Giada

I like her dad (or granddad?) Dino de Laurentis better, i think they way she says certain foods is incredibly annoying and forced. However, her boney and square smile make for a good caricature. This is done in Painter, i'm still getting used to it but I seem to be getting the hang of it.

Corel Painter

I just got painter. I've noticed on a couple blogs use it from time to time, I found it hard to believe that it was a digital painting (it looked pretty convincing) so I decided to obtain this program to see what it was all about. Here are some "paintings" I did just to get a feel of the program.

it's pretty fun and very convincing. I'll think i'll be using this more often but i still need to get used to program.

Ren

Got a Ren & Stimpy DVD from Netflix! It contains one of my favorite episodes, Sven Hoek! I got to snag some stills for references some of the expressions are just brilliant. Also mixed in there are expressions from the pilot "Big House Blues" there's a bizarre scene after Ren yells in Stimpy's ear about the big sleep where they're just sitting making the weirdest faces for about 20 seconds, I don't know what it has to do with anything but it's my favorite part!

i did these (above) first. not very good, i haven't drawn other people's drawings in a while

These are much better, i guess the first three are just warm ups.

Here are a couple others i snagged. These are just fantastic! Kudos to whoever animated Ren threatening Sven and Stimpy the quality was impeccable I couldn't believe it was for TV.

Lost in an Ocean of Umbrella's

I'm going to do some more with a theme of umbrella's, but for now this is it.

Mall Man

drew some doodles of people at a mall food court today. This is just one, i think i'm going to finish many others to share. If you're wondering about the girl in his head, it's just an old drawing i don't care for anymore and decided to draw over.

new doodles. new media.

I've been playing with color and media lately (I don't paint much), it's something i should learn to do considering i don't really have a portfolio.

One thing that i have been doing that is really fun and interesting to me is mixing media so i can get a nice contrast of texture (or create a new one!). I've been playing with perticuarlaly colored pencil and water color, occasionally i'll bust out my inks too like the picture above but not often.

This one above is just colored pencil (ugh... i badly screwed up on that nose). The thing that i didn't really care for about the pencils is that alone they create kind of an ugly texture if you want them opaque, that texture though is great for hair! Yet skin is a different story, also they can get a little muddy after a while and because it's so waxy if your on that top layer and you make a mistake that color has to be blended in but it won't go away, you're basically left with a smudge. I draw pretty loosely and this is a very, very bad thing for me. This happened a lot when you were in an area with very contrasty colors, look around the eyes and you'll see what i'm talking about.

I tried something different. Instead I only outlined in color pencil. I created a thin watercolor base of colors and gradients, next I used some pastel chalks to darken and smudge, and THEN i went in with color pencil. The nice thing is that I didn't have to apply it very thick as in previous drawings, which meant that nasty textures and unwanted smudges could be easily averted.

I'm still playing around with this, so I'll hopefully find new ways to color drawings.

Christmas Illustrations.

For Christmas i gave my Older Sister an illustration of her boyfriend, and her boyfriend a picture of her. I had them framed and then presented them.

This one i think is my favorite, it has a strong silhoutte and good framing with the use of the concertina, good colors too. 'Nuff said.

this one i ran out of time so i wasn't able to color in the rat and fully color in the books a nice opaque color. I tried to use the books to lead your eye to the top like a pyramid. The silhoutte in this one was trickier but i think i got it, also using the book and arm to frame the face worked out nicely.