Two Self Portraits

Black Mage Painting

Howdy!

One of the things I have most trouble with and need the most improvement on is painting in Photoshop. I generally like the crisp albeit limited painting you can do in Flash, but sometimes I need a little more.

So keeping with the black mage theme, I tried my hand at painting an image in PS. I cheated a little but, by laying down the base color in Flash and then adding texture and tones in PS. I then toyed around with some of the filters, and I think it came out pretty ok. If anything, my biggest gripe is the eyes. I kept them very straight but looking at the finished piece, they seem very unnatural. Ah well, lesson learned! :)

Sheep

Sheep! I don't know why I keep animating and drawing sheep!!



Enjoy!

Frog

I was just doodling and thinking of Joe Murray's Frog In A Suit cartoon, and this is what happened.

Robber

This came to me this morning. I had done the background in Photoshop a few days ago. It was another attempt to make something abstract out of a photo and maximum blurs. Today I decided I wanted to do a monochromatic character standing in that pose. The idea of a robber just kinda came to me. So there it is!

Color

Hi again. Twice in a week eh? Nice.

So I was playing around in Photoshop, just messing around with blurs and blending styles. I was using a photo of my woman and my cat and just kept applying and tweaking things. This is the result. My dad actually has place-mats that look similar to this. I like how it's got a nice cool feel, almost like dusk. Or twilight, but not that awful book / movie series.

Enjoy!

Farm

Not to be confused with the new Dinosaur Jr. album...

Sky Quickie

Yo! It's the sky!

Quick Set O' Trees

Hi!

Quick update today. Got on the subject of birch trees, so I did a lil' comp of them.



I love quick comps!

With The Rains Came The Wolves...

So I had this dream last night. It was a thematically recurring dream where I am desperately trying to get to work, but I just can't. I'm already late, I have no clothes to wear, no way of getting there, people keep distracting me. And in this case, it is raining very hard. Like, The Deluge hard. Needless to say, the tone of the dream was pretty bleak.

So, towards the end, before I woke up, I was walking up to my building, with this guy and this girl. The guy went on ahead, while the girl said she would wait for us outside. As I'm leaving, I hear the howls of wolves, and I turn to see two wolves slowly patrolling in the heavy rains. They weren't normal wolves though. They were much bigger, and their necks were a little more elongated.

That's about the time I woke up. It was pretty nightmarish. So here is a quick piece I put together, hopefully giving off the sense of dread I had in the dream. Enjoy!

Trees!

Hi! Been a while, I know. I've been busy with multiple projects going on at two different jobs, so... I kinda slacked off on my stuff. But I'm back!

Here's a series of tree sketches I did last night, just to try to get a feel for art direction for... Trees. I did a quick color job on them in Photoshop to make them a little nicer to look at. Enjoy!















See ya soon!

Quick Landscape

Hey all.

It's been a while, but today I bring you another one hour landscape. I really enjoy doing these. I just have to find something other than trees to paint!



Enjoy!

Quick Sketch

Hello.

Here's a quick little image I did of a Kasa Obake, an umbrella spirit in Japanese folklore. I like them.



Enjoy.

Autumn Treetop Concept

Hi again!

Just another quick concept. I always like compositions where the sky takes up most of the frame.



Enjoy!

Landscape Concept

Yo yo yo.

Here's a quick concept I did in Photoshop. Just trying to get a feel for it.



Enjoy!

Bizarre

Hello!

Here is a painting I did in Photoshop. Initially it was not going to be so dark, but as I worked on it, it seemed to lend itself better to being dark and creepy. Upon looking at the finished piece, I almost feel like I shouldn't have put the mouth in, but ah well.



Enjoy!

Tezuka Joe

So, some of you may know this, but I absolutely worship Osamu Tezuka. His stories, his artwork, everything. The man pumped out hundreds of stories and thousands of pages of comics, it would be nearly impossible to read them all.

Anyway, pronouciation in Japanese is different from that in English. For example, the name Sakura is prounouced SA-ku-RA in Japanese, with the "u" in ku almost ignored. In English, it would be sa-KUR-a. Hence, Tezuka in Japanese is TE-zu-KA, again, with the "u" barely pronounced. More like Tezka really. In English, it's te-ZU-ka, with the "zu" like "zoo".

So.

Tezuka pronounced in English sounds similar to Bazooka. And with that in mind, I did this little number.



The image is actually a go at Tezuka's own caricature of himself. Not sure if he chewed gum though.

Enjoy!

New Tykings

Hey!

So thanks to Joe's input, I got some new designs for the Tykings. These are not final, but very close to it. This particular image was just a rough I colored.



I am pleased as to how its coming along! See ya!

Titans

So, many of you know I have a sick obsession with Gundam. I'm talking about the original series, and the following series based in the Universal Century timeline. Not this Gundam Wing or Gundam SEED or Gundam 00 or Gundam X or.... Well you get the idea.

So I am rewatching Zeta Gundam and I am just flabbergasted at how cruel the Titans are. In fact, they just destroyed a colony just as a show of force! Geez. Anyway, I hate the Titans, but not enough to not draw myself in a Titans uniform.



God I am a nerd. Next thing you know, I'll draw myself as a colony. That would be SWEET!

Tree Monster

I was looking at this awesome website and found a picture of a tree. It looked like a monster, so I drew it. Not as a monster, but as a tree.... Monster. Enjoy!