Another Monday, another post

For this week we have the progression of a drawing from original sketch to finished product.  It starts off with this old gypsy lady I doodled one day. I wanted to focus on character design and push my comfort levels. I usually draw animals so I wanted to do a human, and old people are more fun to draw. So I did a giraffe as a warm up and then just had fun with it and doodled away :)

Then I came back to the old lady in a more realistic style. I was drawing her while talking to some of my friends and they started talking about Brazilian bulls and I drew a picture of one so they could see what they looked like. Having the old lady and the bull there, it just clicked, and I thought of her story. She's on old Hungarian Gypsy and wanders around leading her old zebu ( an ox that's commonly found in Myanmar) I also decided that for the final piece I would do it in watercolor pencils so I was playing around with them a little too. ( and a naked lady just because they are good space fillers ;) )

This is the thumbnail for the final piece, working out the character design more and the composition.

When I went to start on the final piece I couldn't make the woman look right with the watercolor pencils and after much frustration I just decided to go back to my strong point and just do animals. I was really happy with how the ox came out so I just decided to draw some oxen floating around.  Since they are from Myanmar I gave them so colorful facial decorations. I was going to do stars with white acrylic, but when I showed it to my drawing professor he said I could go in with glitter. I absolutely love glitter and for a professor to suggest it just made my day. So there you have it, from Old Hungarian Gypsy Woman to Magical Flying Space Bulls in four easy steps :D