Digital Paintery

Comic book work

Whelp, I just got done doing some work for a comic book called Brawn, and it was a pretty cool experience actually working with someone else's idea. Here's a gif showing steps in the process.


My favorite step here was when my client told me that the bunny was too fluffy. It took a bit of creativity to figure out how to make a furry animal more mangy, so in searching for photoreference, I was immediately reminded of Sam, World's Ugliest Dog.

For those of you not in the know, Sam was a purebreed Chinese Crested, a breed of dog that has the distinction of having the only ugly puppies known to mankind.

Anyway, I copypasted the skin texture of the chinese crested seen below underneath the bunny's fur layer, resulting a decidedly less fluffy bunny.

Love is in the Air

I've had this idea floating around in my head for a while.

Remember, kids: any one of your zits could turn into one of these things.

Originally, the head monster was going to be some sort of smiley thing, but then when I was hunting for photoreference (by which I mean googling the word "horrified"), I came across this horrified-looking pug.

Perhaps the phrase "horrified-looking pug" is redundant.

It was at that moment I realized I couldn't just make it a parasite, it had to be a Pugasite.

Valentine's - right around the corner

And you know me, nothing says romance quite like like a cannibalistic entomology joke.




The last time I did Valentine's illustrations was in 2010, and I fondly recall that being one of my best Valentine's days ever. I've recently decided that Valentine's day works best when you make it not about yourself; also, it helps if your significant other at the time adopts the same mindset.
The idea now is that I'm going to print up about 100 of these things, cut and paste them into tiny 2 inch cards, and give them out to everyone that I know, regardless of their gender, attractiveness, or personal hygiene.
I'm recycle a couple illustrations from last time, including a favorite that managed to make the dating.failblog homepage. I also decided the Lonely Dinosaur would be a fitting addition to this year's lineup.

Mer-guy

I did a few new things on this one. First, I thought it would be really cool if I put some caustic lighting effects on the bust, then while I was painting the arm, I thought it would be cool if he had scaly, iridescent skin, which meant that I was now working with a full spectrum of color, rather than the analogous desaturated color schemes that I'm used to using.

This is what happens when I'm trying to be like Jordu Schell.

Rodents Of Unusual Size

I've been thinking that the banner needs changing,

Here's the new one.

and here's the old one, just for the record.

for those of you who have ever wondered who that fu manchu-toting wierdo is, it's Sean Connery. I used this image of him to complete more than half of my assignments for my photoshop class.
Google Zardoz for more lulz.