Portrait Sketches

I'm finally starting to work on the Mega64 portraits again. I decided not to do them traditionally and to just go ahead and do them in Photoshop and Painter like I did my last self- portrait and the Jhonen Vasquez portrait. Below are the finalized sketches. I still haven't flushed out the backgrounds yet, but I have some ideas.

Sketches!

Another sketch from Japan. I think I may start refining some of my sketches in the future into nice watercolor pieces. It may or may not happen. :P

Japan!

As you all know, I'm back in Japan. I'm here to stay until at least around April of 2012. Art has been on the back burner since I've been here as my job is an assistant language teacher. However, in my free time, I have been drawing. I don't own a scanner, but I finally had access to one today. Here are some of the things I've sketching. My brain is normally in a million places in one day so forgive the randomness of the subjects drawn. These were all drawn over the course of the past 3 weeks or so too. It's pretty much whenever I have my sketch book and have time to draw, I'm doing it. I'm hoping I can post here more frequently, but it really depends on how hectic things are. My job keeps me pretty busy and simple things like buying groceries takes me longer since I'm having to translate things from Japanese into English.

Sketches

I've been substitute teaching a lot to pay for my moving expenses to Japan. I'm going to continue to pursue art, but for the time being I need a stable source of income. In January, I kind of got into a funk. I wasn't getting many jobs since people spent all their cash on Christmas and just came back from vacation (no sub jobs, no art jobs). That's all changed recently and the busier I've been with teaching, the busier I've been with art. I'm working on portraits of Mega64 at the moment and will post those at a later date. In the meantime, here are some sketches I've done during my conference periods at school.


Also, if you are interested in more of my personal life and what my life is going to be like in Japan, you can stalk me over at this blog I started: http://kellygoesjapan.blogspot.com/

Raina Portrait

Portrait of Raina from thesis. I wanted to start revisiting my thesis characters and possibly start really writing and pencilling my comic "Atelier". This project may or may not happen in the future. This was done in Photoshop CS4.

More Animal Portraits

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.