Random sketch

Just a random sketch I made in Painter. I don't know if I want to do anything more with it. I had wanted to have a rocket in the background, but then I realized I didn't know how to draw a rocket.

For Halloween - WIP

This is an image I created in Painter for a future class assignment. I used pencil, oil and bleach to create it. It's not really based on anything, I just started sketching and built from there. I think it's going well, but I still want to tweak it using the Clone feature of Painter.

Halloween is coming up and I'm not going to be dressing up. Can't really think of any costume that I would want to wear. I used to be interested in Halloween, but my interest in the holiday has waned. I still enjoy seeing costumes that people come up with, but cosplay is year round, after all.

Mushroom fairy.

He's a cutie, I know.

An exercise from my ART 86 class. I think I went a little overboard on the complexity of it, but I'm ok with that.

Bumps on a log.

I forgot about this one. I had fun with it. And no, I'm not suddenly an amazing painter, I got to use the Clone brushes in Painter. I used a picture I took at Big Basin National Park (here on my Flickr page, where you can find other art stuff by me - most of it here on this blog, actually). It took a couple of takes, and I learned a few good lessons along the way. I forgot them promptly, but at least I learned them, right?

Die Header with a Vengeance.

Yes, that is a horrible pun. No, I am not going to apologize for it.

I made a header for a design website that I'm slowly creating for my GID 56 class (website design, if you couldn't tell). I used Fireworks and managed to figure out how to link the buttons to the proper pages. Hurray!

There's really not much to say about it, except that I'm probably going to tighten the design up - that is, move all the elements closer together so they aren't so lonely.

Rebirth - Fin

I finished a digital painting and I'm happy with it. This is a two-fisted project - I've submitted it for my ART 86 class and I'm going to submit it to a collaborative group-for-all with the theme of "rebirth" (thus the title) for the Foothill Art Society.

Now if only I could worm this into my GID32 and GID 56 classes. Four birds with one stone is my goal here, really. I think I can squeeze three birds out of this stone, at least.

Oh, and speaking of birds and stones, I finished my first solo project for my GID 32 class (the T-shirt printing class). I'll post pictures of the screen-printed-by-me shirt when and if I ever remember to. I know where my camera is, really, I do. I'm really really happy with how the shirt turned out, but more on that later.

I'm organic - are you?

This design is commentary on the use of the word "organic" in pop culture. I would rant about it a little, but I don't really feel up to it. Let's just say that some words have precise definitions in certain context and pop culture tends to ... dumb it down a bit.

The molecule on display is ethyl formate. If you're an astro-geek like me, you'll know that this is an organic molecule that's been discovered in space. Oh, and it's one of the molecules responsible for making raspberries smell like raspberries.

Yes, boys and girls, space smells like raspberries. And rum, actually.

This design is for my t-shirt design class. I hope to print tomorrow.

Monocle Pear

Yes. It is a pear wearing a monocle. It's for an exercise for my Art 86 class. I think this idea came from a combination of too little sleep and too much coffee, plus some Bad Religion. I've been somewhat goofy all day, though, even without the caffeine or the Bad Religion, so I guess it's mostly stemming from my sleepiness.

This is the pretty much finished version of my first project for ART 86. I'm pretty happy with it. I think that I want to add some details in the sky, but I'm not sure how I want to finish it. Now on to the next one, I guess.

So I was bagging today...

A comic based on a true story.

Tower WIP

I've been working on this for the last weekish, off and one, for my ART 86 class. I tried it with the Digital Watercolor variants, but I didn't feel that the brushes worked well with the image. This version is done with the Airbrush variants. It's probably about half-done. I need to work over grass, and add details to the towers and sky. Not sure how I'm going to do it, but I have a week to finish it for my class. It's not a terribly difficult work, and simple, which was purposeful.

Now I just need four more ideas for works that I want to do in this class. We'll see what happens.