Tattoo

So I did a tattoo design for a long time internet buddy of mine, and it's really cool to see a design I did, translated to skin!

Overall i'm incredibly happy with the result, but part of me knows it's not quite the same...
I honestly don't know how hard it is to draw on skin, or the process in how they copy a piece of work, so i'm apologizing in advance in case the following statement offends tattoo artists or anyone who knows their stuff...


Seeing how my drawing translates into a tattoo, while it looks absolutely fantastic no doubt, it's just not quite the same and I think it puts me off from getting tattoo work being done on me. I mean, if I were to get something done, it would be my own art, but I would want the artist to make it exactly the same or somehow better. If i'm not happy with the result, well...  unless you can afford laser removal it's there to stay. Again, I do apologize if how I feel is taken as an insult to tattoo artists, I mean, i've seen some pretty AMAZING stuff out there and this one still turned out great, i'm just a picky artist I guess!

 

A big thank you to Valentino for picking me to design a tattoo that will forever remain as a mark on him. It is an honour and despite what I said above, i'm still happy with the result and it really does look fantastic. I look forward to, someday, seeing the rest of the tattoos you get, and the smoke and fire added on. 

Summer Update

Wow, apart from the post about Alison Theus, I am months behind on an update...

Oh jeez... Well I apologize for that, I have been working on a little bit of art between working and living life. See below for the details!

 

Mike and I love Corgi's. So I DREW one.

 

I think the person was just joking when they told me to draw this.

Then I drew it, and it became real.

 

Somewhere in my blog i'm sure I mentioned my family loves them

miniature daschunds. I think they're absolutely adorable, but when there

is food around... it just has to be illustrated.

 

Caracal and a Secretary Bird. it's not really all that great of a combo

if you look at it, but with the Secretary's stabbing leg power and the Caracal's 

springy jumping capabilities... it had to be done.

 

A commission for 'Rooth R'agon' 

Personalities of the Royal

So we just went to the Royal Winter Fair and this year we had to draw the animals and capture their personalities, which made it super fun and relaxing.

 

 

Also my recent Heroes and Villians project caught the attention of The Wandering Men and I coloured up the bugs for their use :)

Still Alive

Yeeeeah I didn't have a lot of time for art this summer because of my full time job at the garden center but August I have off and i'm living back in Oakville with my boyfriend!

As a side note, the one with the dragon I did on my Cintique so the shadows were nice a deep with rich colours but when I look at it on my mac  and windows laptop it looks desaturated and awful :(
How does it look for you?

Dragons

So far this summer, these are the first sketches to touch my sketchbook and the first ones to be coloured in Photoshop since my last commission work back in March. Anyhow, these two dragons are done up for the Wandering Men. I have to say, it's certainly nice to do something other than working.

End of the Year

Over the past month i've been looking for places to live, chugging away at final assignments as well as 5 commission pieces, and finally moving into my new apartment with Mike. Needless to say I was quite busy and stressed all at the same time. Here are the commissioned pieces, I would share school work but it's nothing exciting.

Hexadragon

Just an overdue commission

Dover's

The last image for Greg Dent of his Dover's. I am going to bed now hahah :)
Edit: Now that i'm awake, i've included a larger version, the scaled down looks terrible.

Plants and Mushrooms

Plants and Mushrooms done up for my commissioner Greg Dent, two more pictures to do for him. I'm really enjoying the work i've been doing for Greg, gets me doing other things.

More Freelance Work

Just some of the creatures done up for my commissioner, Greg Dent. 

A New Piece

Spent perhaps six hours on this guy for the Wandering Men. I quite enjoyed this guy, I hope you do too!
Edit: Also just noticed a couple sloppy spots by it's tooth and has been fixed on the original but i'll keep this upload here. I need to head to bed before I update this picture :P

Prepare for an Art Dump

Newest piece for the Wandering Men... dun dun duuuuuun! Well it's the final piece of my last contract that took too long to do thanks to going to school to do art and then coming home late to do art. And onwards to do more art with them!



ALSO here is a painting I did awhile ago that I don't think I uploaded to Blogger, as well as four textural paintings I have done for Wednesdays class. The last two I lost interest on :/



And what's this art dump i'm talking about? That'll be the next few posts actually, I need some time to prepare.

More Work

A few more recent works for The Wandering Men. An ambush bug cross with giant centipede, a leopard cross with a boa constrictor, a walrus crossed with a polar bear, and the last was lineart I had done that was purchased after the fact then coloured in. I was hoping with my new tablet I could get these done quicker but unfortunately I can't use it yet, not until I get an adapter that works with the old macbook.

So School

I've been making friends now, i'm trying to be less shy and more open. Then again, i'm going to be with the same people for four years, so there's no rush heheh, but still, nice to be able to hang out with people once in awhile when you're not swamped by school work. Speaking of school work, we're handing in our animations next week of a bouncing ball, bowling ball and balloon, and then four paintings, uhm... that's all I can think of for now, i'm just a bit tired to think at the moment :)
Here, art! HUAH! *throws at you*

Back to School

Right so i'm in animation now, in case anyone didn't know or was curious. I have lots of new art to post, especially stuff in my sketchbook but we'll get to that in a bit. For now I want to share some of the work i've done for Wandering Men's game Untold. These will be made into cards either by December or next spring, but it depends on some things. Anyway enjoy!