Red

Done for a weekly draw. Prompt: Red!

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Life of the Dramatic

I actually painted this about two weeks ago, and it seems a suiting time to post it online and share since the drama don't stop!

I sold a woman a print of this and she later asked me the story behind it, but first I asked her interpretation of it. It was so different from the place I painted it from I found it quite interesting and remarkable what she got from it. I suppose that's the great thing about art. You put it out there, let it go and you never know how people will interpret it. She loved it and thought the woman was extremely strong and proud in the image, burning brightly against the dark.  Maybe you'll feel that way too! Maybe you see something different! Regardless, enjoy!

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What You Do in the Fish Bowl 3

And the final one!  Here is the 3 all together as they were sold:

Doing this in Flash was a fun and interesting experiment as I've never used the program for a project quite like this. Vector is always interesting to me because I love a painterly style so much, my first instinct is to straight out paint a drawing, but I like how these turned out so I may do more images like this.

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What You Do in the Fish Bowl 2

Part 2! Check out the first here: Fish Bowl 1

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What You Do in the FishBowl

Part 1 of 3 of a series. Sold some of these as prints and the triptych this past weekend at a writers conference which was a lot of fun! This woman came about a couple weeks ago in a dream I had. :l The other 2 images will be uploaded later this week. (Gotta spread out the updates!)

The original sketch was in Photoshop and the rest was completed in Flash.

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Praying for SciFi

Howdy howdy howdy!

Recently 'finished' (as if paintings are ever done, am I right?) up this painting and wanted to share! I could probably dump another 10 hours into this but I got to the point I was spinning my wheels a bit.

And a gif of a few process shots - I meant to take more. O: Will try for more next time.

The original sketch was in pen done in my little moleskin. It didn't really change that much from the sketch, just small details and adding details to her floaty hair things, hands, face, helmet, where her corset thing comes up to. Praying For SciFi - a blue alien lady.

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2013 - Gunna try for lots of updates!

I've been working on quite a few projects recently that I'm pretty excited about. Hopefully I'll be able to reveal some of that stuff soooooooon. But for now;

Enjoy! I call her Pointer Lady. I'm pretty terrible at naming things.

I plan on updating this blog 3 times a mo. at minimum so look foward to at least 2 more updates this month! :D

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Pumpkin Spice Life

This was ready for Halloween, but I've been in a weird mood and am only uploading it now.  Enjoy it anyways!

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Goat Girl and Crooked Prancer

 Sup artfans!

You all may remember this little character - It's goat girl! I tried giving her a name and have a bit of a story around her but I have not come up with anything more suiting than just Goat Girl. It's who she is! Still playing around with colours for her but I like these for now.

Aaaaand a new painting I did last night! Gotta be creepy cause it's October and Hallowe'en right?! Right. This just kind of started out as painting using one brush. Funfun! 

 Crooked Prancer

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(This was supposed to auto-update earlier today and it didn't. I have no idea why it didn't work, sometimes technology just has it out for me. Anyways, enjoy!)

Ride a Unicorn and Dump the Sketches!

Here's a little update for you all!

Earlier this month I went to a friend's beautiful wedding and wanted to make the couple something a little special!  I've known Bonnie since we were children and I remember the days when I used to draw her unicorns and pegusus all the time. As a little kick I wanted to draw them something fun and special. I had this printed and gave them a framed version at their wedding. I've heard from the source that they are quite happy with it and have hung it up in their home. (:

 Aaaaaaand a big sketch dump XD

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Follow the Ghost

I've been keeping busy! Today is another digitized image from the sketchbook. I like how I approached this one and the end result - enjoy!

 

And a little extra bonus - the sketch version from the sketchbook!

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Fawn

 

Digitized out of the sketchbook. Just a nice relaxing time at Starbucks (: Like the good old days of getting strange looks at my monstrous laptop and big ol' Intous tablet.

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Be Brave!

What an intense month it's been! I just have to be like Merida and stay strong and Brave in the face of adversity! (Also old age - I turned 24 bah!)

 The full image! I think I will make it into a bookmark for myself!

 Details shot of her face!

 A scary thing happened when I turned off some layers when I was getting started. AHHHHhhhhhh..!!

