Tag: thing I drew today

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Alex Heberling

[Image: A shivering animated GIF of zeekayart that says “UNEXPECTED DRAWING TIME! Stop everything and draw yourself in whatever clothes you are wearing right now. GO!!”]

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oh hell lets post this here too.

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In the winter, I always sit perched like this on this chair that is way too small for me, just so I can tuck my icy feet under my legs to try and warm them up.

I AM SO GLAD I’M NOT WEARING WORK CLOTHES THIS TIME.

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[Image: A digital drawing of Alex holding her hands up as if startled.]

Legwarmers…. purrrr….

[My last UDT: http://alexheberling.tumblr.com/post/15669927824]

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Alex Heberling

[Image: a sketchbook page of Audrey, a young woman of color, in various head poses.]

I’ve been thinking about Audrey quite a lot lately, and I decided I wanted to base her features off a different branch of African descent.  (Before, she was loosely based on Gina Torres’s features.)  I really want to see this sort of androgynous, broad, rounder face more often, and it’s pushing my drawing skills in a way that the Torres edition does not.

Most of this sketchbook page was an attempt to get the facial features looking like real life, since I have never drawn a person of color who looked exactly like this before.  Then I tried to inject my personal style into the top-right and bottom-middle pictures, to mixed success.

Need more practice!  And more photo references.

I’m not totally decided on what to do with her hair, either.  I like the cropped-short look of these sketches, and they do fit Audrey’s personality; before, she had long curly hair like Gina, but I’m thinking her hair would be a completely different texture than before, so I don’t think she’d fuss with a lot of hair, it being the apocalypse and all.

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Alex Heberling

[Image description: A pencil drawing of Sami, a medium-skinned girl with black hair in a ponytail, wearing lace fingerless gloves and a slip.  She is leaning on a vague wall with her hand and is halfway turned away from the viewer.]

I drew Sami again at work last night.

GUYS GUYS I have the first issue outlined. XDDDDD

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Alex Heberling

[Image: A fashion-y illustration of Alex wearing a red spotted dress with a black shrug cardigan, long strawberry necklace, black tights, and white gogo boots.]

Outfit from 10.28.2011

Dress: Domino Dollhouse sz. 24
Shrug: Pure Energy sz. 2 (Target)/
Tights: Assets sz. 5 (Target)
Boots: Funtasma sz. 11 (eBay)
Necklace:  Thrifted
Wristlet: e.l.f. cosmetics

I love love love the strawberry dress– the only drawback is I cannot wear it by itself!  The neckline is cut a little strangely for my shoulders and the straps wont stay up at all.  But the shrug works well enough until I can take it to my seamstress friend to see what she can make of it. ^_^

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Alex Heberling

[Image: A sketch of Lady Gaga (as seen in her VMA Paparazzi costume) tinted red-violet with soft colors against a beige background.]

Quick Gaga doodle I did at work the other night, dressed up a bit with Photoshop.

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Alex Heberling

[Image description: A fashion-y illustration of Alex wearing a purple burnout shirt, a black skirt, grey stockings, pink and grey legwarmers, and black mary jane shoes.]

Shirt: Pure Energy (Target) sz. 3
Fat Necklace: Definatalie
Skirt: Merona (Target) sz. 3
Stockings: Lane Bryant sz. C/D (They were originally tights, but I cut ‘em off and they’re stockings now.)
Legwarmers: Xhiliration (Target)
Shoes: Crocs sz. 10

Back on the OOTD wagon! o/

I got two new outfits drawn while on my lunch break last night, so I inked them up when I got home.  (I will hopefully color and post the second one tomorrow.)  I tried something new and inked them with a real actual brush and pot of ink, too!  And I only smudged this one in ONE place! ^_^;;

Anyways, my favorite part of this (both the outfit and the drawing) is from the knees down. DOSE LEGWARMERS.

No one will ever take my legwarmers away from me. *clutches them to the chest*

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Alex Heberling

[Image description: A sketch of Alex, a fat woman in coattails and a top hat, leaning on a cane and smoking a stogy while baring her teeth fiercely.  Cursive writing next to her reads “Classy as Fuck”.]

I decided a sassy self-portrait was in order.  I’m looking rather dapper today anyway, since I went out with my boyfriend and his family for his father’s birthday dinner at a fancy restaurant.

I happened to be watching the episode of Futurama where Fry learns he’s a billionaire and throws a party with everyone wearing top hats, and here we are.

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Alex Heberling

[Image description: Several pencil sketches of slogans in tatoo-inspired lettering: Fat Life, Rack of Doom, Death Fat, Fat Femme, Fat Butch, and Fat & Queer.]

Some ideas for my next series of Body Love Buttons. These will be in tattoo style, but I’ve got some researching to do on the lettering styles before I work on the final designs.