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.