thedandmom's work for 2012

thedandmom · January 2012

I don't have a whole lot of for the year yet, things have been a little busy.

Endless_Serpents · January 2012

Yes, yes! Yes! This is what I want.

Ahem. Pretty good stuff. Sketchy but good.

I love the expression on the barbarian lady and with just that much more work on the first (mainly the fire at her feet), it could be a real piece of art.

melting_doll · January 2012

Great work! Please post more-- any goals as an artist?

thedandmom · January 2012

to keep getting better really. I've just started actually getting work through my artwork, which is great. I'm also working on a webcomic http://www.experiment073.com/

thedandmom · March 2012

whoops. Sorry I haven't added anything...artist's block+pregnancy brain=wtf why can't i do anything?!

wakkawa · March 2012

That first one is rad sauce.

As a suggestion, try using larger brushes. Like on the fire and the rocks on the second picture.

Godfather · March 2012

Try beefing up those lighting effects! Some of them are kinda kooky and don't match the type of luminescence you should be trying to show!

You can really make that fire scorching by conveying a bit better contrast

thedandmom · March 2012

Thanks for the pointers guys. I really don't know quite how to do those with the program I'm using now. I switched to sai because lines come out cleaner and it's easier to use than photoshop.

Molybdenum · March 2012

To just echo Godfather here, I tossed fire girl in photoshop and threw an orange-to-black radial gradient over top set to Overlay. The contrast really plays up the drama, and having the firelight color reflected in the character's highlights is much more appropriate than white ambient light. Really you've done an incredible job so far, and with a few small tweaks these images can be powerful stuff.

thedandmom · July 2012

Man I've been busy with projects and baby prep that I've not updated this in FOREVER.

Enc · July 2012

That profiles collection is a huge improvement from your earlier stuff on here. Particularly the redhead farm girl in the bottom row.

squidbunny · July 2012

Agree with Enc. Good stuff. Post more!

thedandmom · July 2012

I'll post more when I can. Having trouble keeping up with things because of a new addition to the family coming and prep taking up all my time.

thedandmom · July 2012

I've been finding myself just doing alot of character concepts lately, with not real plan for them.

thedandmom · July 2012

another quick concept

Wassermelone · July 2012

Those are adorable. I think the posing on the guy could be a bit better, it looks a little rigid.

thedandmom · July 2012

Wassermelone wrote: »

Those are adorable. I think the posing on the guy could be a bit better, it looks a little rigid.

I agree, but I was done messing with it after my power surged in the middle of the picture and then my computer freezing in the middle of the picture making me have to start over completely twice.

thedandmom · August 2012

First panel for one of my comic pages. I really like how it looks.

wahay · August 2012

I'm sorry, but these are just too charming for me to handle them.
I have no idea what to do with all this charm you just dropped on me.

thedandmom · August 2012

wahay wrote: »

I'm sorry, but these are just too charming for me to handle them.
I have no idea what to do with all this charm you just dropped on me.

Ha! I'm glad you like them. 'Charming' is certainly not something I've heard to describe my artwork. ^_^

thedandmom · August 2012

Something I'm working on for my comic

thedandmom · September 2012

And here is what it looks like now

Halen · September 2012

That lion is seriously great!

thedandmom · September 2012

Halen wrote: »

That lion is seriously great!

I've been getting that a lot. I'm quite proud of him.

thedandmom · September 2012

Drew a pirate last night

and a sailor moon fanart

Vector99 · September 2012

You have the tool. You can draw (period). How complex and perfection of any image is just how large you paint it and how much time you invest on it. Its unlimited. Congrats. Now, will you use it on a comic? a book ilustration? Bumper stickers? I am saying about commercial use or intention...

thedandmom · September 2012

Well I've always wanted to work on things like character design and development, but that job market is kinda nonexistent for the area I live and moving isn't an option right now. Currently, I'm doing a webcomic that updates twice a week. I plan on going back and redoing the first two chapters of it now that I've got a style down for it.

Katie · September 2012

Gosh, I love your character designs, especially your fire dragon weilding lady, she oozes awesome.

One thing I would say is that in three of your drawings you gave your characters a very high left knee. Your stroppy chick with pointy ears (if I ever get sucked into a cartoon world, I wanna look like her, including the annoyedness) has a left leg that bends like rubber which makes her look like she's got a high knee. Your strutting girl in the purple boots and your pirate fella both have very high left knees. Maybe a wandering joint issue?

I'm going to go try and summon a fire dragon now.

thedandmom · September 2012

Yeah. It's something that I need to work on. I've been noticing that too and I need to work on get out of doing that.

Also, have some primal mutated deer.

thedandmom · September 2012

a couple new pictures. they're redo's of really really really old images from my DA

thedandmom · September 2012

thedandmom · October 2012

another piece

Halen · October 2012

I really like your style. There's something so endearing about them, particularly their faces.

My only thing (which sounds odd) is I wonder if your characters could just do with a bit more knees. None of them have them!

thedandmom · October 2012

I think it depends on the style i'm working in really. And what their wearing

a couple new pieces

thedandmom · October 2012

and here is a tshirt design i made

thedandmom · October 2012

And here are a couple more shirt designs.

thedandmom · October 2012

That dragon one ^ just got a daily deviation

thedandmom · December 2012

I've updated the style for my comic

bombardier · December 2012

I always wonder how threads like this slip under most people's radar. No comments isn't always a bad thing since there aren't any huge glaring issues. Everything is really good! The t-shirt designs stand out more, but that's probably because more time was spent with them, I'm guessing. Even the quicker stuff shows solid skills.

Zenfar · December 2012

What a great thread! Each work looks amazing and a like how you change the style up in the last few. You have amazing talent.

thedandmom · January 2013

Thank you everyone. Sorry I haven't been on to post in a while been super duper busy.

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