Texturds...

I was reading Photoshop tutorials tonight, and I came across one for importing and using textures. I thought I'd give it a whirl on some random sketch I had already scanned:



Looking at it now, I probably should have used the texture just on the jeans, and then maybe a different one for the shirt, rather than pasting it over the entire image. Ah well, I get carried away when I learn new stuff. I'm definitely going to implement this trick more often from now on. I think it's a real help if you're as shit at coloring as I am.

Oh, and I added some links to texture libraries to the "Useful Resources" thread on the forum, if anyone else ever needs some on a whim.

Oh god, now this is just embarrassing...

Let it never be said that I pull any punches and only post what I consider to be "my good stuff."



So why am I posting this trash? I dunno, maybe in a year or so I'll be able to look it up and laugh at how bad it is compared to what I can (hopefully) do then.

I've never really invested any time in putting my tablet to use, which is retarded considering what I spent on it. I figured I'd start breaking it out and trying to familiarize myself with digital artwork. Holy shit is it hard. Really fun, but HARD. I need to improve my coordination so that I can get the fucker to actually do what I want.

I think this might be my first stab at a 100% digital "painting." I'm not sure though. I'm going to spend the next 9 hours at work pouring over tutorials, as I definitely want to keep practicing and get better.

Fuck, look at her face.

Flowers give me hives

Stuart's head a was once full of dreams.
Now it is full of bees.

More of the same as before, but while I liked parts of the previous image, this one I'm classifying as total shit. This time it's supposed to be Trent...raising his finger in objection, maybe...to, like...all the computer monitors and CB radios behind him? Or something. See what I'm doing here is letting you write your own backstory to the image. That's actually genius. I fucking love this one.







Is me posting all of my little Photoshop/Illustrator/MSPaint experiments annoying? Be honest.

Jyeah!

Illustrator is a really fun way to waste time here at work. I need to see about sneaking my tablet into this motherfucker.



I don't know if this is a self portrait or what. It's kinda like me in places I guess(glasses, facial hair) but so help me god, if I ever start wearing my hat that way, somebody please kick the shit out of me.

Oh, and for the record, I actually drew in a city scape background, but it looked too jumbled and confusing when I shrank the thing down, so I dropped it out of fear that if I ever tried to crop this into an avatar or something, it would be unreadable.

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta...

Like I said last post, more to come:










I kinda got lazy over the last 4 or 5 months when I moved, couldn't find my art supplies, and didn't have a working computer/scanner. I'm trying to get back into a regular routine of Monday through Friday daily drawing. This stuff is from this week. I've got a lot more, but I don't think I'm going to scan it, because it's just more of the same. That, and it takes a long ass time to scan and format. It's hard out here for a pimp.

I know I'm flooding the blog lately, and I apologize, but I need to sway the balance some so this isn't "Ryan's other blog."

PS-Those random blips of color aren't mine, they're clip art that was on work memos I was redrawing during a meeting...on the taxpayers dime!

She's a pink girl, and she don't need money...

I spent the beginning of my evening digging out and installing my tablet, so what do I do? I fuck around with this for an hour (and that time shows!) using a mouse instead.




Words cannot express how much it burns me that I can't draw girls to save my life. I'm really trying to focus on that lately, but we'll see how it goes. I also NEED to come up with an adequate way to ink my drawings. I've been flip flopping between tech pens, brush pens and quill pens (which is what this is) for awhile now, and I don't like my results from, nor do I seem able to get the hang of, any of them. It's pretty goddamn annoying to do an underdrawing that you think is at least somewhat energetic, and then promptly pull all the life out of it when you try to ink the damn thing.

Why'm I being such a Negative Nancy? I gave myself a personal goal of "become competent by age 30", and while that's 2 years off, it's going to be a long road.

Sorry for the glut of random doodles lately, but, more to come!

Undead Douche

This was going to be my stab at the "Draw like some other dude" thread on bombunists.com, but I didn't like how it was turning out, so I decided to post it here instead. It doesn't look like Ryan's work at all (it's hard to emulate his expressiveness with the tablet when I'm using a mouse), but hey, it's got a circular head and was done with Illustrator (7!), so in superficial terms, I halfway nailed it!



Y'know, for awhile there, when I had just the rough skeleton down, I thought I was sorta on the right track. When I tried to fake some "inking", I got a little carried away and started adding more and more details and proportions closer to what I would draw myself. The end result is some kind of monstrous superhero wearing the head of a fast food/sporting team mascot.

*cough*

This is what I do during long phone conversations at work. Mouse and MSPaint.







Lamest post ever? Possibly. Probably. Positively.

Stories Of Old (AKA: Re-runs)

Marathon broadcasts of 80's sitcoms had successfully postponed the monster's attack. But for how long?