Entries tagged with wip

Current Mood: bored

Entry tags:

art,
nft,
wip,
work

Turn My Failure into a Win

Or so I hope.

Creative Market didn't quite work out. I'm going to convert my geometric hummingbirds into a NFT. Maybe it'll sell?

Memories of my mockup.

Current Mood: cold

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art,
wip

Yup, this is still an ongoing thing, lol.

Yes, I haven't corrected the fur shading, or added highlights on the woman, or even cleaned up the crown, but here I am moving forward with the bird.

Painting this has been chaotic from the beginning. I wanted to abandon this, but I've determined to finish this no matter what, even if it takes me a gazillion years.

Current Mood: busy

Entry tags:

art,
wip

Yup, Still Working On This

I need to destressify so I'm determined to finish this. I changed the woman's fur and crown from white/gold to black. It helps the mostly white bird stand out more. I'm also removing the vest on the bird. Tbh, it doesn't need it.

Current Mood: awake

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In the Works

I want to try something different for my first Creative Market product. So, I've decided to make a series of minimalistic vector hummingbirds. I usually do the naturalistic thing, but for the sake of time and doing something different, geometric birds are the way to go.

I haven't decided if I want to add textures or leave as is. The look and feel is basically finished, I just need to adjust a few things. I can't wait to create the other five or so cute birds.

Current Mood: busy

Entry tags:

art,
wip

ART DUMP!!

Memories. I found this infographic I created for my first attempt at freelancing. The image was suppose to explain to potential clients what to expect during the design process.

I had so much time back then. I creating all individual assets from scratch, yes even the credit card, lol. Illustrator has it's charms.

LOL

Yes, I'm still working on this.

I used Illustrator to clean up the crown. Once I finish the face/neck I will blend the crown better into the skin. I gotta clean up the bird by blending the front feathers better. Still need to add buckles and mirror the crown elements into it's leather shield.

Still a lot of work that needs to be done.

Current Mood: awake

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PRESENTATION

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.

Current Mood: exhausted

Entry tags:

art,
wip

The Painting Begins

I hate blending, especially in Photoshop, BUT I love all it's color management and smart objects, so I should stop complaining. I sketched and created the value study in Clip Studio Paint.

Current Mood: hungry

Entry tags:

art,
wip

My Snowy Owl/Queen WIP

~~Almost~~ Finalized look of the character

It's so dark, because initially I was going to go straight to color. Since I was still figuring out design elements like crown, attire and even some armor for the bird I felt I should do a value study first. Everything is still sketchy and rough, but it gives me a good idea where I want to be. I'm leaning toward a round decorative shield in the background.

Shorter Hair

I always envisioned her to have short hair, but during the design process I fell in love with super short hair. Also, I didn't feel she should be in a traditional throne type setting. Each sketch was going toward a viking/norse type of look--and I liked it!

The Beginning

The initial sketch was of a younger woman. I wasn't sure if I wanted her evil or just normal (lol). After the initial sketch, I felt the queen should be older/mature. I wasn't interested in drawing/painting an oversexualized 16-year old looking queen. There are a lot of art depicting that type of image, I just didn't want to go down that route.

Current Mood: artistic

Entry tags:

art,
wip

Other Project

Not final sketch. I will be doing a character design series that includes birds of prey paired up with humans. I can't wait to design her attire and hardware. I don't think I'll do anything with the snowyowl, she's beautiful just as she is.

Current Mood: artistic

Entry tags:

art,
wip

Base Color WIP

This is progressing a lot sooner than my other ones.

For this one I changed the main brush I use.

I still need to fix a few things.

Now I need to do my daily sketch.

Entry tags:

art,
wip

Next Project

Final sketch. Project was inspired by

calzephyr update on the lost budgie that was last seen at a bird feeder along with the sparrows.

Made the bird feeder less elongated, added birds, and I was FINALLY able to crop to size since I was done with the perspective. Next is deciding on a color scheme and time of day.

I'm leaning toward noon or late morning, I want dramatic lighting behind the budgie.

Current Mood: awake

Entry tags:

art,
wip

Drawing in Perspective Sucks

Ok, so this is a bird feeder that has been tilted. Instead of drawing it exactly from a photograph, I decided I wanted to change it's perspective. It's a good exercise for when I get a client that wants an object drawn in many different angles/positions. It took me longer than I'll like to admit. Doing perspective was never my strongest talent.

