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.

Damn Small Things

My character searching for a part that has rolled under the couch. What's even more aggravating is that as a techie, he's not used to putting furniture together period.

Done on Photoshop with tablet.

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.

Ms. Bunny

I usually don't do anthros but here you go.
I was doodling one day and I liked her character, even though I don't think I'll do anything with it.

Traced over a pencil sketch 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.

Lyrical

Newest digital painting. Basically coloring in a doodle that I did in my sketchbook.
He's a guitarist in a band I made up.

Done in Photoshop with my tablet.

The Little Pea

The Little Pea does it again!

Quick doodle with tablet and Photoshop.

Swings

The main cast of my longest running series. Done for the hell of it.

Still Inside

A commentary on Alzheimer's. No matter what, inside, they're still there.
Inspired by a recent episode of "Arthur" oddly enough, though I use one of my new characters.

There's more to the storyline but I'm too lazy to post about it now.

Makeena Williams

A character I've had in mind for a while and a poor excuse for a gun.
I like her dress though.

Done in 2 hours with my tablet and Photoshop.

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.

Fast Food but No Skates

A friend for the previously featured character.

Fast Food and Fast Skates

Another new character from another new story.
Anyway, he works as a roller skate server at a fast food chain. I initially just wanted a zippy dude on skates, and inevitably I had to create a story for him.

Done in Photoshop with a 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 Inspiration Yet Again

With the technique used last time, I have illustrated two new characters. I think they'll work well as children's books characters but I'm still not sure what their adventures would be about.

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.

3 Long Pics

More experimentation with the tablet in Photoshop.

For this one I used stock images as the background and cloth layers. I have to mention some inspiration was from Natsume Ono.

This is one of my newer characters from the latest series I came up with. His teammate is found below.