tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4737539586020860932024-03-12T17:18:26.863-07:00Tall ShadowUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473753958602086093.post-87536279632849360812011-12-21T18:18:00.000-08:002011-12-27T09:38:56.961-08:00Aviation MuseumToday we went to the aviation museum. I've got to say, as a closet mechanical junkie I found this place to be wonderful! Would I be terrified to actually fly in any one of these? Absolutely. But on the ground, all I want to know is how anyone figured out how to make these complicated engines.<br />
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Tomcat engine.<br />
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Amphibious airplane. It rather looked like a cartoon.<br />
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I may be back with a sketchbook before long.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473753958602086093.post-2106630970562224892011-12-20T21:21:00.000-08:002011-12-20T22:05:41.028-08:00Progression<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
After I finished my last piece, I found I had a paper trail as to how I got there, so I thought I'd share. Here's a progression for anyone who's curious.</div>
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For me, big pieces start small. Well, they usually start as big ideas, followed by frustration at not being able to realize said big idea, followed by disillusionment, followed by compromise. After that's all done, for me these things start with people.</div>
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With an okay sketch, I did one final trace to grab the essentials.</div>
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I traced that sketch to my watercolor paper, penned it lightly, and attacked background with a pencil. (Background is my silent demon. It never ever looks like I pictured, but we usually end up in compromise.) </div>
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After a lot more frustration and usually 2-5 declarations of "I give up! Scrap this!" ("No, no, you can't scrap this is your last bit of paper!") we end up here:</div>
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Then I like to add some digital paint in there (careful not to actually paint over the real paint) to really bring out what I couldn't do with watercolors alone:</div>
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And that's it.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473753958602086093.post-25678991139990879992011-12-13T21:59:00.001-08:002011-12-13T22:11:33.215-08:00Some Really Nice Design Work (not mine)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Nothing new since my last terrible foray, and my job makes me want to bang my head against the wall this week, so here's some wonderfully beautiful design work by<span class="Apple-style-span"> </span><a href="http://ugurderinogullu.com/">Uğur Derinoğullu</a>.<div><br /><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9wIg__XwPdVsiGTU2Y8KJ04FVoVpT5h8uocWkykAk5-kei6TWw5boi8OE2qNf4NtkHpm_3GcSFrjnmkdNFm1AF_5hw4UX6DY1BN8ljbRJTU6OQhClFPzLn7cAmrAZwdQHD43Kk6ZglzJs/s320/Balik.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685860693512290082" /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473753958602086093.post-78446581050044053612011-11-22T17:59:00.000-08:002011-11-25T21:41:02.214-08:00Alright I don't have anything new.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ7wnrCuTvIqEMm0SMB8rBO8QsATOq3ds4LfNP2rhUkyrjFvo5ICPQsBv8E3XIKK1dMAX5QZWTp6b92AEK_qg-7w10v7YXBnYG2Hia2jMvT1GcoZEDDYUtRL5kjq21VHcV27EZkG_iTwjV/s1600/indigodarkpencil.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ7wnrCuTvIqEMm0SMB8rBO8QsATOq3ds4LfNP2rhUkyrjFvo5ICPQsBv8E3XIKK1dMAX5QZWTp6b92AEK_qg-7w10v7YXBnYG2Hia2jMvT1GcoZEDDYUtRL5kjq21VHcV27EZkG_iTwjV/s320/indigodarkpencil.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678005314324891922" /></a><br />Messing about. Dark-pencil finished sketch of red-headed Korean woman, poorly named Indigo.<div>And I just realized a bunch of things wrong with the sketch, namely that the face is really screwed up. Seeing mistakes is progress, right? Right?! Oh brother.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473753958602086093.post-44962879387945189872011-11-19T16:44:00.000-08:002011-11-25T21:41:56.454-08:002nd Chance Kada'var<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ7dsl04KzMy-ZKa8EGZLiOrEkjdZr_6D1HFQmjllRF2tpcM-l12QheaOMpXexJxgpQN0CMSyLNIXRkL1ALY7K-Ir1IkNgTNPLS5owgd7PPpgl-eXb3QV98mQwyivJLby75k0FV8NB-ADO/s1600/cadavar.