2nd place in Sea Animal Portraits competition!

My turtle illustration got second place in another deviantArt competition! I should really have come fourth, but two people ahead of me got disqualified for not following all the competition rules. Ah well, I'll take it :-)

2nd place in Underwater Life contest

I've just found out that I got 2nd place in an underwater life contest through deviantArt with my latest turtle illustration!

It's hardly a huge deal but it will give me a few features of my work and a little more recognition within the site. And it gives me an excuse to write another blog entry which are pretty few and far between really.

Better than a hole in the head!

See the other winners here.

Swimming Turtle finished

I finally finished it.

Swimming Turtle WIP 2

Making progress, slowly. I'm really wanting to finish this in the next couple of weeks, it's been dragging on for too long now. 

Swimming turtle 2

Coloured pencil on paper. I used a clear solvent pen on the water to smooth out the pencil a little. It kind of worked. Size A5.

Swimming Turtle - complete

I finished this illustration a while ago but I have only got around to posting it here now. I'm not happy with how the water turned out. I'll have to give it another go some time. I don't think there is enough depth in the water. I like how the turtle came out though, even if the paper I used wasn't the best for colored pencils. I've since been using smoother paper to get a crisper edge on my line work. The WIP can be found here.

Swimming turtle WIP

Here is a work in progress of one of my turtle sketches from my previous post. The turtle itself is pretty much complete, I just need to work out how I want to draw the water around him. I guess I should have thought about that BEFORE I started the drawing but I was eager to get going so decided I would figure that part out later on!

Turtle sketches

A few turtle sketches I've been working on over the past couple of weeks. I just love turtles! They're so ugly that it makes them really interesting to draw. I've chosen the middle drawing to make into a finished piece similar to this turtle illustration I did a while back.

2nd place in online competition

My Turtle illustration got 2nd place in an online competition on deviantArt! This is my favourite drawing so far, so I am very honoured at winning 2nd place in a competition! :-) Thank you to everyone who voted for me.

Turtle illustration complete!

I'm quite excited about this one. It look a long time, but I think it was worth it in the end. Now I want to do an illustration of a turtle completely underwater. That will be a challenge.

Edit: Wow! I got an honourable mention for entering this drawing into an online competition on  deviantArt!

Turtle WIP

Created using coloured pencils on A4 card, although it almost looks like watercolour with the bad photograph.