"What?"

So, I neglected this a little bit. Oops. Sorries. Didn't mean to. Anyway. This is a doodle of me. The hat shall soon be mine. The rest I own. Most excellent. I liked it anyway. Heh. Photoshop CS5. Quickie.

Speed paint

Colour version of a piece on my deviantART gallery named 'Sepia'. It shows the facial shading more than the sepia version but I think the sepia one looks better, in general. And no, I don't know who she is. Another speedy speed paint. Shouldn't have made the skin colour so close to the background colour but eh, what can you do? I am lazy. I may fix it one day... but it's a messy, messy speed paint. So I doubt I will.

To see the Sepia version click here.

"Monoface" Speed Paint

Speed Paint. 45 minutes-ish. Photoshop CS5.

"Blair" Experiment

So, I created a picture for a friend as part of an art trade. That picture was of her character Blair. I'm pretty happy with it, it's been a while since I've actually finished something. This is the finished piece, which you can also see on DeviantART. Now, when I was working on this, putting the finishing touches which included a purple layer (which I think in the final image is set to either soft light or overlay at about 51% opacity) to make the image 'pop' a bit more. While trying things out to see what looked best I accidentally did this:

I set the purple layer to 'darken' and this happened. I REALLY like it. Really, really. I think it looks awesome, even if it does hide the painting that I spent hours blending and making pretty. It looks all experminetal and nice. Maybe I shall attemp to do more like this. Hm. Who knows. I liked it. Thought you might too.

RotS: "Coated"

Illustration, hooray! Background, boo! I don't have much to say that isn't on the DeviantART upload of this so you should go there. Yes, I know this is a blog and I'm supposed to ramble here but I've already rambled elsewhere - I think my ramble ran out. Sad times.

But yeah, this is an illustration for a Spirited Away fanfiction by Velf. Search her on FF.net. That, or go and look at the DeviantART upload, there are links. It's magical.

I'm currently editing the levels and such of this image. At some point soon you may see a different version... possibly.

For the fullview and ramble click here.

Speedpaint: "Static"

I don't think I have uploaded this anywhere else, I created this sometime last year and never got round to uploading it. This is Static, a superhero of sorts - her real name is Taryn Mason. This is not supposed to be clean or neat, it is supposed to be messy and quick. I liked it, especially the colours. At some point I may re-do it, as with most of my images. I say I will but inevitably I don't. Enjoy the messiness. :D

"2.29am 19.03.2010"

I seriously think I might be addicted to this whole sketchblog thing. That or I really have nothing better to do. It could be either... or a combination of both. Say hello to Me, yes that is me, in a weird cartoony style. As written on DeviantART, I need to pick a style and stick with it... but that would be so boring. I like my disordered styles and how I completely ignore how things should look unless I'm trying something vaguely realistic. Ah well, I'll do whatever.

Part of me is worrying that... by my posting this you will miss the last post, which actually contains some half-decent art. Please, go and look at it. You only have to scroll down, it's not hard and it is worth it, promise.

I should be in bed right now. That's what I should be doing. Why sleep when you can draw? Eh? Who knows. I don't, since I'm sat here rambling about it. Except, I am now going to stop rambling about it. Ha.

For fullview and some slightly different, much shorter ramble click here.

Teaser

This is what I'm currently working on... even though I should be finishing some other digital paintings... but I had this idea and loved it. So, I decided to do it. Ha. I'm not going to tell you more about it because then it wouldn't be so much of a teaser but that is not the whole thing. No, siree. That's only a little bit. There's probably a lot wrong with it but it's only in the sketch stage so that's okay. Enjoy. :D You might get another teaser later on in the process.

Also, my soundtrack for this piece is Epica. Mmm.

EDIT:

I felt like being nice and giving you another peek. Aren't I lovely?

"I saved my last [...]" Experiments

I'm bombarding you with blog entries today, aren't I? Ah well. I decided to fiddle with 'I saved my last breath for your window' in photoshop (see a past but not too past blog entry). The top image is the three edits and the original combined and the three edits are below. I like the one in the middle the most, more ghostly and more fitting to the title. It's not quite black and white, it has subtle colour and I think it works really well with the title. Why did I not decide to edit before? It's something I like to pretend I'm good at.

I will be editing the scannings more often, I feel.

"Redhanded" - Before and After

This is a manipualtion I created a few days ago, you can see what I started with and what it turned into. It's all very exciting, isn't it?

Though it uses only one stock and two textures it was actually a rather complicated manip - a lot of painting went into it. It's a fact that I'm proud of, I think I am getting better at incorporating painting into my manipulations. It's a milestone I wasn't entirely sure that I would be crossing. I still need to put a lot of work in what I paint into my manipulations but it's certainly progress.

If you would like to see the manipulation on its own, without the gif aspect and at a higher resolution and with the possibility of fullview, then click here.

I like to create scary things.