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 289px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ7dsl04KzMy-ZKa8EGZLiOrEkjdZr_6D1HFQmjllRF2tpcM-l12QheaOMpXexJxgpQN0CMSyLNIXRkL1ALY7K-Ir1IkNgTNPLS5owgd7PPpgl-eXb3QV98mQwyivJLby75k0FV8NB-ADO/s320/cadavar.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676872729601527154" /></a><br />I felt badly about how much I mutilated this sketch in my first attempt to paint it. Round 2 - begin!<div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473753958602086093.post-52433560353879442072011-11-15T22:11:00.000-08:002011-11-25T21:42:27.045-08:00Death and the Lamplighter<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhscQ_c7SPZJYU6nMQWCepNa6n29RGgxC9MRMsEQsD0TUwPWNQzCj-1DCY4Cjc7K-P-Dz8uWeoxvlpGUAP8lMn-z2lBdpffs4jbGPiC0lAGfKJdjuymxc-_mePnNUbjhxF28hWVoDkhf7qx/s1600/deathlamplightercopy.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhscQ_c7SPZJYU6nMQWCepNa6n29RGgxC9MRMsEQsD0TUwPWNQzCj-1DCY4Cjc7K-P-Dz8uWeoxvlpGUAP8lMn-z2lBdpffs4jbGPiC0lAGfKJdjuymxc-_mePnNUbjhxF28hWVoDkhf7qx/s400/deathlamplightercopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5675472658959135426" /></a><br />I don't know if I like this better or not.<div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473753958602086093.post-4239005901247167112011-11-15T22:00:00.000-08:002011-11-25T21:43:16.173-08:00Painting attemp<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhelBXuNyMnXu2Nv00wFr5cw71SWFRhGqZYbpOtjSiE11NZ6F3_hb9eKBhbOAGNNGXQFeJvoxfgZfsq5mvfRyUU8B2wBUZcWIownMWzn4Dfkdd3v5qntr07KhDHB0aPcWqap0EM8rUa5PDD/s1600/Indigo001color.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhelBXuNyMnXu2Nv00wFr5cw71SWFRhGqZYbpOtjSiE11NZ6F3_hb9eKBhbOAGNNGXQFeJvoxfgZfsq5mvfRyUU8B2wBUZcWIownMWzn4Dfkdd3v5qntr07KhDHB0aPcWqap0EM8rUa5PDD/s320/Indigo001color.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5675469695201592274" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473753958602086093.post-30854659081111213042011-11-15T21:55:00.001-08:002011-11-25T21:42:42.826-08:00Indigo<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1xV85YYkSCoJVQwf-LKtG6t60MdbM6EV5lF8we7aDnG3DdHnzUrvCU-5nhOCTU8HqkGW67O-C99xU9_ohpAF_htq8-iop7gHIq-LxuJdg76xsslWMsv4vyE50fiecWwHlbeHfgSgnsD2W/s1600/indigo003.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1xV85YYkSCoJVQwf-LKtG6t60MdbM6EV5lF8we7aDnG3DdHnzUrvCU-5nhOCTU8HqkGW67O-C99xU9_ohpAF_htq8-iop7gHIq-LxuJdg76xsslWMsv4vyE50fiecWwHlbeHfgSgnsD2W/s320/indigo003.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5675468953080591282" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz_hMf5KfEx4De0u4ME4mvLvRwcYN_3kF9bwUdJkivcIRg8f1ESuBfQUk0QuzouKo4U9yRCsqHobfveIUR30GEh4GkoPEKM6fZQwGgCYux1mwX-l20a3NtaCH9xqUCbKCnhnaJHm0K8eF1/s1600/Indigo001.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz_hMf5KfEx4De0u4ME4mvLvRwcYN_3kF9bwUdJkivcIRg8f1ESuBfQUk0QuzouKo4U9yRCsqHobfveIUR30GEh4GkoPEKM6fZQwGgCYux1mwX-l20a3NtaCH9xqUCbKCnhnaJHm0K8eF1/s320/Indigo001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5675468891038958930" /></a><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><u><br /></u></span></div>It's a start.<br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><u><br /></u></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473753958602086093.post-24245759566941515892011-10-08T21:58:00.000-07:002011-10-08T22:02:55.820-07:00Cody sleeping<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVegdK52paPqZ2q93gSHefOTcRzl2FVregmFicjx6UGpan1L32GU3VmAjM-omH6k9z6xfVkb9n-2fRLXEJqmX9e1WXrzbzYxnlm2UNuepXkLtHNEjLhVDnN792nNVAD3a3NBlda51CR5rR/s1600/codysleeping.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVegdK52paPqZ2q93gSHefOTcRzl2FVregmFicjx6UGpan1L32GU3VmAjM-omH6k9z6xfVkb9n-2fRLXEJqmX9e1WXrzbzYxnlm2UNuepXkLtHNEjLhVDnN792nNVAD3a3NBlda51CR5rR/s320/codysleeping.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661352421924655458" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>My dog sleeping on his bed, pictured from behind/above. Sleeping ten-year-old dogs don't move around too much, so I used him to start playing around with pure digital paint. Though if you can't tell where the head is, I'm sorry. