#bethanyvukomanovic

I have been using my commute time on the train to and from work to create various characters. These four lovely women (you wouldn’t want to mess with) were ridiculously fun creating and I’m hoping to create some further work using them. I am very happy how each of these turned out from roughly hour sketches on a moving train. It’s great to see improvement in how I draw faces and poses, from…

Here are my favourites:

Day 3: Collect & Day 4: Garden Witch

Day 6: Oracle & Day 7: Lost

Day 8: Rock & Day 9: Lolita Witch

Day 10: Jump  – by far one of my favourite sketches!

Day 13: Gravity & Day 14: Tree

Day 20: Mermaid & Day 26: Flower

Day 22: Moon & Day 23: Fire

Day 24: Bird – I love toucans, I’m really happy with this sketch

Day 30: Ghost Witch & Day 31: Free Draw

  I really enjoyed Inktober and felt my old style & approach resurfacing. I definitely feel that my style and technique is improving and becoming stronger. I would love to do anything like this again, whether its Inktober next year or something I can setup myself I think it’s definitely worth it. Visit my instagram to see all my entries: Infinitiveidea

see you there!

  This is one of my initial sketches of Lyra, she was/is quite hard to stylize and develop. I thought by dressing her like this there is a connection to the film adaptation as well pointing out straight away that she is quite tomboyish whilst giving a subtle hint to Pan’s last form in the final book. I don’t like her face in this sketch, the shape is too rounded and childish which does not suit her character. I also made her hair far too dark here, it should be a dirty blonde with hints of a mousy brown.

I drew the above on the train over a few days on & off, I had just drawn her sitting down with out any suggestion of buildings or perspective. I was worried to ruin the sketch but I jumped in anyway (bravely without any perspective grid lines) and produced a sketch. I watercoloured this but found that I needed to use lighter shades and colours. Also watercolour gave this washed out (no pun intended) effect rather than the 3d feel I wanted.

Thankfully before comitting to watercolour I scanned this one in……

I’m so happy with this one! The watercolour one disappointed me as I thought it woud turn out fine. Using the sketch I scanned in, on Pshop underneath the drawing layer I digi-painted each section of this drawing. In doing this it emphasises the concept and perception that we are looking at 3d elements. I have been colouring this every lunch time at work for a few weeks and it was definitely worth it! This is my first full on digi-painting since school, it seems that working with different tones and opacities comes to natural to me.

I intially wanted to create illustrations in a similar method to my ‘Tale of a tail’ and ‘Alice’s adventures in wonderland’, with photographic elements. But I am seriously considering using the above style. To create a depth of field, I selected all the elements in the distance from Lyra, Pan and the roof, and used gaussian blur.

This is a new favourite technique and style, there is so much more experimenting I could do!

I’m hoping to do some more digi-painting soon, so keep a look out!

One set or collection of books ‘Dark Materials’ by Phillip Pullman aimed for young teens but read by all are amazing. You may have heard of the film ‘The Golden Compass’ based on the first book in this triology, ‘The Northern Lights’. The film came out a while ago and from what I know, flumped. As a kid though, I really enjoyed the film but it did not do this amazing story any justice. I remember seeing all three books in my school libraries, I always read the blurbs but was unsure abiut reading this triology. I would give you a short summary but I encourage to either read the triology under the name of ‘Dark Materials’ or look it up!

Mrs Coulter has to be one of my favourite characters in the book series. She’s charming and manipulative, which is always a bad combination. She’s used to getting what she wants, the focus of everyones attention and an undeniably strong woman.

I know I mentioned that the film adaptation wasn’t very well recieved but I do like the chracterization and style of Mrs Coulter played by Nicole Kidman. Some of the scenes and stylization of her character inspired me.

One thing which I felt was important was the relationship between human and daemon. I wanted this to be visually noticable bearing in mind how subtle details can enhance the connection. For instance the above look I have been exploring for Mrs Coulter’s North wear, I have kept an element of her Golden Tamrian Monkey daemon’s mane, with in her coat, her black gloves to match his hands and his stern expression.

This is a fun project to work on as it includes drawing people and animals, which is something I love to do.

  I’m still working on creating some finalised illustrations for my portfolio, I feel like Mrs Coulter’s style and look is almost there…

  Lord Asriel..

I always struggle drawing men, I understand the female anatomy and body language but men are hard!

I still have a lot of work to do on the character of Lord Asriel, but I know how I want him to look and how to portray the relationship between his daemon and himself.

Hello! Whilst working full time now, I’ve found that my creatuve output has been great! I find myself coming up with ideas, drawing, doodling whenever I have a spare moment. This here was for the awesome Tim Peake, as this week I have been suffering from astronaut envy. I am really envious of him, and all the others up there on the international space station. If I didn’t persue a career in…