Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Filed under: robot

This is what happens when...

...you draw from a wildly absurd imagination wanting to do 10000 different things at once:

[singlepic id=1218 float=none]

I had high hopes for this drawing. But I think this could have gone a LOT better. This was really another experimental piece though, because I wanted to try a few things out and I needed a dummy test.

One of the things I did differently was draw all this entirely in grayscale first, then coloured it later with layers in Photoshop. I'm not sure I am entirely happy with this process, though it was really good for when I couldn't get the right colour combos right. It was an interesting experience, which I may try again in future when I get stuck. And I did get stuck a LOT in this piece. Mainly because I was using a vector of a robot which some of you might remember from my 'Lonely Cloud' layout I did ages ago. Well I really wanted to do a revamp of him because he's just so cute and all....but combining him with a TREE and painted CLOUDS? Painful.

Let it be known right now I really dislike drawing trees ;_; So many strokes. So little time. So I first started off with a blocky shape. Then I somehow had this idea that using a brush I made in PS might fix it because it looked like a pile of macerated chicken meat at this point. Yeah not good. So I was using a sub par tree half way through this and scrapped it soon after I realised it just looked like absolute junk. And I redrew the leaves for the millionth time to match the clouds. And added some line work later because it just looked like it needed it. All in all, I think I'm pretty happy with how the tree turned out but as I said before, I think this could have been done so much better ;_;

I also tried a different way of drawing clouds. More blocky and precise, less "chalky" blobs. I think I like the clouds the best in this actually but again, so many things I can see wrong with them  xD

The main idea behind this painting was to include the five elements from Chinese culture. So there's fire, earth, water, metal and wood that is supposed to be in this, all working together, making up the universe. I know it's just too deep for this drawing, but I needed something to draw all this together.  The only flaw is I made the fire miniscule. They're supposed to be in those illuminated hanging globes but obviously they just look like hanging light bulbs in most views except +10000% zoomed in :whistle: Oh well.

Colouring this was another thing which took AGES to do. I guess mainly because it started off as monochrome but damn I even had to adjust the levels and contrast a lot which I really shouldn't have had to do XD Guess you live and learn from experience lol.

And now this is finally finished (I've been working on this in between bouts of playing Theme Hospital - sad i know but SO ADDICTIVE), I can finally work on this cool other project I really want to blog about in my next post. It's something I've had in the works for a while but I've been experimenting with it a lot as well and yes it has something to do with that vector I keep going on about. It's really simple actually and it's hardly got any paths at all. But I think it has potential :)

I also recently just got reminded about this cookbook I made last year for some reason:

Cookbook

And it's reignited my need to design pretty book layouts. So I've decided I'm going to start designing some crazy recipes when I get even more time..just coz! So yeah. I'm pretty excited about it, I have a lot of ideas. ;)

This is what happens when...

...you draw from a wildly absurd imagination wanting to do 10000 different things at once:

[singlepic id=1217 float=none]

I had high hopes for this drawing. But I think this could have gone a LOT better. This was really another experimental piece though, because I wanted to try a few things out and I needed a dummy test.

One of the things I did differently was draw all this entirely in grayscale first, then coloured it later with layers in Photoshop. I'm not sure I am entirely happy with this process, though it was really good for when I couldn't get the right colour combos right. It was an interesting experience, which I may try again in future when I get stuck. And I did get stuck a LOT in this piece. Mainly because I was using a vector of a robot which some of you might remember from my 'Lonely Cloud' layout I did ages ago. Well I really wanted to do a revamp of him because he's just so cute and all....but combining him with a TREE and painted CLOUDS? Painful.

Let it be known right now I really dislike drawing trees ;_; So many strokes. So little time. So I first started off with a blocky shape. Then I somehow had this idea that using a brush I made in PS might fix it because it looked like a pile of macerated chicken meat at this point. Yeah not good. So I was using a sub par tree half way through this and scrapped it soon after I realised it just looked like absolute junk. And I redrew the leaves for the millionth time to match the clouds. And added some line work later because it just looked like it needed it. All in all, I think I'm pretty happy with how the tree turned out but as I said before, I think this could have been done so much better ;_;

I also tried a different way of drawing clouds. More blocky and precise, less "chalky" blobs. I think I like the clouds the best in this actually but again, so many things I can see wrong with them  xD

The main idea behind this painting was to include the five elements from Chinese culture. So there's fire, earth, water, metal and wood that is supposed to be in this, all working together, making up the universe. I know it's just too deep for this drawing, but I needed something to draw all this together.  The only flaw is I made the fire miniscule. They're supposed to be in those illuminated hanging globes but obviously they just look like hanging light bulbs in most views except +10000% zoomed in :whistle: Oh well.