In this case because I had to rotate the object in 2-point perspective, there was a need to add an additional vanishing point (vp), but only for this object. So this rotated object has the same left vp as the grid but a different right vp. I might shrink it. The perspective makes it look really elongated.

Current Mood: artistic

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DONE :D

DONE!!! Yays!

I enjoyed working on this, Muffin is too cute!

Still got to do some minor things, but this will be done by tomorrow :)

I took some artistic license regarding the shadows and the bread perspective. In the real world this setup wouldn't cast blue shadows, lol, BUT I love it, because it pulls the top and bottom half of the image together. Also the bread would cast a much bigger shadow, BUT it wouldn't look good aesthetic wise.

Will be darkening the banana peel that is in shadow. The feet need need color tweaking as well.

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: "Y.A.L.A." -M.I.A.

Entry tags:

art,
wip

WIP #3

I LOVE to work at this time. NOBODY bothers me, lol.

Had to fix some minor perspective issues with the feet, banana, tail, and bread.

Still have to layer the feathers over the banana on his right side. Also finish the feet and bread. I can't wait to add the shadow! The shadows will help to pull the image further together.

Still planning on adding the "MUFFIN!!" text, lol. Not focused on that right now.

Entry tags:

art,
wip

Photoshop Brushes and WIP

Dear lord. Finding the right brush/blender combination in Photoshop was a challenge. Once I found and tweaked the right brushes it made painting a lot easier. The trick is combining texture brushes with hard solid line brushes. The contrast between the two can be striking.

Put in some more details in the head and body. Still need add feather edges to the head and lighten up some of the shadow. Looking to finish the body this weekend and finish the bananas and bread next week.

Current Mood: gloomy
Current Music: "Give You Up" Dido

Entry tags:

art,
wip

Muffin WIP 1

The majority of the colors are blocked in. Working my way from the beak and eyes to the feather/body. Thank god for layer masks. My sketch was a bit off and I needed to correct the beak area.

I'm going through serious Sketchbook withdrawal :'(

Current Mood: energetic

Entry tags:

art,
wip

Photoshop vs CSP

In preparation of the art trade with

calzephyr I decided to play around with both programs. I had written off Photoshop due to it's 2018 laggy drawing/painting performance. What a difference an upgrade and installing new drawing brushes make.

Going forward I have decided to retire Sketchbook for any serious art pieces. The lack of powerful features and it's color management killed it for me.

Back to Ps--damn. This version plus the new brushes have me rethinking using Ps...

LOL

As you can see both programs can render really light and dark marks very well. Both are feature rich programs. Both are equally responsive. So which do I choose?

I still give the slight edge to CSP for mark making and illustration related UI features that Photoshop doesn't have. BUT Photoshop is a lot more familiar to me and I use it for graphic design. CSP is probably the better choice, but I will probably will go with Photoshop for this project, I just don't have the time to fully learn, what I need to learn with CSP. HOWEVER, I will continue playing with CSP and all it's wonderful features until I learn.

Current Mood: amused

Entry tags:

art,
wip

LOL

ALMOST DONE!!!!

That swiggly mess, I promise it'll be something, lol. The purpose is to hide the toucan's missing foot, lol. Yeah, I'm too lazy to make it.

Originally I wanted flowers, but that shit is too time consuming, so this thing will have to do.

Current Mood: awake

Entry tags:

art,
wip

Finally Laying Color with CSP

QUICK Laying color with CSP. All I can say is wow. It has taken me a quarter of the time compared to Sketchbook to get to the point where I can start to refine it (and fix problem areas, like the lopsided head, lol). The blue highlights on the cheek didn't come out the way I wanted it to, it's ok I'm still experimenting with the brushes and different blenders.

This is taking forever. I'm currently working on the Channel Billed Toucan. Fixing it's wing. Maybe I should have did it in CSP? LOL

Current Mood: annoyed

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Slow

Oh it's only taking me gazillion years to get this done. I did the Channel-Bill Toucan at the Airbnb.

When I started I had all the colors on one layer. I had good intentions, but then I got lazy and the color palette is now on other layers, lol. The feathers are going to be a real jerk.