December 27, 2005

corel painter 8

My neighbor turned me on to this application, which seems to be very promising. This is a painting I spent no more than a half hour on, with one brush etc.

Sermon on Mount Crab

Here's the Crab Lord rallying troops or something.
I wish the groupboard had a watercolor brush and layers...

I heard about a program called opencanvas that might have what i want but for some reason i haven't checked it out yet.

December 24, 2005

Tree

Here's an Ent.
Merry Christmas.

December 17, 2005

Bug lord

Here's another one fomr the board. This time i've included some of the insightful chat wisdom so oyu can see what i mean.

oh and i have this habit of putting big flowery backdrops on my pseudo deities..i got that from buddhist paintings where they have like a thousand flaming lotuses behind buddha's head.

December 16, 2005

Meteors sent to impale Anime


Again with the groupBoard.
i have a confession. i go to this thing more than i should...looking for someone interesting to collaborate with - but what really happens is that i start mouthing off to 14 year old girls who write like "dis and dat" and scrawl the worst Anime humanity has ever witnessed.
so this is one of my reactions.. a radioactive apocolypse from above.
i think this is the best color scheme i've ever come up with - wich is funny because i tihnk it's actually drawn from a subset of the web safe pallete. i could never come up with this in photoshop.

anyways - nathan has been messing with a tablet and corel paint and has done a really cool self portrait but he is procrastinating with the publish.

October 13, 2005

Pond


A silly drawing done at a groupboard site. i sorta developed a different style when i work with a mouse...like...the shading feels like chopping down a tree...tiny little hacks.

tommy, nathan and some other guy helped too.

August 29, 2005

I forgot what these are called



I drew these really fast. Ball point pen and printer paper.
I was waiting for Claire to get done with her work so we could go home.
The shading on the hummingbird's head was so fun. I always mess up that type of thing....a shaded pattern..with a pen. I can't believe how well it turned out.
Claire seems to identify with the top bird...nice and humble...and naturally i identify with death from above hummingbird.

EDIT: I forgot to mention how this was a direct product of Scott urging me to spend more time blocking out the shapes before diving into the details. If I were left to my own devices these birds would be living tragic lives with disproportionate heads and eyes too far apart.

August 27, 2005

Bird skull

Here is a drawing of a bird skull i did while my family was playing cards. I can't stand cards...i hate the way they look and the whole world of gambling just leaves me uninterested.

Anyways...if it runs slow you can turn up the speed and right click and select quality: low.

Bird Skull

web-slinging action


I drew this while claire was out of town and spiderman 2 was on tv. I always try to get this particular effect with smoke and i always miss it. It's like a straight vertical line...rising and then a quick series of curves at the top like a sudden change in air density. It looks fluid in my head but i just can't make it work. If the pen hadn't died i think i would have made the shading encroach into the center shape a bit more....like near the name.

August 21, 2005

Hippo



Underneath the billowing textures of things like hippos, there are really solid and interesting shapes. Imagine a program that would render images based on photographs. The user would set a slider somwhere between form and texture - i guess haf way would be pretty unchanged....but far right would be ferocious fields of differing strokes and the far left would be a dull collection of lifeless geometries.

For the intrepid connoisseur
of layered girly drinks there is a sacred recipe for the legendary "Pousse Cafe". A drink with 6 types of alcohol, all layered according to their specific gravity. My mom told me a story once about a lady ordering one at a bar and after 5-10 minutes of tense liquid surgery performed over the back of a coctail spoon - the woman grabbed a straw and stirred it. what a meaningless legacy to leave.

Tree


Microsoft came to visit us at work. They were really smart and said something funny about powerpoint. I got to ask them why manhole covers are round and they answered that any other shape would allow a tilt that would in turn allow the lid to fall through the hole.

duh.

The sony PSP was on the cusp of release at this time and i was a bit enamoured with the shiny black and neon blue dot look. one of the microserfs had a cellphone that looked like that. The meeting ran long so i drew it and the plastic ficus in the background. At the time i thought i was the god of ballpoint shading until i saw it the next day and realized what an insignificant little doodle it was.

Tubular


I drew this several weeks ago. Clearly i had visited presstube that day.
i don't know what the phrase "We know there pain" refers to, or why i spelled it wrong.

Pessimistic






I sketched this at my friend scott's house. He was ranting about the problems of the world and generally being pessimistic. I was sort of illustrating hopeless pessimism here. I had a hard time explaining to him that i wasn't producing a veiled insult.

i liked the way the sludge under the map looks. i got lucky with the shading there.