Blog Redsign

Strap on your seatbelts, this blog is going to get redesigned!

Oro

Got to mess around with dummy oils this time around.  Fun stuff!  I'll have to think of a way to keep the texture of the paper, but clean up the sketchy line work.

2/25/2012 WIP

Oro!  The man of gold.  Still working on this one.  Utilizing the layer properties to keep the colors in check was definitely a good idea.  Also, the texture from the paper doesn't get obliterated immediately this way!  I have a few more tricks up my sleeve that I want to use for this one.  Stay tuned!

2/23/2012 WIP

For those who don't know already, this is Oro.  He's a cool character from the most beautiful fighting game ever made, Street Fighter 3: Third Strike.  The observant reader will know that there's already been a WIP of this drawing, but I thought I'd update.  Oro's been also called Wrinkly McScrotum face, and the previous drawing was not doing his nickname justice.  So i threw his face down ugly canyon, and he hit every rock on the way down.  Now I'm much happier with his face, and will begin painting soon!

Friendship is Magic

I'm going to call this one done!  Had a long day at work today, but thankfully had some time to finish the painting up.

Didn't really learn any new tricks with this painting, but I'm getting back into using layer types.  In the past, i've tried to steer away from using layer types, and just painting in a single layer.  I thought it'd be a good way to practice my color control.  It has been pretty good for that, but I've been losing a lot of texture and depth in my final pieces.  There's also the option of creating texture with brushes, but when rendering the texture kind of just disappears.

That's all for tonight.  Remember.  Friendship is Magic!

2/21/2012 WIP

  That last experiment with the soft edge brushes wasn't working out so well, so I repainted from scratch.  Soft edge brush only was definitely a mistake.  also, working from my darkest value out to my lightest value was screwing with me.  Must remember to block out the shapes of the shadows and the shapes of the lighter forms and then work from there.

Also, must remember to keep colors under control.  The colors on this one is much more to my liking.

2/20/2012 WIP

Hello everyone!  I hope everyone enjoyed the weekend!  Fortunately, I had Monday off too, because of president's day, giving me time to do some fan art.  Neither of these are by any means done, but I wanted to start documenting my progress by posting unfinished/ in progress art.

The My Little Pony piece is starting to get out of hand for me.  The colors are becoming hard to keep under control, since the characters are so wildly colored, it's hard to try to pick out the right colors on the first go.  I have a few ideas to pull them back together.  I'm also trying to paint only using soft edge brushes.  This seems to be giving me an overall soft piece, but I'm trying to figure out how to get some depth, and layering while keeping it soft. 

Barely even got started on my Third Strike fan art.  I always seem to gravitate towards oddball characters.  I thought Oro and Q were the coolest designs in third strike, so i thought I'd do some fan art for the old pooper.  It's too bad that Oro has about 0 mass appeal.  It'd be cool to see him in one of the newer games.  Anyway!  I'll be posting more WIPs of this one soon!

Drum Machine

It's been a while!  I've been so busy with work, I seemed to have neglected posting!  From now on, I'm going to start posting in-progress shots as well as sketches, so I don't leave this blog unattended for weeks on end.  So check in often!

I've also been entertaining the idea of bringing back the LiveStream.  I had a lot of fun running those streams, and oddly enough I learned a lot of new techniques and ideas for paintings while running those streams.  The only problem was that towards the end of my streaming "career,"  I just had zero to a couple viewers at most, and it started feeling silly even bothering.  If anyone knows how to promote something like that, please send me some advice!  As long as there are viewers, I'd love to start running those again.

This painting came into being because I wanted to draw more robots.  I've been becoming more and more interested in robot designs that are more on the dumb side.  By that I mean designs that are redundant, or serves no purpose.  For example, I would describe a human piloting a robot that rides a bicycle as being hilariously dumb (sweet, a new idea for a painting!).  I just wanted to design something that was a clustering mess of mechanical parts, and this is what came out!

DJ Shadow Secret 7"

 Voting for DJ Shadow Secret 7" started today!  I entered this competition with this piece:

 vote for me!

Freak Out

Since the DJ Shadow competition has been pushed back, I thought I'd post some more paintings I've worked on during the holiday break. 

I've been practicing new techniques and specifically trying to paint faster.  This painting turned out super messy because of how fast I tried to paint it, I've recently tried to step away from using just soft brushes for the entire painting, and in this one I used a hard edged brush.  I like the impressionistic feel this one gives off, but I think next time I'm going to try to use a blend of different brush types. 

I'm also trying to use more saturated colors, and instead of mixing colors on the canvas, try to be more deliberate with the color choices I put down.  It's been fun!  It's always fun to try new things.  I hope you enjoy the results!

Mossy

Hi guys!  This is one of the paintings i've finished over the break i had during the holidays.  I'm submitting this to the DJ shadow secret 7" contest.

http://www.talenthouse.com/design-for-dj-shadow-secret-7

Voting starts on the 11th, I'll post another message then, but please vote for me!

edit:  Seems like the voting date has been pushed back to the 20th, I'll send out another message then.

welcoming 2012!

Hi all!  This blog hasn't been able to get much love lately, I just wanted to tell everyone, HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

I'm going to post more often, I've been keeping quite busy lately.  I have a few paintings I've finished, but have been waiting for the right time to post them.  But I just wanted to send out some love to everyone who checks in on this blog, and the surfers of the internet.

May 2012 be a great year for everyone!

Sweet Ladies

I thought this would be a cute painting to do!  I hope you like it!

drawing dump

Just a bunch of drawings i've been doing.  Some of these will be paintings in the future!

Adventure Time!

The new job's been treating me pretty good!  I like the work.  It's satisfying, and i draw everyday!  During the commute I've been able to draw a lot.  I've been thinking about getting a tablet so i can maybe do some digital painting on the train, but for now, I'm having fun with the drawings that i do on the train. 

Also, I've been working on this adventure time fan art in my spare time!  Hope you like it!