What it looked like in the sketchbook - my fingers popped into the scan P: I love working in this small format with pen. I originally drew this the night after coming home from seeing the movie in theaters the first week it was released (very delayed, I know - my free time has been far and inbetween) and I didn't know if it was Merida or Meridah... after several moments of thought I decided to add the H at the end, a few more moments and I didn't think the H should be there and tried to draw a bear over it - haha. All laugh at my fail bear. (I know what I should practice next!)

So I scanned a full sketchbook of small pen works - so expect more frequent updates cause I finally set up my scanner!

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Not my style paintings?

I wasn't sure I was going to post these or not but I think they are kind of interesting. I've been trying to 'paint out' some things lately and a fresh style helps.  It's pretty fun, but it makes me miss painting with real acrylics.

A note about each painting:
"this girl" - Sorry about yellow and purple boobie! O:
"Lady in Yellow" - It was difficult for me to leave her face like that. I feel like it works better than anything more I would have done to it... and I liked that it unsettled me.
"Plague Doctors" - I thought this would be cool to try with the loose style/1 brush mode I've adopted for these.
"Lady in Purple" - Was the first one I did. Also, sorry if it just appears as a black blob on your screen. It shows up a nice purple on my cintiq but DARK on my secondary crappy screen that was rescued from the trash for me to use.

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Blizzard Holiday Card Contest

I decided to challenge myself before the holidays and entered Blizzards 2011 holiday card contest in hopes of winning some cool SC2 Blizzard swag.

Here was my entry:

I think it's looks a bit like a Valentine's Day card too... Except for, ya know, the christmas lights and christmasy things P:

Here is a bit of a bigger image of the main splash:

I didn't win, but I think it's a cute image.  I tried to use a bit of a different pallete and attempted to use brushes and settings I don't normally. I think it turned out, so I suppose the experiment was a success! P:

You can visit Blizzard's website HERE and check out the winners!  Congrats to them!

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It's a new year

Hope everyone had a fun time ringing in the New Year. It is now 2012, as crazy as it sounds. 2011 passed in a ferver of excitement and deadlines. I did more reading in the past year than I had since I think grade school, and I feel better for it. (: I just started reading A Feast for Crows today, and I cannot wait to read more later tonight. (AFFC being the fourth book in A Song of Ice and Fire aka A Game of Thrones for you tv viewers)

Alsoooo, yes!  This is my 100th blog posting. It seems like such an astronomical number when I think about all the entries that had to be made, but I suppose my updating every day in November sketch-a-thon really helped P:

I like where this little character sketch is going.. she looks like she would be amazing to animate. Trying to learn flash... I find it irritating for the most part. B:

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The Lamp

Made this illustration up for a cover of a little publication called The Lamp.  The Lamp is 'an international journal of creative writing for graduate and professional students based at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.'

Had a lot of fun with this one so enjoy it!


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Tonal/Lighting/Contrast

 

If this works correctly, this will upload while I am in Florida where I am unsure if I will have internet or not!

This was done a little while ago during a night of no rest. >:

I included all the different sizes because I think they all work in different ways.  I really like the smallest one actually. I was trying to play with lost and found edges as well as go really dark almost like it was emerging... It's actually not as dark as I intended it to be but I figure going from monitor to monitor there are probably people who can't even see it in it's current state P:

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Herbie

Well, here ya go, folks! It's Herbie (what a horrible name) fully painted up based on this sketch of him I did for day 4 of November Draw.

This felt so good to do. Since my background painting contract ended, I sure have missed painting.  Of course, I enjoy painting characters way more than anything else so I hope to get out quite a few more in the near future.  I have so many projects I want to do, and yet, sitting on my couch and playing Arkham City is sooo good.

Also, I took this shot while painting for some reason or another.  I think it's pretty funny looking.

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11

This is Zed.  She was once the leader of a strong race of warriors when she was injured in battle and barely survived.  Nearly dead and forgetting who she was, pity was taken and a medicine woman was able to save her using hybrid techniques of ancient practices and electronic devices.  She now lives a mundane day to day life, the people around her always fearful that she will get her memories back.

I like this sketch, when I first started my drawing session nothing was coming out, just multitudes of garbage, it was terrible.  I'm glad this progressed organically turning into a lot of fun.

I am probably going to be making a turnaround and character page for her to do some more exploration, I really like the direction this is going.

Also, yesterday I decided to just my website, I like the look of it a lot more... decided to make the header out of a soon to be released coloured pic of Herbie. Lol, don't know why I named him that.

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