Untitled

Inspired by a great pose in Jessica's wonderful stock gallery on deviantART. She's much, much prettier than this scary gal.

Guy with pointed ear

Pencil drawing, color in Photoshop. Based on Dan Heffer's photo stock on deviantART.

Illustration Friday: Wedding

Haha, last minute stylization of one of our wedding photos so I could finally get something in for Illustration Friday... it's been so long...

Photoshop selection tool using a quick scribble as a template. Fun!

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Ink Blots

I love the blog Stefan G. Bucher's Daily Monster where the talented Stefan posts his Weekly Monster clips--always entertaining!--as well as inkblots that he invites anyone to download and use to create something. These are two pieces I submitted. They're a lot of fun to do; just print the ink blots out and start playing around with them until something starts to appear...the perfect thing for when you're too busy with work to spend much time doing art-type stuff...

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Watercolor Dress

Pencil drawing, inked and then colored in Photoshop. Inspired by a photo in Mikaela Diane's gallery on deviantArt.

The pencil drawing and the plain inked version can be seen here and here.

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300

My take on King Leonidas from the fabulous movie 300, for a thread on the Drawing Board forums.

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Back from SDCC

...and days later I'm still recovering. Came home loaded down with dozens of sketchbooks, art books, original art and loads of inspiration; photos and great memories of the workshops, presentations, chats with artists... I'm already planning the trip out there in '08. :) It will take me the entire year to save up again--I just about broke the bank this time around, lol. Ah well--it was well worth it.

Nude Studies

Just some figure drawing practice in Photoshop using stock from http://adharabatul.deviantart.com/.

That's all I've had time for since I'm off to San Diego tomorrow. Bye bye all! :)

Lilies


















Just playing around with an image of a lily printed on fabric, from the gallery of gild-a-stock.

Top left is a rough pencil drawing; top right has color added in Photoshop; lower left is watercolor; lower right is vector.

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San Diego Comic-Con
In less than two weeks I'm flying off to Comic-Con International in San Diego — my first time at this enormous and intimidating convention. I've been to a number of smaller cons, like the Mid-Ohio Con and Motor City Comic Con, but this one will dwarf the rest, I'm sure. :)

I'm hoping to collect lots of artists' sketchbooks, meet several people I know through blogs and dA galleries, get inspired and in general have a great time (not to mention a great time AWAY FROM WORK.)

If you've been to SDCC and you'd like to leave a comment with any tips, warnings, great places to eat, things to avoid, whatever — please do. ;) I'd really really really appreciate it!

Pinup Pirate



















At the very last minute I decided to enter a contest on deviantArt. Nothing like some practice working as fast as possible...the contest has been running for several months but I waited until 2 hours before the deadline.

Inspired by photo stock in Ida Mary Walker's dA gallery.

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Boo Hoo


















Work is so busy I haven't posted a single thing this month...sigh. Well until now. Just a quick scribble while I waited for something to print. I have a series of figure sketches I've been working on but who knows when I'll get those done? Ah well...

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Lance


















Two versions of Lance, the creator of the blog Draw Me Draw You.

A quick pencil sketch from one of the photos he's posted of himself, which I'm happy with, and a watercolor version that was not entirely successful (those colors--what was I thinking? And why did his ear get smaller?) but I do see some good things happening in places so I'm encouraged, watercolor-wise.


















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Missed the bus













One of a series of little illustrations I just finished for a film to be shown at a graduation ceremony this week. Marker with Photoshop color.

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Olivie


















For the May Drawing Jam on the Drawing Board forums.

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Portrait


















Experimenting on watercolor paper with Dr. PH Martin's inks, using the little plastic dropper to apply the lines...forces you to stay very loose and causes unexpected drips and wiggly lines. I'd like to use this technique more--it's fun.

I did this as my entry to Damien's competition. I rather doubt that he really does look like this, but still...

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Watercolor Study


















I have so much to learn.

From photo reference provided by Zoe/mondkalbstock on deviantArt.

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Tagged...OMG

Brian, of the delightful Goo-beet-sa Blog, startled me by saying:

"I'm sorry to report:

You've been tagged (7)
You must share 7 things about yourself and then tag 7 more people

failure to break this updated chain letter clap trap- will result in swelling ankles, and Kenny G music stuck in your head every Tuesday for 3 hours"

Well that scared the hell out of me, so here are 7 things you never knew about me, plus one thing that isn't true. Guess which one that is.

* I used to play the violin (and was moderately good at it)

* I am more afraid of centipedes than anything else in the world

* My all-time favorite food is sauerkraut

* All the significant men in my life have been born in March

* I think George W. Bush is the Worst President Ever

* I was so fat as a baby I looked like a miniature sumo wrestler

* Daniel Day-Lewis could call me up and command me to do anything and I would obey

* I spent 5 years of my adult life immersed in the bloody first-person shooter game "Unreal Tournament"

Okay, now it's my turn to do some tagging. That is, if I can find anyone out there who hasn't been tagged yet.

Watercolor Class



















Week 6 of a class I'm taking in watercolor basics and I finally feel like I'm getting somewhere--yay. Many thanks to my esteemed instructor (artfish!) for figuring out a way for me to paint that I don't totally suck at.

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Illustration Friday: Citrus
















I didn't want to let yet another IF go by without contributing something.

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