yay

My photo on the CBC on the island website!

Lazy sunday post

Great artist Michal “Sepe” Wrga featured on bldgwlf:

I totally went into the html and made this into a bitching link. Pride.

awesome video

for anyone interested in digital painting there's a great walkthrough here:

http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials_3/video_tutorial_liche_priest/liche_priest_01.php

Game 7

perpetually sick

I'm not feeling so hot tonight but I don't want to miss two posts in a row so here's my drawing of a cell I just did for bio:

did you know you can change the size of the photo seen in the actual post?

because I just figured that out.

worthy blog post? I think so.

Embrace the new!

I got a bunch of things done for the blog today! yay!

1. Bought dog shampoo (unrelated to blog)

2. Bought not one, but TWO new toned sketchbooks (awesome)

3. And the most exciting a brand new comment system! so try it out! (hint hint)

Portrait classes

So I thought I'd put all the pictures from my portrait class side-by-side just to see if there was mesurable improvement:

I'm thinking yes.

These classes have been so incredibly helpful! I've gone from misshapen alien blob to identifiable human face!

They haven't just been helpful from an art point of view either, I happen to have pretty bad social anxiety so being in a room full of strangers can be pretty difficult.  But being in a group and just concentrating on drawing has been amazingly helpful (and about tenfold cheeper than therapy :P ). 

I shall include a link to my most awesome art teacher and I suggest that anyone in the victoria area take a look at his classes. (also look at the lemons, they will blow your mind)

Last portrait class

I had my fifth and final portrait class last night and got a lot more done than usual:

. . . some day I'll get a scanner. . .

And since this is the first legitimate post in a very long time I'll try to get back on track posting everyday.

Tiny rant

for months I've been trying to figure out how to paint blood digitally and I cannot find a single useful tutorial! All the tutorials I come across have two steps:

1. Download splatter brush
2. Use

no, no, no. That is not a tutorial! People could probably figure that out on their own. Also not all surfaces are flat, they are curved, which effects the behaviour and lighting of the blood.
So this goes out to the thousand idiots posting those tutorials; get your ass off the internet so I can't find what I'm looking for!

Anyways I'm wishing everyone that isn't posting those stupid things a good day.

blahhhh

I've been falling a bit behind on my english work so I'll have to skip a post tonight. So here's a link to my super outdated deviantart. And another great artist featured by abduzeedo.

Occupy Victoria

I went to see the 'Occupy blank" protest in my hometown, It was mostly people complaining about smart meters and a few 9/11 truthers.
















All the people who had signs about legitimate things seem to have left quickly

4th Portrait class

Portrait I drew this past thursday in my portrait class, I believe the model's name was Victoria. I was pretty proud because it actually looks somewhat like the model :P

I love the monochromatic colours! Hue Variation for the lose!

wow

wow wow wow, check out these awesome illustrations by Kai Spannuth.

Missing posts

So I've missed the past thousand days (school) so here's some more photoshop shortcuts:

http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/photoshop-secret-shortcuts

Retouch

Brown hair to blond, started forever ago finished today :P

For those wondering why this lovely woman is all over my blog it's because she is my only friend awesome and willing enough to model for me!

Colour

I thought I'd try colouring in an image from black and white.

Was pretty fun.
Keen observers might note that this is the portrait I posted earlier, I did use the liquify tool to make the proportions of the face a little bit better.

Happy thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving!

and because it's thanksgiving I refuse to make a proper post and instead make a proper pie for noming.
BUT FRET NOT MALAYSIAN SPAM BOTS!
I give to you a great collection of speed painting videos.

Because nothing says happy thanksgiving like a speed painting of a sea monster.

Portrait 1

Just a quick post of the portrait from my first portrait class, I didn't get as I got the second time:

Let's pretend the grain is for artistic purposes and not from my lack of scanner.

I keep drawing noses too small >.<

Portrait class

this is a drawing I did in my second portrait class. It's been really frustrating because I understand the theory behind drawing a face, I understand the anatomy and I can draw the individual features, but when I try putting it all together there's some kind of disconnect. I will keep trying however, and I will not stop 'till I am FEMKING OF PORTRAITS!






















I've developed this habit of putting 'fem' as in female in front of words to imply it being female. Language is a rule that's made to be broken *puts on sunglasses*

October!

Me last year at Halloween. . .
















. . . I was blurrier last year

Line art

I was in the mood to colour so I pulled up some old line art and coloured it . . . with a mouse. 
Yeah, you're impressed.

Shortcuts!

So I watched a fantastic youtube video of someone's digital painting process (here) but I couldn't help but to noticed their workflow was rather slowed down by their lack of shortcuts. So here's a short list of some of (what I find to be) the most useful photoshop shortcuts:

B : brush tool

option while using the brush tool (B) : eyedropper tool (colour picker)

Q : quick mask

D : changes foreground colour to black, background to white

X : switches foreground and background colours

command+J : Duplicate layer

command+shift+option+N : creates a new blank layer, a longer one but extremely useful

hit V, release, then option+ '+' or '-'  :  Changes the layer mode. Try it, you'll understand


Those are just a few of the ones I use on a daily basis. If there's any confusion don't hesitate to ask!

MELON UP!!1!1111

So I was walking past the grocery store and these melons caught my eye. . .

It is now impossible for me not to imagine this being screamed by a japanese super hero.

It's a post

A lovely friend's been kicking my arse to make a post today, so here's an illustration of the 'Vandertramp' verbs I did in grade 9:

You never said it couldn't be a lazy post maggs :P

The 3rd Dimension Eludes Me

I keep trying to paint on photoshop, but everything ends up looking like a 7-year-old let loose on MS paint. No matter what I do it always looks flat.

I am, however, relatively happy with how I paint lips.

















If anyone out there has any tips I'd love to hear them.

Retouch

A quick retouch for CBC radio 1:















It may be shallow, and is probably the least interesting thing you can do on photoshop but I just love retouching.