May 2011 Sketchbook Highlights

Tobias, Watercolor and Stylist Pen
March 24, 2011

Alternate Scan

Theo and Johna, Watercolor and Pencil
May 24, 2011

Alternate scan!
Johna belongs to Joneko 

Ryan, Watercolors and Stylist Pen
May 23, 2011

Art is © Bombshell Cat Studio/Colleen Rauch 2011
Characters are © Bombshell Cat Studio/Colleen Rauch 2011 unless otherwise noted

Anne Dress Concept

Pencil & Colored Pencil

Pose and dress modeled on an image in Tom Tierney's "Renaissance Fashions" coloring book.

This piece was made to get a better feel for the style of dress I will be using in a painting later. (This exact pose and dress will not be used.)

January Sketch Book Highlights

Silly Tryan Nonsense

BIC Mechanical Pencil, Crayola Crayons

Lady Anne

BIC Mechanical Pencil, Joneko's Gel Pens

(Collab with Joneko)

Sir and his Ladyface

BIC Mechanical Pencil

Shield Lesson

This image is of Sir Theo (I am sure you remember him... as he was one of the first focuses on this blog) and his squire, Johnathan. (Johnathan is Joneko's character.) While I was on my first real vacation in a small age, Joneko and I decided to pull Theo and his old universe out of retirement to start an "sort of secret project" that maybe you will someday see!! Not today though. Today you get to see THIS. 

I will, however, tell you a little bit about what is going on because I made this part up and am proud of it:  This is a defense lesson. It is a lesson that takes place early on in a squire's education. Two knights face off, each defending their squires. The squires are meant to watch and pick up on how the shield is used when defending another human being. Later on the squire is meant to defend a small child using only their body and the shield while their master tries to poke/tickle the child. The aim is not for the squire to defend himself- but rather to defend someone as unpredictable as, say, a screaming damsel. 

Materials: pencil (for sketch), black Stylist pen, Crayola crayons (24pk.), Joneko (my collaborator)

This art is (c) Bombshellcat Studion & Joneko 2011

Potter Art!

These two pieces are for a Harry Potter style RP I have been doing with two great/awesome pals of mine. Normally I am not one for the fan art (unless we are talking about Sailor Moon, admittedly) but these were really fun to draw!

The top piece was inked/shaded by Joneko, my pen pal extraordinaire! She took my piddly sketch and made it look almost like... something good. (Outside of a theater, sitting on a grocery bag no less.) The characters are Tobias (it is SO weird to draw him young), Ryan and Mikayla.

The below piece is from today, it features Theo and Mikayla. All me, all silly.

Theo and Wren

 

 

WIPs, illustrations for a story. Wren is a radish, a rapun, hence the hair.

Theo

I have been taking art lessons/work sessions with Janice, my old dance teacher. This portrait of my knight character (looking way younger, thinner and prettier than I usually like to draw him. I like him more, as a character, when he starts having his midlife crisis.)

Drawn in pencil and colored with watercolors and blue inks, I was trying to capture an almost stained glass feel. (Unfortunately it did not scan well, scanners do not like water colors nearly as much as I do.) If I were to make an all out definitive portrait of Theo it would be a stain glass window.

Not sure how long this took. Fifteen minutes? (The sketching and the coloring happened on different days.)