More Commission Fairy

Heyyy, so it turns out when I want my digital paintings to look more 3-d and form-heavy, I just have to delete the linework and continue from there. I wish I could do that in a painting studio in real life.

Anyway, fairy in a jar! It's not done yet but it's at a good stopping showing-off point.

Yay Commissions!

So here's some linework for a thingy my buddy comissioned.

even more sketchy

So, I might actually do this comic? Like, for real this time instead of just saying that? It sure would be embarrassing if I didn't, huh?

More Sketchy Goodness

HEY. More sketchyness. And a dude this time, instead of just the chick. The story's kinda about teenaged depression (what am I talking about, it's entirely about teenaged depression) so I've been listening to the music I had in high school. Decidedly angrier than the stuff I listen to at the moment, but fun nonetheless.

I'm kinda REALLY EXCITED about this story. I get to draw emo kids. and ghosts. and creepy stuff.

New Thing

The first is for a long comic I've just loosely nailed down the plot for. The Second is half of a zip-hoodie design for Threadless. The other half will be much more interesting.

Oh, Google, why do you hurt my eyes?

So just now I was google searching "emo guy" to find some reference. I thought "hey, emo kids are usually the general shape and size I'm looking for. There will probably be a few useful pictures."

I did not know the depths to which the internet plummeted. Until now. That search is like the Mariana Trench of google searches. It's like "oh hey fish....hey plankton...hey slightly neon fish...OMFG WHAT IS THAT THING WITH THE TEETH" Only, with a lot more sloppily applied eyeliner. And boys kissing. I didn't know boys kissing was such a big part of the emo culture. Certainly wasn't at either of my high schools, far as I know.

Anyway, back to feeling like a huge creep trying to ignore a bunch of photos of 16 year old dudes smoochin.

More Comic Experimenting

Even more messing around with comic stuff. Found a way less labor intensive method of blocking out the panels and filling in the gutter, didn't have to open Photoshop to do it (which is a good thing for my poor, slow laptop).

Yesterday, my 30-day trial on Painter 12 ran out, and I immediately started to feel the withdrawal effects. I got so frustrated so fast! Painter is the best drawing program I've ever used. It makes Photoshop look horrible. It mkes sense though, since photoshop wasn't really intended for drawing, its for photos. Duh. Anyway, I immediately had to go find a real copy of Painter so I could scratch the itch.

I've basically gotten addicted to drawing every day. It's what got me out of bed at a reasonable hour today, but also what made me stay up til 4:30 last night. "I've got a shiny program to play in. No time for sleeping."

Problem, though, is that I'm having trouble drawing in my sketchbook now that I've been using the tablet so much. It's kinda sucky, but at least I'm getting a little better with the tablet. It makes things a million times easier and cleaner, and cuts out like four steps in my process.