Art in Progress - Puppeteer
Finished the inking on the dragon puppeteer piece, and I'm working my way through the coloring. I'm trying out a slightly different style - I didn't want to do flat cel shading, so I'm mixing up the cel shading with some painterly brush strokes. We'll see how that works.
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Possibly I'll have the color done by the end of the week? I'm about 1/3 of the way through and it's been going fast, so it's not unlikely.
Also! An image dump of some flower photos. I draw a lot of flowers, so I take a lot of photos for references. Feel free to use any of these for drawing refs if you are so inclined. One bunch is from a visit to the historic Filoli Estate back in April, the other is from just this past weekend at the San Francisco Botanical Gardens. It's always worth going there several times a year to see the different varieties of flowers throughout our year-round blooming season.
Filoli Gardens, April 2011
SF Botanical Gardens, June 2011
And after going out and taking snapshots this weekend, I was reminded that for a simple point-and-shoot, my camera actually takes pretty solid photos. I'm probably just going to stick with it for a while longer.
This was one of my favorite pictures from the Botanical Gardens. It was around 5:30pm, so the sun was lower (we have sunset around 8:30 during the early summer here) and I love the bokeh effect in the background. I don't know how to create or capture that intentionally - the camera was set on full auto, and I didn't do any post processing on the image.
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Click for full image!
Possibly I'll have the color done by the end of the week? I'm about 1/3 of the way through and it's been going fast, so it's not unlikely.
Also! An image dump of some flower photos. I draw a lot of flowers, so I take a lot of photos for references. Feel free to use any of these for drawing refs if you are so inclined. One bunch is from a visit to the historic Filoli Estate back in April, the other is from just this past weekend at the San Francisco Botanical Gardens. It's always worth going there several times a year to see the different varieties of flowers throughout our year-round blooming season.
Filoli Gardens, April 2011
SF Botanical Gardens, June 2011
And after going out and taking snapshots this weekend, I was reminded that for a simple point-and-shoot, my camera actually takes pretty solid photos. I'm probably just going to stick with it for a while longer.
This was one of my favorite pictures from the Botanical Gardens. It was around 5:30pm, so the sun was lower (we have sunset around 8:30 during the early summer here) and I love the bokeh effect in the background. I don't know how to create or capture that intentionally - the camera was set on full auto, and I didn't do any post processing on the image.
Click for full size