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 

Starbringer

I nearly forgot I even HAD a blog on this site!!! I mean, not that anybody really seems to read it, but it's still one more place for me to stick my work up on, and hope people happen across it.

ANYWAY.

It's been a while since I even FINISHED an art-type project. Almost THREE MONTHS actually, which is horrifying to me, and so I am pleased about finishing something.

I am hoping that I will have more things to show off soon, rather than the endless collection of half-finished pieces that I've accumulated instead!

The Wench and the Kingslayer

Today I finished my Jaime x Brienne piece I posted about a little while ago! It was...an experience getting it to this point considering when I began I only meant to make a cutesy little cell-shaded doodle.

I hope that you guys like it! :D

Short Break!

Hey there! I realized I forgot to put a post up on this site so.... just so everyone knows, I'm gonna be moving out to Cali in 6 days and so things are a little crazy for me. Needless to say I haven't got any good projects in the works right now because it's been kinda impossible for me to focus on anything art-related when all this other stuff is going on, but I DO have a little for-fun doodle in the works that I think some of you might enjoy. Especially if you are a Game of Thrones fan! :D
Here's a little sneak peek....

Kerrigor

I promised new stuff would come, and here it is! This piece is meant to accompany my earlier rendition of Sabriel.

Kerrigor is the villain of Garth Nix's novel "Sabriel". He is a powerful Free Magic sorcerer and it has fallen upon our heroine to put him through the final gate of Death where he belongs....

Done in Adobe Photoshop CS6 with a Wacom Intuos5