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Stylized
Posted On 08-30-2010 , 10:51 PM
Got bored tonight and wanted to try a different style than usual and....
My boredom resulted in a more stylized version of my Sebastian kitten. Why? No idea, just bored and playing with the pen tool for a few minutes while Facebook was being...let's just stick with the polite "annoying," rather than listing any of the more descriptive words that hit my brain. ;)
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Cat TV
Posted On 08-03-2010 , 11:47 PM
Found a new Photoshop tutorial on creating a vintage TV and decided to give it a try. The tutorial was kinda lame (skipped a few steps and some steps were just not possible in any way I know how to achieve), but with a lot of effort I was able to pull it off. So I stuck my beautiful Andy kitty in the TV and made him famous!
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Kitten Sebastian
Posted On 07-30-2010 , 9:05 AM
About 2 months ago a new fiend...er....feline was introduced to my home. His name is Sebastian, and he is a Tuxedo kitten. He was 3 months old when I got him, and pretty sick, though it was just a bad case of the kitty flu. He's now 5 months and is the most adorable little trouble-maker that I know, waking me up every morning (and I mean EVERY morning) by either biting my nose or rubbing against my face until I get out of bed and feed him already.
As is my custom with anything adorable an fuzzy, I naturally had to draw him. Only fair, as I've drawn my other cats. So, below is the adorable Sebastian, debuting here for all to worship and adore:
When a kitten gets sick, the way Sebastian did, his inner eyelids (a third eyelid inside his others) swells. Sebastian's did, and though the swelling has gone down quite a bit, it never truly disappeared, giving Sebastian a constant, and slightly adorable, appearance of glaring. It really is adorable on him because he is so tiny and fluffy, he has the longest fur of any cat I've ever had the privilege of serving.
Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this bit of fluff to brighten up your mornings.
Sebastian was drawn in Adobe Photoshop using the brush tool to create the basic color and shape, the Burn and Dodge tools to create the shadowing and highlights, and the smudge tool to do all the detail work (giving him the lovely fuzzy appearance....love the smudge tool!)
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Brush Viper 2
Posted On 06-28-2010 , 12:00 AM
Been a few weeks since I worked on this one, but pulled it back out again tonight and thought I'd share the small progress I've made:
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Abstract Background
Posted On 02-27-2010 , 11:42 PM
While it is certainly not the most amazing or interesting piece...here is my first real foray into the glamorous world of Adobe Illustrator.
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Constant Pain
Posted On 02-07-2010 , 10:12 PM
Thursday, you saw the linework for a drawing I was working on. Below is the finished version.
Extra thanks to Sayjinlink for his help! He even took a copy of the almost-finished version and circled any area that needed work and added notes on how to improve it! He is my critique hero!
P.S. In case you are interested, this drawing is based off the following two reference images (plus, my cats!)
The woman is me, the drawing is Kirt of X-Men Evolution (what I happened to be watching during the many hours while drawing and shading this). Kirt was in the basic pose that I wanted, so I used this as a reference that I feminized and detailed to create the look that I wanted.
P.P.S. I hate hands.
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Linework Illustration
Posted On 02-04-2010 , 1:50 PM
Felt bad for not including a drawing with last night's post, so here is the basic linework of the project I am working on now:
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Japanese Watercolor
Posted On 01-19-2010 , 11:56 PM
Current mood: Disappointed
I was working on a photo manipulation tonight that I hoped would be the base for my next Photoshop Tutorial for this site. I wanted to create something that looked like a Japanese Water Color. As you can see, it didn't quite turn out well.
I am going to have another attempt another night. I love the images that I am working with, I just need to find the right combination of steps to create the atmosphere that I want. This one just doesn't quite do it (though it looks alright small; it's the larger version that is awful).
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Icarus
Posted On 12-11-2009 , 12:06 AM
Icarus is best known in Greek mythology for flying too close to the sun on his wings of wax. The wings melted and the young man fell to his death.
That's a really over-simplified version of the story, but it's late and I am just posting this before bed. This week's (and it will probably take quite a bit longer) project has been a drawing of Icarus. I'm not far enough along in the drawing to post it, but tonight I spent a few hours creating the title text that will appear in the corner of the drawing.
This title text was done with the guide provided in this tutorial.
It was a great tutorial and a lot of fun to play with. Thanks to the original artist!
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Grandfather and Granddaughter
Posted On 12-03-2009 , 9:24 AM
I mentioned last week that I was working on a couple of different projects lately. Many of them have been Christmas related, so I didn’t want to showcase them here until the presents have been received. Well, two of them have.
The first was a woodburned plaque of my father, his lovely wife, and their dog. Unfortunately, I lost my camera over Thanksgiving while I was visiting them and no longer have a picture. I’m such a klutz, lol.
The other was an oil pastel drawing of my grandfather and myself. I kept a copy of that one, so was able to snap a picture with my camera phone (sorry for the fuzzyness...phone cameras aren't notoriously great cameras).
It didn’t turn out as well as I’d hoped. Grandpa’s shoulders are too narrow and my face is too tall (I have a pretty round head in reality). Still, I love how the colors developed and am pretty pleased with how much my grandpa really looks like a younger version of the actual man. I’m especially pleased with how well the colors came out where the glasses cover his skin.
You can't see all the details in this photo, but grandpa has more wrinkles in his forhead and around his eyes than show up. He even has a mustach that can't really be seen here. His hair and hands (and mine) also has a lot more detail in the actual drawing.
One day, when I can get my scanner to work with my new computer, I will scan in my copy of the drawing so that the picture here is higher quality.
P.S. Got a new graphic tablet as an early birthday/Christmas present (the lovely Intuos4, which is amazing, by the way) so you’ll probably see more digital pictures soon!
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