My Journey

 

Finally got around to work on this. Yes, it still needs a ton of work, but at least I made some progress, lol.

I've been busy compositing for clients and for my portfolio. Apparently, presentation matters. I mean why tho? Actually, ok, I get it, but still. When it comes to presentation I'm fucking lazy. I'm like ok, it's done, drop the image on my site and volia--DONE! Admittedly, it does make my portfolio look better.



This is an example of one of my composites.

I didn't add a glare on the cover, because I wanted it to look matte.

Those castor beans were a fucking pain in the ass. THANK GOD for layer masks and my pen. 

Next is animating my website designs, because, well you know--PRESENTATION.

 

I was going to make a quick low res digital painting of Toucans for my new Twitter acct, but decided to give it the full treatment. I need to retool my entire portfolio, so this will become a portfolio piece. I'm regretting painting four vs two very colorful toucans. Ugh, too much work.

I know my portfolio sucks, I just didn't care at the time I created it, lol. At the time, I was pretty depressed and I needed to heal from my shitty work environment. Now, I'm feeling a lot more creative and less depressed. I'm pretty excited :)



Yes, it's CSP! Ok, I'm still a newbie, but I'm learning! So far I LOVE the brush engine, so nice. I also love there is a dedicated reference image space in the UI. Very nice touch!

I'm doing skin tone studies. What better way to learn CSP than to play with the brushes and color.