Catwoman's Cats

the hardest problem about showing behind the scene stuff is you can never predict what the reader wants to learn from my own art process. Actually I do hope to scroll down and read some of my past post explaining some of my other techniques, this blog is like 3 years old of stuff I never update.
Oh well, on this recent piece took me about 3 years conceiving it, inspired by Adam Hughes, Dean Yeagle and Aristocats. It's a bit showing how glamorous Catwoman's life style is and how she loves her cats.

I'm pretty sure I posted this last year, but the original designs of the cats come from here. I love their weight, their movement and their excitement.



this is my third time I've started drawing this scene. Sadly the head is all off so instead of redrawing it a fourth time I went in resized a small sketch and used that as the new head. Now I took like a good 3 weeks thinking it over, I really wasn't sure if it was right idea. As much a painting is really about painting over previous lines I really wanted a nice clean original line work. In a way my own insecurities get the better of me to actually improve myself.

the biggest reason why I pushed this art process was because of support from my friends. I have so much respect and admiration for artists who can do this all easily in one go, so any single little fault I have I will stop and just prevent myself from progressing my art.



At this point it was 3 in the morning, I had to stop and take a break. The texture was originally an idea that I came from coloring a pin up from Justin Coffee. Still all tempt and I had it there so I can go to sleep and think it over.

well this puts an end to a 3 year of insecurities, doubting myself and ideas that were just a small little joke in my head. Here's some nice close ups you can't notice in the resized ones

my markers are dying on me

21 dead markers
or 21 fading markers
or maybe 21 dead and some of them fading because they are pretty inconsistant. I really do feel like the few exception who enjoys working with watercolors markers instead of the heavy alcohol based ones every self respecting artist uses. You know the kind that bleeds through the depths of phone books.


trying to draw batman and superman like the old 1980 and 70s super powers toy line. Love the art on those.

excited over the new Zelda E3 trailer.

one dragon

haven't posted in a while, haven't drawn in a while, oh well enjoy this one.

harley & Ivy Pets

a little bit of a tribute to the most under rated batman characters Bud and Lou

been working on this for a while, I had a lot of difficulty on designing both Harley and Ivy. Bud and Lou were a lot of fun working on them


I had to redraw Harley and rearrange ivy from the piece.


As much as I show each of my step by steps, I actually didn't capture it on this one. I just went straight into the art and didn't stop till I was finished. While working I was thinking of making Bud and Lou not look like the Hyenas from Lion King, and added more yellow and oranges to their fur. And added a bit of Pink on Lou's nose in reference for Chip and Dale.

and also I made this barracuda design for my sister. It was fun to work on this also.

ZOMBIES!!!!

Well I was up late, watching a Fulci City of the Living Dead.... and you know what it SUCKED HARD!!!! The zombies were just big pussy maggot mess who could teleport and squeeze the brains out of your hair. And it's not so much a city, as a crypt that is poorly lit to make out.

So I decided to just doodle my own take on Zombies

Basically my inspiration for Zombies are just from the music video Thriller. I love the green neon light that comes below the sewer as the large fat blue man comes out. Oh that scared me a kiddie, and the man who vomits out black stuff. That's the kind of Zombies I love. That or Return of the Living Dead Zombies are so much fun and I'm impressed how Walking Dead's Zombie make up. But I love color with my zombies, greens, yellows, blue and lots of exposed organs. I really shy away from flesh tones.... that or my favorite zombie of all time..... the Crypt Keeper

textures

kinda busy with other things, sketching up ideas for a dream video game concept. It's not in development, just kicking around ideas
Oh well, I love scanning in my own textures. So I found some paper bags and some cardboard boxes. Scanned them in high resolution, in photoshop I usually tweak up the levels to make sure things pop more and also include color value changes in order for it to change a bit.






I was never crazy about using textures off of the internet. A lot of that is because of resolution problems, but I do enjoy just finding and discovering my own textures and it's something that it's quite simple. It adds that little bit of personal taste that you can't find anywhere else.

later gator

classic children joke that never gets old

Just got a new pen for my tablet, I feel a bit rusty doing this in fact I was dragging my feet throughout the line art part of this.

flat colors to help understand which character stand out. A more maroon/purple backdrop to contrast the green and and blue of the gator's skin.

And here's the texture, basically it's two layers, the same one actually

Simple shading, the idea that there more blocks you can always break apart, so sometimes they can be

the text was added to help me know where to locate it in the composition.

now I just just tweaked the color values on the gator in the back in order to make him pop out more. And some blue was added into the background to make sure his colors contrast from the Baboon who has similar values.

Closer to the end, more lighter colors to help pop out.

Overall it was difficult to start but as I progressed I got into the rhythm of it.