Sunday, April 12, 2009

Photoshop brushes

I was just playing around with some new photoshop brushes from Brusheezy web site.
they are a heap of different brushes. I tried the angry painter 2 and came up with this back ground for this angry old woman cartoon.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Cracked Jack book cover Dummy







this is a dummy book cover for Cracked Jack and the Nautical Nightmare Race.

take a look at the full image with title lettering here. Cracked Jack Book Cover

Thursday, April 9, 2009

watercolor playtime





I am trying out the watercolors again it has been a while. I have been wanting to experiment with them and see what I can come up with. I sketched the boy using a waterproof brush pen and then just hit it with the watercolor paint


I need to use better paper for a start this was just a rough go at it so I just used a piece of regular copy paper. I now know that heavier paper bleeds better and I would have gotten a more interesting result. but this is step one and it was fun to use a real brush and push the wet paint on the page instead of painting digital.


will try some more again soon

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Bob Trimbole

Here is a painted sketch of Bob Trimbole played by Roy Billing in the latest Underbelly TV mini series

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Thursday, March 26, 2009

sketches

Here are some more practise sketches using a brush pen then digitally colored

Monday, March 9, 2009

Faces Sketches

here are a few sketches of faces just playing around with shapes and colour as well as brush pen markers versus regular markers.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Friday, March 6, 2009

Biro pen sketches

these are some sketches or doodles with a blue pen just for fun. It was interesting to realize that using a pen, that I was more conscious of the lines before I put them down as I couldn't rub them out. But it was fun as I just treated them as doodles and wasn't fussy as to what I drew. It is interesting to see what appears on the page when there is no real intent or preconceived objectives.