17 - Fun day Friday

One of my friends reminded me of the past love we all had for Pinky and The Brain and well I needed to play around with Photoshop CS3 because I'm been doing everything with Corel Painter X and I've been told by many to use both programs (Bill and Tony I do listen) to get the effects I want. The lines are a fair bit sketchier than I wanted but it was just a fun coloring exercise and I luckily found a couple of things I really liked about the program. On to the holidays and homework, have a great turkey day everyone!

16 - the first Mac sketch

Time keeps on marching. I'm finally catching up, this here is the first skecth that I seem to be getting a nice likeness of Bernie Mac so it's gonna be the one I use for the final digital painting. Gotta go finish off George and then I'll get started on Bernie. Things are looking up.

15 - George again

Mr. Carlin round five, closer and closer. A little more tweeking and it will be time to move it on into the comp, way behind schedule but I'm still plugging away.

14 - Carlin round 3 n 4

Carlin rounds 3 and 4. Took this into class today, got a good amount of feedback. The bottom one appearantly has people thinking more Bob Hope than Carlin so I am going the wrong way with that one. The top one is a bit more promising so I am going to be working from that one. The mouth and eyes still need a fair bit of work but it's all underway, just gotta keep pushing forward.

13 - quick turn around, more Carlin

More George Carlin sketches from class. Bill still has me working on trying to nail down the likeness becuase as you can see I haven't been able to nail it yet. Repitition, time for more drawings, can't learn without trying.

12 - Sept 29th

It's so unfortunate how easily life seems to get in the way. Well I am still working on the George Carlin caricature, it is slowly getting better. Gathering up reference for the Bernie Mac I am going to do next.
The main drags on my time has been the start of a new semester, the launch of Warhammer, earning my 2nd degree black belt on Sept 17th and prepping for a tournament on Oct 3rd and trying to get ready for my first test on the way to becoming a certified ATA instructor. Busy, busy but no excuses so now it's time to go hit the drawing table and then some stuff scanned it dang it...

11 - Georgee Boy #2

Well overtime at EDS not withstanding I have actually gotten another sketch of Mr. Carlin done. This one doesn't have that little smirk that seemed to come through on the last one but I do like the way the hair layers came out even though it is a scan of a pencil sketch.
I actually had some fun trying to put the lines on the mic , something I had never done before and the effect seems to work. Now I just need to apply what I have found in the sketches toward the final digital painting. Hopefully it will all come together.