Stuck in the house...

I've got the second cold in as many weeks, this time with severe coughing. So basically I'm just resting and getting some drawing in...

Smokin' Aces...

People either love the movie or hate it. I loved it. For me, it lived up to the hype from those great advertisements. I wish it was longer, just to see more about each of the characters, but I guess that's a good thing that I'm at that level of engagement with the film.

Anyhoo, here's some pics I did...I wanted to play around with the skin of the characters, which was a lot of fun. The other was just a quick character study I ended up coloring.

Posting tomorrow's stuff early...

Well, Tomorrow I've got a ton on my plate. I won't be getting back until pretty late and I'll be extremely tired, so I wanted to make sure and put something up. The first I did with the batch from Sunday, but I colored it this afternoon. Look for the Umetsu reference, it's pretty obvious for those "in the know."

The second I did a while ago and realized that I hadn't put it up. The actual drawing is actually about 2 inches tall. I'm trying to move my drawings up in size again. But it was really fun to try and put as much as I could into this smaller picture. I was happy with the finished results. I even played around with the border a bit to add a touch of gradation to the colors to change the presentation.

I can't exactly remember when I started doing that kind of border, but I feel it adds something special to quickly identify one of my pieces of art. The images stand alone, but It is like fine-art mounting a photograph to a black piece of matteboard, it is classy and focuses the image. If that makes any sense. But I like it, so I'm sticking with it.

Spidey

I don't know why, but it's really fun to draw Spidey. I've been doing it since I was a kid, and he's a character I don't get tired of drawing. Maybe it's because he's able to pull off so many poses since he's so flexible. Maybe it's because you can get away with a lot of foreshortening. Possibly it is because you can always get better at drawing him. Either way, fun stuff!

New Art...

I'm sorry for how long it's taken to get some new art up. I've been busy with family stuff, and adjusting to some other things that have my daily schedule completely out of whack. But I'm starting to get things back in order. There's really no story behind this, but more to come tomorrow!

THE COLTS WON!!!

Sorry about not having a real art post, but today I did get some art done. I still need to color it, but I'll post some tomorrow! The reason I'm not posting it is that I spent the day worrying about the Colts vs. the Pats. FINALLY the team I've loved since I was a child in Indianapolis is making it to the Super Bowl...

I'm hoping they can close it out and win Peyton a Super Bowl and secure his spot in the Hall of Fame!!!

What more can I say?

One of my favorite anime films is the Casshan OAV by Yasuomi Umetsu. Like many films, there's a lot of clothes being torn. I just wanted to poke fun at that!

More sequentials...

Seriously, people are always bugging me to see more sequentials, so I'm using my normal sketch time to do some quick sequential pages. I'm mainly trying to have fun with it and just get faster.

BTW, this would be a great TV series...

Also, tomorrow...a story about robots...

A sequential sketchpage...

I was just playing around a bit in my sketchbook and felt like doing something quick with sequentials. Here was my level of excitement throughout the process:
1. Pencils-excited
2. Inks-disappointed (I really do not like to use spot blacks, they just seem wonky to me)
3. zip-tones-eh, but needed more. Originally I was going to try the whole thing that way.
4. painter/watercolor-just started out with the main figures in a paynes gray type color.
5. Watercolor the BG-started bringing in some various colors, for my photoshop approach it's best to have multiple colors to play off of.
6. Photoshop effects-I use some brush effects and custom brushes to take out some zip-tones and add highlights, burn in some colors.

Ultimately, I ended up loving the final product. It just shows how fickle I am during the process, but I love to work at something until I enjoy the final outcome.

However, next time, I'm sticking with open lines, no spotted black areas.

TV day...

Today was the first quiet day alone in the house. So I was catching up on a lot of shows, and I watched the movie High Tension. Fun stuff. Usually I end up hating a lot of horror films because of annoying characters, or a crappy ending, but I really dug this film.

First new picture of the year...

Last of 2006!

I just made it in time, it's around 11:30 my time, so it still counts. I just wanted to get in one last drawing before it turns 2007. I was talking to Tom Feister this afternoon, and he said he'd like to see a Nightwing pic done by me. So here it is. I really like how the final product came out.

So, now that the need for fine motor skills for the night is complete, I've got a bottle of Jack Daniels with my name on it. If I'm still coherent enough, I'll try and see if I can draw something. But anyways, I've gotta' say Happy New Years to everyone, and let's hope 2007 is much better than 2006 was!

I like doing lightning-effects...

Post-Christmas Drawing

Now that the Christmas stress has finally passed, I'm getting back to doing some art. The car and the girl are separate drawings that I put together, both of them pretty small. Started off in Painter, then went to Photoshop, changed the colors and added some background elements. I really liked the kind of velvet-like effects that came out in certain areas, like when you use vaseline on a camera lens. Anyhoo, I'm going to do some shopping today, but hopefully a few more drawings.

Here's Wakum Waddle...

Lets just call this a teaser for a character I am working on. All I'm going to say is that I came up with him a couple years ago, and it's been fun coming up with a story for him. So get ready to see more of him in the future.

Here are a couple new things:

First dump...

I thought I better try this whole art blog thing again. Since I'm actually doing art, and I've got my first major bit of sequential art coming out in Negative Burn #8 in the next few months (December), so check out your Previews and order a copy. FYI, coloring is done between Painter IX and some clean-up in Photoshop CS2.