just a test- need more practice with hair

I did this for a test style sample for a writer in our comics group to see if I can agree for a look of her character for her story- i also did this to test my self at inking brunette hair- still have some work to do but its not a bad start- I modeled the features from Terry Moore's characters in Strangers in Paradise- if she likes it maybe it will be seen in print.....

playing with screen-like-tones

I have been looking at a lot of anime and may have to do 8 pages of a story that should have a manga feel- I wanted to play with screen tones as a substitute for  gray-shading black and white images- I started playing around with filters in photoshop- specifically the halftone filter. I created a couple of versions of this in a file and place the file into my image.... I then scaled down the file and duplicated it several times and tiled the images, then reduced those down to one layer... if the screen was too opaque - I reduced transparency to 45%- I did a quick and dirty selection then cut away the inverse of the selection to get a sort of friskette... I wanted to treat this layer similar to a graytone layer so I cold either blur the edges of the frisketts or erase edges with low opacity soft eraser--- I still need more work before I can put this into production...here the image

nostalgia

hey- wanted to put something up- in such a big chaotic rush trying to make this art thing work- so I was looking thru my hard-drive to piece together what motivated me into this this idea that I could think about drawing for a living- I found some epic failures and some cute first baby steps- I found this bear sketch- probably  modeled after the The Open Season Character- Boog- one of my first attempts at digital painting- animal hair no less- wow what was I thinking- I hate rendering hair- this is one of my stumbling points to this day- I suppose on that day I thought I was Boris Vallejo- anyway- here is the Pic I created- ciao