Sunday 26 May 2013

Sun

Simple drawing, a flower and a sunrise.

Something I drew somewhere in high school, using only a pen and some imagination. Drawing a sun and the sky has always been challenging to me, especially with a pen, but with some imagination I succeeded in making it look pretty, even if not very authentic.

Random

Was playing with color pencils once. Here's some stuff.
 This is a stork with shoes, because I don't really know how to draw stork feet.
Those were some random objects laying around that I drew - a little turtle clay figure and my eraser. Was slightly amusing to try to draw my eraser while I had to use it.

Digital




My first finished drawing with a tablet. Inspired by a children's book "Le Petit Prince" and drawn in my own (kind of) style, using only one brush in Photoshop with only one setting. It was interesting to test how much I can do with just one tool.





And this one is a drawing of my turtle plushie, and my first attempts to use photoshop and a tablet.
When I do digital art for this kind of style I always use outline everything, and sometimes with a brighter color than the one used on the object itself, which is mostly the case with darker or black objects (like Clappy's tire on the next pic)







A gamer joke, caricature and crude, fast drawing of characters from 2 different games. The first is Claptrap from Borderlands, who considers the player as his minion and often screams at him in the very annoying voice he is known for. And the other is a purple caster minion from League of Legends. I saw something similar on a blog, and decided to draw it myself with my own kind of style for my girlfriend.



Banners


I took the initiative to make banners for the websites of a few World of Warcraft guilds I've been in. Simple Photoshop work but it took a lot of time especially for the first one, as I always prefer to manually crop out a logo or call to arms banner etc out of a jpg file. And especially for the first I worked with another person from the guild that was making the decision on how the banner should look like, so it took hours to adjust the font, font color, background, brightness, saturation of the full banner and the levels until we were both satisfied with the result.


 This is the final result for the above mentioned process.

And the extended version used for the guildsite.





And the same thing for the other guild. The person choosing the style was the same, therefore I didnt need to do a lot more in the second one as I already knew what she wanted.

*Note: The background appears a lot brighter than it does on the taken out of context pictures here.





And this one is more of a joke (obviously) for the name of the previous guild before it was changed to a serious guild called Awakening.

Other than the banners I mostly help the guildsites with suggestions and feedback.

T-shirt stamp designs

I've made drawings (or photoshopped designs) for T-shirt stamps for some friends. I am really happy with how the shirts turned out so I will definitely do some more in the future.

The Baron Nashor mage one that I really like from one of my contests. He looks quite nice on a shirt. Just missing a wizard hat.


A messy crayon drawing of a camera hanging on the shirt-wearer's neck.


I didn't draw the picture itself, but I drew on top of it to fix some quality issues with the colors and the outline. Again a video game character, who is actually mute and communicates using only her music instrument, therefore the quote and joke.



Another inside joke, this one a bit rude, about paladins in World of Warcraft. The stamp is for a black shirt and is meant as a joke gift to a friend who plays the said class.

And I have a few more ideas that are still a work in progress.