Saturday, July 21, 2012

Fox Dragons

I did this piece for a contest on dA. If anyone else wants to participate, there's about a week until the deadline. Go here for more details :) 



I'll have another process video up soon for this one just as soon as I'm done editing the screen capture footage (I love you, Camtasia)

EDIT:


I'm gonna try to get away from browns/neutrals for the next couple, I think.

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Malevolence Poster 01

This is the first of six posters that I've been commissioned to do for Malevolence: The Sword of Ahkronax


I enjoyed this one a lot, and am definitely looking forward to the next one :)


Saturday, July 14, 2012

My Fall Schedule (according to my dad)


  • Advanced Getting Yelled At (Post-Baccalaureate Critique and Seminar)
  • Lookin' at Pictures (Grad Survey of Contemporary Art, Design, and Theory)
  • Selling out 101 (Ideas, Perceptions, Metaphors and Materials)
  • Interpretive Crayons (Interpretive Figure Drawing) 

Friday, July 13, 2012

Decommissioned 05

I'll have a process video up for this shortly, but for now, here is just the image:


First time doing a digital painting from a live reference, rather than a photoref.

EDIT: VIDEO!

 

Sunday, July 8, 2012

In the last five years, I have lived in six different places (not counting rebounding to my parent's place when I transition between apartments) and I'm about to move again. I have twice lived alone, once with a stranger, and three times with at least two other women.

I have been happy in none of them.

But, whatever, it is what it is. I'm moving out to Baltimore for, probably, only one year, and because it is a move that is both long and likely to lead to an even longer move next year, my primary interest is in whittling down my things to the essentials. I think that that will make my life about ten times simpler, really.

The place I end up in after Baltimore has to last at least two years, though, or I think I'm just gonna curl up in an angry ball of exhaustedness and die.

And who knows, maybe B'more is the place that I stay. Buuuuuuut I doubt it. I went out there for a couple of days to do some apartment hunting and oh my god the posturing. It's like everyone is a third peacock out there. Too stressful, can't handle, need more muddy mountain people mixed in with the cityfolk.

Anyway, this is a long winded way of saying that the process of moving from one apartment to another makes me irrationally angry, so if anything I say in the next....two to three weeks, say, seems really over the top, that's why.

Stress, man.

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Monday, July 2, 2012

Finch + sources

EDIT: there were a couple things that bugged me about the original finished image, so I fiddled with it some more.

EDIT2: it was still bugging me:



Here's the finished version of the painting I've been working on:


EDIT2 (cont'): putting the first version back up so that they're all together:




If anyone is interested, the photoreference I used was this:


I don't know whether it's a still form an episode or a promo shot--I pulled it off of a photoset on tumblr. The background, obviously, is very different. For the background (and for the color choices as well and for the way things were refined in the last few steps), I was thinking about this:


This is Blue Window by Michael Carson. (awww yissss, credit where credit is due)