Precious Messes

a face and an angel

2011-06-08T11:13:00.000+01:00

So, here we are, not posting on my blog all that often. I should correct that. Here is a face, with hair that i like. And here is an angel, done for more cards. I happen to like this one very much. I wish I had such luck with all these angels i have drawn.

2011-02-19T20:28:00.000Z

A face from reference, to play with photoshop brushes. quite pleased with the desaturated shadows on her face.

Luisa Casati

2011-02-15T13:17:00.002Z

Was an incredibly eccentric and wonderful woman

scribbles again again

2011-01-04T21:39:00.000Z

oh dear. a much less laboured image than before and pretty much spur of the moment. I think i am in love

scribbles again

2011-01-04T21:11:00.000Z

done using ScribblerToo

I was a bit contstrained by the lack of an eraser and only one undo level :O

Bad hair day

2010-12-02T22:34:00.002Z

Definately been done before

scribbleflower

2010-12-02T22:15:00.000Z

I should scribble in my drawings more. Just messing around with artrage. I think i might have to invest in this. I LOVE the pencil tool, very versatile.

Christmas cards

2010-10-29T20:51:00.000+01:00

so a while back i did some christmas card illustrations.

a portrait and a whimsical

2010-10-26T21:15:00.000+01:00

Sister

2010-07-16T02:07:00.000+01:00

A quick idea I will make better sometime. I should have been working!

a tiny portrait

2010-07-04T19:52:00.000+01:00

So a beautiful girl asked me to draw her a tiny portrait for her website. I couldnt say no.

Why hello tharr

2010-05-11T04:28:00.000+01:00

I havent been the most active, have I?

To be perfectly honest, I havent drawn much worth showing these past few months. I am hoping that will change, but right now i have been drawing angel christmas cards to hopefully license out via my agent. Im pretty sick of drawing angels, however. But theres almost always one thing about a picture or a group of pictures/project I am particularly happy with.... so I thought i'd post it just for anyone whos reading. (is anyone? helloooo? are you out there?).

I just like this face. More than the actual face, but the technique involved in rendering it and the effect i'm getting to come though - it looks quite natural but its heavy digital on top of heavy pencil. What do you think? (the eyes are the only digital-looking part, I had to correct them)

Simone

2010-02-14T01:25:00.000Z

An illustration done for fashion website called Looklet. I quite enjoyed it, and hope to do more! See it here: http://looklet.com/article/197

While you are there, feel free to try out their brilliant application. Don't get too sucked in...

Shiny newness

2010-01-14T13:46:00.001Z

I just made myself a new website. go have a look, if you like!

http://www.mariabovor.co.uk

when paintings fail

2009-12-10T22:24:00.002Z

They fail with style. Someone (me) attacked it with some cerulean dots. Oh dear.

Steadfast

2009-12-10T14:12:00.004Z

Just a quick painting, loosely referenced so i could test my photoshop palette arrangement. It works nicely.

Concieve Of You

2009-12-10T14:07:00.004Z

Acrylic on watercolour paper. I did this to enter a competition over at deviantart. Bigger image and more information available here:

http://apricotmuffins.deviantart.com/art/Concieve-Of-You-146096670

Printyprintprints

2009-11-26T11:21:00.004Z

If anyones interested, I have some prints available from http://apricotmuffins.deviantart.com/.

Boy, they sure would make awesome christmas presents. ;)

Fortune comes in Three

2009-11-07T01:46:00.002Z

New desk, new monitor, new wacom tablet. Life is complete, ladies and gentlemen.

My new friend

2009-11-02T01:40:00.002Z

Look at him! Isn't he simply awesome? I found him in an old antique market, slung at the back of a large room full of half-useable furniture, and I got to take him home for free. The thing is, I really bought him for the frame. Yes, its falling apart and all wormwooded and very much worse for wear, but I liked the asthetic. I plan on taking him out and putting in one of my own drawings. I just need to think of a suitably wonderful and eerie subject.

I am alive, and doing work..

2009-10-27T23:53:00.003Z

..That im not going to show to you right now. (dont worry, its really not exciting)

Winghead

2009-09-29T04:44:00.005+01:00

I had this idea, that i may come back to at some point. But I tried painting digitally a while back, and even started again because the first ended up totally the wrong feeling. They've both been hanging around on my pc and not being shown to many people, so I thought I'd put them on here. Maybe I'll finish it, or re do it in natural media sometime.

A little early clip:

Then where the first painting was left:

And then the second painting. which dispite feeling more successful than the first never left off.