Colouring this was another thing which took AGES to do. I guess mainly because it started off as monochrome but damn I even had to adjust the levels and contrast a lot which I really shouldn't have had to do XD Guess you live and learn from experience lol.

And now this is finally finished (I've been working on this in between bouts of playing Theme Hospital - sad i know but SO ADDICTIVE), I can finally work on this cool other project I really want to blog about in my next post. It's something I've had in the works for a while but I've been experimenting with it a lot as well and yes it has something to do with that vector I keep going on about. It's really simple actually and it's hardly got any paths at all. But I think it has potential :)

I also recently just got reminded about this cookbook I made last year for some reason:

Cookbook

And it's reignited my need to design pretty book layouts. So I've decided I'm going to start designing some crazy recipes when I get even more time..just coz! So yeah. I'm pretty excited about it, I have a lot of ideas. ;)

This is what happens when...

...you draw from a wildly absurd imagination wanting to do 10000 different things at once:

[singlepic id=1217 w=320 h=240 float=none]

I had high hopes for this drawing. But I think this could have gone a LOT better. This was really another experimental piece though, because I wanted to try a few things out and I needed a dummy test.

One of the things I did differently was draw all this entirely in grayscale first, then coloured it later with layers in Photoshop. I'm not sure I am entirely happy with this process, though it was really good for when I couldn't get the right colour combos right. It was an interesting experience, which I may try again in future when I get stuck. And I did get stuck a LOT in this piece. Mainly because I was using a vector of a robot which some of you might remember from my 'Lonely Cloud' layout I did ages ago. Well I really wanted to do a revamp of him because he's just so cute and all....but combining him with a TREE and painted CLOUDS? Painful.

Let it be known right now I really dislike drawing trees ;_; So many strokes. So little time. So I first started off with a blocky shape. Then I somehow had this idea that using a brush I made in PS might fix it because it looked like a pile of macerated chicken meat at this point. Yeah not good. So I was using a sub par tree half way through this and scrapped it soon after I realised it just looked like absolute junk. And I redrew the leaves for the millionth time to match the clouds. And added some line work later because it just looked like it needed it. All in all, I think I'm pretty happy with how the tree turned out but as I said before, I think this could have been done so much better ;_;

I also tried a different way of drawing clouds. More blocky and precise, less "chalky" blobs. I think I like the clouds the best in this actually but again, so many things I can see wrong with them  xD

The main idea behind this painting was to include the five elements from Chinese culture. So there's fire, earth, water, metal and wood that is supposed to be in this, all working together, making up the universe. I know it's just too deep for this drawing, but I needed something to draw all this together.  The only flaw is I made the fire miniscule. They're supposed to be in those illuminated hanging globes but obviously they just look like hanging light bulbs in most views except +10000% zoomed in :whistle: Oh well.

Colouring this was another thing which took AGES to do. I guess mainly because it started off as monochrome but damn I even had to adjust the levels and contrast a lot which I really shouldn't have had to do XD Guess you live and learn from experience lol.

And now this is finally finished (I've been working on this in between bouts of playing Theme Hospital - sad i know but SO ADDICTIVE), I can finally work on this cool other project I really want to blog about in my next post. It's something I've had in the works for a while but I've been experimenting with it a lot as well and yes it has something to do with that vector I keep going on about. It's really simple actually and it's hardly got any paths at all. But I think it has potential :)

I also recently just got reminded about this cookbook I made last year for some reason:

Cookbook

And it's reignited my need to design pretty book layouts. So I've decided I'm going to start designing some crazy recipes when I get even more time..just coz! So yeah. I'm pretty excited about it, I have a lot of ideas. ;)

This is what happens when...

...you draw from a wildly absurd imagination wanting to do 10000 different things at once:

[singlepic id=1217 w=320 h=240 float=none]

I had high hopes for this drawing. But I think this could have gone a LOT better. This was really another experimental piece though, because I wanted to try a few things out and I needed a dummy test.

One of the things I did differently was draw all this entirely in grayscale first, then coloured it later with layers in Photoshop. I'm not sure I am entirely happy with this process, though it was really good for when I couldn't get the right colour combos right. It was an interesting experience, which I may try again in future when I get stuck. And I did get stuck a LOT in this piece. Mainly because I was using a vector of a robot which some of you might remember from my 'Lonely Cloud' layout I did ages ago. Well I really wanted to do a revamp of him because he's just so cute and all....but combining him with a TREE and painted CLOUDS? Painful.

