2 'Lil Pieces

Hey guys!

I don't have much to show you this week, but I thought I would make a quick post anyways! A lot of what I have been working on lately is still either in the works or I am waiting to be able to post it on social media still! I'm currently working on getting a little show ready for mid March! It should be a blast. I'm planning on hanging up a lot of my fan art!

Here is an oil painting I finished a couple of weeks ago. It was painted with Cadmium Red, Yellow Ochre, Ivory Black, and Titanium White! Its insane how many colors you can make from such a small assortment!

 This is a digital painting done in Photoshop I made to mimic a charcoal drawing.I quite enjoyed doing this because I didn't have to dirty my hands like I normally would with charcoal! It is a caricature of Elaine from Seinfeld with her lovely Urban Sombrero! I just love Seinfeld.

That's it for today! I will hopefully have some more fun stuff to show off within the next couple of weeks or so! I hope you are all having a wonderful day! I know I am -- the warm weather is sneaking up on us, and I couldn't be happier!

Cheers,

Ashley Fairbourne

Soooo Tired + Other News! (pictures are involved, I promise)

Hey guys!

I hope you all have been well! I know I am now that the holidays are over. Thanksgiving-New Years is always so busy! 

I am currently finishing up my final semester! It's insane to think about graduating. I feel like I have been in school forever and I never thought there would be an end in sight... but here we are!

I have a handful of things I wanted to show you guys! As I'm sure you all heard, David Bowie passed away fairly recently. I was pretty bummed about it. I remember the first song I heard by him was "Changes" when I was about 8 years old and I used to listen to it allll the time. He has always been a really special musician and person to me, so I decided to do a little caricature of him in tribute! I think I may scan it in and color it digitally.

Now that the holidays are over, I can safely show you guys this little project I was working on! My boyfriend and I decided to make handmade presents for each other this year and he is a huge Dark Tower Series fan (Stephen King, for those who don't know -- go check it out!) so I made him a Dark Tower- Themed box. He is a tattooer, so it was made to hold his tattoo machines! I derived this design from an image I saw online. It was so beautiful, so I decided to paint the same design in my own style! It was done on a wooden box in acrylic paint.

I also had the opportunity to make a design for some birthday invitations! The theme of the party was "Rockstar Mermaid," which is obviously awesome! She wanted to have the mermaid look like Ariel, since they are huge Disney fans! Gouache on watercolor paper.

Dallas Clayton (don't know who that is?? Go check out his art! He is a fantastic designer!) held a fun competition a few weeks ago! He came up with bizarre, random names and asked his Instagram followers to create some creatures that match the names! I created Biltichang Fleecy, Columpian Gumasore, and Clasper Brungle. My personal favorite is Columpian Gumbasore! My creatures even got featured on his Instagram!

I am currently taking a head painting class and have been oil painting so much, it's insane! This was done with Ivory Black and Titanium White oil paint on a linen panel. I've been trying to experiment with different textures and techniques when applying paint. We recently have moved on to painting in color, so I will be sure to post some of those color pieces in the near future!

I am also taking a digital painting class! So far, the class has been a blast and has the best prompts for our drawings! For this piece, I was assigned a random fact. The fact was "you can't sneeze with your eyes open." The goal was to communicate the idea without people knowing what your random fact was! The snot on the rag was my favorite part, as I'm sure you can tell. This piece was created entirely in Photoshop.

Thank you all for stopping by! Take care,

Ashley Fairbourne

Getting Ready for Finals!

Hey everyone! 

I sure hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and ate like 1 bazillion turkeys! I am getting ready for finals and it feels crazy. It seems so weird that next semester is my LAST. What??

It also feels so good.

So basically everything is super crazy right now while I try to get my Christmas commissions and finals and everything all rounded up and finished on time! Here are a few things I completed these last couple weeks!
 

 Here is a book cover I did for The Wizard of Oz! I made it by cutting out pieces of paper and gluing them down with some supports. I am pretty happy with the results, but I may add a paper cut out title to the piece!

 I did some fan art of Catwoman! She is my favorite. I have a whole list now of ideas for Catwoman fan art and I think I am going to make a bunch of fun sketches! I can't wait to share them with you guys once they are completed.

Finally, here is a cute little Dios de los Muertos girl I sketched yesterday! I just love Halloween and I am pretty bummed it's over. Yeah, Christmas is pretty cool too, but Halloween definitely takes the gold for me!

Thank you all for your support! I sure appreciate you guys! Have a wonderful day!

Cheers,

Ashley Fairbourne

Inktober 2015!

Hey everyone! It's been a minute since my last post, but last month I participated in Inktober, so I wanted to combine all of my Inktober sketches in a blog post for you all to enjoy!

For my Inktober theme, I decided to go with some of my favorite female movie characters! I ended up only getting 28/31 sketches completed, but I'd say that's pretty good! See if you can name all the movies these characters are from!

I hope everyone had the best Halloween! I know I did. It was awesome. 

cheers,

Ashley Fairbourne

Sickness Sucks

I am getting sick! I really hate when that happens. Mostly because I can never seem to slow down so it makes it harder for me to get better. You would think I would have learned by now... but nope. 

Anywho, I had to do an illustration that was for the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle." I decided it would be fun to go with a space theme instead of the typical farm vibe! I painted it with acrylics on watercolor paper. For those of you who aren't familiar with the nursery rhyme, here you go!:

"Hey diddle, diddle,

The cat and the fiddle,

The cow jumped over the moon,

The little dog laughed to see such sport,

And the dish ran away with the spoon."

 

This is a little otter character design I sketched out...

 The undersketch for a series of paintings I am working on. I am so excited to get going on these! They are bound to be a ton of fun and I can't wait to show you guys!

 "We are Siamese if you pleaaaseee..."

 .. and finally, another sketch from my sketchbook. I was experimenting with different color combos with my prismacolors.

I hope you all have a great week! 

Cheers,

Ashley Fairbourne