Spaceman - finished (more or less)

Finalized (for now) version of the Spaceman painting I started two weeks ago. I think I can polish it up a bit, but it's good enough to submit for my class.

I had thought to add a very translucent layer of red on top of the other layer in order to colorize it a bit, but I like the colors as they are. I may play around with that.

Art 86 exercise

First exercise of Art 86 (Painting with Computers) class. Just a doodle, really. I can already see things that I should change in order to make it a better image, but I'm too lazy to make the changes.

Spaceman—WIP, ±40%

A work in progress. I've already spent at least 4 hours working on it. This is the basic structure and color. I'm hoping to add more detail before it's due.

Made in Corel Painter with Oil Pastels and Acrylics. Mostly Oil Pastels.

Abstract exercise

I think I might try doing a few more these. They were an exercise that I had to do for my computer painting class, meant to get the student familiar and comfortable with the software and tablet. I'm a little of both, so I think I was able to loosen up this time around.

Art art art art

I've started school again. I'm taking ART 86 (Painting on the computer) again. Hopefully I'll have exercises/projects that are more exciting this time around. Here's my first exercise for the class:

It's a flying shoe. I was inspired by one of my shoes poking me in the back. I don't know why my shoe was on my bed. But it was timely inspiration, at least.

Made with Ballpoint pen, Flat color, Nervous pen and Smooth round pen variants in Corel Painter.

New drawing, WIP

I haven't really practiced drawing this summer, so I thought better later than never. I finally got around to installing my Wacom tablet onto this laptop. This is the result of one hour of effort on my part. Not very interesting perhaps, but practice is practice.

Drawn in Corel Painter, with Wacom tablet. I think I used charcoal brushes and the "Just Add Water" blender. It's not of anyone in particular, I'm just drawing from imagination. Maybe I'll find someone in particular to draw eventually, but for now I just need to re-familiarize myself with the program and the tablet.

I'm so happy that I can use my tablet again.

New t-shirts

These are the new shirts for sale in my etsy shop (*coff*www.etsy.com/shop/theartfulscientist*coff*). I'm really happy with the cat shirt that I printed, mostly for the color choice. I think I might try to get some more brown shirts so that I can print that color combo again. It just seems to work so well. The blue/green combo is just funky (in a good way) to me. Also, it's the pigeon shirt, which seems to get a lot of good comments, so why not make 5,000 more of them?