The final Yapra city for Star Lost
Hudspeth Games
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Cover Art for Do
The cover for Do is coming together! Keep up with the process on Daniel's Flickr, Here is where it's at right now!
For those who don't remember, "Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple" is a co-op gaming book I illustrated for, the line art for the cover is mine, but it is the magic of Daniel that is coloring it and making it come together! WOW! This is going to look GREAT!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Bunny Bride
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Green Leopard
Monday, March 7, 2011
Scanner is OK!
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Scanner Blues
Well my scanner stopped working, it just thinks and thinks and never does anything. Time to break out the money for new scanner. :( This one lasted only a year, what a pain.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Blue Self Portrait
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Yapra Executive Office
Another alien from Star Lost - these are the Yapra, a species of corporate fat cats similar in appearance to humans. The males treat the females of the species like slaves and have extreme inequality.
Star Lost is a Quentin Hudspeth game. Find the author of Star Lost at his blog here: www.hudspethgames.com
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
House Girl Sketch
Click for big!A quick sketch- the 17 year old girl from the last episode of House - I really liked her sweater, just had to pause and draw it!
Belle of the Ball - Friendly Reminder
Here's a friendly reminder to keep up with Daniel Solis on Flickr to see Belle of the Ball developed. My drawings are beginning to show up on cards - neat!
Paint Party - Surreal Zebra
My friends and I like to use "Paint Parties" as an excuse to get together sometimes. We break out a bunch of small canvases and paints and do whatever comes to mind. This is one of those paintings, I thought it was particularly interesting. Acrylics and Sharpie, with just a little photoshop touch up.
Click for big (Flickr)
Click for big (Flickr)
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Portrait - Practice with Inking Hair
Sketch of the day again, this time I used my brush pen to practice the lovely swirling hair of this woman.
Picture originally from ShahStudio's Photostream, special thanks to them. Find the photo at the link below:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shahstudios/280770888/in/faves-25961674@N08/
Picture originally from ShahStudio's Photostream, special thanks to them. Find the photo at the link below:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shahstudios/280770888/in/faves-25961674@N08/
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Pretty Girl in Blue
Playing around with markers and my new brush pen.
Credit to Brent Gambrell for the photograph I used to sketch this from. Thanks Brent, your photography is lovely.
Original Photo Here
Original Photo Here
Monday, January 17, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
So if anyone here likes Salvador Dali, then you surely know one of his more famous paintings "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening." OK, in case that doesn't ring a bell, this is the painting below:
And this below this text is an image I made entirely using stock photos...
Fun! The woman alone is 9 people stuck together, if I had the time, money and will it'd be cool to shoot the exact photos needed but as it is it's fun to collage.
This was made entirely with free stock images (except for the gun, I ended up needing to photograph that myself.)
Thanks to the following Flickr Common's photographers:
belgianchocolate rich115 S Baker
permanently scatterbrained
babasteve
suneko
kevindooley
claudiogennari
Millicent_Bystander
EuroMagic
Cliff1066
buntalshoot
aliwest44
stickywikit
wolfgang staudt
audreyjm529
John-Morgan
Mara1
ejhogbin
stig nygaard
Xerones
*Micky
Also used:
Wikimedia Commons
MorgueFile
Image*After
stock.xchng
photoXpress
Labels:
Flickr,
morguefile,
Salvador Dali,
Salvador Dalí,
Stig Nygaard,
Wikimedia Commons
I've branched out into baby hats... Just kidding, I've only made this one... My good friend's lovely daughter Andie is modeling this chic acorn hat I made...
It's crochet, you can probably tell it was the first thing I'd crocheted in months from all the uneven stitching, but it turns out it's just as freaken' cute with this little girl wearing it!
It's crochet, you can probably tell it was the first thing I'd crocheted in months from all the uneven stitching, but it turns out it's just as freaken' cute with this little girl wearing it!
