My latest digital piece is an underwater picture. I have never really been given the opourtunity to create a piece of art that is underwater themed before so I decided to create my own. I choose the Hippocamp as the subject because I am familiar enough with horse anatomy and when starting something new it is always nice to have a little something that your familiar with. Done digitally with photoshop cs3.

critiques are more than welcome.

and from the prompt challange I have the following:
Turning point in my life. That would be when I went and saw Fellowship of the Ring in theatres. This was a book that I had just read and fallen in love with. Tolkien and his writing is amazing. I had many doubts as to what the film would be like and if it would live up to my expectations. The movie blew me away [still wish it had Bombadill] I wanted to be one of the many behind such a masterpiece. So I began to look at art as more than doodling in my mathbook and something that I could do and be happy about for the rest of my life.

Favorite Cady:
Licorice and dark chocolate. But I love trying and finding different brands of Black Licorice.

Inspiration Series

I started this Inspiration Series. Its a way to challenge myself and to pay homage to the people, books, movies, or things that have inspired me over the years.

The first image that I did was the Tim Burton portrait that was done in pen and ink.
This second image is Walt Disney done in the mickey logo. This man is an amazing inspiration, because he took a dream and created one hell of an empire.

I created this by making a brush out of the mickey logo and changing the flow level. After that it was hundreds of clicks with the right color in the right place. Based off of a photo found in google image search.

update......

I figured I would post some work that I finished recently.

Its tim!

So I started this digital ink piece back on monday or tuesday. I was upset because a certain loudmouth insinuated that Bane was in the new Batman movie because of Romney. Bane has been around for a long time now and I wasnt too happy with the comparison because it was made with out doing the research. 

For the prompt Heights:

I did this one because at the time my computer was acting up and to fix it caused more problems so for awhile I felt like my computer was out to get me.

Illustration Friday-Heights

So I started off with a digital piece, and then while I was doing the 1/2 day at work yesterday I had enough down time to sketch in my little sketchbook. And I ended up liking this sketch more than the digital piece. Its not that I dont like the digital piece, but it has a lot of perspective that it throwing me off [one of the few things that i didn't/dont like about my school was that their was no perspective class.] so I ended up submitting the pen drawing I did, not the digital. Here is were I am in the digital and would love feedback on it.

Illustration Friday -Vocal

Its been awhile. Lots have things have happend. None of which I can tell you about but trust me when I say that you have not been missing much.
I needed to get back into the grove of things and Illustration friday usually allows me to do so with the different topics.

This weeks topic was 'vocal'. One of the most vocal things in my like right now is the cockatiel that we inherited when my aunt passed away last summer. This bird has quite the personality and has no qualms about speaking up when it wants something. But try and pet it or to bring it out of its cage and the darn thing hisses at you and gives you the death glare to end all death glares.

very quickly done in photoshop cs3. maybe 4 hours? but i did manage to get is gonzo beak. :)

(side note, yes he has a gonzo beak, yes his beak is long, and yes we routinely bring him in to get his beak trimmed and worry over the amount of feathers he looses but we have been assured that he is healthy and happy and we are doing everything for him)

New Pieces

So a new year has begun, and apart from working extra hours at my job and now teaching art to kindergartners and preschoolers life itself has been busy. But I was able to finish two art pieces, one was started back in 2011 and the other I started back in January.

The one back in 2011 was based off of a lot of frustration and anger that I had been feeling due to a lot of artistic block as well as outside influences. This was done in photoshop cs3. it started as a piece for anger and quickly began to take form to the frustration that I was feeling. If you have ever been frustrated about something that you have no control over then you can understand the feeling of being bound and unable to move.

take from it what you will.

The one that I started back in January and then had to be shelved is my raven. I have a love of ravens and elephants and always love to draw them. We have had such strange weather in colorado for the past few months. Some days its late 60's to early 70's, and then others it barely goes over 30 degrees. On the days when it snows the urge to make a snow fort and a calvin and hobbes style snowmen is very strong. On days when it is nice and sunny the urge to clean out the garden and start planting and planning things is also very strong. The is the longing for spring, and the hope that it will soon be hear.

Please comment and if you have a critique please share and thank you.

Day 4

Day for was favorite place. Mine happens to be Disney World. Done over 1 hour if that. I had no time today because of the snow and such. again done in photoshop with a 30 day challenge found here

30 day challenge

day 2 and day 3

Day 3 of a 30 day challenge.
My favorite food happens to be apples, I can eat an apple a day or anything with apples.
My favorite are gala but I also have a fondness red or granny.
I added the tea from my favorite mug because honestly that's my what i like to 'eat' the most.

and here is day 2
ay 2 from a 30 day challenge, digital,

my favorite animals are bats, done with no reference

self portrait

I found this 30 days 30 ieces of art challange, and decided that this would be a great way of working on my digital art and making it bigger and better than ever.
the picture if you dont want to click the link below:

devaintart page

the challenge

IF- Scattered

for illustration friday

this is how my brain is during the day and night, scattered thoughts and dreams. pressures and hopes all mixed in.

photoshop cs3

Illustration Friday Swell