It's been a while. I've not been drawing in a long time. So here's a new painting I just did.
I wonder if anyone reads this anymore...
Wow... I have been getting sloppy. No posts in about 6 months... I've even been slacking on my webcomic. Time to change that then
Here's a little piece that I've been working on for my comic. I was so pleased with how it turned out I think it deserves to stand out on its own.
Episode 4 of the DAMbots is almost over and honestly I wasn't happy with it - it was long and a little bit dull. I was pleased with the art but the story wasn't there. It was like one overlong montage with nothing really happening - bah! Hence me slowly slipping into obscurity on the interwebs and getting distracted by other things, of which I shall make mention of very soon.
So yesterday I got my act together and wrote the synopsis for Episode 5 and was surprised by how well it all fitted together. If I don't get distracted again it will both look awesome and be a fun story. It's hard to believe that about 2 years ago I came up with the overall story arc for the DAMbots and episode 5 was actually originally going to be the first episode. Let's hope I don't get distracted again!...
Wow... It's been a while since I last posted. Mainly because drawing my webcomic in colour is so time-consuming.
Anyway, I've generally been levelling up with my art skills so here's my take on the latest Illustration Friday topic - propagate. My first thought was seeds and that let to pollen and I just had to work in some microscopic imagery in the end.
It's Christmas time so here is a picture showing how the DAMbots probably celebrate Christmas.
This is a double celebration as the DAMbots were conceived 2 years ago. And if you look here you can find the first ever image I publicly revealed of them, also a Christmassy picture. Looking back, I definitely think I've matured a lot with my art style as well as my vision for the microscropic robots.
Here's to another 2 years...
Here are some crunchy leaves. I thought drawing leaves would be easy but I was completely wrong.
Here's a sneak peek of a panel from the first colour issue of Deadly Alien Microbots, which will be posted onto the website early in the new year. It was hard to choose a panel to show without giving away much of the story.
Anyway, I hope you like as it took ages and ages to paint - well, the whole page anyway. I can tell that this idea I had of doing the comic in colour is going to end in tears...
So, is my radical departure from black and white a good thing? A bad thing? Meh??
Hi there folks. As promised here's a picture I just painted. It's a bit experimental so please tell me your opinions...
Sometimes I feel like my art style is all over the place as each picture I draw is so different, but then I also feel like I'm coming towards finding a style that's 'my own'. And I definitely think this is more my thing than some of the others I've down.
I stumbled across a paint package called Alchemy that helps inspire the creativity of the mind by doing lots of randomness.
I came up with the demon's legs and head randomly, then added the door frame and tweaked the rest in a traditional paint program.
It took a while but definitely something I'll use in the future.
People are always modifying their environment, usually for the worse.
I was originally going to do something sci-fi but then thought to be a bit more topical, so here's my take on this week's Illustration Friday word - modify.
I wanted to have a go at doing a scenery and also try a different style of painting, so here's a sort of cubist splodgy type thing.
The lonely octopus idly floats in the ocean waiting for a meal to come within an inch of its tentacles. Just what do they do with themselves all day?
This was a bold exploration in colour shading for me, and a pretty successful one at that. I especially love how the water came out.
Wow! A lot of love for my previous picture. I'm going to keep at this colour malarky then and see what comes.
A while ago I did a piece for the IF topic of 'talisman'. Well, I wasn't that happy with it so I decided to have a second attempt, and this is the result - something that conveys much more of the concept of nature that I originally wanted. Overall, an improvement I think.
It's been a while since my last post as I've been busy exploring Montreal, which is very different from the desert this person is worn out from exploring.
Worn happens to be the word of the week for Illustration Friday.
Greetings from Montreal! I've been here a couple of days and loving it already.
Anyway, here's another attempt at digitally painting in colour. This time featuring Ballistik from the DAMbots.
Wow... finally reached the 100 blog posts milestone.
To mark this ceremonious occasion, a parade (of ants) will march past my house. I've also drawn this little painting showing some biological warfare going on inside the body.
Here's my 'official' illo for this week's Illustration Friday, the word of the week being cracked, my take being a cracked planet. And this also turns out to be one of my best colour pieces yet.
I've been using Art Rage, which came with my Wacom, and find the combination to be a breath of fresh air.
So why did I highlight 'official'? Well, I've done another 'cracked' picture which I'll also post today but not submit to their list, this one being the superior of the two...
Following on from my previous attempt for Illustration Friday, here's a new experiment in drawing fake electron microscope images. The painting is of the T4 virus, which apparently feeds on ecoli bacteria, or something like that. I just love its other-worldly look, which shows that the microscopic world is far stranger than anything we would ever find in our own.
I actually doodled this grunt on paper at work ages ago while I was installing something. I finally got around to drawing it semi-properly. I tried to aim for something that hides a lot of the detail in the shadow and looks a bit like a futuristic knight.
On another note, does anyone have any good tips on shading? I find either there is perfect smooth shading like a 3D image, but that seems too hard for me, then there are other techniques that just layer a couple of shades but then it ends up messy as in this picture. I don't know how to do either method 'properly' so any tips and help or pointers to some tutorials would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
A super quick digi painting done for this week's IF topic - Talisman. I really just wanted to see how fast I could paint something, but think it turned out ok in the end, even if it's not the most original of pictures.