Labels:
Arts,
Craft,
Crochet,
Facebook,
Knitting and Crochet
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
I did a quick SpongeBob sketch to try out my new PITT brush pen for inking. I love the line variation, and it holds up well under long strokes- no problems with bleeding or drying and the flow is great. However I'm going to have to get used to controlling the thing, the slightest shiver in my hand and I got a wobbly line - BUT that's my problem, not the pen's, so I'm going to keep practicing on that. Overall, I'm very satisfied with the pen.
And then I was bored so I colored it...
As always, click for bigger!
And then I was bored so I colored it...
As always, click for bigger!
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011
Brian has been wanting a tattoo for a while and finally settled on a subject. He wants a SpongeBob SquarePants that is made to look like an exaggerated Brian after work at Long John Silver's, commemorating his time spent busting his butt in the food industry.
My instructions are to make it look as gross and grizzly as possible...
OK so with that in mind, here is the first preliminary sketch for Brian's tattoo...
This is being heavily influenced by the awesome find of Robert Ryan Cory's flickr page filled with SpongeBob production art... NEAT!
My instructions are to make it look as gross and grizzly as possible...
OK so with that in mind, here is the first preliminary sketch for Brian's tattoo...
This is being heavily influenced by the awesome find of Robert Ryan Cory's flickr page filled with SpongeBob production art... NEAT!
Pretty Face From Lou
Sketch of the day, sometimes I just like to sketch pictures of lovely people.
This picture brought to you by Luciano Noble II - Lou O' Bedlam's Photostream is a nice place to see lots of pretty faces that are great to just practice sketch with. http://www.flickr.com/photos/louobedlam/
Original Photo Here
This picture brought to you by Luciano Noble II - Lou O' Bedlam's Photostream is a nice place to see lots of pretty faces that are great to just practice sketch with. http://www.flickr.com/photos/louobedlam/
Original Photo Here
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
After getting frustrated with my micron pens one too many times, I decided to go out and find the new pen for me. I was looking for something to give more delicate detail control, but with a nice variation in line. I also need something waterproof, because I love to use watercolors over pen.
I quickly stumbled across a variety of lovely professional brush pens, these seem to be the lead runners in the world of inking:
Kuretake Brush Pen
Pentel Pocket Brush Pen.
From some extra research however I found that the Pentel has trouble with drying out, especially with long strokes. I'm still keen on trying the Kuretake, but the price is a bit prohibitive at the moment. A bit more in the price range is below:
Uni-ball Pocket Brush Pen - Fine
Zebra Disposable Brush Sign Pen
But before I sprang the "big bucks" ($12) for these beauts, I decided to check out the local art supply store. To my fabulous surprise, I found this little number:
The Faber-Castell PITT artist pen, in black 199 brush tip (B). It's waterproof, light-fast, india ink with a soft (solid) tip. It creates very delicate lines, and bold calligraphy swooshes, and even hold up on flow for those extra long lines. I'm going to try this bad boy out a few times, see if it's pleasant features hold out over long, hard use, but for now I'm quite delighted!!
I quickly stumbled across a variety of lovely professional brush pens, these seem to be the lead runners in the world of inking:
Kuretake Brush Pen
Pentel Pocket Brush Pen.
From some extra research however I found that the Pentel has trouble with drying out, especially with long strokes. I'm still keen on trying the Kuretake, but the price is a bit prohibitive at the moment. A bit more in the price range is below:
Uni-ball Pocket Brush Pen - Fine
Zebra Disposable Brush Sign Pen
But before I sprang the "big bucks" ($12) for these beauts, I decided to check out the local art supply store. To my fabulous surprise, I found this little number:
The Faber-Castell PITT artist pen, in black 199 brush tip (B). It's waterproof, light-fast, india ink with a soft (solid) tip. It creates very delicate lines, and bold calligraphy swooshes, and even hold up on flow for those extra long lines. I'm going to try this bad boy out a few times, see if it's pleasant features hold out over long, hard use, but for now I'm quite delighted!!
Labels:
Faber-Castell,
Pentel,
Supplies,
Uni-ball,
Writing Instruments
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Starting off the new year with a new Flickr Photostream and a new self portrait here to kick start us... click for bigger.
Visit My New Flickr PhotoStream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/57882967@N06/
Visit My New Flickr PhotoStream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/57882967@N06/
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