Showing posts with label commissions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commissions. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Adventures in Painting

For the past few days, I've been working on a commissioned painting. However, it was a painting style I haven't done before - it was to be painted on a bedroom wall! All Sophia wanted for Christmas was for her bedroom to look like a barn, with a horse peeking out a window in the corner. So I took up the challenge and did the painting. :)

I can't draw things on a large scale very well, so this projector helped me.


Prepping the wall.

Got the white base layer down, now time to paint the horse!

Painting, painting...

Now all he needs is his window!

And there it is! The painting is complete!

Sophia and her mother Roey are happy with the results!
All in all, it took maybe 18 hours (over 4 days). Now, I've got one other project to *finally* finish, and have 3 more pages to tone before In the Air chapter 5 is done! Gah! I gotta get cracking!

Monday, April 20, 2009

...I'm not dead!

Sorry guys for the lack of posts here... :(
I guess I became self conscious of my drawings for a bit there?
Some days I worry that drawing anime/manga style is embarrassing for someone trying out to become professional...
I have to come to terms with the fact that it's what I do and stop feeling embarrassed!
Well, I'll make it up to you and continue posting :)
With that intro, let me post for you some of my recent drawings. :D
First off, I went to a local Anime Convention and I actually got some commissions! Here are Alex (redhead) and Skye (goth loli) All in all, I'm happy they turned out all right :) They were commissions, so I tried to make them as clean as possible!! The colouring was very simple, since that's all the commissioners wanted, so there wasn't much opportunity to mess up too bad anyways. Like always, there are some things I could nit-pick about these, but I'll spare you guys!
Okay, more linearts ^^ I really love the inking stage! Anyways, here are the three girls from Angora Napkin, a graphic novel/pilot animation series by Troy Little and Nick Cross. I helped colour some backgrounds for the episode "Avacadaver", so I was wanting to do a fanart for Troy as a present. Since I'm always all over the place, this only made it to the lineart stage!! Hopefully soon I'll be able to slap some colour onto it... :3 (ps, sorry for the watermark there! It's to stop anyone else from colouring it before me...)
Okay, now onto some comic stuffies~!
I think I mentioned before that I'm working on an online comic.
If not, well, I am, and it's called "In The Air", and is available on Wirepop.com.
Needless to say, it eats up lots of my time!
But it's fun and I've always enjoyed writing/drawing comics, so to me it's time well spent! :D
I'm finishing up toning the last pages of chapter 3 and have started drawing out chapter 4.
I'll post some pages so you can see what's going on...






The story is only just taking off, so I keep wanting to draw out the pages rather than working on what I'm supposed to be doing @__@ And then I also plan on going back and touching up the earlier artwork so I can get the chapters printed up in book form. Waagh, I've gotta get to my REAL work~! Haha!

I'm also working on another comic project. I'm collaborating with a writer for this one! So far there aren't many pages drawn up, so it's staying secret for now. ;)

For now, I'll end this here. I promise I'll keep up with this blog better! @__@;;

~Bren