Magazine article illustration.
Was good to have a finished drawing. I changed the position of the face and coloured it in Photoshop, but other than that, that's the pencils. I am sleepy.
I've drawn quite a few things with flowy tentacles or lines... or it feels like I have. the FTS ep cover... umm.... oh, the Kristen Hersh poster.... whatever, time for sleep.
hurrah.
credit to Lydia for the suggestion of the speech bubble. I'd claim it as my own cuz it amuses me no end, but no, that's not how I roll. kudos Lydia.
It's a while since I've straight up drawn a poster. I mean, it was inked digitally and changed quite a bit once that was done, but I had it somewhat figured out on paper. Just for giggles, here's the initial sketch. I very rarely draw things that big... generally my sketchbook pages are crammed with tiny drawings. To illustrate my point (hurhur), look to the right of the picture on the left
I've been trying to draw more human characters lately.. or at least things with two eyes. I was drawing cyclops characters for a long time cuz I had trouble getting 'real' faces looking right. Felt like it was time to try and, I dunno.. improve? I feel like it's working thus far.
While I was working on this poster I had in mind that it was kinda like a companion piece to my first poster. As is my way, I didn't look at it for reference at all. I tend to work off how I remember things in my head rather than look at references as I tend to wind up getting way too particular. And things come out a little less derivative if I do things that way. Anyway, I looked at the first poster now and they're similar only a really base level. Anyway.. here's that poster for your old timey poster eyeballs
I was poking about Drawn.ca last night and came across this post about artist Leesa Leva's new prints. the photo on the blog intrigued me so I did the usual internet thing and meandered my way to success. Success being spending money I probably shouldn't. But I spent it on this really impressive piece of work.
Now I'm not normally a big fan of the whole pictures-of-girls thing. You know what I mean, right? Hell, this piece features a few things I'm kind of sick of seeing... ornate wallpaper textures, really vibrant gradients... okay that many things. .. basically I'm just not that into stuff that's just a basically drawing of some girl. And it's not because I think they look shitty or anything, most of the artists doing 'em make really nice stuff, but it's never really spoken to me. But this one did. Exactly what it said, I'm unsure. "Buy me" probably. Whatever, it clicked with me. Got the same thing from other work on her site... I might not know exactly what the pictures are about but I can tell there's more depth to it than just "ooh pretty".
Anyway, I love this. A lot! The linework around her face reminds me of James Jeans work a little, and that hair is fantastic! But it just looks so complete, and has an iconic feel to it. I'm excited about acquiring it.
The other weird thing (I guess) is I don't even think the girl in the picture is hot haha.. pretty much the polar opposite of my "type". Perhaps I'm missing the point of pictures-of-girls.
Actually, it looks a bit like Jemina the singer from kickass band, Be Your Own Pet.
Tour poster. something a bit different again. Tried to mix psychedelic with my own style (whatever that is) into something vaguely movie poster-ish,
I think a fair bit of my near-obsessive love for The Venture Bros. found its way in there too. Season 3 is absolutely ridiculous so far. So good. Although for some reason no matter how often I recommend this show to people never seem to bother to check it out. Their loss I spose.
I was (not so recently) invited to be part of an exhibition being put together by the COCA gallery in Christchurch. An exhibition of skateboard decks all prettied up. And they'd send me a deck to ruin. Given I'm pretty intimidated by painting (or anything artwork related that lacks a Ctrl+Z) it took a while to suss out what and how I was gonna do this project. Got there in the end. lots of layers of paint, sanding and varnish. And woodworking. I hadn't done anything with woodworking tools since I was like fuckin 12. Somehow I managed to not make a complete hash of it. There's a few issues I have with the piece, but nothing major enough for me to feel apprehensive about it going in the show haha.
without further a blabber, here is the deck, titled.... uh.. I'll get back to you on that one. No wait, Monstroso! it's called Monstroso.
Here's some things I drew today. I'm a little surprised at them myself. They're a wee bit cutesy generic, but... I guess this is the first time I've really done things like this.... I mean, I draw a lot of cutesy shit, but usually just on paper. The main thing that surprised me was the shocking realisation that the buhjillion hours I spent on the !!! poster and the robot illustrations actually translated into increased skills. I believe people who play World of Warcraft refer to that as 'grinding'. Never played it myself, never plan to. Maybe World of World of Warcraft though. For now, I'm too busy drawing. Or watching the Venture Brothers endlessly.
Promoter wanted something to hand out at some local shows. The real poster still in progress
Slightly sleep dep'd but I was determined to get these done and dusted today. Two full page illustrations for a magazine. I got suuuuuuuuper pedantic with these given the size they'll be vs distance they'll be viewed at.
all created in flash. I made some sweetass gradients. I might post a process thread of these images.. the evolved a lot over time.
