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Duck ‘n’ Cover

Posted on August 5, 2015 Leave a Comment

Since there’s a Splatoon tournament coming up I gathered together a few friends and formed a Squid Squad. Needing a name for the Squad I tried to think of something with a ducky theme but couldn’t come up with anything on my own. So I turned to John who suggested “Duck and Cover” – I think it works quite well considering the aim of the game is to cover turf!

Based on the name, I made a logo for the team. The art is entirely vector art, traced over an initial pencil sketch.

I think I could have done a better job with the art if I thought about it as overlapping shapes rather than as lines that needed to be filled. I haven’t gotten into the correct headspace for vector art yet!

PS if you think you’ve seen this art before you’re not quite right. It’s the same lineart, but for the first draft it was vector lines only and paint-bucket fills of colour, as opposed to being filled vector shapes. This version is much cleaner.

Posted in: Digital | Tagged: blaugust, duck, inkling girl, limited palette, logo, made by me, splatoon, splattershot, vector

Tako Drum Master

Posted on August 4, 2015 4 Comments

Inkling/Octoling society is rather interesting, and we’re fed just a little info about it via single player’s Sunken Sea Scrolls.

In one of those scrolls we spot the only male Octoling to feature anywhere in the game. I tried to imagine what he might get up to in his spare time – namely, dropping some sweet taiko beats. But we’ll call them Tako beats for the neat multilingual pun.

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I’ve posted this image a couple of times previously (though not on my blog) so let’s not go too much more into the Splatoon aspect and instead look at the seal in the bottom right.

Regular readers will know that I often sign my works with a seal containing the top character. That character is in fact the Chinese version of my surname (Ling in Mandarin). It features two trees and has the meaning “Forest”.

I have been toying for some time with the idea of expanding on this seal to make it even more personalised. I do have a Chinese name that I could use (Yi-Fei) but I don’t particularly identify with it, not least because I think one of my Chinese teachers for a while thought it was Zhi-Fei and I was taught my own name incorrectly. I speak the rest of the language equally poorly as I know my own name so I wasn’t keen to include it in the seal.

So that left me with my English name, Alethea, which I quite adore. I decided to take elements of the name and turn it into a Sinogram of sorts, aping the look of Chinese characters and hinting at the English alphabet.

You can see a variety of Chinese scripts here, the evolution of the language has gone through many different appearances and stylisations! I chose to experiment with seal script and standard script. I also played around with going from very simple stylisation where the letters were more obvious to more abstract interpretations. Here are some of my experiments.

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At conventions I like to do free watercolour name tags, so I worked a lot on the idea with the hope of offering commissioned Sinographs as a “tier” up from the free name tags. I’m hoping to also experiment with my laser cutter to be able to offer another tier – I’ll engrave your name into a physical seal. Experimenting with this idea, I filled many pages with Sinogram drafts, challenging myself to think of the letters in various different ways and practicing to perfect the style of each character and stroke.

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Obviously to be able to offer these at cons would require me to actually have time at a convention to spend on them, and time in the evening to complete overnight work if I’m making physical seals. So, that kinda leads into a little internal debate I’m having over whether to do another table at Supanova in November.

Well, that ended up going from a very lazy blog post to a much longer one that touched on more topics than I’d expected! Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you again tomorrow.

Posted in: Digital | Tagged: blaugust, dj octavio, names, script, sinograph, splatoon, taiko

Smashed With Four Aces

Posted on February 10, 2015 Leave a Comment

It’s finally done! I don’t do a lot of digital art so although this painting got off to a blazing start, I quickly hit a wall and then it languished around for months because I found it too exhausting and physically straining to work on (digital painting hurts my wrists way more than traditional painting, plus my posture is bad). Well I’m super proud to say that I knocked down the wall and got this painting done.

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You can order prints of this painting in my Storenvy shop on TeePublic. Make sure you order a Poster or Canvas print to get the picture printing all the way to the edges!

There’s also a t-shirt version available on TeePublic! It’s on sale for its first 72 hours, $14 now, $20 later.

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I can’t remember how the idea itself struck me, but the inspiration for this piece is quite obviously CM Coolidge’s famous series paintings of dogs engaging in human-like behaviour and pastimes. Many of these featured dramatic moments in games of poker.

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Render done in Blender to aid painting of the cards and chips.

