Hatter Day for Inktober

It's 10/6 today. I couldn't resist drawing the Mad Hatter for Inktober.

Bonus feature! A couple of other Inktober sketches from the last few days!

The Return of Balloon Dude

So... I've had this character floating around for quite some time. It was high time for a makeover.

The one on the right is from two years ago. Improvement happens, guys!

I also noticed that I've gotten WAY faster in my digital painting. The one of the right: At least a couple of days to complete. The one on the left: 2 1/2 hours.

It's the Most Wonderful Time!

Inktober is finally here! I'm determined to do better than I did last year at keeping up. So far, so good. I actually got something done on the first day!

Ballpoint pen cowgirl kicks off the month with a YEEHAW! Weirdly enough, she was inspired by a Journalism classmate's boots. #inktober

Shader Programming; I'm smart!

New semester, new classes!

Surprisingly, Shader Programming is actually... fun. I like that it's a more science-y direction. The first assignment is to model and shade a realistic fruit. So far, I've got my noise, displacement, color, and spec maps. Again, it's actually pretty cool!

Grim Grinning Ghosts

Another Comic Con piece! I've had this idea floating around in my head for a while; Mickey, Donald, and Goofy as the three hitchhiking ghosts of the Haunted Mansion.

Come visit me at Salt Lake Comic Con September 4-6, Booth Green 23!

Also, happy belated 45th birthday to the Haunted Mansion!

Aye, the Force is strong with this one.

 After many hours of work, I finally finished another piece for Salt Lake Comic Con this September! Introducing Jedi Merida! Because you know that deep down, you really wanted to see it. And just for fun, I posted my process.

SKETCHING. Nothing is more important than starting off with a sketch. I usually trace over my line work in photoshop to help preserve the original idea I had. 

After completing the basic line work, I started some basic painting, mainly to see where I want the color palette to go and what looks best. I also played with lighting.

After settling on a color palette, I refined the painting and added some more details, i.e. the family crest, blush on the face, etc. I also changed up my lighting and refined that. 

After some more tweaking and finally deciding that it was too much to paint a tartan design on a time crunch, the piece is completed!

Animals

.... Oh yeah. I draw. Fancy that. And they're cute animals for a video game I'm working on. With BYU. And NASA. Pretty cool stuff.