Four: Selection of "Ars" 1

"Ars" is Latin for art. Deal with it.

I've got a few fun summer projects I'll write about as I have time. One of them is an art sketch of the friends I've made in my church youth group.

Currently, I'm just working on trace sketches – trace the outline and then fill in the details by eye. Gonna probably do one or two more – I've gathered stock photos from the wonderful intrusive world of the internet – and then get to work.

Here's the first trace sketch I made, in case you didn't see it. xD
http://latisansklay.deviantart.com/art/Siempre-Ad-Meliorum-Practice-1-373411836

And the stock photos I used to trace:
(bottom of the page) http://mysteriesleftundone.blogspot.com/2013/05/three-first-world-problems.html
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3728090276677&set=t.100001850952409&type=1&theater
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-aaMvDUL9XSo/UONUeRXxi8I/AAAAAAAAAA8/WaF7IfdzLaI/s720-no/Picture+007.jpg

:P

I was also working on another picture for a friend today. Got about 30 minutes into it and then tried to save a work in progress (WIP) shot of it for posterity's sake. You know, "Save As..." and save as a new image. When I returned to the original, all of my changes were gone. I don't even know why – I had been saving the thing since the beginning. In fact, I'm a bit hyperactive in my "ctr + s" save hotkey.

This is what it was when I started. http://imgur.com/QWXEPXq
Thirty minutes in, I had almost completely redrawn the center character, primarily because it is inaccurate to the original person being depicted. And I lost it all.
It was a good Wolver Coat I had drawn, too... we'll see if I can do it again. Later. >.<

And lastly, one more WIP. http://imgur.com/Ic6Vv6i
I kind of drew this out of boredom when I was starting off. The idea of sky islands is immensely intriguing to me, and I'll have to talk to my sister about getting them into our fiction some how at some point.
But yeah... I have no idea where that's going right now, but we'll see. Maybe it'll just be an illustration for our fiction.

That's about it for now. More on my junior year and summer projects and all these kinds of things, coming as soon as I have time. xD