Minecraft Adventures in Wood & Clay
Woodwork and countless(64) squares courtesy of Steven.
Polymer clay tools, squid-in-progress & eyeless Herobrine cows off to the side.
One completed Chicken & Slime pawn; all the rest to go.
Completed chess set & instructions with built-in piece holder.
It’s on! Classic good vs. evil battle.
Abyssal Zone + Bunnies
The first stages — sketching & vellum cut outs for adding in lava-ish butterflies. I wanted something a little bio-luminescent to add in some more color.
Finished I believe?! I’m really happy with the colors.
Brisk Wanderings
Maybe still missing a little bit of low-lying smoke, but mostly where I would like it to be for your basic… entity wandering a lava-like field. Fall is seeping into my psyche.
Chalkfest 2013 – The Squirrel II
We combined our initial sketches into Photoshop to play around with the idea. This is the game plan that resulted from tinkering.
Starting out the morning by mapping in the big chunks of color. Some people like to use grids, I think that is an extra, time-consuming step so I choose to avoid it. We eyeball in this house.
A bit of time elapsed from the first picture to here. No time to dilly dally with cameras.
Bragging rights! All thanks to my lovely partner Carrie Sood and not possible without the efforts of Volume One. For more pictures check out my facebook page. For more info about the event check out Volume One! Also, feel free to check out last year’s epic squirrel saga.
Neckerchief of Anxiety.
A little sketchy sketch of an idea that has yet to be colored and ruined.
Screenshot or it Didn’t Happen
Proof that I do more than just look at cat pictures on the internet. Not used to working this large in Photoshop, yet. It’s 16″ x 20″, 600 dpi. So far, I have basically just laid out where the next ten hours of detail work are going. Forging ahead, I want to test how “painterly” I can get, digital style.
Wandering Eye
Either dusk or dawn, but definitely a hunting-type situation. You can tell from the pastel colors that it’s about to get real.
Hopeless Horn Bird
This one started out on canvas – acrylic – small 9″ x 12″ canvas, but I needed to add more details and the canvas was too rough for me to dig into. I will either need to start playing around on a smoother paper or wood surface in the future, or continue to let Photoshop serve as a detail magnifier. As much as I sincerely love dirtying my hands and entire wardrobe with caustic paints, digital painting is wonderful because it lets me Dodge and Burn the image without impatiently muddying the entire painting. Ctrl+z is only valid for tactile paintings if the media is still wet or you don’t mind a little sandpaper. The only fault I can find with digital painting is that it doesn’t drip and randomly spread, but I am sure there is an action or a filter for that. And I always have sketches to fall back on for messing up my hands with graphite.
As far as the image is concerned, it is an attempt at something hopeless and static. Sometimes the winter gets to your brain like that. Manic happy is soon to follow.
Exemplify
Follow up! I am guessing the giants are a council of ancients. It’s looking a bit oceanic, so little man-dude is most likely bringing some sort of sea-related knowledge to the table, maybe a recipe or what he has learned throughout his life-passage.
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