Spiral Mohawk

For some reason, the colors are more vivid on the Cintiq, than it does with my other computer monitor

'Finished the former digital coloring project, coloring a sketch drawing. It took a few try outs and layers to get the finished product. I think it looks pretty cool from where it started.

The sketch was actually done with a red Col-Erase pencil grayscaled in Photoshop

Works in Progress...

 

War Elephant is finally getting some colors!!!

It has been a great summer for new artworks!!! Some of the digital pieces that I'm working on... 'Kinda cool balancing the art projects made from digital and through traditional means.

Digital Coloring Project... Texturing and Coloring a shaded drawing

 My last CLY CARD of the latest batch

Girl Close-up

I started (today) trying out CG painting once again. Practicing on my recent studies. It wasn't supposed to... but she ended up looking like Morrigan from Darkstalkers. More soon.

YeaHyrrrssss!!! +Rant.

After the wacom debacle, I finally figured something out...

***this is a work in progress***

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CG Model Painting

So, I tried another portrait painting. This one came off more finished looking than the first one.

I've always been afraid on trying portrait painting. I can't paint, but its great to see that I can do it. A little more practice then I'll get used to it. On this piece I tried doing it differently than the first one. I sketched out the guidelines of the face, referencing from a runway picture I stumbled on a google search. Then, I put in the basic colors on a different layer.

This time around, the "multiply" on the pen is off. This meant the colors wont be belnding on top of each other as it did on the Omahyra painting. I used solid colors of more varying shades, overlaying them on top of each other. Then, I added the shades of the background.

I, then, smoothen everything out, or mostly everything, to come up with the first picture above. It's almost done. I just need to perfect the tones and make the facial features more distinguished. What do you think? Does this style of painting look better than the Omahyra one?

CG Painting Omahyra...

This is my very first time painting in Photoshop... It was weird. Not used to it. This one is a little "rough" on the edges. It needs to be perfected. Looks cool though, I think.

I referenced a picture of supermodel, Omahyra Mota. She played Arclight in X-Men: The Last Stand.

EDIT: I added a "brushed-out" version.

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The last of 'em... not really...

I don't really know what the future has in store for me. But I wanna keep pursuing this kind of "fashion"-inspired illustrations...

Like the others, these were all sketched out with col-erase pencil, scanned, and were digitally cleaned up. I painted them with Photoshop using the Multiply- Brush Opacity combination... in Wacom (Way-com? WAH-cowm? whatever...) tablet. Illustrating these is pretty much the highlight of my thesis year. These are the kind of art I like to do and continue to do. It's my biggest passion and I am really pleased of how much my work has evolved since drawing anime and superheroes.

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4 more to go... yeppies...

Some of my remaining digital paintings. I hope you like 'em.

Shout out to Talar and the Overnighter's Club (see links) who stayed up the late hours and helped me crank these out during thesis crisis crunch time!!! Good times... The hours sucked, but man, did I miss the discipline and the creative company.

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Darkness Angst...

Yeah... very angsty.

The original sketch took forever... I had to keep pasting papers together. It was a little big.

Drawn in col-erase pencils, scanned, cleaned up in photoshop, and CG-colored. He's part of my the mock fashion ads in my thesis. This artwork looks great as a stand-alone.

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Biatch Batch 2...

More... The last one is paint bucketed, while the rest are painted. Everything was sketched out first in col-erase pencil, scanned, cleaned-up, colored in Photoshop.

Shout out to Talar (see links) for the painting lesson and assists on some of the pieces!!!

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Nekkid & Outrageous...

Here are some of the sketches I did for my "fashion illustrations" from my film and the CG-painted counterparts...

They were supposed to look like fashion ads when layered together. But I never got around to doing that... so I never accomplished the look I was going for, which was the absurdity of most fashion ads. You know, the ones where like, in a group of 6 half clothed- models, there's one person that's naked for no reason. Here they are as separates.

Shout out to Talar (see links) for the painting lesson and assists on some of the pieces!!!

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Design Collages, Screenshots 2...

These are from the motion graphics portion of my thesis project...

They actually "move" and animate. I gotta figure out how to upload that 4GB movie online. Also, the actual artworks from this scene will also be uploaded later on. I LOVED doing these illustrations. When you're on crunch time finishing A film, you gotta hold on to something that's gonna keep you going. Hope you like 'em.

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