Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Nudey Cuteys WIP
Pencil sketch of a pinup girl I've been working on. Needs some more cleaning up and probably gonna color her in Photoshop. Thought I'd post progress pics anyway :D
Saturday, August 20, 2011
New Banner Yay!!
Finally got around to designing a custom banner for my blog. For those wondering where/what it is...look up at the header/ title bar.
My previous template was not my own creation and, while aesthetically pleasing, caused a lot of functionality problems. I had to tweak a lot of html to make the facebook/ email buttons compatible. Various labels were in Spanish and I had a heckuva time trying to find and replace them. Oh... the trials and tribulations of playing with someone else's toys.
So I finally got kicked hard enough to generate motion when a friend pointed out that the embedded comment form wasn't working. Without the patience or coding expertise, I decided the simplest answer was the best one. Scrap the whole template. Put some mild changes on a simple template and design a banner. Feels much more personal and no more checking bugs, when I would rather be making arts ^_^
My inspiration was rather simple...it's a noodle (me), pulling out strands of hair that bear a striking resemblance to...noodles of course. To my dear Steam friends who have no idea what I look like, yes I am Asian....and no, I will not post pics to prove it :P
The font is Piron V.2, a lovely design by the folks at Typedepot. It's free for both personal and commercial use. If you'd like to get your hands on it, look no further. Piron, along with some other sexy fonts can be found here http://www.typedepot.com/piron
[While Piron is free, not all of their fonts have the same license. Double check before using.]
My previous template was not my own creation and, while aesthetically pleasing, caused a lot of functionality problems. I had to tweak a lot of html to make the facebook/ email buttons compatible. Various labels were in Spanish and I had a heckuva time trying to find and replace them. Oh... the trials and tribulations of playing with someone else's toys.
So I finally got kicked hard enough to generate motion when a friend pointed out that the embedded comment form wasn't working. Without the patience or coding expertise, I decided the simplest answer was the best one. Scrap the whole template. Put some mild changes on a simple template and design a banner. Feels much more personal and no more checking bugs, when I would rather be making arts ^_^
My inspiration was rather simple...it's a noodle (me), pulling out strands of hair that bear a striking resemblance to...noodles of course. To my dear Steam friends who have no idea what I look like, yes I am Asian....and no, I will not post pics to prove it :P
The font is Piron V.2, a lovely design by the folks at Typedepot. It's free for both personal and commercial use. If you'd like to get your hands on it, look no further. Piron, along with some other sexy fonts can be found here http://www.typedepot.com/piron
[While Piron is free, not all of their fonts have the same license. Double check before using.]
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Can We Fix It With Duct Tape?
Yes, I know it's been awhile since I posted. I am still alive...and drawing *gasp* As part of my return to blogging, I wanted to post a piece to Society 6, a kind of Etsy for 2D artists. A friend introduced me to it recently and I fell in love. In case you're unfamiliar, here's the link. http://society6.com/
Lot of great work there.
Since I hoped to print at the largest size Society 6 allows, I set my dimensions accordingly in Photoshop. However, this was the first time I worked that large digitally. So, I set the size to roughly 28 x 32 and the dpi to 300... If you have no idea what that means, I essentially made my file 3-5 times larger than it needed to be. Oops. It took Photoshop crashing my computer for me to realize that I'd made a big mistake. My image files were around half a gig each!
So after reading up on how to deal with large format in Photoshop, I realized that I could have worked in a lower dpi or dimensions... Well, live and learn. :P In the mean time, it's nice to know I can make prints that cover my entire office wall.
If you're interested in buying prints, t-shirts, etc., here's the society 6 page
http://society6.com/nudel/Can-We-Fix-It-With-Duct-Tape_Print
house sized prints not available :P
My inspiration was a response to how to mend a broken heart... can we fix it with duct tape?
It went through several iterations...cartoony, dark and brooding...I even had an amorphous painterly background at one point. I finally decided on symmetrical patterning with a little decay. Was very fun to make. More to come in the future :D
Lot of great work there.
Since I hoped to print at the largest size Society 6 allows, I set my dimensions accordingly in Photoshop. However, this was the first time I worked that large digitally. So, I set the size to roughly 28 x 32 and the dpi to 300... If you have no idea what that means, I essentially made my file 3-5 times larger than it needed to be. Oops. It took Photoshop crashing my computer for me to realize that I'd made a big mistake. My image files were around half a gig each!
So after reading up on how to deal with large format in Photoshop, I realized that I could have worked in a lower dpi or dimensions... Well, live and learn. :P In the mean time, it's nice to know I can make prints that cover my entire office wall.
If you're interested in buying prints, t-shirts, etc., here's the society 6 page
http://society6.com/nudel/Can-We-Fix-It-With-Duct-Tape_Print
house sized prints not available :P
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It went through several iterations...cartoony, dark and brooding...I even had an amorphous painterly background at one point. I finally decided on symmetrical patterning with a little decay. Was very fun to make. More to come in the future :D
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