Blagofest
somethingsomething there was going to be content here but just got home from a meeting thing. Have a picture instead. Explanation forthcoming maybe.
Comikaze24 2011
Australia’s 24-hour comics day has passed!
Check out the great entries here.
This is the first year I’ve participated since 2007 when I did a quick 8-pager. This year I did an 8-page story on Saturday and a 24-page story on Sunday. As always, there’s some really superb stuff created for the challenge so I recommend you have a read of them all!
Transposition
The little seal in the bottom right is from a stamp I bought at a 100 yen shop while I was in Japan. It cost uh, 105 yen. Anyway, I was very happy to find it!
Dragon Dance
WIP: now I’m stuck deciding what colours to use for the dragon!
Recent works.
Contests and requests – keeping me on my toes by stretching my normal artistic fare.
My entry into the AVCon 2011 T-shirt design comp:
I’ve started taking character illustration requests for the Kingdom of Loathing again:
A sample picture (this is my Disco Bandit character ‘Silks’ from my old comic)
A painting for a player named ‘Brocrates’:
A painting for player ‘Ereinion’:
Simple Self Portrait
I was inspired after attending the ACSA’s 2010 graduate exhibition. Today was the last day of the exhibition so I was glad to catch the show before it ended.
Since I’ve been dabbling in watercolours lately, the watercolour portraits by Ruby Chew were really awesome to see. When I’d caught glimpses of the graduates putting up their work I had no idea that there would be her 52 marvellous mini portraits included alongside her large canvas paintings.
With Ruby’s works fresh in my mind I thought about restricting my palette to just the three primary colours to depict myself. I’m no master in watercolours or portraiture, but this was a fun exercise that I’ll probably try out some more over the weekend.
More scraps
Oh, and while I’m updating, here are some more bits and bobs of various old art:
And lastly, you may have seen my Ducky Love design, but what about pink ducks?
Grey.
Oops, been a bit quiet again. Here’s a quick-sketch I lined up a while ago to appear here…
Reference from a fashion magazine, I think.
I think I was lazy with the shape of the face and traced the outlines so that I could move onto practising the shading. I wanted to spend some more time on rendering noses and lips – and it shows, because other areas feel a bit flat. But as a quick drawing exercise I think this turned out okay.
Yu Long
I am in an evaluation stage now. If I do go back to the image I think I will have to see about making the dragon’s beard more golden and tweak some shading on the tail. Otherwise I’m ready to call this complete.