So, here’s the latest version. Since it’s for a t-shirt design, im wondering if I should have the cable wrap around the back and connect to the mp3 player. Hmm.
Here’s the original sketch I did at work.
Just came up with this little drawing. I’ll probably make it into a threadless submission sometime soon.
Another day another portrait. Sort of.
I did this one in about three hours from a photo. Got lazy on the background. I used a grid to figure out the proportions etc.
Click to enlargenate it.
Here’s another portrait. It’s Matt Parkman form the TV show Heroes. It took me about 6 hours total over about a week. I started saving some progress pictures, but they were so far from how it finally turned out that I didn’t bother. I’ll post the reference photo later.
Painted in Photoshop with some standard brushes.
Click to enlarge.
I made these weather icons several months ago with the intent on posting them on iStockphoto as paid downloads. It started taking too long to get them just right, so I bailed on the project before finishing the whole set. So instead, you can have them for free!
Here’s the original Illustrator file.
I also started another, more colourful set that I’ll post in a little while.
I’ll slap some kind of Creative Commons license on these later. IIRC - it’s the one that says “use this as you will for whatever reason you want, but give me credit somewhere” kind. Preferrably with a link to this site. Cheers!
Painted this morning with mah little Wacom tablet and Photoshop. From a reference photo.
Son House was an influential Delta blues musician, and composed one of my favourite songs - Death Letter. Watch him lay it down.
So after watching Joe Bluhm YouTube videos earlier today, I felt inspired to do a portrait. Digging through my photo collection I found a pretty good photo of my brother Adam and went to town. About four hours later I ended up with this…
As the title suggests, I painted a picture of Kevin Spacey. I tried to capture the most important lines from reference photo, then added a couple skintones.
The right eye isn’t quite right, and I’m missing some of the emotion from his face, but overall I’m pretty happy with it.
I’ve been playing a bit of magic again, and loving the awesome artwork. I did a cover of one the cards I liked this morning. It’s a work in progress.
Things to remember:
I’m happy with it so far. Right now the city in the background and the wizard pretty much share the same colour scheme. I should try to differentiate that a little bit to bring him to the forefront. Maybe I can do some out of focus type blur for the background.
I had trouble mimicking the range of colours in the spirit thing from the original. There’s some yellow / beige / peach / green / blue in there and it all somehow fits together. Something to keep working on.
Here’s the original:
So I had this idea to do an illustration showing that the Easter Island statues have an underground component. I finally got it done and made it into a tshirt design.
I don’t think it makes a great tshirt design - it’s a pretty illustration and has lots of little details to look at. On top of that, many of the comments suggest people can’t make out the underground part very clearly. In retrospect I agree, and have some ideas on how to fix it. I don’t think I’ll resubmit an updated version, but might revisit it in case I want to make a print.
Anyway, it’s up on threadless.com for voting. Click the little banner below:
About a week ago I picked up a copy of ImagineFX, a digital sci-fi art magazine. It’s a really great magazine, full awesome art and tutorials. Anyway, it inspired me to do some digital painting of my own.
Lately I’ve been learning to play blues on my acoustic guitar, so I wanted to paint a guitarist. I like the look of those old school guys, but none of them are that recognizable (at least to me), so I picked Mark Knopfler instead.
Here’s what I came up with:
I’m pretty pleased, but also feel that it needs a bit more work to feel really finished.
Here’s how it went down.
I used this reference photo.
I placed the photo into my Photoshop CS2 document and started painting using my small 4×5 Wacom Graphire tablet.
First, I tried painting from the unaltered original photo but it wasn’t turning out very well. I was having a hard time picking out the key shapes and details, and was also screwing up the proportions.
Here’s how it looked:
Not satisified, I decided to adjust the contrast (via the Curves dialog) of the original photo to help simply the image. Once I was happy with the contrast adjustment, i started painting.
This helped a lot, and my painting was fairly close to the original.
Here it is:
I used a chalky brush to define the outside of the black areas to make it seem more like a non-digial piece. I found a brown paper texture and a photo of a Fender Stratocaster to complete the piece.
In the future, I plan to use this technique as a starting point to a painting. Once I establish the general shapes / shadows, I can fill in the smaller details.
