Breath of Heaven

I recently discovered a beautiful Christmas song, 'Breath of Heaven', written by Amy Grant and covered by Oleta Adams among others. It tells the nativity story from Maria's point of view and deals with the struggles she goes through. I thought it would make for a nice illustration. My 'Solaris' illustration is almost finished (I'll post it soon), so I made some sketches for my new project 'Breath of Heaven'.

Two of my roommates yesterday, were embedded in a heavy theological discussion. Luckily I was around.

Space illustration

More space illustration memorabilia..

Man in the mirror

Cover sketch

Project:)

The above sketches are from a life-drawing club I attended. The model had the most beautiful eyes and a 'classical look', all of which I tried desperately:) to capture on paper. The face turned out alright, but I wasn't quite able to draw her full figure the way I intended... I noticed I had a tendency to draw the figure the way I envisioned it in my head; instead of observing the model accurately.



This sketch will become part of the earlier mentioned 'Solaris' illustration. I drew and inked her today, and added some color and shadow very quickly to see what it would do. So more to come!

Solaris

I recently read 'Solaris' by Stanislaw Lem, and now I'm working on an illustration for the story. Some sketches..:

Updates

I feel stupid for never updating this blog, but more so for drawing so rarely. It comes naturally to me, but then I hardly ever practice! In the mean time, a Rudolph Valentino caricature I made a second ago, a life-drawing from nature and some photos I collected from newspapers because I like them.