Art Challenge - Nguyen vs. Mancuso

Light, rain, orchard.

Quick doodle In Sketchbook, trying out a friends Dell 2 in 1 to see if I want to buy it for drawing. It's a pretty nice surface, no lag. Need a better pen though!

The hand that draws the hand.

Apple pop-up

March 12 2017- I had some time yesterday to relax and just paint. I went to hobby lobby this weekend and picked up a set of cheap gouache paints and some Chinese watercolors. What makes it Chinese? No clue.. but the watercolor was much thinner. I had fun. I really like how the leaves turned out on the red flowers. These remind me of Hawaiian shirts, something my dad would wear.

Will have to keep practicing! I want to make my own set of floral stationery. Must sound so exciting, chris! :P 

And now for something completely different...

Not quite done yet, but I’m letting the washes dry so I can do some touch up, and get some black detail in. Traditional fantasy miniature painting is more realisticly painted, with solid colors, and tight washes and fine highlights. I guess I’d call this post-impressionist-ish.

Might be the fat brush I’m using, too. I like stroke and texture.

Mai Linh, I painted this while watching The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.  A classic.

http://www.figmentfly.com/bb/bbindex.shtml

Cheers.

Another day - color/shadow exercise

6x6 pencil, watercolor, gesso, found foam ring

He heard we were drawing Disney, so my son handed me these. Disney Characters by my son Konnor, age 14.

Pencil on college rule paper.

Awesome!

Day 20 Archer in motion

Theme- Disney characters

Auto desk sketch for iPad, digital pencil.

Lines, lines, lines. From Brave. Eat yer. Haggis, boys!

Day 15 - 02/05/2017 Ponyo and Solske 

Ponyo is probably my favorite Disney movie hands down! Hayao Miyazaki is one of my favorite animators. Must watch soon, Chris :) I think your boys and wife will enjoy too. The storyline is almost just like The Little Mermaid. I think you’d also like Kiki’s Delivery Service and My Neighbor Totoro  too..

I used your tutorial as reference. Started out with sketch, filled in the colors, added the highlight and shadows and did some color adjusting. Overall, I think i’m getting a handle on the pen with the cintiq a little better. Thanks for sharing!! I was really excited. Strangely, I think my favorite part of this illustration is the clouds, which probably took  the least amount of time to do. Lighting is where I struggle. It’s hard for my mind to figure out where the light hits the body (or even figuring out where the light source should come from) Practice practice practice... 

Anyways, I had to do this early since we are going to my cousins house for the super bowl. Happy art-ing! 

Day 14 - 02/04/17 Small World

Yes!! Back and ready. Sorry for the short hiatus. This week was a crazy one. Im excited for this week’s new challenge. 

This song is officially stuck in my head (it’s a small world after all ...) and i hate it. I used the gouache brush by Kyle Webster and used the cintiq for this. Started with the background first and the characters came in at the end. 

Day 14 - 2/4/17 Bad Wood Theme: Disney character (reimagined) Time: 2hr Autodesk Sketch , tablet, digital pencil

Day 12 2/1/17. Lonely Huey Autodesk Sketch, tablet, pencil by 53 Theme: Movies Movie: Silent Running, 1972 Time 1 hr

Always wanted to do a series on my favorite movie robots. Huey, Duey and Louie are three maintenance drones on a deep space botanical refuge ship that was ordered destroyed. They are the stars of the show. Mai Linh, this film is a must see IMHO.