Digital Painting

I'm trying yet again to paint some stuff using Photoshop CS3. Here is a weird creature looking at some rocks... Yes. I really need to work on backgrounds/background ideas and detail.




I am trying to work with colour as well... I need to start paying more attention to the colours I'm choosing, and not just doing what I think "fits" because... I am becoming dissatisfied with the results.

Robots Are Too...

Really liked working on this one... <3 Will be for sale somewhere in NL.

Painting again

I've been brooding for a long time about what to mail to NL to my PMU cohorts for a cafe feature thingy... so I've finally started painting. I'm going to mail them drawings and some portrait paintings. Exploring myself and my life.

Here is my first acrylic painting. (I've dabbled with them once before on some scrap canvas paper... haha)



Here is a WIP shot. I really need to take advantage of a sunny day, go outside and get some good shots of my larger pieces.




I'm really enjoying the medium. I just need to figure out/fix my earring. =P I miss oils though. I had them figured right through.

Perspective Class

I'm taking a class in perspective. The first class went over 1 point and 2 point perspective. Our second class was "draw this hallway in 1 point." Here are the results of those lessons.

In the first class: He hauled out a giant cube (metal bars) and told us to draw it. Then halfway through he tossed on a pillow and told us to include that with some tonal study.



Here he showed us how to prop up our drawing boards, and we spent the next 2 and a half hours breaking our backs drawing the hallway in front of us in one point perspective. I'm learning a lot and starting to enjoy perspective. Crazy huh?

Apres Wisdom Teeth

So I had my wisdom teeth out Friday, and I'm finally able to mentally tackle art again. I really wasn't feeling up to it til now, so here are some pieces I've worked on.

Opinions

Some things I'm working on for a new series of paintings.





This is the design I'm settling on for my first painting. Any suggestions? I'm going with acrylic on a 16X20 canvas. (Store bought crap- I don't have the resources to build my own canvases right now =() For colours I'm thinking of mostly off-whites for all of them. This one will have a brown-y reddy tinge for the linework. Is any of this explanation making sense? Anyway, suggestions? Comments?







Also- This is from last week's drawing jam.

What I've been up to

What does Diglett look like underground?


Some sketchies.


Watched some weird video with a horn-ed boy.


Tinyface lady.


Ever go slugging? Me neither.

Sketches and stuff

I was working on a piece to do with a robot...



My DRAWING JAM image.

FISHGIRL

Here is my fishgirl... and her bff- owl girl.

Asking opinions

Hello! So I'm working on a new body of work. The concept is very freeing for me. Any media, any size. The only criteria is that the imagery comes from a snippet of a comic idea. Some plan that I've had that I've never gotten around to creating into a full length story- or even just a scene that I thought would be awesome, but don't know anything about the plot. The images are turning out to be mostly one- two panels. I'm going to use text when I feel like it. (Unlike how I felt it was taboo in Uni. I'm letting myself be a little more free.)

Here are some examples. I'm looking for any constructive feedback or any thoughts on what they might be of. Or maybe even a story that comes to mind? Any comments are MUCH APPRECIATED! Thank you!! <3







These two would be suspended by fishing line and connected by fishing line- with a space between of say- half an inch? I'm not sure if I want to attach the fishing line behind the images or through the corners. I would like to connect any other related images together in this way. Thoughts?






OH NOES ZOMBIE POOL PARTY!

Flying Girl

Edit! Couple of sketches!










More practice with Photoshop. Used this image as a background reference.



It was done for the drawing jam! This week's theme is Dreams!

More digital Painting

I tried to really get into the "painting" aspect for this piece. I think it's the farthest I've pushed the concept of paining in Photoshop so far. I feel like I'm starting to get on the track I'm looking for.

Still Photoshoppin

I was practicing some fellas in Photoshop...


I read somewhere about an artist I love that she practiced a ton of little digital paintings. She didn't get into the big stuff until she was pretty good at the program. So I'm trying to follow her example!


Edit: An important (for me, I think) discovery from Drawn! is this Disney/Pixar fellow who has a whole slew of drawing videos... helping you to draw better gestures etc. I've only watched one, but it was amazing. I want whatever pens/paint pens/ink pens he has. THEY LOOK SO SMOOTH AND LOVELY!! He's Here. On YouTube. Watch and Adore.

Jammin and Dancin

Here's my Jam post. Found at JAM!

Naked and Toothless

Still thinking about it... Embarrassment, fear, falling, helpless. Like a bad dream!

Edit: Drew something else... Someone mentioned having antlers on Facebook...

Sharpies

Here is a little somethin somethin I worked on today. I'm in a bit of an art slump.
Done with a fine tipped sharpie and my markers. (My art markers and my crayola. I don't discriminate.)
A character from our Graphic Novel.

Example

Never thought I'd post something like this, but I thought it'd be a neat exercise for people wanting to draw more/wanting to learn anatomy... I go to www.posemaniacs.com and do 45second sketches all on top of each other. Just a huge mass of drawings. I find I learn a lot quickly, and it is a great warmup for my day. Whole thing took about 20 mins? Didn't really time myself.

Love for the Jam

Here is my newest drawing for the jam! I tried to go with a much more tame look, also left most of the original sketchy lines instead of creating photoshop lines. Sometimes they look too "clean".

Posted at the jam HERE!

Fear

So I had a trip to the oral surgeon today about my wisdom teeth. My appointment is confirmed for the end of April. That's fine. However, he told me that he's extracting ANOTHER tooth, my hidden canine. The one that's haunted my dreams since I was 12. The tooth that's embedded in the roof of my mouth. It will finally be gone, and not cause me any more problems! However, this means I will be missing one of my adult teeth. This also means that when my baby canine FINALLY decides to take a leap out of my mouth, I will have a gap. SURE there are falsies, but since I don't know anything about those, the thought terrifies me. Here is a watercolour of me without my baby tooth. Haha. FEAR!



Edit:
I was thinking more and more about missing teeth. I have never seen a business person with a missing tooth. I feel like missing teeth can depict poverty, for if one has the money, one will have great teeth. Dentistry is so expensive, but also such a huge priority. So unfortunate. I'm awful at expressing my innermost thoughts, so here is a sketchity sketch.

Kitty Girl

Something I whipped up today. May make a story about her, someday. She's got spunk.

Navi Girl

I sketched up an Avatar character tonight, and went to town colouring her. Thew in a background, and VOILA!

Acrylics

I'm not a huge fan of acrylic painting. I prefer oils, or watercolours. I'm used to oils and watercolour, so I figured, "Hey, I'm going to try acrylics out FOR REAL and get to know them, and maybe, just maybe, I'll like them." SO I went out and bought acrylic paints and some cheap 'canvas paper'. Here is what I came up with. I ended up cutting the paper to a strange shape. I can't WAIT to get a nice scanner. Maybe I'll do that on Thursday...hmm.

Markers! Again!

After taking a tip from Krystin, I attempted using my markers with Q-tips and water. This is the result of that experiment!

Drawing Jam!

My submissions for this week's jam: Vampires!

The Place To BE!

More colour work!

I drew this a while ago. He is kind of a concept drawing of a character that makes a brief appearance in "FEW" (our Graphic Novel) which I'm not working on until I feel better.


This drawing was done in photoshop CS3, and I used a palette from an artist I admire. I tweeked it only a wee bit. I don't know how, but her colours come out SO bright, and mine die when I save. I used the same colours, so why do mine fade?? Confusing!