49 posts tagged “illustration”
A bit bored tonight, inspired by some various illos I was looking at.
This isn't finished yet.
Once upon a time, I slept. I remember it clearly because, well, it was time that I wasn't up until all hours colouring a damn jacket. Why do I spend so much time on this stuff? It doesn't even look like hours worth of work!
So here's a progress report on my latest piece. It's a good thing I don't sell my work; I'd definitely be working at a massive loss.
Here's something I whipped up this morning for the latest drawing challenge at the Digital Pimp Online forums. I quite dig it, especially for a 45 minute effort.
It's the Easter long weekend here in Australia (we get the Friday and the Monday off, so it's 4 days of bliss for moi), so I thought I'd waste an evening doing another illustration. Hopefully I'll get a chance to colour it in the next week or so!
Every now and then, I like to point out that most of my illustrative work these days - at least the stuff that is vaguely anatomically correct - is from photo reference. I point it out purely because I feel awkward when people compliment me for my work, under the impression that it's 100% mine. And it's simply not. Illustration isn't something I have enough time in my life to focus on, and I'm simply not going to spend what little time I have available on learning foreshortening and perspective and all that other wonderful jazz. For me, it's all about the end product - not how I arrived at it. And as far as I'm concerned, most of the time my end product is unique enough in its own right that the methods I used to get there are, well, not irrelevant, but certainly not important to me.
Here's the grabs I threw together to create a starting point.
So there you are. I hope you enjoy my work, and I hope you'll be as carefree about my methods as I am.
Oh man. I never want to draw ever again, haha. I've never spent so much time on a single piece before. I don't know how you people do it! It was fun and all, but man. I could not ever make this is a full time job, haha.
Anyway, here you go. Some random dude sitting on the hood of his Nissan C110 "Kenmeri" Skyline GT-R, sipping on some bubble tea (oh you sweet delicious bubble tea). Enjoy! And remember, make it Kenmeri time. ...™
Fi's making some great progress with the painting, especially considering we've probably had a total of 24-30 hours worth of actual working hours to devote to it. I'm quite proud of the effort she's made so far. She doesn't get to paint very often, so even though she'd be entitled to being rusty and out of touch with her skills, she's really doing a great job with this. I think our friend is going to be very pleased with this birthday gift!
Fi has painstakingly transferred the traced lines onto the artboard, and I'm in the process of cleaning up the lines, adding some details (she'll hate me for the details, it's going to make her job of painting it a lot harder), and getting it generally ready for her to begin painting. Oooo!
Wow, I've kind of dropped off the drawing radar lately. I haven't drawn anything since... Well, since the last time I posted here I guess. I tend to go through phases of not being remotely interested in drawing, and this has been one of those times.
Alas, it was a friend's birthday recently, and Loh and I have decided to try our hand at creating a painting for her. We're going to use my Gamegirl sketch, shown in my previous entry. I enlarged the sketch on my screen, and then used two horizontal pages of A3-sized tracing paper to redraw it straight from the screen (taping the pages to the screen and using the screen as a virtual lightbox). Nifty, right?
The artboard is almost the size of two A3 pages, so it works out nicely.
Now the task to transfer the trace over to the actual artboard begins. Fiona's going to trace the drawing with graphite, and then rub it onto the artboard. She's clever like that. This is all unexplored territory for me, but she's a much more learned artiste than myself, so it'll come good.
I shall update when there's updates to be had. A gug gug gug!
I did this today, instead of working. And yeah, it's from photo reference. My life-like stuff always is, haha. Me, learn to draw life-like without photo ref? HA!
I did it completely in Photoshop, courtesy of my tiny little Wacom Graphire3. Oh how I wish I was still at the studio that had me using a gigantic Intuos3 every day!
A good friend of mine works as the barman at a small, laid-back local Tiki lounge run out of the back of a dance studio. It's very, very cool. I feel superior just being there.
One dude I met there last weekend is a mechanic who works on fuel injectors or something. But on the topic, he's also an artist. As of next week, he'll be displaying some of his works - tiki-oriented works - at the lounge and will be offering them for AU$350 a piece. That's a lot of dosh. I've never seen his work, but heck, a lot of stuff at Outre Gallery in Melbourne can be had for less than that, and the stuff there is phenomenal. So he's either out of his tree, or amazing! I guess I'll find out when I check out his work next week.
I don't plan on following in his footsteps - though who's to say if it'll happen - but I did get inspired by the idea today and started sketching a very quick doodle of a witch doctor offering some little skull flowers to, well, probably a hula girl. Here's hoping it rules! If I bother to finish it, haha.
