Totally 'Armless

Here's what will eventually be a watercolor painting for an upcoming show about freaks and sideshow acts. If they let me in that is.

Three Dee

During this past week I decided I'm going to teach myself how to use Maya, since knowledge of a 3d program is pretty much mandatory if you want to land a job anywhere in the animation industry these days (sigh). So, after a few days of dabbling, swearing (why must there be so many hidden menus?!) and a lot of "oooh that's what that does", here's what I managed to slap together.

I'm rather proud of it, despite that it looks totally noob-tastic...it's my first real foray into the wide world of three dee! I managed to make my own texture map for the mushrooms...though you can't see most of it because of the deep shadows (I loooves me some high contrast lighting..its like working in charcoal!). And I managed to shove my own background in there too. The earthen surface was a texture jpg I got off texturez.com, a great source for free textures!
In all in all, it's definately opened my eyes to creating things in 3D, though my heart will always belong to 2D! I'd forgotten how much fun it is to learn new stuff! Weee!

60's Three

Here we go...all three finished paintings. Acrylic on canvas.

Plaid and big hats

Another 60's inspired gal. Acrylic on canvas...and prismacolor marker for the outline because I didn't have a small enough brush.

Sticking Plaster

My brother and I both love Tintin comics, so in celebration of this (and the forth coming film!) and the fact that tomorrow is my brother's birthday, I made him this card! It's actually an accordian card in real life..but reads as a strip anyway. I used potatoshop for coloring and text.
I'm quite tempted to do more Tintin fan art...who knows, maybe there'll be a blog dedicated to Tintin fan art in the near future (or is there one already?), just in time for the movie release!

60's Glam and Go Go

I've spent the last week toggling through the Sartorialist's blog and various vintage flickr pages for inspiration. Voilá! Sketches aplenty! However, after a stressful last couple of weeks, all I wanted to do was some mindless copying of reference photos. At least that way you don't have to worry about composition and rendering and stuff. Anyway, I'm not going to post those, BUT they did inspire me to do an Illustrator painting...which unintentionally turned out to be a go-go Mary Poppins. And in fact, I have at least another two 60's style sketches in the works.

Happy 2010!

Happy New Year!
Here are a few paintings I did for christmas. First, a 'history of cameras' set for my friend who is into photography. Acrylic on acrylic board paper (it's actually really nice to paint on!). Probably should've done these in gouache, but seeing as the price of gouache has spun wildly out of control recently, no gouache for me. Stupidly, I took photos of the paintings when they were in frames and had a hard time getting around the reflections...so the colors aren't exact. >.<;

A digital painting for my future aunt and uncle-in-law! This is the church where they got married about 5 years ago.