Yay, Progress

Did some work to the background on this picture. I used a different program, painter, to fill in the cobblestone and building details. Painter is designed to feel more like traditional drawing or painting, and it is my new-found joy. I found that it was way easier to do backgrounds with this program, which is cool because I usually hate doing backgrounds.

The Mask

This is the final version of that pic I posted a little while ago. I'm really pleased with how it turned out - so much so that I will use a smiley. :)

Testin the new tablet

Here is a little doodle I did my my new wacom tablet. I wanted to try out the different nib types, and you can see that each doodle is labeled with the nib I used. I didn't feel that much difference between the brush nib and the regular nib, but the pencil one was pretty cool. You get some traction and it changes the way you make the stroke. I colored in the girl on the bottom of the page, and once I finish I'll put up a more detailed pic of her.

Picture progress

Bit of background changes, lines cleaned up, and some facial adjustments.

A new pic in progress

Yes, yes, I know. I have more than enough pictures "in progress". But this one suddenly popped into my head, so I had to go with it. It's fault, not mine. (^_^)v

It was originally supposed to be Kisha, one of my characters, but it doesn't really look like her anymore, so it'll probably just be member of Kisha's clan or something.

Note that I didn't start with any lines, and I'm trying to make it more realistic looking than usual. Except for the pink hair.

I would have posted this sooner, but she didn't have anything decent on and I'm trying to keep this a children-friendly blog XD

A little bit of progress...

On my mini comic. Just a tiny bit. Of progress. >_>

T-Shirt logo

This is the logo I submitted for the Willie Mae Rock camp t-shirt logo contest thing. WMRC is awesome, so I tried to make something equally awesome. It was difficult.

Basically, I started with a sketch of the girl and then inked it, scanned it into the computer and edited it digitally. It took longer than it should have for some reason. Probably because I tried too hard or something.

Anyway, I saved it over a couple of different colored backgrounds, so you can see that it can go on a couple of different T-shirt colors. I can't wait to see the outcome of the contest! >_

Art Meme

I did this for Deviant art, but I like some of the pictures on it, and it looks cool. So I decided to post it here too.

I actually have no idea what exactly a "meme" is, in terms of it being an art one. But this is pretty much a questionare that you fill out with artwork. It was fun to do, and I hope people have fun reading it. ('>')

Mini comic - half inked

As the title proclaims, the inking is about 1/2 of the way done. The first panel is entirely done, but the others are still pretty rough and the last one is non-existent. ^_^;

Here is the link to the ROUGH rough. Woof. (-_-)

Mini comic

This is the beginnings of a mini comic that I'm working on. It's using two of my old, old characters, re-vamped a bit. This is pretty much what I had planned for them, so really I'm just taking a story that I wrote a while ago and drawing it now. It's very interesting. It almost feels like I'm doing a commission for someone, like it's not actually my own.

In any case, the main idea behind this one page mini comic is just a magical girl parody.

Using lilac, I sketched out the panels and the basic things that would happen inside of them. Then on a new layer, I drew out the borders in black. This is my lines layer. Back on the rough sketch layer, I used a darker purple to draw out the details of all the panels. I've just started inking the top panel in black (on the lines layer) - this will be what it finally looks like. The text and word balloons are in different colors, so I can read them better. I'll probably end up using the type tool to write out the words.

Butterfly, complete!

At long last! ... (>_>)

Not much has changed, just touched it up, added more depth to the shadows and highlights, and of course, the background. Oh yeah, and the gold swirly bits on the body.

I like how it turned out. ^_^

Butterfly with color

Well, here he is with some color. This is just blocked in, I haven't smoothed it out yet, or added shadows or highlights, except for a little bit on the body. I'm not too fond of the green color on the wings, so I think I'll color in something different. Also, I find his eyes are too dark.

I looked at some pictures of butterflies for color reference for the wings. There's a certain way that colors interact on butterfly wings, and I wasn't getting it right until I looked at some photos. Originally, the dark brown was supposed to be red, but it took over the whole picture. It also made him look like a fire elemental rather than a wind elemental, which he is.

Anyway, I'll post the finished picture tomorrow, as long as I don't find things wrong with it that will take forever to fix.

Sitting Down

This is the colored version of the inked picture that I posted a while back. It took a bit longer than I was hoping, but at least I had way less than a hundred layers this time. -_-;

It was hard to find the right balance of color for this picture. The girl is very light, and so the background had to be even lighter than her, but if it were too light, it would be blinding. I ended up getting it alright, but I'm not entirely happy with it.

The pattern tiled in the background was hand drawn, and I have to say that I like how it turned out.

The girl herself looks pretty good, and I used a few new techniques for the coloring. For instance, I made an under painting for the skin tone, using bright green, red, blue, and yellow. Then I painted in the peach color on a layer above that, and make the master opacity something like 96%, so the under painting showed through just a bit. After that I added the shadows and highlights. I like the look of her skin, it has a certain realistic edge to it, as if there are muscles and veins and stuff underneath.

It is a Rabbit

And so it is. Except this one is in color.

Tina

2004. Done in photoshop.

Two Friends

Two friends: Eva and Ashmita. drawn and inked and colored in photoshop.

Skool Girl

Done in photoshop. 2003

The Obnoxious Fairy

Done in photoshop. 2005

Koool

Done in photoshop. 2004