Pic Dump!

Here's some of the stuff I've been working on lately:

Ball

This was an attempt to create something that falls into the "uncanny valley."

This is Carys, a partially inked character.

"Poke"

"Clown"

Sleepy Sketch

Guess what I want to be doing right now?

The Tooth Fairy Back From Vacation

This started out as a scifi drawing, then became steampunk, and now is finally a modern tooth fairy. I have no idea how that happened.

Portraits!

Made with colored pencil on printer paper.

Patrick (from a photo)

Self Portrait (from life)

This was fun. I need use colored pencil more often.

Fanart: MS Paint Adventures

The last one is old. My tablet is still broken. I do not own any of the characters above. They can be found here; http://www.mspaintadventures.com/. It is a very good comic, but you have to be willing to slog through a slow beginning. HIGHLY recommended though.

Fade to Color comic

Here are some comic pages I've done since my tablet has been sad. I need to finish my other projects, but I'm really getting into this.

Talking about process (I am a total art nerd)

So, while this isn't finished completely (needs a background), I am rather happy with what I have so far.

Semi-completed work: "Egg" (Obviously influenced by Escher).

 I also wanted to talk about process a little, since I've never actually taken a class on photoshop, I have no idea if I am doing this the most convenient way or not for the technology. Instead, I have a tendency to think go about the artwork as though I am creating an oil painting and not a digital work of art.

Step one:  Sketch, done in ms paint because my computer was having issues. For an oil painting I would have used brightly colored paint that was mixed with a great deal of medium (so it would dry faster).

Step 2: Under painting. I used the basic brushes in photoshop, with the tablet pen point set to "soft" (not completely, but mostly). Usually when I draw I have the pen tip set the the hardest possible setting, because that allows me to have the finest lines with the most obvious variation possible. If this was an oil painting (and thus in color) I would have not used black, but instead a color which would shine through the other layers. Blue, green, or red, for portraits, generally depending on the mood I'm trying to set.

In this step I used my hand as a reference, but I tried to use my knowledge of light and reflection, to paint the egg and background from my imagination.

 Step 3: Shading. I used a dry media brush at a lower opacity (and varying shades and opacities) to mimic a charcoal on paper feel, and a wet media brush to create the highlights with white at various opacities.

And then added more highlights with the wet media brush To get the final highlights, and added a final layer between the sketch and the rest of the drawing (painting? image?) to get rid of the red lines.