Random

Just a random image I created with Painter. Made with a black canvas, the Scratchboard tool and by creating a layer mask, then using the airbrush tools to color it in. Feel free to interpret as you wish.

Fire!

This is a sketch of fire. Just in case you can't tell what it is. I used the Digital Watercolor brushes in Painter. Also for ART 86. Now I have to start a two-week long assignment for that class. Need ideas. Google Images here I come!

Pumpkin

I drew a pumpkin in Painter for my ART 86 class. I used various acrylic brushes to make it. I could ave done a better job, but I'm still getting used to the impasto brushes versus the smooth brushes (that don't imitate thick paint). I think I'll play more with the impasto brushes, because I'm fairly used to programs that smoothly put down pixels without imitation of real paint. Photoshop does this, as well as Illustrator.

I also have some ideas knocking around in my head for my T-Shirt printing class (GID 32). Not any that are developed much, but they're in there (my head).

Update

School's off to a good start. I'm enjoying all my classes so far, and haven't gotten behind yet. Ok, it's still the first week, sure, but I have a tendency to procrastinate even early on in the quarter. Hopefully not this quarter. I've said this for just about every quarter I've been in school, of course. Procrastination often wins.

Here's a sketch I did for one of my first assignments in my "Painting with a Computer" class (hereafter called ART 86 for brevity's sake). It's my hand. I made notes in the file just so that I could remind myself of what brushes I used without having to create some sort of text document to keep track.

I make posters free.

I did this yesterday for a coworker from Peet's. She and a friend are musicians, and will be playing sometime this weekend. I hope I'll be able to go, mostly for a show of support.

I'm not so keen on writing text for posters, but I definitely enjoyed doing the composition for this one. It was a bit of a challenge, since I wanted to layout the text according to how the illustration sat on the page. The bow for the violin was troublesome, but I think I overcame it well enough.

The font is "Bodoni Handwritten," a free font I got from a free font site I can't find or remember now. If I find it later, I'll be sure to post a link to it, because I think the site I got it from had quite a few neat fonts.

It's still summer, right?

Well, my projects never saw the light of day due to life happening. I won't bore with deets.

I just got Corel Painter IX, and did a doodle to play around with it and see how I like it. Then I deleted that doodle and did a quicker doodle that just uses a Fine Point Ink brush setting. I'm hoping to be more comfortable with Painter before school starts.