Some more Watercolours from the last few days

time: About 5 hours (drawing and painting) -- medium: Windsor & Newton Watercolour cakes
with digital touch ups
I didn't finish this one, mostly because doing a graphic novel without an official script is quite silly. And I didn't plan it out that well. I kind of had a moment of madness and started drawing.

time: about 2 hours; medium: Windsor & Newton Watercolour cakes

I have this painting on my wall, it's the cover of the novel "A Family Affair" by Maeve Haran, and it's one of the nicest watercolour paintings I've seen -- and I tried to do something similar. I don't like how it turned out, but it was worth a shot.

time: about 3 1/2 - 4 hours; medium: Windsor & Newton Watercolour cakes

He's totally missing a hand. But that's okay. Lesson learned.

My digital work is kind of sitting on the backburner, right now, since my cintiq still hasn't arrived and the intuitiveness of traditional painting is kind of taking me over. Once I get that cintiq, however, I can tell you that my digital work will be done in like a DAY.

Anyway, enjoy some watercolour explorations. I hope you have just as much fun looking at them as I did doing them.

EDIT: They kind of scanned AWFULLY because they're in a book - and my scanner's not a huge fan of books.

Little Red Ride Storyboard Teaser.

Thought you might enjoy this. Might actually make it. I wouldn't animate it though, that would take too much time. Might just make it a moving painting.

MUSIC: "Half Remembered Dream" Composed by Hans Zimmer for Inception

I found my watercolours

So I took them for a spin in my new sketchbook. The first one's pretty good. the second one I got tired, so it's a bit crappy, but I Thought I'd post it anyway. They're about 1/2 an hour each.





medium: windsor newton watercolour cakes, waterbrush, love.


Man traditional looks so much better.

A Painting a Day...

I've had a very eventful day. In a bad way.

I've also been practicing my painting. And I got a little sick of the black and white, but since I did this in grayscale i just had to use hue saturation and colour balance --

it was about 30 minutes in ps.

Maybe This Time

time: about 20 minutes; medium: photoshop

I was writing this morning, and I ended up wanting to draw these two singing.

Then I realized I have work to do.

So here's the WIP. I took down some posts, because I didn't like them.

I was sick today

So I couldn't do much of my freelance. So I played video games instead. Probably a bad idea.

I played Monster Hunter. I destroyed Tigrex. It was good.

Mountain Journey

time: 4 hours; medium: photoshop, intuos3 6x8

Some Solace visual development. It's the S.S. Valkyrie cruising through some mountain range, inspired by Nathan Fowkes' work on How to Train your Dragon. If you don't know Nathan Fowkes, you should go check him out now.

I decided I should probably post some actual environment visual development. I thought about putting colour on it, but I'm just going to practice greyscale for a while.

The True Origins of the Persian Cat

This is the product of mine and Julia's silliness and Roz's nickname for persian cats. It was well worth it.

Please note: I do not actually encourage you to punch your cat in the face. I do not endorse animal cruelty.

New Business Card

Does anyone know where I can get this printed, without getting it shipped to me? :)

Alternative fronts:

Pixel Silliness

Just a collection of some pixel stuff I did the last ... hour or so. Nothing is too technically accurate, I'm saving that anal retentiveness for the freelance.

I also bought Illustration Board galore today, so expect so see some traditional work up soon. Woo!

Endeavours once ventured long ago, now ventured again

Not only did I watch Office Space today - which I haven't seen since March, I've also been very busy sculpting. Like very busy. I'm trying to get it done before Julia leaves Cuppa Coffee so it can be fired in their kiln, as opposed to me firing it in my residential oven that will result in cancer casserole a la mode later.

So it's supposed to be done soon -- but it doesn't look like it as I just ran out of sculpey. So here it is.

It's Alex:

Except her hairs down, and she has only half her hair, a gimp hand, and her trench coat isn't done yet. But I was thinking her hair came out pretty rockin'. But i really placed her belt too low - and her crotch so I have to move those up. But that'll be done when the Sheridan bookstore opens on Monday and I can go and get more sculpey.

Little Red Riding Hood - a painting series

time: 45 minutes; medium: photoshop

Little Red Riding Hood is by far my favourite fairy tale, and I thought in honour of finding all my old visual development work for my fourth year film which was originally based off Little Red Riding Hood -- I would make a series of paintings.

And I'm going to Deserres today, to get some illustration board and I'm going to town on it.

Sketchbook update.

About 2 minutes a head. Har har. Got inspired by Ed Avenir's awesome style again. I do enjoy indulging in character design now and then -- but I'll stick to layouts.

Scouring my Harddrive -- Works in Progress that never got finished

Scouring through my harddrive, trying to find the first painting here to finish it, I discovered a plethora of unfinished work. A lot of the work was just plain bad, and it's obvious as to why it never got done. But some of them surprised me, and I'm gonna do them when I have time.

But I decided to post them up, and show you what happens when you take a break from something or you know, you do your film instead of just dicking around in photoshop.

Enjoy.

A streetfighter tribute, I did this after I saw the most glorious image: here. I do not take credit for the linked image, it's just amazing and I had to share it. Time for this painting: about 3 hours so far.

I think the only reason this didn't get done, is because of my film. I was interested in pursuing a style similar to Scot Drake for a while, and this has a nice atmosphere to it. But it just never got done.
Time for this painting: about 4-5 hours.

A Venture into the world of pixel art. I could expand on it, but frankly, i've done better. But I liked this as an initial experiment.

This was based off my very first film idea, which in retrospect, would have been a better film -- but I ended up going all musical on myself. There's supposed to be pirates in here, but I guess they just never happened.
Time for this: about 2-3 hours.

She kind of looks like Dianne Agron here. Odd. Time: about 30 minutes.

Happy Canada Day

here is a kitten.