 

I knew that the feature of my piece would be the cheeky Duck Hunt Duo gloating over their winning hand. While the image most resembles the paired paintings A Bold Bluff/Waterloo The scenario is borrowed from Poker Sympathy and the general theme of the bulldog getting beaten even though he holds 4 aces (His Station and Four Aces, Pinched With Four Aces – the inspiration for the title of the piece).

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Detail of the chips and cards after I painted over the renders

First up I had to determine who would be seated at the table and who the unlucky loser would be. My inclusion criteria was pretty much any canid that appeared as a character, assist trophy or background element. I missed a few characters in the first pass and had to add them to the painting as I went. I thought about including Master Core’s beast form but letting in things that were simply beastly rather than canid would open the door to other things, like the Ultimate Chimera.

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Close up of Isabelle and the drinks she’s serving.

As for the loser – as luck would have it, Smash 4’s Nintendog was changed to be a bulldog. I think it’s a perfect match – the bulldog puts his hands up in protest, thus resembling his appearance as an Assist Trophy.

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I tried very hard to include everyone but I’m sure I missed something… even though my friends on Facebook didn’t call me out on any missing characters. (Well, they didn’t tell me I’d missed Lucario, or the Animal Crossing guys either). If you think I’ve missed something major I might have a go at adding them in, but for a minor appearance I think they’ll just have to miss out. (I remembered Tails pretty late on, but I didn’t think he was prominent enough a cameo to feature.)

I got the painting printed as a wrapped canvas print. It’s about 75cm x 50cm. I think the poster prints come out nicer though, they preserve the details a bit better.

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Posted in: Digital | Tagged: animal crossing, chain chomp, dogs, duck hunt, fox mccloud, isabelle, kk slider, lucario, nintendog, poker, rush, smash bros, wolf odonnell

Fan-Art Friday #3: Street Fighter/Sailor Moon

Posted on August 15, 2014 Leave a Comment

bunheads

Alternative titles:
Street Moon
Sailor Fighter

I drew some girls with bun-hair thingies!

Posted in: Digital, Line Drawings | Tagged: chun li, crossover, fan art, sailor moon, street fighter

Greninja vs Charizard Sketch

Posted on April 9, 2014 Leave a Comment

Painted this one on the bus on the way in to work!

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Posted in: Digital | Tagged: charizard, fan art, greninja, pokemon, smash bros, smash brothers, ssb, video games

Self-Portrait

Posted on April 4, 2014 Leave a Comment

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A self-portrait done in Painter

Posted in: Digital | Tagged: asian, glasses, portrait, self-portrait

(Untitled)

Posted on April 1, 2014 Leave a Comment

I bought Painter a while ago but since swapping computers I haven’t been using it. Last night I decided to do a manic experiment with colour!

Reference from the gorgeous stock art of Lockstock.

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Posted in: Digital | Tagged: corel painter, expressionism, painter, portrait, redhead

Life is good, love is real, beauty is everywhere.

Posted on March 25, 2014 Leave a Comment

After fiddling around with Sherman’s Circular Gallifreyan (a fan-made alphabet) for a week or so I came across another fan made variant, Doctor’s Cot by brittanybgood which I rather liked the aesthetic of. I decided to redo my previous project in that alphabet instead.

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Have I made mistakes? probably. But I’m pretty pleased with the result, especially as it was relatively fast to lay out once I worked out the phonetic breakups of the words (thanks wiktionary!).

Posted in: Digital | Tagged: brittanybgood, cipher, doctor who, doctor's cot, gallifreyan

Witchy

Posted on March 24, 2014 Leave a Comment

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Decided to have a go at colouring this while on the bus, it took a few bus trips and it’s a little on the gaudy side but it was nice to do something a bit different.

Posted in: Digital | Tagged: witchsona

Ayvee sketches

Posted on August 13, 2012 Leave a Comment

A bunch of sketches and scribbles of AVCon mascot Ayvee.

From t-shirt design brainstorming:

From trying to define some kind of style for the booklet comic:

(kinda terrifying!)

The one on the right was the first drawn up, and was copied from a panel from this comic. Once I’d gotten a feel for the style I was aiming for, I drew the others.

And some fun scribbling:

This picture kinda reminds me of Laura…

Posted in: Digital, Sketches | Tagged: avcon, ayvee
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