The Art of Nancy Lorenz

Honey, I am totally okay with being Xena.  LOL!  Chris Pine is kinda cool, I associate him with you, naturally.  I think, "I wonder how they're going.  They're a cool cat.  I hope life is treating them awesome."  

My first day of the 30 Day Challenge.  Let's see what will win: My chronic lack of attention-span and motivation or my will to complete something to see if I can!  <3

Thanks so much!  Ideally I wanted to do some prints of the work, perhaps a calendar, it all depends on how much interest I get in it.  <3

Detail Below. It would make my millenium if this were reblogged by the official Doctor Who tumblr. Painting this half killed me with the effort.  It's one of the most difficult paintings I have ever done!

(Acrylic on Canvas, my own work.  Part of a larger piece I am releasing soon!)

Arthur?  Gwen?  Any of the knights?  Lemme know, I'll be in sketching mode for the next few days and can use the loosening up time before commission work.

For the record, Colin Morgan is really REALLY difficult to draw.  I thought it would be easy, but it wasn't.  I really want to paint this image at some point.  It's the bit in Merlin where he's looking at his Dad and he's sad about his Dad being a jerk.  And his Dad doesn't know he's his son.  It's all very sad and poignant.

Scans of my Benedict Cumberbatch BBC's Sherlock Box.  Acrylic on an MDF box painted to look like redwood.

I not only grok Spock, I also grok Captain Kirk.

Whenever I get worn out by how women are depicted in comics, I start scratching out ideas for my comic, Carrie and the Magnetism.  I draw that, and I feel a lot better. 

Just so you all know - I totally cried both of the times I did these portraits.  *frazzle*

Hah!  Hi!  I am slowly working on my comics, but as I said in the Comic Art Corrections blog, I'm a bit hampered by my lack of equipment.  I'm putzing away on a Toshiba Satellite from 2008 that regularly overheats and shuts down and thus requires a fan directed at it at *all* times, an intuos3 that is quite nice but is too slick and disjointed for me to do truly brilliant work, and a desktop computer in the living area of the house I live in with my parents because I'm on a disability pension (due to being disabled).  This desktop computer is regularly stuffed to the gills with bulky games by my nephews who use it for gaming when my back is turned.  It's an untenable position when you need to be able to use a machine whenever one needs to.  It is also about five years old.My chronic pain condition (endometriosis, and the posse of crappy comorbid conditions that tend to come with it) also limits my energy.  I am working on that with a physio presently, and I'm diving my days up to try to get as much done as possible.I wouldn't even know where to start to get a Kickstarter project started.  I have five scripts ready and waiting to be turned into comics.  I have character sketches, plots, all that shit, I've been working on it for over ten years now.  But my workflow is nonexistent due to my hardware and mobility issues, and I'm also dead broke, so I tend to have to prioritise art that I can sell off (paintings, commissions, etc) over the comics themselves.I would love nothing more than to be hired to sketch things and look over other people's sketches, but I doubt that would happen.  I'm a cynic on that front, hehe.  Please cosmos, feel free to prove me wrong.As far as when my own art will come out, that is dependent on how I can struggle against the difficulties my hardware situation gives me, and if I can fit it in around my university study.  Six months ago, I had absolutely no interest in my comics whatsoever.  Nothing would make me happier than to put all my time into them for an eager audience. I'm currently saving my pennies (it's really, REALLY hard on a disability pension, as I have to see a psych every month for my ongoing PTSD and depression issues, pay money for drugs, random tests I need to have done, things for uni, art equipment for my various projects) for a Macbook Pro. I'm through with PC laptops, they keep dying on me and they're not great with graphics.  If I had a Macbook, I could do all the creative things my heart desires: Music, art, comics, anything.  And I could get proper support if the computer goes arse-over-tit for some reason.  My Toshiba had no warranty because Dick Smith Electronics are fuckwits.I'd also like to upgrade to a Cintiq tablet.  I find drawing directly onto a screen makes all the different in the world with my rendering.  It's what I'm used to as a traditional artist. I do sketches on my Nintendo DSi XL and my brother's iPad and the results are spectacular. I can't imagine what I'd be able to do with a proper pen-to-image tablet.  I tried it out at a recent sci-fi convention and I fell in love.   Sadly, both things are hideously expensive, and I don't think there's any way to kickstart my way to those things.  I'd give people free copies of my first issues if I could, but I don't even know how I'd wangle that either, other than printing them myself and sending them (which I've done that sort of thing before and I wouldn't mind).So anyway, that's my sob story.  Trust me, as health and time allows, I will put as much art and comics up as I can.  I will do all these things because my heart is in them.  It's just going to take some time, in all probability.

The Goddess Athena.  Pencil sketch and digital rendering.

Red Mermaid. Watercolour penciles and watercolours on watercolour paper.