Wicked Smile

      

Oh look! Another post so soon! Well this one was inspired by a drawing i saw in Francisco Herrera's artbook. I wanted to experiment with a different drawing style then added my own flair to it. 

Started off with semi-rough pencils that i scanned in and inked in Illustrator. I also created the flats and colors in Illustrator. I was going to leave the illustration with black outlines but thought the dark color was sucking some of the life out of her so i went for the softer colored outline technique. I used a combination of gradients and solid cuts to shade and highlight respectively. I added the background elements in Photoshop (just for effect) and.... well, there you go. 

I like the way it came out but the more i look at her the more i feel that it can be improved and tweaked. If i don't accept my drawings sometimes, i end up "tweaking" them forever so i'll just let this sleeping dog lie.

The KEGerator!! Dun Dun Duuuuun!

                    

So, i've finally uploaded something here. I fully intend to post more often. I actually have a few things to post. I actually want to post things as they get done but i've been a bit busy at work. That's why you see the three process images above instead of one at a time. This piece is for the 1 Up You Blog that i contribute to. 

I pretty much did some semi-rough pencils then inked using Micron & Itoya pens. The grays were done with Prismacolor Grayscale makers (which i love to death!). I might go back and vector ink the original pencils or just color the inks in photoshop. We'll see how motivated i am.