Animals of the Chinese zodiac. Click the pic for a much larger (and nicer) view.
Sure hope it looks like them. Personal work, reffed off a piece in a magazine, pity the photographer recently passed on, he had some great portraits of rock stars.
Color variant. Originally the background was meant to be blue. But it had too much of a indie comic feel. Or so I felt.
Ink test painting on Stonehenge paper, with Photoshop color tweaks afterwards.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Illustration of a boy and his fawn. He’s very fond of it. Hahahaa.
Sorry. Bad pun.
Tired from working on vectors all day. So a non vector piece. The gallery show yesterday was great; the bunnies are kinda from a piece I saw there. Bunnies are fun. And headless deer. And Chirstina’s work is awesome; if you don’t like it then you should…urm… swallow leeches. Or something. I dunno I’m tired…
I was sketching in my other style, the one that is simpler and more stylized, and wondering if I should develop more work in this style.
Was playing with negative space and definition of shape with color verus line. It evolved into a Cinderella picture, with some rather hot ugly step-sister and step mother.
Now and then I try to draw fashion models and fall flat on my face. I simply hate drawing pencil thin girls, they have no figure. Then I go back to drawing bikini models and it feels better. It’s funny, fashion illustration; half the time I think fashion designers don’t actually want people to wear their clothes, their model sketches look like well-heeled aliens. I also found it kind of funny that someone accused me of being part of the ‘teens dying from anorexia’ problem. Urm. For the record none of my girls are anorexic. If they were, I would be getting jobs from every fashion magazine in town. Tsk – The things we say to be politically correct online.
Was trying out the pen on some proper Shikishi paper. Paper is thicker than I thought it would be. Pen doesn’t react interestingly on this, not any more different that the 100gsm cartridge paper I was using. Will try real ink with a brush at some other date.
Various sketches I did some time ago with an ink pen. I doodle stuff when I’m trying to come up with ideas.
