Here we have a young Wicked Witch of the West, bored at school. Inspired by the book, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.
This image here was originally a sketch submitted to the Twitter account @Sketch_Dallies. I have since fleshed out the sketch. Enjoy.
Here’s three images first drawn in pen and ink and then scanned into the computer, and then colour roughed out quickly in Procreate on my iPad. Enjoy.
While this isn’t my first image created almost entirely on the iPad this is my favorite so far.
I wanted to do a series of images for the Image of the month section of my blog for the summer. For a theme, I settled on TV Femme Fatales of the Sixties. The first one in this series is Emma Peel aka Dame Diana Rigg of British TV’s The Avengers. I’m a bit too young to have caught the show during its original run, but I’ve aught the sbow on reruns a few times. And like many a goung man, I was captivated by her strenght and sex appeal.
It’s interesting that in this retro style of drawing, she would up looking quite a bit like Natalie Dormer, which makes sense as she plays the daughter to Diana Rigg’s character in Game of Thrones, so I left it as is.
Starting off as a sketch, I used the iPad’s camera to take a shot of the sketch. This was my scanner replacement. I then opened the image as a background layer in Autodesk’s Sketchbook Ink and used the tools in that program to ink out the black lines. I then exported the image to my photos library at a fairly high resolution.
I then imported the image into Procreate App to quickly throw in some greyscale inl washes and add some extra detail to the image.
The background pattern was a fill pattern from the Sketches program imported as a layer in Procreate.
All in all l the image turned out rather well. And it shows that fairly polished images can be created solely on the iPad.
After originally posting this image to Twitter, someone posted this image as a reply:
It’s the right era, but I have no idea where the image is from. It inspired me to make this drawing:
Enjoy.
Some retro style faces. Drawn in Illustrator, then some extra colour and texture work done in Photoshop.
One femme fatale, one girl next door, and a heavy-brow caveman. Enjoy!
Whew! May was a petty busy month. This image was orginally going to be submitted to the @Sketch_Dailies twitter feed, but I decided against it last minute. It just wasn’t working for me. I let it sit for a while and then re-tackled it. It really didn’t take much re-work at all. Sometimes you just need some time to distance yourself from your work in order to see it for what it really is.
This is a mix of traditional pen and ink drawing with some colour added in both Photoshop and SketchBookPro.
Enjoy.
Whew! It’s been a busy, busy month. Just managed to get one finished for this month.
This one is a cleaned up and coloured image that I drew for one of the @sketch_Dailies drawing challenge. I’ve blogged about them before. The Lady of the Lake from the legend of King Arthur. Most people conjure up images of beautiful, young fair maidens. I decided on a more older, reflective woman. She is supposed to be a Lady of the Lake, not Girl of the Lake.
Drawing in pencil and then inked in markers. The image was scanned in and colour laid out in Photoshop. The bubbles and extra ink spatters were added in Photoshop as well.
Enjoy.
I’ve blogged quite a bit regarding the Ampersand Project, a little side project of the Sketchbook Project. So here is a quick little update of how things went.
The Ampersand Project is now closed, with all results digitized. There is a Flickr stream of the images available. Mine can be found by clicking here. We have also received our painting swap. From someone named Lesley Wilmoth. Too bad that is all the info I have. It is a nice mixed media panting with lots of interesting textures. The colour scheme will fit quite nicely with the decor of my co-artisit’s room and will be hung with pride once I can track down a suitable frame. You can see the image here:
Just in time for the end of the month! It has been quite a hectic month for me, both professionally and personally. Luckily, I had this up my sleeve.
It’s a drawing of my son, Aiden, who turned 1 this month. I drew this out in a Adobe Ideas on my iPhone with just a few finishing touches on my desktop using Adobe Illustrator. I feel this is my best drawing yet using Adobe Ideas. It’s quite a different experience drawing on such a small device. Maybe one day I will be able to justify a tablet and see how much different/better the experience is.
Enjoy.
As I have been doing this past month, here is another wallpaper made with the program Frax. I’ve reviewed it before. You can read about it by clicking here. Each wallpaper will come in a variety of sizes. Hopefully you will find a size close to your monitor settings. At the end of the month, I’ll be putting the whole thing up as a ZIP archive.
And now some legalese regarding the usage. Basically, you may use these in your own work as long as it isn’t sold or distributed as part of a commercial work. Please check out the link if you need a more detailed explanation:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
And now that we have that out of the way, here we go:
The previous wallpapers can be found by clicking here, here, or here.
As I have been doing this past month, here is another wallpaper made with the program Frax. I’ve reviewed it before. You can read about it by clicking here. Each wallpaper will come in a variety of sizes. Hopefully you will find a size close to your monitor settings. At the end of the month, I’ll be putting the whole thing up as a ZIP archive.
And now some legalese regarding the usage. Basically, you may use these in your own work as long as it isn’t sold or distributed as part of a commercial work. Please check out the link if you need a more detailed explanation:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
And now that we have that out of the way, here we go:
The previous wallpapers can be found by clicking here, or here.
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