Soundtracks used: Freedom Fighters and Enterprising Young Men from the 2009 Star Trek movie. Star Trek is the property of Paramount Pictures. Batman and Superman are trademarks of DC Comics. No copyright infringement intended.
Hello! I recently got some new software, and decided to do a simple test of it with a slideshow of some of my past work. This is not all of it, just some of the stuff I thought looked good. Please do not try and steal them. You wouldn't even be getting the entire image (something was cut from each one). Descriptions of each picture is below. Hope you enjoy it.
1: Roman Soldier - Done in colored pencils and lined in pen, drawn 2007. A visual aid I had done for a small Bible study, there wasn't much experimentation to this piece, although I did try to make the arms look as muscular as possible. I think I went overboard.
2: No One Wins - Drawn in pencil, re-done in pen. Drawn 2008. Done out of a time-trusted combination of boredom while waiting for your ride to finish, and the age-old question of who would win should they clash, Superman or Batman? The conclusion I drew, no one would win. An experiment in poses.
3: The Mountain - Done in pencil, drawn 2008. Don't remember what inspired this picture, but I really liked the way it turned out. Experimentation in shading and clothing texture. Light Rays added with Vegas Movie Studio.
4: The Phantom of the Birthday - Done using a Carvel Ice Cream Cake, food coloring and colored fondant. Made in 2010. A cake design I had done for my sister (the NinjaPsychic Wonderloo from Cinema Semantics), I colored a plain ice cream cake and topped it with a mask and rose I made by hand, inspired by the Phantom of the Opera musical (my sister's favorite musical). First time I had done a fondant flower. Only image in the slideshow that is not just a paper or digital picture, and the only one that is edible. Cloud Texture added with Vegas Movie Studio.
5: For a Friend - Done with colored pencils. Drawn 2005. A request from a friend in the church I was attending at the time, it was done as a logo for a ministry he was trying to start. He gave me an idea what he wanted, this is what came out. I was able to keep the original. An experiment in shading.
6: The Potted Tree - Done in pencil, drawn 2006. Done while waiting to see my grandfather in a home. There was a potted plant in the lounge I was sitting in, so I sketched it. Added a more open background as I had a little extra time and didn't want to just shade a boring wall. Experiment in still life.
7: Panda's Lunch - Done in oil paint, painted 2004. The earliest piece in this slideshow, my mother had received a gift from a friend in a bamboo tray. She didn't know what to do with the tray, so she gave it to me. After taking up space for nearly a year, I figured I'd do something with my oil paints I had received that Christmas. And since when I hear bamboo, I think panda (and vice-versa), what to actually paint wasn't very hard to determine, Experiment in painting, textured fur and mixing colors. Film Grain added using Vegas Movie Studio.
8: Tooned - done using Corel, drawn 2010. This was basically just to get an idea of what I would look like as an anime/cartoon character. I used a 12-year-old version of Corel and traced a recent photo of myself, free-handing the face to simplify and add that toony look (big eyes, simplified chin, etc.). The only image in this slideshow also seen in one of my previous videoes (my audition for samikit'sThe Conflict). Experiment in tracing and digital coloring.
9: Book Covers - Combination of cutting and pasting, photoshopping and digital painting, done 2008-2009. Did these to get a rough idea of whatI would want the covers for the fantasy trilogy I am currently writing to look like. First two (the sword and pendant, landscape) are obviously cut-and-paste, the last one was a digital painting done using my (at the time) new tablet. Experiment in photoshopping and tablet use.
10: Lion's Eye - Digital Painting, drawn 2010. Was going to be part of a larger piece, but I ran out of disk space (I made the image waaay too big to work in as much detail as possible) and was only able to save this piece of it. Partially done as a challenge to myself as my undo tool had stopped working (I was still using the 12-year-old program until recently). Done as an experiment in texture and shading.
11: Winter White - Digital Painting, drawn late 2010. Originally done for a contest I had seen on the web, but I missed the deadline for it. I was having so much fun doing it however, that I finished it anyway. Done as an experiment in fur texture, lighting, layering and form.
