Some art trades and things

I was working on this art trade earlier, It's Ginger from Alex Riegel's comic Battery Acid. Again, what a fun character to draw! i had some problem with her legs, which sucks cause i think "what's the point of drawing sexy girls when you can't get the anatomy right" i struggle with that. But anyway she's super bad-ass and sexy, so i had a good time!

Also,

I did this pinup for a comic, Paranoid Rock n Roll, created by Tristan Wilder. I had a lot of fun drawing his characters! I was trying to play around with halftone patterns on this one, i don't know how successful i was, but it was something different, i hope to do more with it sometime soon. Oh, and i drew a dude! he kind of sucks, but i tried! i hope to learn how to draw men this summer, cause it's holding me back.

Beatriz Valentina, The Fortune Teller

this is the last piece for my senior portfolio, the fortune teller. I really tried to sink my teeth into the background for this one, and i'm not sure how successful i was with it. I guess i'm proud that i tried, haha. I think this may be the worst drawing of a chaise lounge in recorded history though. Oh well, i went through a lot of versions of this piece, and a lot of versions of Beatriz.

I have always had a difficult time trying to translate my sketches into finished pieces, cause i always ending up liking my sketches so much more, they have so much more life to them. Something that i'm lacking in my finishes. (A) is my first skecth for Beatriz, it's not perfect but i like the shapes i'm working with. Then i light tabled all the life out of it which is (B) this is probably the 6th or 7th one down the line, and i think i really lost so much from the first sketch. I was so frustrated that i scrapped it entirely and went back to the original sketch, from the i got (C) which i think is not perfect but i like this stylization much better. I guess i learned that sometimes it helps to get a new perspective on things when you're feeling irritated with a piece!

I admit, i cheated on the background a little bit and used the same curtains from my "Rat Trainer" piece, oh well. I'm burnt out on drawing curtains! So in classic tracy lee quinn style, i slapped a wallpaper on there because i'm very lazy. Oh well, i'm ok with how it came out.

This piece is my farewell to the Art Institute of Boston! <3>

Goldie and Ruby LaPearl

Goldie LaPearl, ventriloquist extraordinaire!
Part three of my "Tracy Quinn's Girlie Circus Project" the dummy, Ruby, is the ring leader for the circus, and Goldie her faithful side-kick.

i've been spending so much time printing my portfolio, creating promo items, and organizing everything for my senior juries, that i've slacked off a bit on my art, so i sat down tonight and finished this! Hopefully i will have more to write once May comes along and i have more time!

Dolly, The Rat Trainer

Here's a new piece i've been working on. Done in tria markers, black ink, photoshop, and there's also some scanned in yarn in there too (the skinny stripes) It's part of my Girlie Circus. I don't know how i feel about this one yet. Maybe it's overworked? oh well. Three more to go!

New Work!

I love posting my process, but right now with school and everything i just don't have the time to scan everything. So i'm just going to post my two newest pieces as it.
This is the final member of the Ladybirds, The Cardinal. I had fun taking headlines from the newspaper and thinking "The Cardinal was behind this!" she's a toughie, i like her

The second one is for another project i'm working on for my portfolio class. It's "Tracy Quinn Girlie Circus" you know, part girlie show part circus, huh? Anyway, here's the Tripod Twins, Nellie and Ellie. Yeah so my teacher told me if i was going to do this project i had to "raunch it up" so i figured, why not? I'm a bad graphic designer though....

Skunky!

Well, this is the latest piece i have been working on. It's the final member of Team Wilderness, Skunky. No, she doesn't smell. But she does drop poisonous gas bombs! fun, fun. fun. I had a lot of fun working on this piece, even though i had some set-backs. ( i have a really hard time with backgrounds. I need help with that, advice?) But yeah, once i figured out what i wanted to do with it. I really want to incorporate more of these watercolor/gouache washes in the background of my art.

anyway, i started this piece with a really really aweful costume sketch. anyway, I drew a crude sketch and then elaborated. The the most fun for me
Ok, so after, that i did this sort of cheesy city-scape in bright purple gouache. not a very good color, but that's ok, that's what photoshop is for. I adjusted it to the red-ish black-ish watercolor looking thing that it i now. And so a hero is born! ha...kidding <3

The Partridge...and partridges.

Finished my Partridge piece! yay, two more to go, the skunk and the cardinal. Yeah, so this is the Partridge, unnoficial leader of the super villain group "the Ladybirds" (i know i know, she doesn't look like a supervillain) Anyway, i agonized over the background for this one, and did several gouache paintings that didn't work out. It's been annoying because i don't have my scanner here at home, so it just makes things difficult.

I wanted her to have a cape, but it just wasn't working out. It just looked too weird. I can't draw capes...But yeah i normally use tria markers, but i used prismacolors on her hair, it has a lot of depth that i don't normally get with trias. i kind of like how it came out. I should use them more.


Originally it had a much more clumsy composition, the birds were supposed to be following her, but there was too much empty space. It just didn't look right, as you can see.
So now the birds are passing her by and she's making eye contact with the little girl bird (the now with the open eyes) so i think that works much better than how i had it before.
Anyay, i'm happy with how it turned out.

Happy Spring everyone <3