Louise - Tumblr Posts
Well this SiNO event is thoroughly waking up muses--
Louise Barlowe, a 1920s Great War veteran who turned to the dark arts to escape death. Kept her ex-husband’s last name out of spite.
Background is lyrics from "The Light We Cast" by Jessica Curry “Now everything has come to rest, The end has come and I am not afraid. We travel on towards a new beginning, We slip away and we are unafraid.”
louise and her very tired single dad
Louise turn around. Parte de una animación que conociéndome, no voy a terminar.
These are five of the ten new postcards I made to take to Thought Bubble. I'm really pleased with them, I think they show improvement from the last batch, which is always encouraging. Part of it might be because I really tried to limit my colour palette for all the new postcards.
They're all my own characters this time. There's Meilee and Lin, who have fallen asleep in the rain because they can't find any shelter, Shasta contemplating a remnant of the Old World, Jessie looking out over the castle town in her Patchworker uniform (it's a sort of messenger and general dogsbody, if you're curious), Louise being led into the woods by some fairies (they're still after that key), and the Crowboy giving Lottie a little gift.
Sketchavember 2012 - Part 1!
I missed doing Inktober because I was super-busy, so I decided to try to ink all my Sketchavember pictures instead. Last year I tried to draw all my characters, in age order, so I picked up where I left off. Then sort of wombled off topic. Anyway these are:
1 - Blackthorn, an elf in the Tolkein mold. I never did much with her but I quite like her design.
2 - Louise! She's got her own tag if you want more pictures of her. She lives in a pre-industrial time and has many encounters with fairies.
3 - Louise again. I was reading Hemlock and tried to draw her in the same style.
4 - And again! I'm not sure what happened to your face here Louise but I promise I'll never do it again! Louise is one of my characters in an arranged marriage, but she and Edward get on quite well. He doesn't believe in magic before they marry, and is much more uncomfortable with magic and the supernatural than she is.
5 - Franz, who doesn't appear very often on account of being hard to draw. He's very proud and hates showing any kind of weakness. He probably checked nobody was watching before blowing on his hands like that.
6 - Jemima, who appears more often on account of being fun to dress up. She has very low self-esteem and is bullied by her 'friends'.
7 - And then it was Friday so I drew Marceline the Vampire Queen!
8 - Lucas didn't come out great last year, so I tried again. This is much more on-model, although I still haven't worked out where his scars go.
9 - This is Lucas's sister, Lena, who has the gift of prophecy.
10 - At this point I'd started watching Gundam Wing, and had to try very hard not to just draw fanart for every subsequent picture. I could not resist drawing everyone's favourite pilot though.
Part 2 next week!
(Yeah yeah I know Sketchavember was months ago, but my scanner is old and senile and it took me a long time to get these onto my laptop.)
Inktober - Day 6
I got a bit carried away on this one. I thought 'I haven't inked anything with gel pens yet this Inktober,' and then 'I should draw more backgrounds too!' and failed to realised that I'd just decided to cross-hatch a full illustration until I'd already done the line art and was trapped!
Louise is skulking around her creepy old house.
Inktober - Day 30
You had to walk past slowly and calmly, as if you couldn't see it.
Next year, someone make sure I decide if I want to cross-hatch the picture before 10 o'clock at night.
Sketchavember - Day 16
Oh Louise, I've done something weird to your face again.
I probably could have done more with this, but I was tired. Originally there were going to be some fairies behind the tree and things.
Inktober day 1 - ink and water
Continuing my tradition of goofing up the first picture; a lesson in how ink and water can sometimes go horribly wrong.
Specifically, how I forgot that all but one of my cartridge pens misbehave after long periods of disuse and I used the wrong one. Louise was doomed from the start.
Inktober day 4 - ink and water
I was tired after Bristol Comic and Zine Fair so I just did another portrait. I used the right pen this time though.
One of these days I'll have to decide what that key is for and why she never puts it down.
Inktober 2016 - Day 9 : ink and water
Louise likes rain, but I’ve never tried to get a rain effect out of this medium before so I’m not sure how happy she’ll be with that view.
Inktober 2016 - Day 21 : mapping pen
I wasn’t feeling well yesterday, so I could only manage a quick sketch with minimal shading. I also messed up Louise’s face but I do that so often that I’m sure she’ll forgive me. Autumn is a good time for fairy-spotting.
Inktober 2016 - Day 24 : mapping pen
Another fairly simple one as I had a busy day and was very tired. I originally planned to do a little more shading but by this point I’d already smudged it twice and it didn’t seem worth the risk. Louise is having a good time with the fairies anyway.
Inktober 2017 : Day 15 - mapping pen (and some others) This one is a bit of a hodge-podge, it’s mostly mapping pen, but I used a brush pen for the black areas (including the shine on the ribbons) and a fineliner for the red. A bundle of oak, thorn and ash twigs tied with red string will ward off fairies, both good and bad.
Inktober 2017 : Day 28 - brush pen and ink wash Louise’s home also plays host to a slightly alarming type of house fairy called Lob-Lie-By-The-Fire. He looks a bit frightening, but he’s like any other house fairy, he just wants to sit by your fire and help you with the washing up.