I had this beautiful plan to get a lot of art done this week. Instead, it takes forever just to finish one piece! That’s IT, from now on drawing is going to have a designated part of my day!
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A Boon to Mankind
and now for the same thing done differently…
Any time you can get a moment to yourself, you should try to indulge yourself. At least that’s the way I feel about it. Next week I’m going to be out of town for a week with a lot of downtime involved. Well, you KNOW I’m taking my laptop and some digital art will ensue, hahaha. So from Monday on expect multiple posts from me!
Sic Savage
Done! I totally went out and got a little play time in when it was over. Plus, now all the other projects can get rolling. She was really happy with it and that’s the best you can hope for. Muse time suckers! See you tomorrow!
Sit/Rollover
I got a little more art time in last night, so I colored the pic. While doing so, I got an idea for a background based on the name I came up with. Now I’m a little stressed because it came out pretty well! Now the image has to be at the same level…
…mission accepted. Can’t wait to get back to work tonight. I even intend to put off sex!
Fight or Die
I’m back! Kept you waiting, huh? Yes I know I’m plagiarizing a certain one eyed legend, but I just beat my own version of foxdie. Congrats are in order!
Now that I’m cancer-free (again), I really want to get back to drawing. It’s been one of those things that I really missed but couldn’t bring myself to do. My art used to be motivated by all of the anger and sadness inside me. When I felt that way though, I could barely sketch! It’s good to know that at least that has changed.
The piece is for a friend of mine, Sally. Can you guess who she’s cosplaying as?
Pretty Girl part2
Everything is starting to come together!
Pretty Girl
Today I managed to finish my line work! It was not as bad as I thought, so I decided to Export my image into Photoshop. Sounds easy right? Well, it wasn’t! First it didn’t want to take my resolution, then it tried to merge my layers. I finally got what I wanted and started to set it up in ‘shop.
Once I had it there, I decided to clone the “detail” layer (ctrl J) then merge it with the line work layer. I also decided to add a color background in order to make sure no gaps appeared in my colors. I chose gray.
Having combined the layers allowed me to make selections that I could color anyway necessary. I chose a black and dark gray layers to add those colors in appropriately.
That’s it for tonight. Not only will I finish this soon, my muse for next month has already said yes! It’s so good to be me…
Eurodynamic
After going to the Motor Trend International Auto Show, I decided that a new mustang GT was definitely in my future! I took lots of pictures and learned something really important; this car sucks at taking photos! I’ve always been a Ford guy, but the new European mustang is going to need an American front end at some point. Still, I’m in.
I know the modifications I need to make, so that kinda stuff comes easy. However, having a drawing of the vehicle makes it a little easier to know what parts look good on her. Yes her. AmyLee to be precise.
So after getting this far in Photoshop, I realized my line work just wasn’t clean enough to get the look I wanted. I was bummed until I remembered I had Illustrator! So I switched programs and used my anchor points to clean up the lines. Voila!
I was so happy with it that I decided to save it as a template. With a little more detail, it should make a great start for people to customize! What do you think guys? Should I?…
Quickly Go Slow
So after pretty much nothing in January, I seem to be loading up the box this month! I have some weird clients and a few don’t want to have their stuff displayed at ALL. I guess I’ll have to change my contracts to accommodate my own right to display what I create. As long as I’m not mass producing (or selling) personal art,I foresee no issues.
My kid is crazy about his picture! Unfortunately, so are the rest of my family, and what I feared would happen has already begun to come to pass. I’m getting pics of kids, husbands, nieces and others sent to me, “as a favor”. No. Hell no! So I explained that my art was like owning a store and that EVERYONE had to pay for the goods therein.
No freebies.
Then I posted my current contract and pay scale and offered to provide the same services I’d given uncle Roland.
We’ll see if anyone was serious…won’t we?
A Loving Nightmare
line work matters!
I decided that this month’s muse would be my son. It’s funny, you would think I would spend more time drawing my loved ones, but for whatever reason, I don’t. Maybe its mental or maybe I don’t want to open the floodgates; after all, once you began drawing family they all think you should.
So I made Sure that I wanted to do this first. because honestly the more time passed, the more it was becoming an issue and bothering me. Friday I started the line work. Then erased. Then changed. Then erased. It had to look like him and have his shape, so after several hours I got the desired effect. As usual, I sketched a rough shape, then did the detail work at one brush size, then outlined the overall shapes in a larger one. Since I’m self taught, it took a few pictures to get this down pat. Now I always organize this way.
Once I had all the line work completed and organized, I used the selection tool and created layers for the jacket, sweater, t-shirt, jeans, skin and shoes. I colored each with a brush set for 0% hardness and 25% opacity. On the shirt and jeans, an additional blue was brushed in at 7% and 12%, respectively.
The background will be done last. Honestly I’ve had several ideas, but none of them have stood out. We’ll see. In the meantime I’ll keep working on this and others.
Howly Time! 