NEW PROJECT.............

O.K.,......

been a bit since I have posted anything, but am happy to announce at this point I will be working on a new project. It is a new book coming out soon with 23 illustrations from yours truly as well as a kickstarter thing with lots of cool stuff to be had from roughs to originals from the book..........but more on all that as the time nears.

But here is a few peaks at some of the roughs and the first of the finished pieces.......

I will be back very shortly with more info as well as a link to the authors blog.

CTHULHU

Finally sat down a gave a title inking a try for the first time since my hand surgery. A fun little guy and am thinking he might make a nice little painting as well.

CTHULHU

brush and ink on parchment

14 X 17

FEMALE CENTAUR WITH BOW ON PARCHMENT

This is just in off the drawing table.Just thought I would share a bit, she is ink wash on parchment paper 11 X 14 and can be yours fro $75.00

Just E-mail me at tracyflynnart@gmail.com

PEN THING

Ok, I thought I would start off the new year with something old and a sort of tip as well.

I have been doing a lot of ink lately and have been in need of doing some straight lines. This little dooflatchy I have had for EVER!! I don't know how long I have had it or what it is even called.............I call it my line dooflatchy thing............that said, there is an opening at the tip of this thing, a screw to open and close the opening...making it wide or narrow depending on what the desired width of the line you need is.

You put a blob of ink into the gap, adjust the wheel and then lay it up against your ruler and draw your line. No smudges, no muss and a great line. If you can find one or what it is get one, they are darned handy.


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This just in.....I have found out that this little thing here is called a RULING PEN, and that I got it so many moons ago from my biggest supporter and all around cool person.............my MOM!! Thanks : )

END OF THE YEAR CLEAN UP

This rather cluttered picture is of my drawing table,and  although I wish I could claim to be this productive on a daily basis, these scattered images are the culmination of personal projects I have started and had to stop and or start again due in large part to other more pressing matters.

I tend to stop working on commissions during the last part of November and all thru December, the holidays are so close together and family time is in all honesty more important, but during this time I also try to clean up a few things that lay about for the year ( or 2 in the case of the Batman, Green Lantern and hidden Superman inks ).

Along with the 3 new Hippie Chicks I posted this morning..... yeah I know, I will go for a bit with out posting anything then here today are 2 .............. I have completed 3 other inks, and a cartoon for the Naughty Bits collection. I will post the 3rd of the 3 inks tomorrow since my computer is refusing to recognize my scanner today after scanning 6 images earlier, and the ink is a bit large and I do have to paste it together............it is the cavemen drawing in the top right hand side.

CEREMONY

 SHE WOLF

YES!!!   

Well that is all for now, if the computer and scanner make amends, I will get the other one scanned and posted as well as any other things I manage to finish during this time............there are maybe 4 oils I would like to get back to as well.....................

INK A DINK A DO.................

Right now on my drawing table is a pile of pencils just waiting to be inked, and along with that pile is a pile of pencils that are partially inked.

These all range in size and scope from the torn paper pieces of Snail Girls which are no more than 4" X 5" to
9 X 12's to11 X 14's and a 14 X 17 .............. 

Here are just a few o them:

 

The pile............

 ........and these lovely cavemen which I penciled in last night while hanging with the family and watching t.v.................there was a slight preview of this piece in my post back in April about sketch books in it you can see where I was working out some of the body positions before I went to the big sheet ( this is the 14 X 17 piece ).

Since most all of these are personal pieces, I just sort of let them pile up as I moved from one thing to another...mainly was just concentrating on doing some oil paintings, but now that I have this lump of stuff waiting to be inked, I guess I can just sort of get my ink on and do them all at once............

A little bit of INK-site into my process

The other day I received a few pages in the ol' E-mail for a Werewolf story that I was asked to do some illustrations for, and thought to myself, this would be a good time to go into a bit of my process for doing the pictures. There is no surprises here, or any ground breaking information, nor any divulging of any secrets.....it is read and think..........or at lest in my case read and doodle out what pops into my head as I read.

Any way, as I said, got a few pages of text that contained scenes for the illustrations and I printed them out to read. I know you don't have to do this and can read the words right off the computer screen, but I am really sort of old fashioned and like having paper in my hands. I also like to tote the things around with me and get to them as my schedule allows. If it is nice, I like to  sit on my porch and do this, or in some cases if  I have an appointment I carry them with me and do it whilst I wait. 

