Color!

Oh, how I love color! Sure, I'm a newbie, but I just love it so much! I can't wait to experiment even more, but here's what I'm doing right now. This is an old inked sketch. The figure is colored in Photoshop, and I really loved doing the background in Corel Essentials, but now I want to translate some of that fun to the main figure. Thoughts?

It's good to be able to access this place again.

I finally found out where to get a model skeleton. I'm getting it shipped from the US and it's still costing me less than $400 Australian. If anyones interested I can let you know the model, I think it's the cheapest, good skeletonl you can buy.

Does anyone here know of any really complicated perspective books? I've been reading this one callled 'Perspective a new system for designers' which introduces a few interesting things, but doesn't nearly go into enough detail about them. The lines DO bend! I knew it all along I tell you!

I've got some stuff to post comming up soon. It's a submission for comic anthology put together by a company based in Perth. They're called Gestalt, and they're all about giving the creators all the rights. They are the ones that are interested in publishing my graphic novel. In the meantime thats taking up all the art time I have.

I'm still at my job, still learning all sorts of new things. Still perpetually dissapointed with my work. It's great!

_Mel

Wacky Tablet

Howdy howdy! I'm so excited about this Wacom I can hardly sleep. I got the Intuos3, and here's what I've doodled up so far. Hardly enough to be called doodles, but I'm just too giddy. Pray for my sleep-deprived brain.

Better late than never....

Hey guys. Here's the Arista illustration that Laura provided the pencils for a little over two months ago. Finally got around to inking this after a couple of crazy months at work. (a 12-hour work day can really take you out of the mood for drawing.) In between the busy times, I've been hitting the anatomy books and trying to improve other areas of my drawing. I realized recently that I want to change careers and focus more on art that interests me, and move away from the constraints of pharmaceutical advertising. I can't quit the day job, but I can work towards another goal. I've always wanted to get into children's books, animation, and the comic industry, but this is the first year that I've actually applied myself by submitting Pangaea. Although it didn't find a home, it helped re-awaken my desire to "fight for the dream." I look at people that have made it, and I know that they are where they are because they made the decision to be there. I'm still trying to figure out where I want to be. So, I'm curious. Where do you want to be, and what are you doing to get there? And, can we make this site more useful by using it for serious critiques and information?

Tumbleweeds and Tarantulas

Just a little post to dust off this here blog.

There hasn't been a new post here in quite a while, which I'm actually taking as a good sign. That means everyone's busy, and everyone's working. Yay! I finally got my vaunted Wacom, and will hopefully have something to post after I get the hang of it.

I was talking to Joni from Galaxy the other day and she says she's up to her neck planning for the contest event this year. Can you believe it's almost been a year? I don't know about anyone else, but those memories are so fresh, it still feels like last month. I wonder what would have happened if we'd all been able to hang out for two weeks instead of one. There would have been project collaborations all over the place!

Anyway, I hope every one of you is doing well and fighting for the dream.