My character Alice, a rabbit girl who works at a Maid Cafe. She's part of a story me and Ryan are working on. One of many.
A more somber drawing of my super hero (wannabe) 'Spork Bunny' after what looks like a tiresome battle.
More to come!
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Brown Paper Drawings
I've been drawing in this wonderfully cheap brown paper sketchbook I got from Mainart back in Richmond, and I'm having a lot of fun with it!
My character Alice, a rabbit girl who works at a Maid Cafe. She's part of a story me and Ryan are working on. One of many.
A more somber drawing of my super hero (wannabe) 'Spork Bunny' after what looks like a tiresome battle.
More to come!
My character Alice, a rabbit girl who works at a Maid Cafe. She's part of a story me and Ryan are working on. One of many.
A more somber drawing of my super hero (wannabe) 'Spork Bunny' after what looks like a tiresome battle.
More to come!
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Stealthy Alencia
A digital exercise of Alencia. Trying to sketch loose and use flat colors. Done as a break from working on comics.
Art Trades
Tonight I was feeling down so I did some art trades with my very good friends Sier and Reach.
I did a derpy trade with Sier. She gave me the prompt 'Ponies' and I drew her as a My Little Pony at a pony burlesque show (it makes sense because she does Burlesque photography.) And her cutie mark is a sheet of animation paper.
Reach gave me the prompt 'Transhumanism' and this fellow is what I drew. I want to do a poster sized version of this image, but darker and with neon green lighting. I also want to do a short comic about him too :/ I always do this to myself...
We've decided to do these trades on a weekly basis to challenge each other and keep from getting rusty. I'm really excited to see what we come up with in the coming weeks!
I did a derpy trade with Sier. She gave me the prompt 'Ponies' and I drew her as a My Little Pony at a pony burlesque show (it makes sense because she does Burlesque photography.) And her cutie mark is a sheet of animation paper.
Reach gave me the prompt 'Transhumanism' and this fellow is what I drew. I want to do a poster sized version of this image, but darker and with neon green lighting. I also want to do a short comic about him too :/ I always do this to myself...
We've decided to do these trades on a weekly basis to challenge each other and keep from getting rusty. I'm really excited to see what we come up with in the coming weeks!
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Winged Creatures
Here are some more small commissions I've been working on! These are examples of the $5 Bust Commissions I have running right now. These are a limited time offer. As soon as the next five slots are filled I won't be doing them for this price again, so grab them up while you can!
Bust Commission 1 of 3 by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART
Bust Commission 2 of 3 by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART
Bust Commission 3 of 3 by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART
Each was done with pencil, copic multiliners and copic markers on 400 series Bristol Board. These three characters are (C) to Erin Pickett.
Bust Commission 1 of 3 by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART
Bust Commission 2 of 3 by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART
Bust Commission 3 of 3 by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART
Each was done with pencil, copic multiliners and copic markers on 400 series Bristol Board. These three characters are (C) to Erin Pickett.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
A few comissions
So I've been busy lately doing a few of the $5 character commissions I'm currently offereing. Once these last few slots are filled, I'm not doing them for this price again, aka- they are a limited time offer! So get them while you can! Send me an email at 'fran_rowan(at)yahoo(dot)com.
Rain by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART
Cry Baby by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART
These were done on 400 series Bristol Board with Copic Multiliners and Markers.
Rain by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART
Cry Baby by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART
These were done on 400 series Bristol Board with Copic Multiliners and Markers.
Monday, July 4, 2011
Digital Process
Happy 4th of July everyone!
To celebrate I thought I'd share my digital process on my most recent piece, my tribute to Ronnie James Dio.
When I start a digital piece I like to use a pink color (at 50% opacity) to do the under sketch. I'm using CS5.5 and they have a brush option where the brush has a feathered end. I like using this one because it mimics using a brush and I prefer the quality of lines I can create with it.
Next I use a solid black to draw out my line art on another layer.
For this one I figured out the colors as I went but usually I prefer to have at least values and an idea of colors figured out ahead of time. It really does save on headaches. I do the colors on various other layers underneath the line art.
I color the foreground and then do the back ground last.
When I'm done I save a Photoshop file with all the layers, then I smush it together (flatten) and save it as a Tiff, then make smaller jpeg versions with watermarks for putting online. I like to save larger files of everything in case I want to print it or use it for something else later. I learned the hard way not to flatten your only file of a image in case you need to edit them later :/
Well, that's how I work digitally. I hope you all have a great 4th of July! Stay safe and have fun!
To celebrate I thought I'd share my digital process on my most recent piece, my tribute to Ronnie James Dio.
When I start a digital piece I like to use a pink color (at 50% opacity) to do the under sketch. I'm using CS5.5 and they have a brush option where the brush has a feathered end. I like using this one because it mimics using a brush and I prefer the quality of lines I can create with it.
Next I use a solid black to draw out my line art on another layer.
For this one I figured out the colors as I went but usually I prefer to have at least values and an idea of colors figured out ahead of time. It really does save on headaches. I do the colors on various other layers underneath the line art.
I color the foreground and then do the back ground last.
When I'm done I save a Photoshop file with all the layers, then I smush it together (flatten) and save it as a Tiff, then make smaller jpeg versions with watermarks for putting online. I like to save larger files of everything in case I want to print it or use it for something else later. I learned the hard way not to flatten your only file of a image in case you need to edit them later :/
Well, that's how I work digitally. I hope you all have a great 4th of July! Stay safe and have fun!
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Dio Dragon
Dio Dragon Tribute by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART
As many of you probably know (at least the Metal heads will) in May 2010 Ronnie James Dio passed away. My good friend El Goro mentioned his passing on his podcast and said that the only way he can come to terms with his death is to imagine him riding on the back of a dragon on his way to heaven. As soon as he mentioned this I jotted down some thumbnails to turn this into a tribute illustration. A year later I'm going through my sketchbooks and I find the thumbnails. So I sat down all day and worked on it. (While listening to 'The Best of Dio' appropriately enough. Rainbow in the Dark is still one of my favorite songs.)
For the composition I imagined the dragon being long and serpent-like like a Chinese dragon, but a Chinese dragon didn't make sense to me concept-wise. So I decided to design my own dragon for him to ride. He's a guitar playing bat/dragon with lots of arms and horns. I'm quite fond of him now.
I'm very pleased with this. I may tweak it after sitting on it for a while but for now I'm pleased enough to post it. I'm also proud that this is 100% Digital.
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