Happy Father's Day!

I've never worked so quickly yet so intricately in such a short amount of time. Started this piece at 4-5am and worked for 1-2 hours, slept, celebrated father's day with the family, then worked a couple more hours around 8pm. Something like this would usually take me a week to complete. I was surprised that I did it in less than a day, and had the time to give it to my dad. Happy father's day! Wouldn't this make a pretty neat Teefury shirt? With the thunder bolt in the eyes and all? haha

I focused a lot on detail and precision for this piece. I've noticed that a lot of my work has been half-assed in some areas, usually because I rush to see the final product and cut corners... not good, especially since this yields in low quality work. I told myself to slow down and take a breath after each line and make sure I knew what I was going to do before the quill touched the paper.

Also, I went out and bought a couple frames and FINALLY framed my dad's birthday gift. I actually presented this to my dad and said it was his father's day gift, but then reminded him that it was his birthday present and that the frame was the actual gift.


SUMMON THE FLEET!!!

update #13 (Mother's Day)

Some Mother's Day cards! First one was for my mom, and the second was for my grandma.

It's surprising to see how an art piece turns out when you're pressed for time and have little to no idea of what you're going to draw.

update #8 (take flight)

So here's the finished design I've been working on!



I find it hard to call it finished because it doesn't really look finished in my eyes. I can probably push the design some more, for example: adding more detail to the feathers so there's something more than just watercolor/ink washes, or just adding more linework in general. Also, some of the owl poses seem very unnatural, as if the owls posed in that position just for the sake of the design. I'm most likely going to redraw the entire design and make at least a couple of the owls look like they're just randomly flying around and not just posing, maybe even have one owl experiencing some turbulence while flying with the group; something to make the design more realistic. I'm also feeling that the design is lacking epic-ness, for lack of a better term. Also, it would be nice if I actually drew a feather to replace each and every brushstroke I used for the background of the design.

update #6 (warm up)

I wanted to start on some new designs today, but was afraid to jump straight into a design without warming up on my ink and brush skills. My warm up took a little longer than expected and I ended up drawing something neat.




I apologize for the low quality images that I took with my camera. I wish I had a big scanner for larger works like this... but that would cost moolah and space. At least I don't have to worry about jumping into my designs tomorrow.

don't leave me, dear

I made this for my grandma :p

I got really frustrated near the end when I was thickening some lines with a fountain pen. For reasons unknown the pen would barf up huge amounts of ink, leaving an uneven line. It was fun though and I enjoyed getting an art piece done. I feel that my color scheme choices are getting better. I have no idea what to name this piece. I might just go with the title of this post.

teh details. I always like drawing my horns with a wood grain. That's just how I do it.

It looks pretty sweet on a shirt, but I don't want it to seem like I copied Godmachine's shirt: http://emptees.com/tees/11046-architects

Some major alterations will be done if I ever decide to mock this up.