Gouache Portraits

Something I did during the storm and other days...

I'm getting the hang of using gouache. Skin tones are kinda hard.

This one was my first attempt, which was not as successful as the first 2 pictures.

And these are made of inks and watercolors (a little gouache)...

Flower Girl

Jpeg of the Digital guide

  Another new print! I'm cranking these out the last few days. This was a revamp of an old ink drawing that I did in an Inking class.

This print is for sale for $5 and measures 16x12.5

 "Flower Girl" is a 5-color silkscreen print (blue, pink, white, black, and silver transparency) on craft paper. The paper was a bit crinkled and the paint made some of the layers a bit shiny. But, regardless, I'm really happy how it came out!

What it looked like on the Laptop monitor

 It started out in Photoshop. I use a Cintiq connected to my laptop. It's a bit screwey sometimes, since the 2 monitors show different colors. My laptop always show the duller colors.

What it looked like on the Cintiq, preparing the screens

 After creating a digital guide (each color is set on separate layers), each layer is turned black and white. I, then, print them on tracing vellum to become my separations.

5 separations printed on tracing vellum

Brush Pen Sketches...

I'm starting to put colors on this, but is on hold due to the comic...

I've been drawing a few things for the last few weeks, but have not gotten around to scan and post them yet. These are a series of brush pen drawings and shaded with a black conte crayon. I'm currently working on a comic book project, which is why the digital coloring on these was put on hold.

An old portrait sketch that I recently inked

 

This one was done on watercolor paper and started coloring too

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.

Face Sketch on Flash

This portrait is drawn out in FLASH... made a week or two ago.

YeaHyrrrssss!!! +Rant.

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

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

xoxo

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.

xoxo