year end submission- fingers crossed

I have been working as an academic advisor at Henry Ford Community College and noted a year end submission for an art journal the school had. even though they called for only alumni- I figured I would submit a piece any way- the deadline is December 31 2011- I sent this piece on Christmas day about 2:30 am- I sketched it out in Sketchbook Pro- with a Wacom tablet- lined and colored it in Flash- then brought it into Photoshop for the hair texture- I thought it came out good- as Always looking for feedback- have a happy new year everyone- keep flying....

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fx-mulrooney-head display

was fooling around with blender sculpting tools and decided to finally start my 3d project for my character fx mulrooney. The end goal is to create a CG comic where one can follow the story in regular comic form using cg characters- I decided on making it a blender project and showing work in progress to kill two birds with one stone- get my blender certification by creating tutorials for work i have done and have a cool product for the masses- since fx mulrooney is a more stylized character, I though it would be fun to go this route- here's keeping my fingers crossed- and here is a sample to look over now.... peace

ink and color and tone

just playing around with photoshop- I roughed a face in photoshop, inked and colored on layers- the color layer I added noise to to get the texture that seemed real cool.... hope its enjoyed to look at

blue man- watching movies

I was just watching the extended versions of Lord of the rings trilogy on Encore and noted the use of color as a way to express mood. My sister asked me during the marathon was the TV color off- because some scenes looked washed out and blue tinted- I reminded her that is the way they look on the dvd's as well- it expresses a mood of hopelessness and gloom- These films are definitely well crafted.... I can say this about Peter Jackson, and the country of New Zealand- when you have a world class director, a world class effects company (WETA), and a country that backs them 110%- you get a world class movie- here is my poorly drawn sketch of Borimir-- cheers