Hey it’s another picture that will take me multiple days to finish! Initial comments?
I still have to finish the shirt etc… and now that I look at it his neck is kind of 2D. So I’ve got those covered. Anything else?
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Wilderness
This painting has been in my head since… Sunday, July 17th, around 5:00 PM. This was during an Evensong sermon at CCC, in which the pastor spoke to us organists about how we were all wonderful people but not adventurous unless pushed, so she challenged us to ‘step out of the box and head into the wilderness’ like John the Baptist and Christ and anyone else you can think of who went into the wilderness. Now that day I was really having a bad day, so the idea of ‘wilderness’ terrified me and I nearly broke down in church… but I did get this picture in my head, and I decided I felt like painting it because it’s an interesting picture. Continue reading
Douce France
Is this really what I’d do if I were rich? …Dunno. Check back later.
So this just popped into my head – first the song, Douce France by Charles Trenet, which is an absolutely gorgeous song and you should listen to it, and then the picture. The picture is what I would do if I were rich and could afford a convertible and enough time to go on one of them old-fashioned ‘road trips’ – oh, and if I had the inclination to go on a road trip. : P Anyway, so I’d drag Leslie and Kevin and Organist along with me, and we would crank up Trenet to top volume and just cruise happily. And we’d all wear sunglasses ‘coz we’re cool like that. Actually I’ve never seen Kevin wear sunglasses. But I’m sure he has them. I’m not sure what’s happening in the back seat, but it looks like Kevin wants to see the map but Organist won’t let him.
Wil and Florina, colour
Okay. I’m just getting lazy with the pictures now. This one was pretty much entirely done by: outline! flat colour! burn (darken shadows)! dodge (lighten highlights)! Also Wil’s hand is absolute garbage. This is based off an ooooooooooooold picture so maybe that will be a sort of saving grace but I doubt it. Anyway! Um, background is yoinked off Fire Emblem Planet . net but it’s actually from the game itself, so, thank you, Nintendo and Intelligent Systems! : P I also shortened Wil’s giraffe-like neck, but failed to realize this gives him an extruded torso. He’s not actually very tall; just Florina’s really really small. Also when I drew Florina way back when I did I basically traced the official art so her pose may look familiar.
I like blueberries! We had lots today.
Ceniro, Santaruz, Sunset
First off – yes, I cheated on the grass. Srsly, my attempts were looking pretty sad. Also – yes, the mountains look kind of bare.
BUT.
I like the smudgy tree things, and Ceniro himself didn’t turn out too badly.
It is based off this pencil sketch. I did the background all in the computer.
I’ve been putting up recordings on YouTube! Organ recordings! They’re not as good as the actual performance but that was because I kept falling off the organ bench! : P
Rana by Moonlight – greyscale
Like I said before, she’s age 20 here.
Well, another Photoshop experiment. Not my most brilliant work, pretty sloppy, really, but it’s something new. Greyscale with a smudgy brush of this picture. Painted while listening to Love Over Gold by Dire Straits, which is after all Rana’s theme song.
You like? (I may use this technique again, hint hint.)
Swirly Ephraim in colour
IT’S DONE WHOOOO
Oooh, a big coloured picture. I did one. Took me multiple days, but it’s better than the other ones that I was doing a while ago. I really tried to make the lighting look right. It was hard and is still lacking (though good for a beginner). But I discovered how to do the sparkly tool and also I used a filter on the background.
Sorry for taking so long. I know I said I was working on it but then I got busy. Busier.
Apologies for everyone who has been taking my raving about the Tour. I’ll shut up now, I’ll really try. I just love it so much, and not many people around here will let me fill their ears with my opinions. 🙁
Eros and Psyche
Them’s bedroom eyes, Eros…
Ooh, possible upcoming project for winter! A webcomic retelling of the tale of Eros and Psyche, which is probably my favourite Greco-Roman myth. Psyche is the worried looking girl and Eros is the sparkly semi-transparent god peeking at her behind her back.
We discussed this legend today in Greek and Latin Roots of English, and I abruptly got the idea for a webcomic, so I went home and drew this right away.
This is only a preview of the cover; the finished cover will be much more sparkly and colourful and pretty. This is just a quick sketch to get my ideas down. The comic itself will probably be in b/w so as to save time. There will be chibis! Despite Venus being the goddess of physical interpersonal relations and Eros her son being the god of pretty much the same thing, it will be a family friendly webcomic. Also people will more or less be wearing clothes and the worst language you will get will probably be “Aw, crud”.
And now I am going to go watch Andy – I mean, le Tour, and see if Tyler wins a sprint today yay!
Fangirl
This is Andy. Also me. (drew this today as my new social borg site picture for the duration of le Tour) (I’m not sure where the picture is from because I saved it randomly off the internet a year ago)
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It’s… a HAND!!!
Hi! Preview of the painting I’ve been working on. Internet cookies to those who figure out what it’s of!
Things to be finished on this painting: weapon, background, and ambiance. Whoo!
I found out that painting shiny gold is easier than I thought it would be… maybe it doesn’t look like the pros, but it turned out better than I thought it would. You’ll have to wait to see that, though.