Saturday, June 26, 2010

2D land: the sequel:

Well, apparently Blogger doesn't like uploading more than 6 images per post, so here are the rest of the paintings:

Self Portrait with puffy, smirking lips:

Self portrait with suspicious purple:

Garth as a badass with cancer stick:

Pit Stop in 2D Land:

Well, now that college is all said and done, I decided to take a little detour down to memory lane and revisit some of my old 2D roots. I haven't been doing anything too terribly risky at this point, mostly just some quick portraits of myself and friends that I'm basing off of photos I can pilfer from Facebook. Here is my short collection of these little creations. I'm mostly just trying to learn a bit more about form and lighting, as well as push the envelope of color theory and speed up my process. While I'm not really sure I've achieved any of these things, I certainly have had fun making them with CS5's new mixer brush! Anyway, enough jibba-jabba, here's the scoop:

Seister with living hair:


An old picture of my Grandma:


Chris contemplating what it means to be a badass:


Loverly Denise: