sketchbook-pro practice

Hey purchased a copy of Sketchbook-Pro from Amazon- its was pretty economical- but had a hard time warming up to it. but I keep trying- I am thinking about doing a comic in a style similar to Will Eisner because you don't see that graphical style anymore in comic books and its still cool even though its reminiscent to comic strip days. So the pic is my rendition of Eisner's Spirit- I may use Sketchbook Pro in my process- its starting to grow on me....

Flash Tutorial for Detroit ACM SIGGRAPH Meeting

Hi just wanted to post a quick image of the end result to a flash cartoon character vignette- this type of image can be used for flash greeting cards or print. I will be presenting a turorial showing some basic flash cs5 Drawing tools in creating this image during Detroit ACM SIGGRAPH July 19th meeting. I decided to maybe do a series of these images and maybe place a tutorial on YouTube- if the response is positive- The meeting will be on Tuesday, July 19th at the Art Institute of Michigan, Novi Campus from 6-9pm- hopefully it will be well attended.... see ya- oh PS- I post processed this image in photoshop by adding noise to the skin and the basketball in the rear- so if i wanted to do print in CMYK- the textures would make it look polished- another trick for ya

new image- back again

I found out I was not inspired- I seemed to get it back with this portrait of one of my tagged friends- somehow a pretty woman's face inspires a dude- so here is a quick portrait done in photoshop cs5 using a Wacom Intuous 4 tablet. it seems to do a full body image I need to focus more on the face first then finish the body- not the other way around- I am going to put up a tutorial soon- but this quick face sketches are fun

last of an era past

In my last effort to reach out for a normal life of seeking women has gone- I just have to admit that I am a strange one and will be one at least in this lifetime and if there is a woman for me out there- she will most likely be strange too- so here is a picture I did at a young lady's request- in the back of my mind I thought she wanted to be the one- but was mistaken- oh well -another one bites the dust (Queen)- looking by the image I need to put more time into drawing women- any comments are appreciated

inspired animal drawing

I have always said- that an inspired artist is the best artist- it give him or her purpose and makes them draw more- one thing that inspires me is a request from a lovely woman- so when I was told to draw a giraffe- I was game- so to my new friend- I will call Byrd- here is a giraffe- I did this in Sketchbook pro- pretty cool program once you get use to the brushes- peace

new thursday sketch session

I went to theScarab club after a long time being there due to no money issues and brought my computer and wacom- I first scribbled a sketch of the model in my sketch book in pen to loosen up my hand- then i brought my computer and opened up photoshop cs5- I used the brush at 100% opacity and low flow about 15% and selected scattering so it looked like colored pencil and out came the first image- as i kept going my skill level for popping out the sure things became less and less- I think my brain was on overdrive since i thought i was going to get a call from a new friend later that evening- as the time for my phone call came and went (with no call)- i started drawing like crap- Oh well the true artist is not distracted- will have to practice more- anyway- I found out scribbling the form is more forgiving on the computer than on paper- I surprised myself- gotta keep drawing

blender 2.55 beta modeling sample

still trying new things with blender- here is a cup of cold coffee- I need to figure out how to make it look hot- still testing trying things out- I made the cup using curves beveled to another curved object- will write a tutorial once I can control the effects consistently- cheers