2012 Digital Paintings

A few more random digital works, done little by little in between work on more important stuff.

A Bird-Like Thing and a Horse-Like Thing

The bird-like thing is a revamp of a character I made up in elementary school. The horse-like thing is the each uisge from Scottish folklore. Both were done in Photoshop from start to finish.

More Digital Monster Stuff

New batch of digital paintings. I'm continuing to explore ways to get the computer to mimic different types of media and textures. 

The character in the second one from the bottom belongs to DeviantArt user Artist-Kat. Her artwork can be viewed here: http://artist-kat.deviantart.com/ 

Cute Monster Contest!

Hey everybody!

This month I'm entered in a T-shirt contest on DeviantArt.com. The theme was "cute monsters" so I figured, hey! I can do the monster part at least! (I tried to do the cute part too but I've been told many times that my idea of cute is not everybody's.).  So if you have a DA account and like what you see, shoot me a VOTE! (Even if you've already voted for an entry in this contest, guess what? You can still vote for me! Yay!).

 Shirt Front

Shirt Back

Click here to vote: http://Ammonite-Amy.deviantart.com/art/Chompyhead-284886596 (The voting button is the one that says "I'd Wear This!" right under the "Add to Favorites" button).

Any and all votes, attention, promotion and/or support is greatly appreciated as there is a cash moneys prize and all proceeds will go to the very good causing of helping me pay off the new car I had to buy after my old one died last week. :/ 

Digital Art Roundup

I've been doing a lot of messing around with Photoshop lately. I love Photoshop as a program but I've never been crazy about doing anything more than sketching with it until recently, when I started really getting into trying out different brushes and techniques for creating new things. I've found that by downloading some good textured brushes and really playing around with the presets, it is possible to make drawing on a tablet feel a lot more intuitive and closer to drawing traditionally. One of the biggest breakthroughs for me was messing with the opacity jitter, which allows you to "layer up" your brushwork like you would with graphite.

Here's a few of the things I've churned out in the past couple weeks as I try to grow as a digital artist.

For those of you who draw with Photoshop and are on the lookout for more traditional-feeling brushes, I highly recommend the Nagel Series 33, a free-for-download brush pack available from CreativeMac.com. These are the primary brushes I used for all of the artwork here and I'm loving them to death.

Download the Nagel Series 33 here

Potterized

I recently ended up doing a series of Harry Potter drawings for myself and a couple of friends. It started off as just one drawing of myself, but there were five of them by the time I was done. It maybe got a little out of hand but I had a lot of fun doing them, despite the number of times that my boyfriend pointed out to me that I was spending a lot of hours on a series of completely unpaid projects.


The second half of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was coming to theaters, and lots of people were getting back into the Potter spirit. A friend of mine drew a picture of herself as a Hogwarts student and posted it on Facebook. I thought it was a great idea and decided to be a total biter and make my own.

It probably would have ended there, but there was also a Patronus generator meme going around that was causing a lot of hilarity, mainly because it had an extremely limited Patronus selection and was therefore less than capable of giving people everything they expected from a personalized Patronus. Thinking it would be fun to find out what kind of witch/wizard my friends would be if they really had a choice in the matter, I typed up a little questionnaire meme asking people to post information about their magical personas - wizard names, Hogwarts house, wand type, Patronus, etc. My friend Nathan, who is a big bearded guy that loves small cutesy creatures, chose a flying squirrel as his Patronus, and the image of that was so hilarious that I ended up drawing this for fun and posting it on his Facebook.

Once that happened and people got the idea I was giving out drawings, two more friends of mine dropped subtle hints that they might like some for themselves, and I ended up doing two more...

...although that second one got delayed for awhile, because it turns out my friends over at the Order of the Triad podcast were gearing up to do a Harry Potter episode and asked me if I would do some Potter-themed artwork for them.

I had a lot of fun and was pleased that everyone seemed happy with their artwork. Now that the Potter craze has died down again I haven't received any more requests, but if this Pottermore thing takes off...who knows.

Click here to listen to the Order of the Triad podcast: http://www.aboutheroes.com/?p=10044

The font used on the Order of the Triad: Episode 9 3/4 pinup is Harry P by Phoenix Phonts, available for download at dafont.com.

Order of the Triad Pinup

 

A couple friends of mine started a podcast awhile ago that discusses geek-related things. They are calling themselves "The Order of the Triad" and they asked me if I would be able to create a pinup for their second episode. Here we have Justin Quizon as the Alchemist, Nathan Schulz as Dr. Orpheus and Bobby Johnson as Jefferson Twilight. Everything was done in Adobe Illustrator.

The podcast itself is really fun if you're into geeky stuff. You can find the current episode at http://www.aboutheroes.com/?p=9722.

The font used is "It Must Be Destroyed" by Tony O'Farrell. It is free for download at dafont.com.

Beetle Brawl XXVI

A large-ish watercolor (the original is about 18" by 24"). Beetles are super fun to draw and so are mutants. I find myself working digitally a lot lately but I still enjoy the ol' watercolors.

Nothing Is Impossible

But trying to solve a Rubix Cube with your mouth is not fun. Painted in gouache, acrylic and India ink.

Graveyard Ghoul Anatomy

A fun little montage showing the hairless and skeletal forms of a monster. Drawn with ink and brush.

Omnigator

Alligators...in space! Painted with gouache.