Reverie Monstrosity

I am holding a contest with my friend Fauxy! Take a look and enter for a chance to have your work published in a collaborated art book!

Traditional VS Digital

A fun character/media/style study I did today. :) I LOVE this type of coloring. If I did not blind you, then I have failed.

Watercolor and Paint Tool SAI

NEW video on KickStarter

Check out the new video!

KickStarter

Sock Gnomes is on KickStarter!
This is a fund-raiser intended to help me self-publish, print and distribute my very first book! Pledgers will receive awesome rewards of all kinds, and I'll add more as we get more pledges! THANK YOU for your support! Keep checking in for more updates!

Caught_drawing

My KickStarter project is almost up! Just a bit more artwork to make and my video to put together. I was hoping to have it all up by today, but I'm still confident that I can have it ready to go before this week is over.

Here is a page from the book I'm currently coloring. This little guy ought to be more careful! 

Caught_WIP

Today's project. Watch me transform it into something AWESOME.

Paint Tool Sai... what would I do without you?

How I Speed Paint

 Step 1: Choose the most amazing, most beautiful, most breath-taking photo you can find. The lovely lady would be me.

 Block in the big shapes.

 Start blocking in the slightly smaller shapes.

 When I say "shapes" I mean the different colors. Think of the painting as a map, and the borders are between the areas of color.

 Let's focus on this area for a moment.

 I have blocked in the relatively larger areas of color.

 I'm sure it looks like I'm blending, but what I'm really doing is lightly blocking in smaller and smaller areas of detail until they all kinda mesh together on their own.

 Let's try it again here.

 Big shapes.

 Smaller shapes.

 Move along.

 Aaaaand keep going.

 If I ever turn into a zombie, I hope to be this pretty.

 So let's see what we can do for that eye.

 Block in the big shapes first.

 Then add in all the little shapes until everything blends on its own.

 Moving on to the hair and background.

 Big shapes, then little shapes. Same concept.

 Added a quick background and did a bit of work on the hoodie.

 Sign it.

 Play with it.

Hope you learned something.

If nothing else, learn not to take life too seriously. <3

Made in Paint Tool Sai with a Wacom tablet.