Saturday, January 28, 2012

Speed Drawing





Tools
Speed drawing with Wacom intuos 4 and PS CS5.1.

First pic: Total time taken: 12 mins
Second Pic: Total time Taken: 30 mins (including 2 crashes & PC restarts and 1 full redraw. Final crash force me to take the pic from the monitor before I press the "reset" button. Original artwork is gone)

About
First pic: Fuck My Life!
Second pic: Carebears "Revenge Bear" to the rescue!!

Year
Jan 2012

eXpressions
Wife's still in office overtime. She's stressed out. The first pic probably explains her stress level that that point of time. The 2nd pic is a gift for her to motivate her using her favorite "Carebear".

Hitting a slump.lately and I'm too lazy to draw on the paper and scan, so I just whacked from the tablet. When I was drawing the "Revenge Bear" pic, My PC crashed during coloring phase. I wasted some time rebooting and redrawing again as I forgot to save my work during coloring. I gave up after the 2nd crash and took a pic from my cellphone while the PC hunged on me. It's not really complete but I don't think I want to continue a speed drawing artwork, the momentum is already gone.

The crash on my PC is resulting from TDR timeout exceeded from PC CS with my Nvidia GPU. I tweaked some regedit settings and hope the problem will go away.


"Carebears" is a trademark of American Greetings Corporation, Inc.. The "Revenge Bear" is a self-created non-profit likeness and parody of the "carebear" and is in no way representing the original "Carebears" franchise.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Happy New Year of the Dragon 2012


Tools
Pencil and inked, scanned at 200DPI , then digitally painted with a Wacom Intuos 4 tablet. Chinese Calligraphy written by my wife!
Software used Photoshop CS 5.1

About
Ushering the Year of the Dragon, 2021, the "Charlie" way. Here, Charlie St. Arthur creates an imagine of a baby oriental dragon using her runic spell.

Year
Jan 2012

eXpressions
I've been hitting sort of a slump lately can haven't been able to produce any artwork to my "standard". As the Chinese new year drews closer, I decided to create a "greeting card" intended for my friends in Facebook and WhatsApp.

I did 3 drafts before finally settling for this version. Using the traditional way of drawn and inking, followed by coloring with the tablet, this is my 2nd practice in colored art. Still pretty rusty but I hoped I'll get the hand of it in future artworks.

It's a 5 to 6 hours effort spanning 4 days, but alas I didn't manage to get it to WhatsApp on time since I just changed my phone and haven't updated my contacts then. In the end this piece reach limited friends and only seen by those who regulate in Facebook