{ The pages were really good for me and the way I like to work as well, there was detail, but just enough to give me the impressions of the illustrations, but also not so much as to limit what I see .......... I will work with whatever is presented me, but really like this combination and the freedom of interpretation }

The printed page also allows me to doodle right on the page as I read.............

........I am pretty sure there are programs and what not that allow you to do this as well, but like I said........I like paper in my hands.

So, now I have my initial doodle and idea down on the PAPER, I move onto a more "tighter" rough and play with the composition more if I feel the basic idea needs improvement ( or if I am told to by an AD or whomever I happen to be working for at the time ).....

... in the above photo I took my original idea and played with it some more. In this case I wasn't totally happy with what I jotted down, it didn't quite "feel" like the scene to me, so I played and felt I had it in the bottom thumbnail  and proceeded to move on...

The two doodles in the boxes are the ideas I went with to move onto my inking .... (I will talk a bit about the other two in a few when we scroll down to it) ........ the bottom one is really fairly close to the original concept I scribbled onto the page with the text, and as you may notice the other has changed from the initial rough to more like the secondary doodles. From here I went on to do a bit of inking.........

... and ...

..........so I was really happy with the drawing and the inking of the second picture here, but still felt something wasn't right with the top one.......not too bad of a drawing in itself, but really sort of sucked when I looked at the She-woof I did just after, so I went back and re-read the text and found a clue...

( CLUE )

... once I found my clue, I went back to my paper and did some more sketching...........remember the other two drawings on the page.....

I moved the thing from her wrist to her waist sort of like my clue said, rearranged her on the page and bingo, I had something I liked better and felt right as well. 

So now that I am feeling better I drew out the image from the bottom left onto a piece of bristol and have my pencil ready to ink............

.......which we'll get to later, but until then that is my process, and as I said there is nothing ground breaking in it, just good basic reading and comprehention and translating what I read into a picture....ILLUSTRATION!!!

GIRL WITH LION AND CIRCLE

Realizing it had been a long LONG time since I had sat down and done an ink, I doodled out this image in my sketchbook, and said to myself......" ya know, that would be a nice ink" so I continued sitting down and penciled this in and proceeded to get my ink on and here we have it.

Once it was done, I sort of realized it was similar to my favourite Frazetta ink, the one on the cover to Living Legend......which really doesn't bother me especially since I had been working on a few things for the Tribute Show. Who knows I might just submit this one as well.

KRAMPUS CHALLENGE

According to Wikipedia entry, Krampus is a mythical creature who accompanies Saint Nicholas in various regions of the world during the Christmas season. The word Krampus originates from the Old High German word for claw (Krampen). In the Alpine regions, Krampus is represented by a demon-like creature. While Saint Nicholas gives gifts to good children, the Krampus warns and punishes bad children. Traditionally, young men dress up as the Krampus in the first two weeks of December, particularly in the evening of December 5, and roam the streets frightening children and women with rusty chains and bells. In some rural areas the tradition also includes birching by Krampus, especially of young girls.

I had started out to do this challeng over on Art Order, and even got the drawing done, but sadly enough I got busy with a few things and did not get home in time to send in the drawing, such is life, but I do not regret it since the time was well spent with my family, and they do come first.

Anyways here is the little ( 11 X 14 ) ink I did for the challenge. It is on a heavy Bristol and available for  $45.00 .

This will most likely be the last post for the year, I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Years, and that all will be safe.

Tracy

FOOTLOOSE the musical

Rush County Players Presents: FOOTLOOSE tonight and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at Rushville Consolidated High School's Laughlin Center for Performing Arts. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for studetns K-12.

I have only seen parts of this one in rehearsal stages, but what I have seen tells me this is going to be a GOOD one. So, if you are in town or near the town or passing through the town or Rushville this weekend................go see the show!!

The logo is one of my little inks as well.................

Thunderfoot

A little dragon piece I was working on for a contest over on ArtOrder. I'll post more about it coming soon, or you can go over there to Jons site and read about the contest for yourself now if you would like. I will be posting some of the skeletal structure doodles and stuff I played with while I was coming up with this little fella.

KULL

KULL
THE ORIGINAL MAN FROM ATLANTIS

Ok....so in the post GOING WITH THE FLOW I said it was going to be sepia toned.......I didn't like it so I went with the black ink, which is sort of following the post of going with the flow.