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December 22, 2008 at 10:30 pm | In Rough Work | Leave a Comment
Tags: digital, finished, spawn

Spawn

I was able to get something out of my digital pen that I was somewhat proud of. It can be pretty tough when things just aren’t feeling right, but after some struggling today I finally put this down.

Pretty happy with the inital sketch, the colouring job was a quick rush job, but I just wanted some basic colours to enhance the piece.

Mainly I just needed to finish something to keep my sanity.

Left 4 Rockin’ Zombies

December 16, 2008 at 10:53 pm | In Finished Drawings | 2 Comments
Tags: digital, finished, left 4 dead, louis, valve

Louis from Left 4 Dead

If you haven’t had a chance to try this game, I highly suggest you do, I could write an essay on why this is such a good game, but that would be for another blog, however I tend to play as Louis, the idea of a kick ass IT Systems Analyst hits home with me…

So I got inspired to do this little piece, wanted to a less static/posey image than normal so I tried something out. The canvas kept getting smaller and smaller as I removed things I didn’t like, but the cropped version presented here is the good stuff.

I spent a decent amount of time on this, and I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out. You might be able to tell I was playing a lot with effects, lighting, gradients etc. in photoshop. My inks were a little messy so I was trying to get a cleaner look. Any suggestions?

Enough on this one though, I’ll go start a new piece.

That Tingling Sensation…

December 13, 2008 at 5:02 pm | In Rough Work | Leave a Comment
Tags: digital, finished, marvel, spiderman

My Spidey Sense is Tingling!

I started work on this last night after I finished the elephant. I just thought I’d do a quick spider man sketch and paint it using photoshop instead of illustrator, I’d been reading that it’s far better and I kinda thought it would be.

I tried not to spend too long on it, just wanted to get a feel for the differences. From now on I’ll only be doing my initial sketches in Illustrator and I’ll be moving the colouring to PS. Backgrounds, gradients, colour choosing, effects and hotkeys I’m more used to and it just felt far easier…messing with vector based lines while painting is stupid.

I really like the way this turned out. I was able to learn quite a bit using PS, and I think the background really helps this one pop.

I’m all pumped now…onto the next drawing.

Me as ‘The Joker’

November 24, 2008 at 11:19 pm | In Finished Drawings | Leave a Comment
Tags: batman, comics, dc, finished, joker, portrait

Me as the Joker

I started off doing a martian from Mars Attacks, but got stuck and decided I’d leave it for a day.

I then decided that my twitter profile pic should be a self portrait, so I set off drawing myself. After I did the quick drawing I noticed it looked a little crazy, but I figured I’d paint it anyway. After about 20 minutes of not being too happy and trying a few rendering colouring methods…I decided to paint the Joker face on mine. It grew from there.

This is me, as the Joker, and it will be my new twitter profile pic after all. I like it, it was a quick paint job, but the messy look suits it more…yay shortcuts! It took me about an hour.

Batman Sketch – 3 hrs.

November 24, 2008 at 12:09 am | In Finished Drawings | Leave a Comment
Tags: batman, comics, dc, digital, finished

Batman na na na na nana batman!

I took some more time to draw this weekend. I decided I would do a Batman piece. It took me about 3 hours total (it would’ve taken me longer but I did a really quick paint job on it).

All in all I’m pretty pleased. I think the head and shoulders worked out really well, the hands are painfully bad, but I’ll get’em right eventually.

Also, the tonal difference didn’t show up so well on the dark blue of his costume…dark blue…that was kind of a cop out as well.

I might revisit the painting of this one day.

First Post…

November 17, 2008 at 12:39 pm | In Finished Drawings | Leave a Comment
Tags: digital, dnd, dragonborn, dragons, dungeons, fighter, finished

picture of my DnD character...lame.

I thought I’d get this started with a picture that I am actually pretty happy with. I did this one on my 4×6 wacom tablet in Adobe Illustrator. The tablet was given to me by a good friend, you should check out his web comic some time www.mordantorange.com

It took me about 2 hours, which I didn’t think was too bad, I definitely could have spent some more time on it, there’s some wonky perspective on the axe, and I pretty much gave up on the feet.

Overall pretty happy about it though. There we are, first post done. That wasn’t so hard.