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I should probably try to update this place more often. Here's a picture I've been working on a long time--I only just finished it before the new year, even though I drew the lineart in like August. I'm way too impatient to list all my sources for brushes and stock photos again, so I'll just tell you to go see it on deviantART if you want the full credits. I started it because I was annoyed that people are so uncomfortable with the dark side of life that they pretend it's not there. I was also debating heavily editing my novel to make it more reader-friendly. But I figured out (with my friend Mansi's help) that I may as well not, because that's not what I'm here for. I'm here to tell the story.
Besides, Rebel Yell isn't even that bad, not compared to some other stuff. It'll just deeply irritate my family, who I'm finally figuring out is pretty old-fashioned, or else I'm a nutcase. A lot of things that happen in Rebel Yell are things that happen in real life anyways. Suicide. Depression. Child abuse. Neglect. Some copious bridge-burning is heading my way I guess. We'll see what happens.
But this was an exercise in me trying to be more patient with Photoshop. Did I succeed? Compared to my previous ventures, I guess so. But I'm somehow never satisfied with the way things turn out in that program. I'm still trying to find a good coloring style, I guess.
I'm kind of jaded when it comes to big works I think. The reason I never do them is because I'm usually satisfied just doing sketches, singular works. I only ever do big works when I have something to say, and even then, no one looks anyways. No one looks for the message. It falls on deaf ears. I usually write when I'm really annoyed...because I'm rarely annoyed long enough to complete a big artwork anyways.
In any case, I'll start sharing my art more. I've become a traitor and I've got a Livejournal, though right now I'm just using it for fiction purposes, and for trolling this great new fandom I found. Hetalia! What an excellent thing.
This one's been a big source of debate for me--include it in my portfolio, or not? The style on his face is a few months old, and I've changed it quite a bit since then in trying to get away from anime. I drew this without any references at all while I was in Savannah (this is unusual for me--I usually screw up the hands) and inked it when i got back and then ruined it with the scanner. My scanner hates me and I'm going to have to do something about it.
I have a thing for weird letters. I like including text in my works in the most appropriate ways I can--I like using people's t-shirts especially. They always say a lot about what I want to get across. But this was purely random.
The lyrics in the background and in the bubble are quite obviously the song Don't Let's Start by They Might Be Giants who I got addicted to because of my friend Steph. The video is quite weird, take a look. But fun to watch.
I dunno if I want to include this. I love the lettering and his body, but hate his face. I might be able to scan this in as a black-and-white and put a multiply layer on it and redraw his face in Photoshop, but ...I may as well I guess. I'll have to redraw the red letters and put a noise gradient or something on the bird and do something about the shading on his pants, but...
Jeez.
Something I made out of the Press Journal from November 5, 2008--the day after the election, of course. It's just teastained paper under newsprint brushed on with white glue dissolved in water. The cardboard I stuck it to warped horribly. I only got it to look decent on the computer because I crushed it flat on the scanner. I used Photoshop Elements 4.0 to remove the excess white stuff around the wing tips.
This was originally going to be a collage similiar to Androgyny II, of Hawk rather than Numair, but I got inspired at the last second. There's tracing paper underneath the figure, too, to make him stand out.
There's a lot of things I'm feeling about this past election--pride and disgust are battling it out still. In the end I think I decided that this country is still a fragmented, disillusioned society who hasn't yet resolved its differences. And the corruption in the country needs to stop. Seriously you guys. If the machinations of the government lead us to nuclear warfare in 2012 like I'm betting, I'm going to be severely disappointed.
I should probably try to update this place more often. Here's a picture I've been working on a long time--I only just finished it before the new year, even though I drew the lineart in like August. I'm way too impatient to list all my sources for brushes and stock photos again, so I'll just tell you to go see it on deviantART if you want the full credits. I started it because I was annoyed that people are so uncomfortable with the dark side of life that they pretend it's not there. I was also debating heavily editing my novel to make it more reader-friendly. But I figured out (with my friend Mansi's help) that I may as well not, because that's not what I'm here for. I'm here to tell the story.