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473753958602086093.post-43630550271109468522011-10-07T22:59:00.000-07:002011-10-07T23:02:55.713-07:00Native American crossed with Buddhist Monk.<div style="text-align: left;">Why? I don't know.</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ciH82eMFi0NaZT23J33P02Ff3ejEQfl2wUihyphenhyphenb5uMWcReC4SDEVZWwrq2pdzzPHDcbcpy-t1V2ve0Q-T679R-7_zKOUfY7QahZcwcb1E2qSEcSbJf5ynXcqJcrierYq4AVxhyphenhyphenbFuW2oW/s1600/indianmonk.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 203px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ciH82eMFi0NaZT23J33P02Ff3ejEQfl2wUihyphenhyphenb5uMWcReC4SDEVZWwrq2pdzzPHDcbcpy-t1V2ve0Q-T679R-7_zKOUfY7QahZcwcb1E2qSEcSbJf5ynXcqJcrierYq4AVxhyphenhyphenbFuW2oW/s320/indianmonk.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660997532897633330" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473753958602086093.post-68964446973544868362011-10-07T22:52:00.000-07:002011-10-07T22:54:55.839-07:00Death and the Lamplighter - first pass<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsQoziXW2IF-wNdfuXTVpWtQYK4sBrBykwAm-0T_GQpgp5dCj2ZqXr2oN1hZoVTxhw7XDOaWc2Fib8IORxr_AANEYQQetla6YiTdq-ie1iVIBOu23atx4_UdgCdEasL_KlvheWNhehRRMA/s1600/deathlamplighterorig.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsQoziXW2IF-wNdfuXTVpWtQYK4sBrBykwAm-0T_GQpgp5dCj2ZqXr2oN1hZoVTxhw7XDOaWc2Fib8IORxr_AANEYQQetla6YiTdq-ie1iVIBOu23atx4_UdgCdEasL_KlvheWNhehRRMA/s400/deathlamplighterorig.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660995679793855858" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Here's an unedited scan of a recent (non-digital) painting. Since I've been working on the edited version, this one looks rather sad and grey. But I'm sure I'll overwork the edited one in the end, so I should appreciate this simplicity a bit more....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473753958602086093.post-18221523985861245812011-10-07T22:40:00.000-07:002011-10-21T19:43:36.358-07:00What a mess.<div>Do I remember how to do this? ...No, not really, no.</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhiqKMiPmLCLVz7nQOug179wLVv-ZY_DBPUEE-T3TPDBjt-S_lXoKrtbzAIjL20Md5HF-PbEkjtjOwwlxp9aoLOMxNCK8WmaSnH67kfsna1hIDidWXlCUkX83Z-w9AZx2y8L5dsWC948TW/s1600/MelancholyCadavar.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhiqKMiPmLCLVz7nQOug179wLVv-ZY_DBPUEE-T3TPDBjt-S_lXoKrtbzAIjL20Md5HF-PbEkjtjOwwlxp9aoLOMxNCK8WmaSnH67kfsna1hIDidWXlCUkX83Z-w9AZx2y8L5dsWC948TW/s320/MelancholyCadavar.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660992906160259426" /></a><div><br /></div><div>A very melancholy man from a story. I decided to use this as my own re-introduction to digital things, and went crazy. [aka, made a mess.] It... well... it's going to take me awhile to get used to. I got excited about using my new tablet and then realized I like the sketch better. Oh well. Here's the (much better) original:</div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKGemh446fJKjY6hey0KodcbPWaeYGJCH5OExcwjnhJPxAa7NZkyE1i8_M9aV8hX7YTzZ8TGFF9akzGIFJEoc5k9XorU-EYDaRNJRun2KoGJXSR5xnjj9WyEF17MUzsXwpsxPIEmBc0oTR/s1600/cadorigsketch.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 290px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKGemh446fJKjY6hey0KodcbPWaeYGJCH5OExcwjnhJPxAa7NZkyE1i8_M9aV8hX7YTzZ8TGFF9akzGIFJEoc5k9XorU-EYDaRNJRun2KoGJXSR5xnjj9WyEF17MUzsXwpsxPIEmBc0oTR/s320/cadorigsketch.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660992333638603762" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-473753958602086093.post-50775520470951341002011-10-07T22:38:00.000-07:002011-10-07T22:40:04.591-07:00AHA! Scanner. And other things.A scanner is a wonderful thing. As is a wacom tablet. I now have both, and they seem to have excitedly shaken awake the lazy illustrator-on-hiatus that I've been for the past two years. What can capture this feeling? Uh, I think it has to be Toy Story 3's enthusiastic, "NEW TOYS!"<div><br /><div>Oh, and I made a light box. I haven't used it, mostly because it is sitting in pieces in my garage. But hey, it's better than the improvised lightbox that consisted of a piece of glass from a table top balanced precariously on different-sized small boxes with a naked lamp underneath. Progress, progress....<br /><div><br /></div></div></div><div><img src="http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s320x320/296394_2010309257451_1235310078_32023360_5881745_n.jpg" /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0