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.

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

Happy Easter

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

Bob Trimbole

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

youtube Art song

you can only be inspired after listening to this beautiful song

sketches

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

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.

Some More Sketches

Here are some more sketches using a Blue Biro Pen.

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.