For any of you following my previous posts on the matter, here is another submission for the DeviantArt Adidas. I think I'll try and do one more before calling it done. Even if I don't win, I feel good about trying. One of my submissions has almost gotten 50,000 hits, which is WAY more than my fan art gathers. I might try for more contests like ( Read more... )

Here are three pieces I've submitted to the Adidas Fingerpaint Contest over at DeviantArt. (Huge thanks go to
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Muttering annoyances when reading about edgy, anti-fascist, surrealist parties taking place in 1940s NY and not seeing your favorite artist mentioned, only to have Max Ernst's name dropped lovingly and with special care right before the chapter ends ( Read more... )

When preparing to paint, remember three things:

1. You're not good at it. Okay, you're not bad at it, but you're not good at this style. You're more of a spackle-thick Van Gogh- type painter, without the acid-trip colors.

2. The white you bought sucks ass and doesn't blend worth shit. Never buy it again.

3. No, you cannot just scrap the whole thing ( Read more... )

Neutral Grey is about 2 values too dark from what I needed. *hisses in irritation* Looks like I'm going to have to draw everything in before painting after all, because there is no way I'll be able to mix the right value up more than once.

e_e

feh.

q_sama gave me this awesome little graphics tablet the other day. weirdly enough, I've never really used one for drawing (I only took one computer class at CCAD and it didn't cover them...they were more for the Graphic Design or Media Studies students than the Illustration ones like me [of course, I might not had gotten to it, since I went crazy and quit ( Read more... )