Where I'll be posting my art exclusively, since I can't seem to keep myself from re-blogging things from other artists on my other blog.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
This week’s theme: Ocean life
Last week’s challenge. Forgot to upload it.
Space Olympics
The theme was Olympics, in any era, any location.
This week’s challenge, Transformers.
Three Generations of Starscream
My TinierMe Selfy portait
Doodling while previews render in After Effects
Dunno which MVP to acid demo.
Because I’ll never within a decade (or more) be able to post a picture of this. Anytime before work, I always downloaded the digital student version off of their official website, and the only time I actually had a hard copy of a student version, it was only for Maya alone, and it just came in a typical DVD case, like all other student edition software I used to buy. And it was only 300 bucks. This babe in the picture was over 1k. More specifically like 5.7k.
That concludes this week’s art challenge.
Painting or Gaming
I’m torn between the two. Either I’ll play some more Skyrim, or work on a painting I started this weekend (which does involve a dragon). I’m glad I’ve been getting some quality stuff out. Without realizing it, I’m improving and becoming more of the kind of artist I want to be.
There are two paintings I’m working on in fact. I’m on a roll. The weekly challenge at work (this week’s theme is to remake a movie poster into whatever style you want with some of your own flair, and we can do what we want with them; make them funny or scary, etc), and the one at home, so expect to see them some time soon.
I am now obligated to keep working on them.
Because I know some of you only follow me on my art blog ~I just realized I had an option on my Intuos4 tablet called Precision Mode. I’m generally one of those tablet artists who don’t bother with whatever features a tablet has to offer. If anything, they tend to annoy me more than anything. (especially that touch-wheel. I need to keep mine disabled).
While disabling it though, I was going through the side button shortcuts, and as I got to one called Precision Mode, I wondered about what it meant exactly. It attracted me, because I thought about how great it would be if I had some sort of option to help me make my strokes more precise. (I work with 3 monitors, which kills the sensitivity of my line work by blasting it on high, and since the screens stretch out horizontally, my strokes tend to slip in that direction).
So I left it turned on my side buttons, and it did just that! When I pressed the button, it zoomed me into the portion of the screen where my cursor was hovering over, and the movements were just soooo muuuch more easier to handle.
At first, it was too slow, but you have the option of making it less finer/slower in the Wacom Properties window, and so I adjusted it to my liking. The image above is a sample of the difference in my line work.I’m sure some artists are already aware of this. I wasn’t, and I wondered how some other artists were able to manage line work in Photoshop without any sort of smoothing tool aid to make their lines smoother. It doesn’t help that I use three screens, but even then, when I used to work on my laptop I still felt I had some issues.
Anyways, I hope this can help other intuos users who are unaware of this.
Fairy Tales: Hansel and Gretel
Something I did at work. Anyone who wants to draw participates in a weekly challenge that one of our artists came up with. He gives us a theme to work with every Monday. The art is due by Friday and is then displayed on a wall. They’re fun to look at, and motivating. Every week, they become more and more intricate, even though the requirements is just for something as quick as a sketch.
This weeks theme: Gruesome Fairy Tales
