Dandizette

First the pretty


I realized I hadn't tried to do an actual digital painting in a while,so I fuddled this up. I used a reference photo for some of the pose,doodled a skeleton on top, then set to work. I've been trying to push myself to actually paint off of random colors, so I started with a yellowy green base and worked from there, which I like the results of a lot better than picking a skin tone color, a dress color, etc. Gratuituous use of blenders seems to make all the mistakes look artsy! And all the pretend folds in the dress. Oh well, still is very, very pretty and a good step in where I want to go.

Oh yes, all done in painter 8.

( then the sketches! )

Bunch of stuff just done to try new things. Coloring in photoshop, perspective, and, um angsty superheroes.

( Plus two sketches )

For that matter, where I been at?

Some drawings:


I finally got my Monster Comics back up on the web and in celebration I drew a new monster! She's precious!
( more! and animations! )

Recently I drew a bunch of things for a couple of friends gettin' hitched to use as table identifiers, along with numbers. We were asked to draw famous couples. Or at least famous to those two who were getting married. I got Beauty and the Beast, Fry and Leela, then forced upon them a Pirates of the Caribbean pair!
( Let the coupling begin! )

I guess I've been working on my comic too much to upload anything other artin'. I still sketch like crazy, but nothing really finished. ( 'Cept a couple of things here. )

Yes, I am still mulling that Barber of Seville idea. And as much as I normally kick on drawing hands, I just gave up here.
( More of the green penciling! )

I'm getting to be pretty predictable here. It's all sci-fi or fantasy. I guess it's because I get enough of my regular people drawing kicks out with my comic. I gotta let it loose sometimes.
( 3 pretty pictures, including knights and jedi dropouts )

So I've been listening to Rossini's Barber of Seville pretty nonstop for a couple of weeks and probably driving the people upstairs batty. But not only is this one of my favorite operas, I've had this idea of doing a comic version for a while now. But I'd have to put my own twist on it to keep from being incredibly influenced by the character designs in Kaoru Mori's Emma, which featured a stage production of Barber very briefly.

So what's the equivalent of a topman/barber in a space station? A mechanic, porbably! And Figaro has to be a girl. Because I like drawing girls.

Figaro has her traveling guitar to help out with her "unofficial" business of helping people hook up. She's a dating service and repairgirl all in one!
( + 5 more! )

Dumpbox thing from stuff tonight.

So here's a couple of caricatures I did for my final training class. I wanted to scan three, but I didn't get around to the third one. You'll have to see the baby and the baby panda another time. For now, though:


I like the look between the two. The color looks a bit wonky between the top half and the bottom half because I had to stitch two scans together...for some reason, the process worked a little better for the other drawing...


Interesting fact: when doing caricatures for the Zoo, I cannot include a hoop like that. I can't imply the animals doing tricks. Basically, the person and the animal should just sort of chill with each other.

Both of those were done from stock photos. PunchStock is my SAVIOR whenever I need drawing references.

Man, what the hell with me always drawing Faye from QC when I'm all AHGAHD I CAN'T GET THINGS I WANT TO WRITE/DRAW OUT OF MY HEAD?

So, I hadn't felt like drawing lately, but just yesterday I started doodling people on the newspaper and suddenly an idea popped in my head. BOY FIGHT. I then proceeded to do character sketches and write a 15 minute script and who knows if it'll ever get farther than that, but STILL. BOY FIGHT.

It all started off looking like this:


( + 7 more! )

I did this forever ago and ment to post it, but it got very forgotten until now!

( Read more... )

Did a sketch in my sketchbook today, and decided to scan it and play around with coloring...I think I'm going to do another version of it, but part of me likes the wonky colors.

This is all the fault of oboe_sama sending me some old English music.

I've been coming up with characters for this fantasy comic for forever. They're fun to draw, sometimes because it's just an excuse to draw pretty girls in funny clothes. Or half wild girls in squalor, like the kid above.
( more! )

I've been itching to post something, but just hadn't gotten around to it...I need to get some more sketching in. For now, though, here's a drawing that I did a while back, that I ended up scanning and using on my resume (all faded out and in the background)...I actually finished up the boots digitally, as this had been one of those drawings in which I forget where the edge of the page is and end up running off of it...thank goodness for tablets, though, eh?



Um, I don't know why she's wearing what she is, really. It's an odd outfit...but it seems to suit her. ^_^;

Pre-doctor insomnia. Never listen to apocalyptic movie audio tracks while trying to draw self to sleep.

Sometimes when I draw people I think of what they're feeling or thinking after I'm done. It usually goes like this:

"Durrrr, I'm a doodle!"
( sketchier things, possibly involving crude humor )

Sometimes I like to draw from things like catalogues just to study how clothes actually work on people. It's funny how something that's cute in a picture can turn weird and ugly once I've drawn it. I only wear drawable fashion, btw. ;D


If this were a police line up, it would be a bad one.
( and now the boys! )
( another drawing from a picture )