Self-Portrait Day

For self-portrait day over at ConceptArt.

Coloured

I don't need to deceive you
'Cause I feel no pain
Maybe I should let you
Come on and eat my brain
- The Odds

Hallowe'en!

Doing a bunch of digital sketches lately, including this lovely lady. Don't run into her on your morning jog!

Who is Cooking?

Who is cooking? Bear is cooking! How can this be?!

Catgirl 2

Another Harvey James catgirl:



I should colour her up. Except that I'm going to be working on a mummy this week.

Catgirl

Sketched up some girls for Harvey James' Catgirl project, but never got around to finishing or submitting them. I only found out about it three days before the deadline.

Heritage Festival Sketches

Some sketches from the Heritage Festival back in August:

Conference Sketches

Some people from a conference I went to last April:



I'm sure I had a few more pages like this but I think they got stepped on.

Mop Top

He's just this guy, you know?



A companion sketch to Ms. Buckteeth.

Buck Teeth

I've spent the past month and a bit painting an acrylic painting for an art show (an art show whose opening is going on Right Now, which I unfortunately can't attend). Which means I've been neglecting pretty much everything else since early September. However, now that I have a bit of leisure time, I'm getting back to sketching and goofing around.

Here's a quick digital painting of a weird caricature from my sketchbook:

Vancouver Lanscape

I did a bit of watercolour painting on vacation in August:



Watercolours aren't really my thing. This was the third painting I attempted while there, and the first that turned out even somewhat to my satisfaction.

We sat on a bench near the Burrard Bridge in the afternoon. I painted and Neil played the guitar. Some guy walking by took a look and said "meh". Everyone's a critic! :)

Pretty Dresses

For a jam. It's been too long since I sketched with no project in mind!

Abstract Texture

Finally getting around to posting more stuff from the painting course. This was an exercise in creating an abstract painting from a natural texture. I used a very sprockly rock.



It doesn't really look impressive, but I think that out of all the paintings I did for the class, this is the one I'd actually put on my wall.

Sunlit

Another speedpainting I did a while back, based on this stock photo by Faestock

Feesh

Finally got some time to do a speedpainting! Fish are neat, but a challenge to paint.



From this neat reference picture by Summer's Solstice.

About two hours' worth of work in Photoshop.

Bus Sketches

I've been working on a project lately, so I've had very little time to sketch outside of that. Still, here's a couple people from yesterday's bus rides:



I should have a new speedpainting up soon too.

Chaosine Street Scene

Just trying to figure out if really sketchy lines and colouring would cut my production time down and still look all right.



Opium and Arch from my maybe-future comic, Chaosine.

Fall Back & Regroup

Okay, I give up. I've mostly lost track of what was drawn when (although I still have a bunch of paintings to photograph) and there have been at least a few days in the past couple of weeks when I didn't draw anything.

But that doesn't mean I have to fall off the wagon until next January! I'm going to take a break, maybe until April or May, and then see if I can go another two months.

Abstract

The homework on this week was to do a an abstract loosely based on a master's study we'd done a few days earlier. My master study was Cezanne's "Houses in Provence", which I unfortunately didn't finish as I was borrowing the instructor's book for reference.



So... I dunno about this one. It's... almost good? Maybe? But not quite. It wasn't at all the effect I was looking for. I love all that cobalt blue in the background, and I think if I'd done more with the angular bits in the center it would have worked better.

Cobalt blue has got to be my absolute favourite blue, but it's horrible to work with. Grainy, transparent, you need half a tube to cover anything and it's toxic to boot. But so pretty!

He's a Guy