Fashion alienation

I bought new colour inks this week and after finishing the 40th page of my Thesis last night I allowed myself a free moment. I needed a little warming up for next week's design course, too...

Even though I'm graduating from Fashion Design, I often feel like fashion is really difficult to understand and at times it's just plain ridiculous. It's like a theatre play with costumes, make-up, wigs, choreographies and actors. The more I study the less sense it makes. And the current ideals in the fashion world are really pitiable - I find petite girls very cute, but going to the extreme with skinny figures, long necks and tall limbs and who knows what else makes me feel like models look more like aliens than human beings (that being said, I absolutely enjoy fashion photography though). Their proportions are almost freakish.

I guess you all can see how that mental process resulted in this quick little illustration. Models = aliens. 'Nuff said.

Fish lady

I stepped out of my comfort zone for once. I've recently had this growing interest towards the horror genre (specifically video games) for some reason, and when a friend of mine started drawing all these weird fish one night I wanted to try them, too. And thus this monster-fish lady was born. I do have this strange liking for creepy monster hands and monstrous-yet-strangely-alluring characters. -shifty eyes- Maybe I could use her in one of my planned-out horror stories... Coming up with plausible monsters is kinda challenging.

I pencilled and shaded her on A4 copy paper with a mechanical pencil and a normal writing pencil (probably HB, but didn't check). The background was painted with ocean blue ink on watercolour paper. The two were then simply put together in Photoshop.

Sorry if I'm updating rather idly this month, I'm practically approaching the finish line of a figurative marathon called a Bachelor's Thesis and I'm trying to aim high. x___x;;