The lady with birds in her hair

I had to work on this sketch bit by bit over the course of a month or so as I was so busy working 6 or 7 day weeks. Its still not quite done. Its A3 in size, and I kind of made it up as I went along. I call her simply 'bird lady'

I am thinking about inking it and painting it, but less messy and inky than my usual portraits. I might also try to colour it digitally as well as see which one I like most. Basically this is all just one big experiment.

(oh and I have some more pictures still on the go at the moment. I keep jumping from one to another for some variation)

Zine

an example of the small Alice in Wonderland zine that I was selling at my end of year exhibition.

The Queen of Hearts- Coloured

The Queen of Hearts

a portrait of my Queen of hearts design

Painting the roses.... White

This is an reworked version of a drawing I made right at the beginning of this project that I posted a while ago. I think its an improvement, and it now matches the style of the other Alice drawings I have done.
the old drawing is here: http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4691/victorianalice2.jpg
The reason why Alice is painting the roses white is to do with the video game concept which these designs are for where Alice rebels against the Queen of hearts and paints the roses white again.

Cheshire cat

here's my finished Cheshire cat. He looks more complete now with his tail.

At the moment I've been working on my Alice in Wonderland project for our Degree show in June. i have been taking earlier ink drawings and re-drawing them in more detail.
I am going crazy re-drawing Alice all the time! I need to work on some new characters!

In this image, Alice grows to an enormous size, bigger than all the trees.

Alice' fashion plate'

I really wanted this image to resemble a 'Victorian fashion plate'
I think its almost there, might still need some tweaking

The cheshire cat- Work in Progress

My Cheshire cat design. (He's got a monocle) :)

Drawn in inks. Again, I wanted it to have a Victorian feel to it, hense him being rather old fashioned and gentlemen like with a monocle and some fur coloured to resemle a suit, including a bow tie. He will have a fairly natural colour scheme of Dark Brown/Black and white. I had tried out many colour combinations, but in the end, I decided that a more realistic scheme was more fitting to the victorian theme, as some of the bizarre colour schemes I tried looked too strange to match the theme of the other characters.

Sadly I couldn't fit his tail on the sheet of paper I used, so I will be drawing it on another sheet soon and adding it on in photoshop. I think it would be a little cruel to leave him tailless! I also have to add some whiskers. 

This cat design is also based on my own Cat 'Buttons' who sadly died back in 2007, who had fur colouring similar to this design and she has the same v-shape piece of ear missing, which I gave to the cheshire cat to make him a little quirky, even in the small details. 

Queen of hearts- work in progress

My Queen of hearts dress design and hair design. UNFINISHED.

The bottom strip of fabric is yet to be done, and also she has no face yet. Plus it needs to be coloured. 

This was drawn in ink. I wanted it to have the feel of a victorian woodblock print.