A Redesign, and SOI Shenanigans.

But with this redesign comes a small, not really important announcement. I will be buying a domain soon, and finally, for real, no kidding, putting a real website together. I've done all my research, have a good idea of what it's going to be called, and I should be done with it over Christmas break. If I don't do it... Find me, break my legs, cause I've put this off for forever.

So up and coming is the Society of Illustrator's contest. Here's 1 of 4 pieces that I'm doing. I plan on documenting the step by step on this one. Why? Because I've convinced myself someone out there cares, and that is all I need. 

So what did I do so far. I did the sketch right there in pencil, in a sketchbook that was just bundled regular printer paper. As far as I'm concerned, you can't beat printer paper. Mechanical pencils love it. The second step there is a color comp.

For the color comp I just scanned in my sketch, and multiplied the lines. Colored with some of my favorite photoshop brushes. I've tried to use painter, and I still try to from time to time, but it just feels so clunky.

Last step, posted here, is the beginning of my paint. About an hours worth of acrylics right there. But the hard part was the transfer. The whole shebang is on 24x36 inch masonite, gesso'd board. Which, so far has proven amazing in every way. Has a fine sandpaper like texture for the paint to adhere to. So I took that original sketch and just blew it up in photoshop to the size of the board. It helped that my original scan was in 400 dpi, and that I made the print out at 150 dpi. So it stayed relatively clean. 

Did I pay 40 bucks for a large print out at kinkos? Nope. Thanks to a feature I just discovered, and have never looked for before in adobe acrobat. I fed it the pdf, and in the print settings, sure enough, there was an option to print it in multiple sheets, so I could tape them together. It was a monetary miracle, that I have continuously over looked all this time. Then to transfer I smothered the pieces in graphite dust, and transfered just like normal.  Although if I was really smart, I would have used an opaque projector. Eh, this was easier, kinda, not really.

 

Playing Catch-up

A major dump of stuff here. Random assignments, speedpaints, WIPs, and sketches. Forgive the formatting. I can't get blogger to play nicely.

So, it's been awhile.

Haven't really been updating this like I should due to a more recent endeavor.

Oondu.blogspot.com

It's a group of like-minded artists I respect, and we all go to school together. Awesome stuff, really should check it out. 

I got stuff coming... awkwardly this is another vampire thing, but this time with an "I Am Legend" cover. It's just a roughand I will be posting the final when It's done. I know that is not his name now... but at some point I went and thought it was George. I'll be doing a big repost of all my stuff from Oondu soon along with some stuff no one has really seen I think. 

Also, used to have a fabled website project going. Due to teachers pushing it so hard, i figured I'll get off my butt and get one together.. just somehting simple and not all crazy like I had recently tried to do so many times before. Alas... I have also said this before, several times.

I'm really, really excited.

Dark Knight tonight! Enjoy a snowy batman, and a green lantern that may see some color tommorrow. The normal clothes idea is from a friend, as I was drawing out one in spandex at the time. 

I'd love to actually get this post formatted like all of my others, but blogger is being a buggy POS right now. 

Colorless Concepts.

A friendly reminder: You can click these to make these bigger. No need to squint.

This is mainly just a little sketch dump of the little I've done this summer. I got pretty lazy, but I'm starting a few actual illustrations soon. I said I was going to get a website up, and still plan to, but it's on hold (again) in interest of doing some new art that will make me better. I also haven't uploaded year end art from school either. Laziness mostly, as I now not too many people will be seeing this, and some Counter-Strike Source has been taking up quite a bit of my free-time, along with some HL1: Opposing Force. Video games are the most enjoyable time-sinks... ever.

I was toying around with some concepts all within a similar universe for the first four here, and the last two pirates are random Photoshop speed paints. No references used all around, as per norm. I'm such an idiot for not, but all of this was rather random.

Next up, some horror and adventure illustrations... and maybe some quick landscapes.

Fable Part Two

The second part of the fable illustration. This is the part of the story where the vampire has slaughtered all the girls at the party and will now start to stack the heads in the window. The very window two posts down. Done in Painter. It is not really completed. Close enough to pass, although one day I would like to redo the bottom where the girls are... either more graphic, or painterly stylized like the vampire. 

So, soon I should be dumping quite a bit of end year CCAD art on here. And a ton of sketchbook pages I've enjoyed scrawling out recently. So if you actually watch this place be checking in during the next week. If I ever get off my butt, you may also find a link to a brand new website with what I have right now for a portfolio. Speaking of that I need to do some light hearted illustration, cause everything I have right now is pretty dark.

The Rat King.

Picture Courtesy of Grant Richardson.

This is a Design for Illustration assignment. I chose rats cause I thought it would be fun. Took about 4 hours to do, but that time is a bit off, since I was also watching No Country for Old Men at the same time. It's black ink applied with brush over acrylics, on canvasboard. Colors are a bit off, but I think all real paintings are never done justice when photographed.