Shy and Dusty

Character for a short story. She's barely half-done; I'm still working on finalizing it all.

I think I'm starting to get a feel for this whole digital painting thing!

Sketchbook Express and Photoshop

Character is mine. No stealy. No touchy.

Songbird - Warm-up

I like songs. I like birds. I like the watercolor settings on Corel. Seemed like a good idea.

Corel Sketchpad

Master of Ceremonies

Working on some character designs for a short film for school. Yup, I'm not in school and I'm doing schoolwork. And I love it. I get to draw and spend my spare time (if any) in the most Magical Place on Earth!

 And I kinda like the idea of this guy having a toupee. It probably flies off his head randomly.

As an added bonus feature, here are some silhouettes of a long, spindly, bird-like fellow I'm working on.

Warm-Up

Something fun before I get down to the nitty gritty (this sounds better when you say it in a Nacho Libre voice). Inspired by Pierre Alary's fantastic and beautiful Belladone (props to my friend Kiersten for introducing me!)

Photoshop

Something Pretty

Wanted to paint my deer-unicorn and a pretty forest. So I did. Inspired by Princess Mononoke.

Photoshop

Downtime

So, a typical day: Take phone calls, sketch during break, set up tours, sketch during break, make people's dreams come true, sketch during break, go home, sketch in Photoshop and Flash, go to Church activity/Disney Park/maybe eat, do some speedpainting, go to bed, dream about sketching, wake up, get ready for work, repeat.

All in all, pretty good :)

I've been doing a lot of studies from Ken Hultgren's Art of Animal Drawing. Seriously one of the best books about animal anatomy for the artist EVER. However, the deer-unicorn-creature is not included in said book. You'll have to find one for yourself out in the wild. Oh, and the Haunted Mansion reference is not included in said book either. You'll have to make a trip to the Happiest Place(s) On Earth to see it.

Fun fact: The deer-unicorn is more or less a mythical creature taken from Asian legends of the kirin. The kirin is basically the Eastern version of the unicorn, more based on a deer or goat rather than a horse.

Blue pencil, Col-Erase, and uni-ball. Oh, yes.

Disney owns the Haunted Mansion

Speed Painting - Take 3

It's another one! This week's highlight: This lovely background from Disney's Pocahontas. As usual, the top is the original art, the bottom is my speedpaint.

................ I feel like with every speed painting I do, positioning and composition slowly deteriorates.............

Photoshop. 30 minutes. One brush. One layer. The usual.

Disney owns Pocahontas