Recents Dump

Here are two of my recent pieces.
Enjoy!

Griffin Gould

A digital work I did of an OC that is supposed to emulate a screen print. I only used four colors and just played with the opacities, sort of to challenge myself.

Scout from TF2

Done mostly for practice.
It's Scout from Team Fortress 2 about to drop an F bomb.

Lone Wolf

Part of a larger digital painting I'm working on.
Need to work on the buildings.

The Perch

Here's something I did last night.
A new character for a new story I'm working on.
He was inspired by the Alkonost and Gamayun of Russian folklore.
Done in Photoshop with my tablet.

Digital Coloring Practice

Practicing coloring my characters on the tablet and Photoshop.
I recently got a Baccano! art book and as I was looking at the pictures, I thought to myself, "Hey, I can color like this on the computer!"
So I've finally found a way to color my beloved characters in a way that meets my standards.

It's just simple head shots for now. More complicated things to come later.
How much later I don't know.

One Messed Up Eye

A digital portrait of one of my other new characters who has a very severe scar going across his eye and face. Done in Photoshop with my tablet.

J.C. Leyendecker Inspiration

So I went to see a J.C. Leyendecker exhibition recently and I decided that he is my new favorite American illustrator.
I love his bold strokes and how easily he conveys cloth folds and such. My favorite aspect of his paintings though is how he does hair. The locks of hair curl at angles which give his pieces a more dynamic look. How he renders facial expressions is another thing I admire him for.

Anyway, I decided to do some more practicing with my tablet and I think this is the best digital painting (of the face at least) I've done to date. The face is done after one of my characters and I thought it would be nice to have a modern twist to the image. The juxtaposition of the bold shirt and tie contrast with the more carefully rendered face. The hand-lettered type adds a rugged look and seems to disregard modern conventions of computerized precision. Keeping Leyendecker and his ads for Arrow Collars in mind, I made the image an ad for a fake clothes brand.



Perhaps if I were feeling really ambitious I would actually do the rest of him with as much detail as the face. Oddly enough though, I would feel more comfortable if I did it with oil paint. Oh well.

Another Ono Inspiration

Here I did a painting in Photoshop inspired by a technique Natsume Ono uses in some of her pics. These are my own characters as depicted a while ago in that oil painting I did.

Something from a While Ago

So I started this thing a while ago, hoping that I would finish before the summer ended (yeah right, look where we are now).
It's the most painterly thing I've done in Photoshop so far and I really like how it looks. The only thing is I've completely lost interest in finishing it. I'm sure that's happened to all of us, but I was really into painting it digitally.

Oh well.
Guess I'll keep the techniques and save it for a project I care more for.

New Painting & Comparison

So I found a good digital painting tutorial on the web and I decided to test it out.
I had to practice anyway and I came up with this.



Compare it with something I did of the same character 5 months ago.



and hopefully I will only continue to improve!