Girl with a Gun

Finally spent some time this week and developed the sketch I uploaded months ago here. x. Since I am really passionate about going into the world of comics, I decided I would get the cliche, stereotypical image out of the way first: a hot girl with a gun. So I offer this up as my first attempt at digitally inking a background. It's not terrible, but it definitely needs work. I'm calling it a success for my first attempt, but I think I'm going to stick to ink and paper for the moment.

In other news, I am working on a final commission (unexpected) of another animal portrait I will be throwing up on here in a week (once I finish painting it). Afterwards, expect a lull as I will be moving internationally, visiting London for 2 weeks, and then trying to settle down into the chaos that is the Christmas season/ building up my life back in the States. :)

Instagram Sketches

Oh hey. I got an instagram account. I'm honestly surprised my terrible AU android can handle it. Here are some doodles from this past month from my journal taken with instagram. My name on there is wastedwings. Follow me?

Sketches/ T-shirt Contest

Some stuff I've done in the past couple of days. I whipped up some quick t-shirt vectors for a contest held by the fashion blogger La Carmina. You can check out her blog here: http://www.lacarmina.com/ She's pretty awesome!

I also did some sketches while I was at school. I was invited to watch the art class. Had to get some sketching in myself. Couldn't let the kids have all the fun.

Archer Illustration

Here's the finished archer piece. I painted this in Corel Painter 11 and had a blast figuring out textures and lighting. I love giving myself a little challenge. I included process pictures below it. Towards the end, I changed the archer's face completely. I felt he needed to be younger and have darker hair.

Close- ups:



Process:

Illustration WIP

I've been chatting with my friends about my portfolio and through them I came to the realization that I have very little pieces that show environments and "concept art" style work in my portfolio. I decided I'd fix that and start working with more detailed work. This week, it's my goal to work on these two pieces. Here are the sketches.

The Crow Speed Paint

Decided I would throw up a speed painting I did last night of my own Crow. I've loved O'Barr's work for many, many years and tomorrow is the anniversary of Lee's death. I've been really sick lately and haven't been able to work on much, but I wanted to put something up since this has been on my mind. Photoshop CS4. 2 hours.

Alice In Wonderland Shirt Design

Another shirt to add to the collection! This one will be going up on Redbubble alongside my 99 Red Balloons shirt! This was vectored in Adobe Illustrator and sketched and mocked-up in Adobe Photoshop (model photo by Threadless). I've always been in love with Alice (see: buttons) and now that I've gotten into making shirts, it's only fitting I honor my Lolita idol once more.

PS- PLEASE go vote on my 99 Red Balloons shirt on Designbyhumans. Link is here: http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/97575/

New Carter's Portfolio

Yes, it's that time again! I did another assessment test for Carter's (who I would LOVE to work for). These were all vectored in Adobe Illustrator (with the exception of the last floral, which I hand drew and colored in Photoshop). The idea here was to create a bunch of characters, clothing prints, and florals to be used in children's clothing. This is what I've been up to for the past 2 weeks. Hope you enjoy it.

This is some of my process work. Definitely not all of it. I think I filled about 20 pages in my small sketch book and these are about 15 of the pages compiled into one image.

New Textile Designs!

I'm really excited about these new designs. Let me just first preface this by saying that living in Japan has really inspired me to create new prints. I wanted to create prints that I could the kids I teach wanting on the things they use every day. Things like tote bags, pencil cases, draw string bags for bento (lunch boxes), and of course backpacks. What do kids in Japan like most? Anime! I decided to use classic, highly inspirational anime series that practically every person in Japan knows of to create prints. These are series that I also love and have found to be almost ahead of their time when they were made and aired. I created my own interpretation of characters from: Astro Boy (鉄腕アトム), Rose of Versailles (ベルサイユのばら), Sailor Moon (美少女戦士セーラームーン), Galaxy Express 999 (銀河鉄道999), and Neon Genesis Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン).

First, I vectored the characters and objects in Adobe Illustrator. Then, I brought the images into InDesign and laid out the prints. Next I combined the prints onto the objects in Photoshop and arranged the objects next to images of the prints for my website. With that being said, I hope you enjoy these prints as much as I enjoyed making them.

Moe!

I haven't drawn in an anime style for a long time now and I needed a break from doing animal portraits. So the past couple of nights have been devoted to this little drawing. Trying out a new coloring style in photoshop and really digging it. I'll be posting more animal portraits soon.

Dream Release

This is my submission for the James and The Giant Peach Competition over on DeviantArt.

I want to tell you a little about this piece and myself. The idea and initial drawing for this piece came from an early sketch book I kept in 9th grade (I just finished university). I found the sketch and remembered that I drew it from a recurring dream I had at the time and decided (now that I was more capable of drawing) I should go ahead and turn this simple sketch into a finished piece of art.

So here it is along side the process of how I built this piece up.

Corel Painter 11 and Adobe Photoshop CS4.

Storybook Patterns

Per suggestion from a fan of my work, I decided to recreate some of my favorite childhood stories in my own cutesy way. The original suggestion was specifically Disney, but I am a HUGE fan of Grimm's fairy tales and Aesop's fables, etc. so I decided to take a more traditional story approach.

Since I was doing a portfolio for Carter's, I wanted to include something of my own to throw in there, that isn't really in their style, but more of my own. I figured it would be a nice patterning addition.

So the stories that are represented here are Peter Pan, Little Red Riding Hood, and Cinderella.

Make sure you check my twitter account at: http://www.twitter.com/wastedwings
to see the Red Riding Hood pattern in effect.

These were done in Adobe InDesign and Illustrator CS4.

Boys Space Bodysuit

As part of my portfolio to Carter's, I wanted to do a series of clothing mock- ups, to show what my patterns would look like on clothing.

This was done in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS4.

Girls Floral Dress

As part of my portfolio to Carter's, I wanted to do a series of clothing mock- ups, to show what my patterns would look like on clothing.

This was done in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS4.

Boys Dinosaur Footed Pajamas

As part of my portfolio to Carter's, I wanted to do a series of clothing mock- ups, to show what my patterns would look like on clothing.

This was done in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS4.

Carters Girls Patterns

Here are some girls patterns for my Carter's portfolio.

These are all done in Adobe InDesign CS4.

Carters Boys Patterns

Here are some boys patterns for my Carter's portfolio. My dad really helped me with the ideas of boy themes. He loved space as a kid.

These are all done in Adobe InDesign CS4.

Carters pt 3

Here's some more work for Carter's. They're an awesome company based in Atlanta, GA and I think I'd have a blast working there. This is the beginning of my portfolio to them. I'll keep posting work as soon as I finish it. I'll have some patterns, mock-ups, and some surprises to throw up on this blog soon. I definitely feel this set of characters is stronger than the last.

These were done in Adobe InDesign CS4.

Colors!

Since thesis is over, I've had a little free time to mess around with the Nintendo DS homebrew program Colors! It is essentially a portable oekaki on your DS. Super cool needless to say, although I've been having some stylus jumping problems (which are apparent in the videos).

So I drew a barn owl (yay birds!) and one of my thesis characters today in about a half hour or so. Having a lot of fun messing with it. I wish it had a simple undo button though (especially due to the stylus jumps).

Thesis Revisions

Most of you at this point have noticed I am reworking all of my pieces for thesis by adding backgrounds, changing the modeling from cell shading to soft and then a combination of the two, etc. Here's some of the work I have finished. I will continuously update this post until I am finished will all 6 pieces.