Let it be known right now I really dislike drawing trees ;_; So many strokes. So little time. So I first started off with a blocky shape. Then I somehow had this idea that using a brush I made in PS might fix it because it looked like a pile of macerated chicken meat at this point. Yeah not good. So I was using a sub par tree half way through this and scrapped it soon after I realised it just looked like absolute junk. And I redrew the leaves for the millionth time to match the clouds. And added some line work later because it just looked like it needed it. All in all, I think I'm pretty happy with how the tree turned out but as I said before, I think this could have been done so much better ;_;

I also tried a different way of drawing clouds. More blocky and precise, less "chalky" blobs. I think I like the clouds the best in this actually but again, so many things I can see wrong with them  xD

The main idea behind this painting was to include the five elements from Chinese culture. So there's fire, earth, water, metal and wood that is supposed to be in this, all working together, making up the universe. I know it's just too deep for this drawing, but I needed something to draw all this together.  The only flaw is I made the fire miniscule. They're supposed to be in those illuminated hanging globes but obviously they just look like hanging light bulbs in most views except +10000% zoomed in :whistle: Oh well.

Colouring this was another thing which took AGES to do. I guess mainly because it started off as monochrome but damn I even had to adjust the levels and contrast a lot which I really shouldn't have had to do XD Guess you live and learn from experience lol.

And now this is finally finished (I've been working on this in between bouts of playing Theme Hospital - sad i know but SO ADDICTIVE), I can finally work on this cool other project I really want to blog about in my next post. It's something I've had in the works for a while but I've been experimenting with it a lot as well and yes it has something to do with that vector I keep going on about. It's really simple actually and it's hardly got any paths at all. But I think it has potential :)

I also recently just got reminded about this cookbook I made last year for some reason:

Cookbook

And it's reignited my need to design pretty book layouts. So I've decided I'm going to start designing some crazy recipes when I get even more time..just coz! So yeah. I'm pretty excited about it, I have a lot of ideas. ;)

This is what happens when...

...you draw from a wildly absurd imagination wanting to do 10000 different things at once:

[singlepic id=1216 float=none]

I had high hopes for this drawing. But I think this could have gone a LOT better. This was really another experimental piece though, because I wanted to try a few things out and I needed a dummy test.

One of the things I did differently was draw all this entirely in grayscale first, then coloured it later with layers in Photoshop. I'm not sure I am entirely happy with this process, though it was really good for when I couldn't get the right colour combos right. It was an interesting experience, which I may try again in future when I get stuck. And I did get stuck a LOT in this piece. Mainly because I was using a vector of a robot which some of you might remember from my 'Lonely Cloud' layout I did ages ago. Well I really wanted to do a revamp of him because he's just so cute and all....but combining him with a TREE and painted CLOUDS? Painful.

Let it be known right now I really dislike drawing trees ;_; So many strokes. So little time. So I first started off with a blocky shape. Then I somehow had this idea that using a brush I made in PS might fix it because it looked like a pile of macerated chicken meat at this point. Yeah not good. So I was using a sub par tree half way through this and scrapped it soon after I realised it just looked like absolute junk. And I redrew the leaves for the millionth time to match the clouds. And added some line work later because it just looked like it needed it. All in all, I think I'm pretty happy with how the tree turned out but as I said before, I think this could have been done so much better ;_;

I also tried a different way of drawing clouds. More blocky and precise, less "chalky" blobs. I think I like the clouds the best in this actually but again, so many things I can see wrong with them  xD

The main idea behind this painting was to include the five elements from Chinese culture. So there's fire, earth, water, metal and wood that is supposed to be in this, all working together, making up the universe. I know it's just too deep for this drawing, but I needed something to draw all this together.  The only flaw is I made the fire miniscule. They're supposed to be in those illuminated hanging globes but obviously they just look like hanging light bulbs in most views except +10000% zoomed in :whistle: Oh well.

Colouring this was another thing which took AGES to do. I guess mainly because it started off as monochrome but damn I even had to adjust the levels and contrast a lot which I really shouldn't have had to do XD Guess you live and learn from experience lol.

And now this is finally finished (I've been working on this in between bouts of playing Theme Hospital - sad i know but SO ADDICTIVE), I can finally work on this cool other project I really want to blog about in my next post. It's something I've had in the works for a while but I've been experimenting with it a lot as well and yes it has something to do with that vector I keep going on about. It's really simple actually and it's hardly got any paths at all. But I think it has potential :)

I also recently just got reminded about this cookbook I made last year for some reason:

Cookbook

And it's reignited my need to design pretty book layouts. So I've decided I'm going to start designing some crazy recipes when I get even more time..just coz! So yeah. I'm pretty excited about it, I have a lot of ideas. ;)