Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts

Monday, December 5, 2016

Two Quick Drawings for @sketch_dailies

Two quick illustrations I did for the artist prompt twitter account @sketch_dailies. I'm slinging 'tent on twitter @saturn2169 (I've also been listening to a lot of Comedy Bang Bang). Check out my twitter if you like. Although a good chunk of it ends up on here eventually. 


#CrimsonAvenger

#WonderWoman

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Holiday Card 2015

The holiday season is over. I guess it has been for a few weeks. But by now even the really lazy people should have taken down decorations and all that (says the lady who has her "Happy Halloween" decorations still up on her door). Anyway, here is 2015's holiday card. I wish I was on a beach somewhere warm right now.

 One of my first rough concept sketches (John in a bikini)

Rough sketch. I kind of liked the look of this one (turns out John didn't like the bikini part)

Inked

Final


Warm wishes.

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Who Needs Chopsticks? Part 2

Hey, so after sleeping on it I decided I wanted to balance the composition a bit and add some color and ambiance. I added in some background detail with the lanterns and that inspired the color of the piece a bit. I feel a lot better about it now. It was also quite nice to pick up my brushes again as it has been a few months since I have used them. All in all, I'm pretty okay with how it turned out. Enjoy. (to see the process sketches and line art click here)

Process shot featuring my teapot.

Adding the finishing touches.

All scanned and finished.

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Lobster Girl

Enjoy!

 Rough Original Sketches




Final Sketch



Final Inked



Final Painted (with touch ups in Photoshop)


Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Holiday Card 2012

So, now that everyone I sent cards to has actually gotten their card, I figured I'd post some pics of the process and the final card for the rest of the world to see. 

I decided that I wanted to do an ice skating picture, a cute little winter scene. John and I used to go ice skating quite a bit in the early years of our relationship before I acquired an allergy to the cold. Anyways, this picture isn't depicting any time in particular, but is sort of representational of our individual abilities as ice skaters (just don't ask John about that). I posted two of the original rough sketches from my sketchbook in a previous post: here

Rough sketch once I figured out the composition of the piece.

Inked version.

Just about done with the colored inks.

Final version after a couple edits in Photoshop.



Bonus: A quick little sketch of me with my morning tea. Enjoy!

You can see last year's card here.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

TL;DR Stuff I Made for Mother's Day and Some Birthdays

So last week I didn't really post anything of substance. I was busy working on some personal projects. Since they are now done and have been received by the people I sent them too, I can post them here! With out further ado, my first project.


My sister called me last December and asked if I could do a series of paintings for her newborn son's bedroom. He wasn't due 'til April, so I put the project off for a while. And then when he was finally born, I realized that I still hadn't a clue what to paint. Anyways, a week and a half ago, I had an idea and decided it would be a perfect mother's day/happy being born day for my sister and nephew. The idea was to do a cartoon-y looking animal drawing for every letter in his first name. My sister didn't make it easy though. See for yourself.


Sketches of some of my ideas.

 Thumbnails of the final ideas.

Photo of the final paintings (sorry I forgot to take pics of the whole process).

 All of them together after being scanned in.


The other project I worked on was creating mother's day cards for all my sisters, moms, and grandma. Also, since I was sending my new nephew and sister something I decided to also make a card for my brother-in-law whose birthday was on mother's day and their other son whose birthday was just a couple weeks ago. I'm just the worst aunt. 

 All the cards together.

Close up of the card for my mother-in-law to be. Which is a very similar design to the one for card for my mother. The main difference is that on my mom's card I'm waving and on my mother-in-law's card, John is waving. Also the text on my mother's card is green (my favorite color) and on my mother-in-law's card it's blue (John's favorite color).


Cards for my sister-in-laws to be. They both have two kids, which is why they both have two bees. Jenny has twins, which is why they are the same size flying in the same pattern. I didn't really expect anybody to get that, but I thought it was kinda cute, right?


How I signed the card for my brother's fiance, the mother of my other nephew.

My nephew's birthday card.

This might be my favorite of the cards. This is the birthday card for my brother-in-law.

Close up of the drawing on the front of my sister's mother's day card. Celebrating the birth of her new son.


I just realized that this is all probably way more information than anyone cares about. Welp, too late, I already typed it out and you already read it all.

Friday, January 9, 2009

Painting

This is a painting I did that was inspired by the Aya Takano book I've been looking at. Of course this is nothing compared to the beautiful work she does.


Acrylic, watercolor, and ink on paper.