate it anyway.
So James and Carine, if you guys are looking at the blog, CONGRATULATIONS! ^^

P.S. : Thank you so much for all your kind words on my previous posts, the daisy and Rachel. I really really appreciate them ;) Happy drawing everyone!

Natsuo and Yoji (Loveless) - by Princess Koda

Drawn from a manga I'm reading now (Loveless).I'm actually not really a fan of all that yaoi stuff going on, but I love Kouga's drawing style ^3^

EDM#76 Draw some flowers (by Alex)

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Another EDM attempt on a single Daisy. I took a picture of it during my visit to the hydro power plants in Weser last week, and I thought, I just had to draw it. Even though the EDM challenge says "Flowers" so I guess my chibi sketches count as well ^^ I pressed a little too hard on my color pencils, and broke the lead a few times. And I also realized that I've been using a lot of blue and greens. My next color pencil drawing would be a lot of red and oranges :)
The picture is not so clear, so I might take a better one and repost tomorrow. I hope you like it.

Thank you all so much for your comments on my Rachel Weisz sketch. I'll try harder next time to increase the level of similarities. I am so glad you all liked it, as much as I enjoyed doing it.

Rachel Weisz (by Alex)

My 3rd celebrity sketch ^^ I've always liked Rachel Weisz because of her roles in a lot of films, and of course the comical role in The Mummy is probably which people remember the most. This picture is taken from the movie "Definitely, Maybe" and I thought her hair is gorgeous.
I've spent more than 3 hours just detailing the hair, which is the biggest part of the sketch I think. An hour before that for the outlines and rough details, and another hour in the end finalizing, and adding my silly touches as always. I had a lot of fun despite the time-consuming processes.
Tools used, 0.5mm and 0.7mm HB mechanical pencils, 2H and 4H wood cased pencils, and 6B pure graphite pencil, and of erasers of course! ^^
Thank you so much for all the compliments on the Panda. I'm so glad you like it, and I hope you like this one too. I'm showing the steps again.

Anime Girl with ''Cat-Dog'' XD (by Princess Koda)

This one is not new.I did this some time ago and never got around to post it haha...Well.This also makes me wanna do more of that kind.Cute characters in watercolor...^^This was drawn from a magazine, so it's not my own character...^.^