I haven’t been drawing as much as usual over the last couple of weeks.  I got a sewing machine for Christmas but I haven’t used one since home ec. class in school… much practice is needed. x_x

The recently re-redesigned Princesses sans Poca’s feathers.   Playing with shapes is much too addictive.  Hazelnut brown ink with watercolours and gel pens.

Disney princess redesigns have had the princess fandom in a snit of equal amounts of love and hate lately.  This is pretty much my current thoughts on it, some of the comments are my own others I have come across and agree with them.  

Toying around with ideas for a T-shirt for my daughter.  The official Disney princess shirts for little girls irk me slightly.  I can deal with how they’re fluorescent pink and sparkly but not with how the princesses on shirts are always either limited to 1-5 of them or they’re stuffed in so that some are hidden behind others.  Not to mention they are always depicted in their fancy ballgowns and their superficial beauty and wealth is glamorised (like the world’s not bombarding little girls enough with that crap already -although I have to give exception here to Merida and of course Pocahontas who doesn’t have a fancy dress as such but then she’s usually stuffed to the back line in group images or left out altogether so meh) while other more valuable princess traits like kindness, perseverance, courage, generosity, thirst for knowledge etc. are for the most part ignored. 

Welcome Leia!

Third of the deviantArt random request week pieces.  Brief from Rae22 was to show Leia’s welcome to the Disney princess line-up since she kind of is one now that Disney bought Star Wars.  This took forever to finish with the diseased December we just had but finally done! I went digital since I’ve been colouring this in slowly over the last two weeks and my hands are still stupidly shaky after the flu. Long live the undo button!

Regency princess picnic.  Fine marker and watercolours on unbleached paper.

Just.. a memo to self: I left the mistakes in on purpose when I saw them. Coloured/unbleached paper illustrates the difference in fine artist’s watercolours and cheap poundshop colours more clearly than white paper.  The proper watercolours soak into the paper (which is great for the preservation of colour long-term, not so great on coloured paper where it means they look very subdued. For example Tiana and Pocahontas’ skin tones were done with posh colours and Jasmine with the cheaper ones so the difference in colour depth is pretty obvious.), in comparison the cheap ones stay on the surface (which results in more brilliant colour but also blocks out the marker lines underneath, i.e. the whites and yellows above). 

Petitetiaras’ 20 Day Princess Challenge

day 5: the best friend you wish you could hang out with

Nakoma.  Next to Pocahontas she may be the “boring one” with her sensible and grounded advice but she still seems like a good laugh and is a loyal friend who has Pocahontas’ back.  And after reading books going wandering in a forest and canoeing are some of my favourite things to do.

Half an hour in SAI like the ones before.