Should be approved for voting soon, so check it out here. I also had another idea but I won't have time to do it because the theme contest finishes tonight. ah well.
Monday, January 14, 2008
T-shirt design
I just finished up with a T-shirt design for Threadless. The contest theme which I entered was "big ideas" and i was playing with a few concepts when I thought of the illustration Devie did for uni last year... it fit really well and so I emailed her to ask if i could basically steal the idea and just make new art for it. I didn't hear back from her so I've done it anyway and if I win I'll just chuck her a pile of hush money or something :P
Should be approved for voting soon, so check it out here. I also had another idea but I won't have time to do it because the theme contest finishes tonight. ah well.
Should be approved for voting soon, so check it out here. I also had another idea but I won't have time to do it because the theme contest finishes tonight. ah well.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Sketchbook
More sketchbooking. For some reason I've managed for the moment to get a bit of momentum going with drawing... it's not as if this stuff is suddenly amazing (though I am improving which is what matters) but it seems that I have more motivation to draw regularly... and I'm quite enjoying it :)
Trying to do a few different approaches/styles for a face... I usually start with the eyes but I'm not sure that's the best for me. Sometimes i do the general head shape which can work but sometimes i end up having to squish features into a misshaped head (particularly when I'm trying to achieve a likeness). This is a problem with forgetting to focus on the solid shapes rather than just eyeballing and working from what i think. Anyway, i want to get into exaggeration and different stylising/simplification more.
And efficiency with lines. My pencil stuff turns out better but as I improve I hope to be able to do more confident, accurate strokes to describe things simply.
The pink is a scan of the diagram from Anatomy for the Artist, the grey is my drawing... not too far off :) (well, it's a bit off, part of it is just the way i rotated/positioned the pink incorrectly but there are some bits i need to work on). I'll keep doing this exercise occasionally to remind me of the proportions, where things meet/line up. Theres one that has muscle and skeleton which would be a good one to do.
Trying to do a few different approaches/styles for a face... I usually start with the eyes but I'm not sure that's the best for me. Sometimes i do the general head shape which can work but sometimes i end up having to squish features into a misshaped head (particularly when I'm trying to achieve a likeness). This is a problem with forgetting to focus on the solid shapes rather than just eyeballing and working from what i think. Anyway, i want to get into exaggeration and different stylising/simplification more.
And efficiency with lines. My pencil stuff turns out better but as I improve I hope to be able to do more confident, accurate strokes to describe things simply.
The pink is a scan of the diagram from Anatomy for the Artist, the grey is my drawing... not too far off :) (well, it's a bit off, part of it is just the way i rotated/positioned the pink incorrectly but there are some bits i need to work on). I'll keep doing this exercise occasionally to remind me of the proportions, where things meet/line up. Theres one that has muscle and skeleton which would be a good one to do.
Friday, January 11, 2008
More Sketchbook
Some more images.
Don't know how often I will update... it doesn't take that long but it's just a bit of a hassle :P Now I understand why others don't, particularly when they are doing a LOT of stuff (i'm looking at you Adrian).
Don't know how often I will update... it doesn't take that long but it's just a bit of a hassle :P Now I understand why others don't, particularly when they are doing a LOT of stuff (i'm looking at you Adrian).
Sketchbook stuff
I've started my sketchbook and have been doing a mix of studying stuff (i.e anatomy, techniques) and experimenting a bit, trying to do stuff in different ways and stop getting stuck in one mode of thinking. At the moment it's pretty much all copying from books or images and trying to understand what is going on, learning as i do it. It takes quite a while for me to sink this stuff in but i think it does work longterm, i guess it just requires lots of repetition and focus when i'm doing it.
i won't comment on each bit, it's just various things.
i won't comment on each bit, it's just various things.
Friday, December 7, 2007
Watery
Been listening to Water by Thrice, specifically The Whaler and Open Water (both of which are so great) and wanted to do something wet.
I like this technique of copying an image and using it as my paint stroke... i duplicate the bottom layer/image, move it and then mask it all out and paint back in lines.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Consumption
I wanted to do some kind of illustration or painting last night, so i used a random word generator and it gave me the word "consumption". This is what i came up with for that.
I enjoy the painting and doodling aspects of this a lot so i neglect some aspects which would make it a better piece overall (such as working more on the character design, adding more elements, not using a computer), so maybe next time i'll be a bit more disciplined with that.
Oh and he's not meant to be Shrek! I wanted something pasty and a bit repulsive so i used a greenish skintone but forgot to make it less shrekky at the end (maybe i'll come back to it tomorrow or something).
Thursday, November 22, 2007
mixed media
this is a closeup from a canvas i filled with random junk just to experiment, and it's yielded a lot of great textures for me to use.
i drew over bits in photoshop and chucked in a few other photos. I was going to add more collage elements but didn't.
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