PLANT LADAY

 DAY 7: PLANT GIRL

This is a seperate post I am doing bc plant girl in particular has been something I tend to draw often, here is a little back history. I kind of figured I take you through a little tour of what I have record of.

2001 I was highly infatuated with Gustav Klimt from the day I first saw a 

painting by him, I was also very influenced by him. I made a painting of two women one emerging from the ground and one decaying into the ground, I never documented this but once I find it,  I shall!!

 

2006: A sketch I did of a tree made of women, also influenced by Gustav Klimt, but I started using my own textures.

2007: A comic exercise where we took an existing comic cover and created an image that was completely unrelated. I believe I started honing in on my own style around this time. Becoming more infatuated with textures! So this is around the beginning of my metamorphosis.

2008: A concept from an art exhibit I was creating. Women trees with long necks!

 

2009: A coworker and I at Utrecht would sketch during down time. Paul Merkercher would draw character concepts and I would soop them up with my texturing skills!! As you can see I  started getting better with variation in my textures :).

  On the left: Paul's line work in red. On the right: What I came up with from basic sketch.

2012: FINALLY she emerges again! PLANT GIRL !! We are now up to date. I basically spent 2010 and 2011 making movies and doing 3D so it's nice to have time to feed my creativity :)!

MO MONSTERS

  

 

DAY 4: NAGA

Couldn't decide on one so I made two.

 

DAY 5: MEEEERRRRR MAID

 

DAY 6: SPIDEY GUUURRRLLL FREN!

MONSTER GUUURRRLL CHALLENGE!

The first three!

DAY 1: HARPIE

DAY 2: CENTAUR

 Zebras are the ORIGINAL PUNK RAWKERS!!! RAWR!!

DAY 3: SLIME GUUURRRLLL

Self portrait

 As an artist you will always have to do a self portrait as years go by. I have done quite a few...this last one was for a drawing group. I believe I have a patronus and my patronus happens to be a narwhal! my last self portrait I made with a narwhal was pretty humorous.

I usually draw myself in such a fashion but this time I wanted to take myself more seriously.

Which didn't end up not so serious in the end.

ATTEMPT 1: 

 

 So I was left feeling I didn't particularly portray me the way I feel expresses me accurately

enough. Therefore it was back to the drawing board and attempt 2 was created.

ATTEMPT 2: 

What can I say, that's more like it.

DAY4: REDO BOOK COVER

I know I was suppose to finish DAY3 and I am behind but I am going to catch up this weekend! WOOT!! Day 4 was redo a book cover. I decided to do Where the Wild Things Are and I know this is a little bit blasphemous to some but this book has influenced me a great amount through out my life, I was saddened to hear of his passing. He brought happiness and inspiration to many.

DAY4: VERSION 1

This is a tribute to Maurice Sendak.

RIP: June 10, 1928-May 8, 2012

DAY4: VERSION 2

DAY 2: IMAGINARY FRIEND

DAY 2: IMAGINARY FRIEND

I tried a different application style with photoshop this time. I had so many ideas for this one, it seems to be my biggest weakness with art....I just get too many ideas :)!

Starting another 30 day challenge

Kicked off this 30 day challenge with me BURTDAE! Was a bit tired but forced myself to start make some pretties!

DAY1: Self Portrait

My tribute to Death From Above 1979!

Mila Kunis

I'm really enjoying my adventure with painting in Photoshop as a traditional medium :) I was pretty amped by the results of my Michael Pitt painting that I decided to paint another one! The loverly Mila Kunis! She is a pretty one she is and I believe I caught a pretty good likeness. I have a few more celebrities I would like to paint, so I think I will make an effort to start one every time I finish one, suggestions/requests are most welcome!

SIR Michael PItt

Those of you who know me, I tend to work a lot! :P On my days off  I spend my time doing commissions and working part time at one of my favorite art stores, UTRECHT! I don't often bump into celebrities and on the occasions that I have, I have been polite and often don't even acknowledge their fame. About 2 weeks ago I had the privilege to assist the the lovely Michael Pitt. It was a quiet day and he spent a long time contemplating his purchase. It was nice just experiencing him as himself and not the publicist recommended "Michael Pitt". Although my co-workers teased me for my silly smile I retained for the remainder of the shift I do believe it was more of a secret moment especially with no one else recognizing him but also because my co-workers were unaware as well. I'd like to say that I don't become a "fan-girl" from time to time, but I do enjoy his movies and yes...his adorable face.

I've been wanting to do a serious painting in Photoshop, so I decided that Michael Pitt would be a great subject. I'm a bit rusty but I can probably count the amount of serious digital paintings I have done in Photoshop on one hand. Most of the painting I do is traditional and even though I attended Art School for media art, I still have not done much painting in Photoshop that has not been mostly flat colors or non traditional.  I hope that this becomes a frequent art medium for me, I actually really enjoyed doing it. I believe I need to work more with Photoshop as a painting medium, it's still something I believe I have yet to master, but I have confidence that one day it will just slap me in the face and then I'll laugh at the days I ever struggled.

PHOTOS

Been taking a lot of photos this year and I am finally getting to look at them all and get them out there. While I was looking at the hundreds, more like thousands of photos I have taken and not shared with more than a handful of people, I came across Lauren & Adam Frisch's wedding that I shot almost half a decade ago. GEEBERS! Well these are a few shots out of many from the wedding that I really liked. But you know the Irish family is just really photogenic!