Faliures can be good too

2009-09-28T23:27:00.002+01:00

Sometimes, a picture doesnt quite go to plan, but it ends up a nice sketch anyways.

P.s I love quink ink and guache. LOVE.

Sneakypeek

2009-09-25T22:38:00.003+01:00

a bad camera picture, but I felt like showing it around anyway.

Garden girl revisited

2009-09-04T19:07:00.003+01:00

You know how you look at an image and you think 'something's missing...' and then it twigs, and you correct it, and suddenly it becomes a whole pile of awesome you never really imagined? Yeah. That happened here.

Why so shy?

2009-09-03T17:48:00.002+01:00

another digital girl. She's a bit more approachable, perhaps.

In other news, I went and got an Agent. Watch this space!

Indeed.

2009-08-25T00:40:00.003+01:00

I was planning on doing a whole lot more finished piece, along with 3 other different designs for some eyeshadow palette packaging, just because I think I can do it. and I needed something good for my portfolio....

Its more a mock up, a sketch. I'd totally re-do it if i had the time, but I have to print more pages tomorrow, and then thats that.

Snow place like home

2009-08-17T22:16:00.000+01:00

Run little egg! Run!

2009-06-29T04:43:00.000+01:00

Stuff and things

2009-06-15T23:41:00.005+01:00

A recent commission for Leitch & CO solicitors (website coming soon). Landmarks of evesham! It reminded me how much architecture fustrates me. I can't get things even, ever. all them angles and mathmatical lengths, gah!

more old things

2009-05-22T13:47:00.008+01:00

I just remembered that I did these right at the end of my 3rd year, but they never made their way into my portfolio nor on to any art sites I participate in. they are portraits of two influential aisian writers, Bidisha and Bali Rai. I did them as a commission for Mantra Lingua, a childrens book publisher that specialises in publishing in minority languages. though I am unsure if they ever were used.

A Norwegian cough i mean, RPG landscape.

2009-05-12T01:01:00.002+01:00

Heavily inspired by Norwegian beauty, this is just a little peek at what im working on currently. Its taking forever, because I havent painted in PS from scratch since FOREVER. And I never do landscapes.

I am unusually proud of the water in the bottom right corner.

Caw! Caw!

2009-05-06T00:49:00.004+01:00

I love jackdaws. So i turned one into a mythical Myrebird for ArtPG. Its a low-level enemy that won't attack you unless it feels threatened, and tends to scratch at you with those claws and emit a confusing cloud of black energy in your face.

sleep? whats that?

2009-05-05T03:21:00.003+01:00

and who needs it anyway?

Dove

2009-05-04T01:25:00.004+01:00

Dove is a character for a forum activity called ArtPG. Its an RPG where everyone creates a character and draws them along with enviroments, enemies and adventures. Every drawing gains EXP. I thouhgt I would Give it a stab! here goes nothing.

I'm not quite sure of the story about Dove as yet, but it involves something like fallen splendour. She's led a sheltered existence in her past, but now she has to face the harsh world of Artpg...

Friday night

2009-05-03T16:39:00.003+01:00

Sketchbook scans

2009-05-02T01:40:00.007+01:00

Just some little things for your perusal. the last one is my absolute favourite drawing for a long time. Strange how the simplest things are sometimes the best.

Why yes, I am actually still alive.

2009-04-30T21:07:00.004+01:00

and im still drawing. for now, just a mspaint sketch.

Girl of the Garden

2009-02-16T23:32:00.001Z

Guache and Quink ink makes a happy maria

2009-02-12T13:09:00.004Z

So, I've been experimenting the past couple of days with Quink ink and white gouache- and I'm very happy with the results. A very theraputic and easy manipulated medium to use.

Here are some close ups for your perusal:

Firstone
Secondone

Old favourites

2009-02-05T14:13:00.005Z

These are just some older pieces that I particularly like and need to be shown on here. Why are they all facing the same way? guh.

Birds, with obligatory lady

2009-02-01T20:54:00.004Z

of course, I actually regret putting those birds in. made a mess of an otherwise pleasing sketch.

It's always a surprise when you walk into a life drawing session and realise you know the model

2009-02-01T16:01:00.000Z

Might as well start this thing off then

2009-01-31T23:55:00.001Z

Welcome, friends, strangers, ladies, gentlemen and everyone else

2009-01-31T15:19:00.000Z

Welcome to my new art blog. Hopefully I'll update this place with sketches, finished works and older pieces I want people to see. Hopefully.