yiddlenet

I finished a painting!  well, finished as it will be for a while.  nothing is ever truly finished.    The new Cintiq makes things soooo much easier.   I also installed WordPress 2.7 tonight and am debating creating a new theme.

Diana in Snow

just got home from the holidays and started on panel 2. i am discovering that it’s tough to do a squint on a toddler without making him look wrinkled. but i did find a few resources after i closed the file for the night, so i will probably make some tweaks tomorrow. think i need to make the eyes/eyebrows less relaxed. here’s a link to some photos of grown up Hiro.

my friend’s little guy could totally be Hiro Nakamura’s mini-me. today over chat we came up with a fun little comic involving the Hiro mini-me and Thomas the Tank Engine. i’m flipping between Painter X and Photoshop, and this is my first piece on the new Cintiq, which i LOVE. i can’t wait to do more on this, but here’s the WIP so far on panel 1 (there will be 6 in all)

i probably won’t get this in on time because of holiday travel (deadline is Nov 27th midnight GMT), but if i was going to decide to do it i needed to get at least one WIP in today and one tomorrow and final tuesday.  eek.

Theme is “Flight” – ok, here’s my goofy take on this.  concept is little alien kid playing with his toy starship, sort of 1950′s american style clothes and toy.  (i told you it was goofy!)

this the first step in a portrait of d – photo reference from when he was younger.  he looks much more like a teenager than a little boy now and it’s much harder to take his picture nowadays, usually has to involve some sort of bribery

spent about an hour actually starting to paint this tonight in photoshop. need to get some references for anatomy and perspective and lighting before i go much further i think. so far it’s all come out of my head which i’ve learned is not highly accurate.