The Wind Rises

My entry for the “The Wind Rises”, a promotional contest for Hayao Miyazaki's latest/last movie over on DeviantArt. 

I misread the time frame and thought that the piece had to be done by last night rather than tonight so turns out I needn’t have gone as fast as I did….

But for an impromptu piece done in like 8 hours it’s not too shabby. I’ll shit a brick if I somehow manage to score one of the winning spots though.

This was a fun piece to make, though, because it was a lot different in terms of subject matter and also it’s different stylistically than what I usually do too... I'm not used to working nearly so loose as this, and had to keep resisting the urge to zoom really far in and noodle away at everything!!! :'D 

Anyway I hope everyone likes it~

NEW WEBSITE AND PRINT SELLING

I revamped my website from the ground up today. The new domain is www.ashleydoesartstuff.com, but ashleyhankins.com also links there now as well in case anyone has old information.

Also, just a reminder, I have a Society6 account that I sell prints off of. If anyone is interested in that, click HERE!

Here, have an art dump!

Hey there everyone... proving again that I am the actual worst at remembering this blog, I thought I would just lay it all on ya and show what I have been up to since my last post forever ago.
Once again I am really sorry... I promise I will try and get things up on here more often!!!!

First and foremost.... Perhaps my favorite piece that I have done recently would be one I did for an ArtOrder challenge in November.
"Morgaine's Departure" is based off of the book The Mists of Avalon when Morgaine leaves Avalon after a falling-out with Viviane.

After that, I made another fandoodle for Brienne of Tarth, one of my favorite characters in ASOIAF. 

And last but not least of notable Things I Have Made, we have a piece I call "Cloudcaller". It was a silly doodle I had that became something actually pretty cool. :)  It made for a change from the usual work I do in its color scheme and its not-quite-human character.

Aaaand that's about it for right now. I shot reference for a new piece last night and in keeping with my new year's resolution to bust out at least one new piece a month, I hope to get it finished up and rockin' awesome for you guys soon. 

I also have a sketch-of-the-day project going on for days where I haven't a lot of time because work or something but still do SOMETHING to keep my skills up. If you are interested in seeing that, I encourage you to head on over to my art tumblr, ashleydoesartstuff.  Maybe give me a follow or something too, eh? <3