Bayou Runners

More on this. Think I'm done with it for now.

The thing about tutorials

Occasionally, when I am wont to do so, I watch painting tutorials on youtube. The imagineFX channel is PARTICULARLY good, but the overall thing I feel is that I would have stopped WAY earlier than the artists in the demos.

...so with that, I've decided to keep working on this thing, until I'm sick to the gills of looking at it. So far, I'm still really enjoying it, and thankfully I still have enough layers that changing things like character scale isn't too taxing on the paint-time.

I've really found a favourite in the erodible square brush- JUST enough texture, and works out in a shape that's quite conducive to my line weights- which is sort of the point really, to match trad media

Anyways, I'm also limiting myself to not being on the computer after 10.30 on a schoolnight....and of course by schoolnight I mean work the next day. So I bid thee adieu, and if I get through my receipts tomorrow evening (ew!) I might have another update yet again.

Really interested to see if I overwork this and ruin the pic as a result, or if it pushes me to a new level. LET'S DO A SCIENCE!

A dose of Moonshine

So Graham brought in a copy of Moonshine today, and it inspired the hell outta me.

Topic is tangentially based on a suggestion by Adam :D

Getting the hang of PSCS6, and beginning to find some brushes that work for me. I could quite happily work back into this...I think it was about an hour's worth of noodling :) Kept it about a quarter of the size of my monitor for most of the painting, right up until the lantern appeared. Starting to really like that approach.

Some doodles from tonight and last night. The pandas, harbingers of the artblock. Rargle. First and last one there have the same background, just trying out two different approaches to abstract splotches. 

Beach

Absence of Self

 20 Mins Photoshop, because I didn't have enough time to paint a badger like I wanted.

ERASING A LOAD OF WAFFLE HERE. Don't worry, it's the internet. I'm sure it's cached somewhere :D

Warming Up

You may have noticed I've been quiet as of late, and that's been because my computer went and catastrophically died on me, so I've been somewhat stuck for my digital painting and other digital tomfoolery.

More or less back up and running now, and trying to get used to all these upgrades (it's a hard life :D) so I've been angling towards a few of these paintings. Oddly enough, the biggest barrier to productivity is *where I have my keyboard* Significantly less desk space= hardware overlap, so I've been trying different arrangements the last few nights as I refill my machine with backups etc. Tonight I think I hit it, and had a blast painting the top one you see there.

Now to dive into flash and illustrator, and hopefully by the weekend I'll be back up to full working speed. Or, if PS is anything to go by, potential faster. Here's hoping! Still wrangling with my old computer in a very literal sense- the hard drive is in the stupidest place imaginable, and if that comes out I might get the remainder of my old files back.

Fingers crossed.