Wednesday, November 26, 2008

What I have been up to

...since it's been quite some time from my last posting. October was a pretty crazy month for me - I spent a good chunk prepping for an interview at Lucasfilm Animation, didn't get the job, but then got hired for some temp work at DIS again. It wasn't an art job and it ended last Friday, but it's looking like I managed to successfully segue that into some contract work for the next six months. So that's a load off my back; I was just starting to get used to regular paychecks again and would prefer to continue the practice.

I'd like to say that it's because I've been working that I haven't been posting any art, and that would be partly true. However, I also know another good chunk of that time has just been dedicated to slogging through the huge number of games that get released in the last three months of the year. :P Memo to game publishers: I hate your stupid schedule.

Anyways, I didn't want to make a post with no art, so here's a sketch of a mermaid.

Friday, October 10, 2008

It's October...

....and I've kind of been wanting to draw a scarecrow for a while now. I guess it's the season?

Anyways, the last image I was working on got so belabored that I hated it by the time I was done; so I kept myself to an hour for this one. Tried to vary up my colors, I tend to work from a very muted palette as of late.

Monday, September 22, 2008

Next page

Thanks for the comments on the last page! This is page 7. After this I'm going to go back to page 1 and work my way up, then see where I'm going to take it.

Also, do any of you guys know of a good way to do half-way decent rain in Photoshop? I'm not happy with any of the results I've been getting.

This is a constant battle.

You have no idea.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

I have clearly underestimated...

...the amount of time that goes into making a comic. This is page 6; I've done 7 or 8 in sequence but wanted to color this one first to see how it went. The whole thing's a vast epic that'll probably never get finished, but I figured it'd be a good learning experience.

The text has been written, though it's not in there yet obviously. Neither is the title or author of the book the girl is holding, which, you know, is relevant and all that.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Trying stuff out

Joke post

Feel free to ignore it. It's 1 o'clock in the morning, time to watch Pan's Labyrinth!