Mostly Skeleton Pirates

Got me a shiny new type of pencil (Sanford Ebony) so I've been up late drawing skeleton pirates. Because we finally got some warm weather and that's what I do when it gets warm.

Murderess and Dream Spider Thing

Still mucking around with new painting techniques and trying to use more complicated colour schemes. Though I'm still basically using a one-layer (initially) greyscale then slapping colour wash after colour wash on it. I want to be able to go right to colour but I am finding on less cartoony, more atmospheric stuff I don't enter into it with a really clear idea of what colours I want. I suppose a smarter, more patient person would do quick colour studies.Also not sure which version of spider guy I like better. I happened upon the green hazier one when I decided to see what playing with the gradient map will do.

Murderered!!!

About time, eh?

Oh Waiter...

My soup has that weird skin on it.

More painting experiments

Tried to be a little more complex with this painting. Looks overworked and hooboy did the colour ever suck so the greyscale is as far as this one goes. I find it hard to add colour to the painting after the fact when there's more deliberate shapes that need defining. Also I added a texture to it that I am deeply in love with but it obfuscated the painting too much. It's the burnt bottom of my old cookie sheet and it gave the painting a real.... cracked oil feel but I couldn't find a balance where it maintained the look and feel of the cookie sheet and still allowed for any of the image to be shown without it going way too dark.

Another upbeat, lively image!

Much more successful "water" in this one than the previous one where it doesn't come across at all. And definitely a ton more than the other one which was so bad it didn't even get posted. Progress! I tried something very different with the approach to this painting since the entire greyscale (except the hair) was done on one layer. it was interesting trying to retroactively paint the vague BG elements behind her. I think that added to the more "painterly" way it looks since none of the elements are separate and they can accidentally interact with each other in interesting ways.

I'M BACK DOING STUFF!

CRIPES! What a lazy slob! No updates since WHEN? yeesh. What the heck have I been doing? Well a lot of things honestly but none of them have been drawing-related. However to commemorate getting my Cintiq back (and not being able to use the pool at the gym tonight because of the aqua-fit people) I have done the first speed painting in AGES using some fun photoshop brushes I have never played with before. I did another thing earlier this week but... ergh it was not.... good... like... AT ALL. So anyways... not breaking any new ground here just getting back into enjoying playing around in photoshop.

Welcome to 2013! The year of Reckless Abandon!