Self portraiture time. So I'm doing this thing for a kids' tv channel where me and my classmates draw a story that is co-written by the channel's viewers. We all need an artists profile with a few words about us and a self portrait. So far most of my classmates have been doing stuff that is mostly aimed towards girls, with a funny and playful style and nice bright colors. The pages I've been doing look decidedly more grim and, in the eyes of a 10 year old boy, cool (I can't show these yet though, not before they've been published). Hopefully there'll be a couple little dudes out there who see my art and this self portrait and will think it's okay to play with action figures and feel like a princess at the same time.
@Koreg Thanks! The one I posted is like 1200px across blown up from the miserable 600px mistake I made. I had originally been working at like 3500 or something. @NightDragon You da best. Might as well show where it's going while I'm here. Since I had to restage it from scratch- cause I crushed the file- I took the opportunity to readdress stuff.
Very Austrian, somehow. I think the last one read better on my phone screen, because of the larger colour blocks, but this version is much more interesting.
I've got this really amazing brush that I'm using all the time, it has a kind of spray-look to it. I cannot for the life of me remember where I got it from though, I think the brush itself is called "toothbrush" or something. It's really neat and I've been using it on a bunch of stuff for the past year, sometimes using it almost exclusively, along with lasso selections. Case in point:
But yeah, I've really taken to experimenting with different brushes because it really has a way of tying things together and giving my work a cohesive look.
So, err. This is something completely different. Like, really different. I made an art comic based around the city of Tamara from Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities", a city that you will never really experience yourself since it is plastered with signs signifying the function of each building, instead of just showing the buildings. Thus, you leave having only vicariously experienced it through symbols. The idea with the comic is that it's an obnoxious tourist brochure about the city, that is so intent on describing the city that it covers it up in speech bubbles. The jpg'ification is also a play on this, in that it's a file extention that loses a lot of information in trying to describe something.
I don't know, I probably sound really pretentious, but I think it was a fun experiment. Also, I did the original map in ms paint, art school amirite.
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@NightDragon You da best. Might as well show where it's going while I'm here. Since I had to restage it from scratch- cause I crushed the file- I took the opportunity to readdress stuff.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Be sure to like my Comic Book "Last Words" on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Last-Words-The-Comic-Book/458405034287767
and Magenta the Witchgirl!: http://www.drunkduck.com/Magenta_the_Witchgirl/
Here's the sketch for a press in on one of the castle towers after that first establishing shot.
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That looks great! How did you do the chairs in the front? The texture looks incredible!
acrylic on board from last night.
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I don't know, I probably sound really pretentious, but I think it was a fun experiment. Also, I did the original map in ms paint, art school amirite.