We'n'sday Comics Volume 3 Issue 3

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Redneck Opus

Here's a little piece of commissioned work I just finished recently, a little thing called "the Green-neck farmer." This was inked by hand, then scanned and colored with a lovely little painting-simulation program called ArtRage 3.
Here's an earlier, rough pencil version:

and some conceptual sketches done in an attempt to come up with the central character, based on a number of photos gathered online:

and a few of the images used for inspiration in finding the character with more specific characteristics than I might have come up with right off the top of my head:
...sorry for showing you that last one.

snow business

just toying around in photoshop with an idea I had for a picture.

Eagle

this project was a request, my aunt wanted me to paint a wooden eagle my grandfather got my grandmother for christmas, and she wanted it done by memorial day.

bugged out.

I did another small sculpture, this time of the daughter louse character.

Poppa Louse (enlarged to show detail)

I made a 3-d version of the headlouse character design to help me visualize him more fully, and get the tricky perspectives and camera angles right. The pose I selected was based on this sketch of the character.

I made the head, body, and arms as separate pieces for a couple reasons: first, so I could sculpt it more easily, without the clay all mushing together as I worked on details; and second, so that I could move them around afterwards as drawing references.


While the clay cooked, I figured out a basic color scheme using the sketch on which I based the pose in the model.


Then I mixed paints and proceeded to apply color to the finished sculpture.

blending with surroundings

a little part of some experiments i am working on with character and background environmental integration/blending.

Water Colors For, or, Light Painting, Being the Detailed Accounting of the Further Adventures an Aspiring Artist on His Journey to Create Art.

I seems to have had a sudden surge in the number of posts I've done recently. Here is another, a detailing of the process I go through to create a watercolor. This was something I painted this afternoon in preparation for a demonstration I will be giving to a group of 7-8-9 year-old boys tonight about the medium.


It is interesting to note the difference in appearance between a photograph of the painting and a scan of the same painting. The colors seem a lot more rich in the photograph(above), as the natural light plays over them, more like the way I saw them as I painted, whereas the scanned version(below), even after tweaking the colors, is a lot flatter with only the light from the scanner reflecting on it.



After I finished the painting, I drank the apple juice in the glass as my reward.