Designs&Drawings

The inspirational word in SPARK, I started with inspiration from Alex Pardee's piece "Night of the Treeple".

Then I started to do the digital "inking" with for outline and darker part of the images.

Almost finished with the "inking" of the tree-man holding the tree in the pot, then I had to add the shading.

Looks kind of creepy and incomplete so I added more and put the outline in front of the shading.

Looks a little better but should probably work on the shading a bit more.

Smoothed it out and added the green to make the little tree pop more.

Put the outline and black back on and added a some background to it, now just to add the text in and a logo.

Hey there,

So this weeks word of inspiration is "twisted" and I was really excited to get started on this. So there is this fantastic video game that I've been obsessed with since I bought it called Alice in Wonderland: The Madness Returns. Which is kind of a darker take on Alice in Wonderland and you go through "wonderland" which has become a dark and twisted place from the hatter to the cheshire cat. If your into creepier games definitely check this one out. Anyways getting carried away, told you obsessed. So I wanted to do Alice in her hysteria mode which is extra creepy and twisted. So i started with a reference photo.

And did some digital pencil marks over it to get the positioning right of her face and shoulders. Next i worked on the structure of the drawing a little more.

Then did some digital "inking"

I played around with the various brushes Corel painter X3 had to add a variety of textures and line weights.

Now for colour! I was excited to see how the markers worked in Corel Painter and was pleasantly surprised, and loved the no clean up too :).

I wasn't to happy with the yellow or how flat her face looked so I went back in and fixed that up.

The inspiration was exotic, on a recent trip to a aquarium I saw these captivating fish floating around in the tank called Leafy Sea Dragon they reminded me of something out of a fantasy anime or video game. So I started with some rough thumbnails.

After that I used some water colour paper because I liked the weight and texture for ink wash, and started to sketch out the design (unfortunately I got a little too excited about using the ink that i forgot to take a picture of this step >.<)

Next I gathered all the supplies and got to inking.

I chose to used my speed ball pen and a few different nibs and my watercolour brush for the wash. 

After that I had to go in and fix up some of the spots I wasn't happy with and erase pencil lines.

It was starting to take shape now just to add the text and some tones in the background.

Then I finished up with the different tones and erased the final pencil marks and we have the finish design.