Cardboard Man

Idle fun on a piece of cardboard while putting off doing something I was supposed to be doing. Probably greatly inspired by the wonderful Dan Panosian's drawings on cardboard.

I screwed up the bottom part with too much whiteout so I peeled it off, heh.

Dancer with Veil

Brush pen and Photoshop.

Fire

Pencil and watercolor

Dancer Sketches

Scribbly Things

Haughty office manager; pretty witch with a deformed foot; psychedelic skinny party girl.

Smirk

Pencil drawing, color added in Photoshop with a chalky brush.

Reference photo from neebow stock

Bandanna Anna

Another entry for MJRanum's contest. Pencil drawing/Freehand 'inking'/Photoshop color.

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Slave Girl Eirene

Pencil, watercolor...using reference from MJRanum's incredible stock gallery on deviantArt, and for a contest he's running.

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Katie Jane Garside

Pencil and watercolor commission piece.

Moongirl

Pencil drawing with stuff added in Photoshop, kind of as an afterthought. Pardon the dorky title; I hate giving these things titles.

From stock photo reference by the lovely Kristina on deviantArt.

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!