Viking Lady

 

Revised sketch. She is suppose to be a viking beauty queen. I really want to give her a very strong "vain" look.

Sexy Lady

 

How come my sketches are always better than the finished work? It is quite frustrating, and also why I have so much unfinished piece.

Pokemon Mood

Everyone's been drawing Pokemon fan art lately because Pokemon X is awesome. So I'm joining in. Dedicated to my most favourite Pokemon of all time.

Red

Inspired by a dress I saw on a window display. 

La La La ~

A doodle of my favorite duo on Voice of China Season 2! They're so cute and so passionate about music. Great  voice and great performaces!

Lovin' Painter 12

Painting Practice

Painter 12 is awesome. Now I can practice painting semi-traditionally without paying a fortune for the paints!

Pictograms of Life

 I want to start a daily/weekly sketch thing involving history, historical figures and historical fashion. Hopefully I can keep myself motivated drawing the things I love!

CHow #334

That's right I finally took the step to participate in the weekly challenges on conceptart.org. This week's theme is superhero/supervillain redesign. I've been watching some videos about colour on lynda.com and I think it's helped my painting a lot. I feel excited.

I didn't get to put as much detail as I would've liked on her, such as her arrow container, various gadgets, and a cool mech bow. I will push for that on the next challenge!

Sketchy

It's time to restart  my art life. 

This is a sketch of Mulan in (somewhat) historically accurate outfit. The poem recording her legend appeared around the time of Northern Wei dynasty (386-557 AD) and thus it is believed by most Chinese historians that Hua Mulan was in fact a girl of middle class family in the Northern Wei Dynasty and joined the army for her father in the war against the invading barbarians, the Rouran Khaganate (429 AD). 

More research to follow. There are several great women generals in Chinese history such as Liang Hongyu, Mu Guiyin and many more. There are poems, stories, (inaccurate) historic dramas about them. I want to do a series of drawings out of respect for them.