Sketch Insanity

IT LIVES!

2010-02-19T00:18:00.000-08:00

So, I haven't touched this in a while. Heck I'm not even sure people even go here, but whatevs.

Tried something new this time, done exclusively in Photoshop CS4. Using brush tips from one of my favorite DeviantArt artists WarrenLouw, clearly it's not the brush or the software but the artist, but hey at least I'm trying. Photoshop is a completely different animal from Corel Painter, but it'd be nice to be proficient and both.

Enough rambling, hopefully there's more to come.

Random Sketches

2009-07-23T07:08:00.000-07:00

So I figured, since I do technically have a lot of sketches and doodles that I do when I have free time or when I'm bored, why not upload them? Originally I wanted to transfer them digitally but since most of them were done in a steno pad and I don't actually have scanner, I took pictures of them with my phone instead. Eventually I lost interest in ever tracing over them so here they are.

Seeing color through your eyes

2009-07-22T04:55:00.001-07:00

So obviously, the title is a bit of a literal translation, but also in figurative sense. Original concept was suppose to be a girl with a camera, but I thought better of it (would've made more sense, probably) because I didn't feel like drawing a camera.

Also, I suck at hands.

The Crow

2009-07-12T11:19:00.000-07:00

Darker than the usual work. Not that that's saying much. Made with some dull conte, airbrushes, detail oil brush and whole lot of blenders. Based on The Crow. A wee bit on the /wrist emo side methinks.

Mighty Aphrodite

2009-06-26T07:08:00.000-07:00

Took me long enough to actually finish this thing. Initial sketch in Painter, didn't turn out well even with adjustments in Paint.Net. So I redid the line art and the colors. Need work on my texturing. Had to use Photoshop CS4 for the final touches, particularly the color adjustments. Of course compared to the original concept (it was suppose to be an angel), and from this:
Part of me loved the hair color on the latter but wished it had the clarity of the former. Well, at least I got that out of the way and learned a bit on adjusting color and a bit on lighting. Hopefully the next project turns out better.

Trippy

2009-05-18T09:18:00.001-07:00

I was bored

Redhead in Green

2009-04-06T09:36:00.000-07:00

This little lady was suppose to be a full body thing that kinda got screwed over when I started drawing hands. Still, I'm proud at how the colors came out on this one, it's a clear improvement over the first two ones posted. Hopefully, I can get back to that project and actually draw a decent set of hands. I am certainly loving how Just Add Water can help compensate for my lack of ability in shading properly.

What a Douche

2009-03-19T07:18:00.000-07:00

Playing around with watercolors, loving how it blends, maybe I can get it down to a science and get more realistic tones.

Why So Serious?

2009-03-18T06:36:00.000-07:00

I've always thought that as far character design goes, the late Heath Ledger's Joker was the quintessential image of the classic DC comics villain. Now it's kind of hard to imagine the Joker in another form. The gritty-realistic lok just makes everything else a silly and ridiculous caricature of the Clown Prince of Crime.

The above was made from this existing sketch, which you'll have to excuse the quality since it was just a rough sketch and taken with a phone cam rather than being properly scanned:

From there, it was just a matter of tracing the sketch with Corel Painter X and painting with using oils. Admittedly, the texture isn't exactly what you'd call impresive and the shading work is kinda lazy (especially on the hair). But it's probably a huge improvement over the Joker I did months ago.
Which isn't bad considering this is the first time I've used the program and first time I used a tablet (a huge leap from pencils and paper), which isn't even a Wacom. But for its price point and current ability, my Genius G-Pen does the job. Maybe if I get enough money, and practice, I might actually consider getting a "real" tablet. I may try to recolor the first piece and hopefully come up with a better finished product.

First Post (Because Hello World is So Passé)

2009-03-17T19:05:00.000-07:00

So, if you're wondering what you're doing in this little space in the Internet and wondering what kind of crap is that picture above, then you're probably bored out of your mind. This blog is basically the art (debatable) of a man who is often bored and has absolutely too much time with his hands.

Now, unlike my other blog, I won't ramble on like an idiot (oh wait, too late). Instead, I'll pretend to be one of them famous artists and pretend that I know what I'm doing by discussing the process involved in the images I will be posting here. So Here. We. Go...

The portrait above was obvious done in Steno Notebook while taking a break at work. Since I was just doodling around, I stuck with a ballpoint pen, also I didn't have my handy number 2 pencil, so there (DON'T JUDGE ME). I decided to make it a little cartoon-ish but still went through the painstaking shading process which surprisingly came out OK if not great. The style is a bit reminiscent of the early days of one of my favorite webcomics Questionable Content.