5/26/2014 Mademoiselle Tireuse

Just finished another one!

11/6/2013 Monsters and Dames FINISHED!

FINISHED!

2/14/2012 Valentines Day Fun

Well, it's that time of year.  This one's for all you forever alones out there!  Worry not, because I am one of you!

Close friends know, but now my dear readers will know that today, to me, is known as; Happy Renew My Xbox Live Annual Subscription Day!!!  Rip out the party poppers, cuz this is a day of celebration!!!

I try to make a nice little ritual of chattin with friends, renewing my annual subscriptions, and my favorite part of the day; draw something sexy!  And you guys get to reap the rewards of my annual tradition! Enjoy, friends!

Summer Girl 2.0

Done!  It was fun revisiting the Summer Girl theme!

7/31/2012 WIP

Summer continues.  It's quite hot.

7/28/2012 WIP and Updates

It's been a while!  First off, I'd like to apologize for the long absence.  I'm really coming into realization that looking for a job, is a full time job.  There's been some good progress, but I'm still unemployed.  I've been pretty distracted from painting, and my comic, but I'm going to get back to concentrating on the things I love to do.

I've been trying to make a sequel to my Summer Girl painting I did last year.  With all the heat, and a long tradition of lack of proper air conditioning, I've had more than enough motivation.  Stay out of the heat, people!

NSFW speed paint

Woke up in a painting frenzy for some reason.  I should have been working on my storyboards, but I decided on doing a painting instead.  Still got lots of time until the day is over, so I guess I'll be getting to those storyboards!

Hit the jump to see the painting.  Warning! NSFW

6/23/2012 Speed Paint

I've been concentrating on my comic these days, so I haven't had a chance to do paintings.  I thought I'd kill 2 birds with 1 stone by practicing some painting, and doing a color study of one of my characters at the same time.

Gettin' in the Groove

I'm starting to get the hang of this whole inking business.  Some things I've learned:

-Don't leave ink out for too long, it gets too thick, and won't come off the pen.
-Ink seems to behave more predictably when it's a bit on the humid side
-Microns seem to be more reliable for crosshatching and drawing mechanical things (esp when using a ruler)
-Adjustable curves and rulers are awesome for drawing cars
-Ease out lines with some light hatching.

I think my problem from before was that I wanted each stroke to be perfect.  Honestly I'm liking my lines a lot better when I'm slightly off the mark the first time.  I didn't think you could "work in" a line with ink, but it's actually a bit more forgiving than i thought.

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In unrelated news, I rode my scooter today.  Got it all the way up to 43mph!  That may not seem like a big deal, but on a 50cc, it's a feat!  I'm glad the weather's been clearing up so that I can ride my scooter again.  Summer time is truly here!

Speaking of summer time, I remember I made a post last year around this time.  I remember this post quite dearly.  It was a bit of an artistic breakthrough for me.  It's around the time I decided on a direction i wanted to go as an artist, and this was the first painting I did in that vein.  If you don't remember it, please take another look.  It's not one of my most popular paintings, but it's very precious to me.

Memorial Day Speed Painting

Had a surge of productive energy this morning.  Thought I'd try out some speed painting. 

A bit of an update on my life:  Sadly I've been laid off from my job at 38 studios.  This got me thinking about my career.  I've been trying to be as versatile as i possibly could as an artist.  Leading me to work in many many different styles.  I'm going to try to use this opportunity to try to work on my own style a bit more.  I'm going to try to find a place to work where i don't have to bend my style opposite to how I want to progress as an artist. 

Also, I'm going to do a comic.

So stay tuned!!!

Office Madness

It's sure been a long long week.  The one good part is that I had a lot of energy to spend on painting.

I'm very happy how this painting came out.  It's super messy, but that's great!  I hope I can keep this momentum going.

5/23/2012 WIP

   Working on some more sketches!  Been quite stressed lately, but the upside is that whenever I'm doing poorly mentally, I seem to do much better artistically (lol, sigh...). 

sketching at work

Thought I'd share a quick sketch I just finished!

Taking a break from this painting...

I'm going to take a break on this painting.  This painting has just frustrated the hell out of me as i worked on it.  Parts of it I like, but there's just something about this painting that i just don't like.  I'm going to work on other paintings, but hopefully when i come back to this one I'll figure out exactly what i don't like about it...  Enjoy it in the mean time!

5/13/2012 WIP

Oh good heavens, this painting is taking a long time.  I want to say I'm about 50 percent at this point.  I hate it when i get ideas for new paintings before I'm done working on the current painting!

5/9/2012 WIP

Slowly chipping away at this one. 

5/7/2012 WIP

 
This drawing is a total mess at this point, but I gotta keep motivated, and keep posting!

As some of you can see, The blog is going through some redesigns.  I've been trying my hands in animation, so I thought I'd show that off a little bit.  Nothing's at 100% yet, so keep visiting, it's just going to get better!