Giselle On the Brain (D)

Once in 2009 I did these sketches after watching Enchanted (do ignore the off-model bits):

Then a few years later I did this working the idea a little more (along with another one here):

And then to round it all out I ended up polishing it up and adding a few more to end up with this.

The idea was all her costumes from the movie in the beautiful style of the animated prologue.  After introducing our kids to parts of the movie (after they've been listening to the soundtrack for a year) these were in my head all weekend and finally escaped.

Warrior and Princess (D)

Happy Sunday!  No Sunday Sketches to post (yet!), but I do have something that seemed appropriate for this particular day of the week.  When I was a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I naturally spent a lot of my time reading The Book of Mormon, which in turn inspired a sketch of a sort of ancient times warrior.  In recent days I've been going through a bunch of my old art and trying different things and practicing painting them in Photohsop, and this is how the Warrior turned out:

I like the textures and highlights, I think they make him kind of stand out.

And now, for something completely different, though I guess similar in a way, here's an old Giselle that I likewise recently refreshed:

For reference, here are the original sketches.  It's interesting to me the difference color makes, though a sketch can also be dynamic in different ways.