"No Neck" Digital artwork, completed July 25, 2020

"The White Whale" Digital artwork, completed May 4, 2020

Something New for the New Year

Over the Holiday break from my job, I've been working on something new: 

Finally Finished

Well, here it is finally finished (I think). I'm pretty happy with it, though there's always a few things I would do differently next time (if there weren't, I wouldn't be learning). Don't know what I'll do here next, I'm starting my new job next week and I don't know how much free time I'm going to have. I'm just enjoying my last few days of unfettered painting (though I'm looking forward to playing with a Cintiq at my new gig)

Off to a good start?

Well here it is Sunday and I still don't have any new art ideas to put in here. It's proving a lot harder than I thought to complete a new piece of art every week. A wife, two kids and the weekend hustle have beaten me down. I will try again later this week (I honestly did do a little work on the fix to the "Fat Cat"). In the meantime, I think I'll put up the last two pieces of digital paint I did, these are from the last few weeks.
   The first one is just a piece I did trying to push my colors out of my comfort zone. I also wanted to keep it feeling fairly flat by collapsing the foreground, middleground and background and by using conflicting perspectives. Having it break out into the border area helps flatten it as well.
 The second piece is an illustration about the fading of the american dream. I have an idyllic little house on a hill, with a car out front and a perfectly manicured yard. I contrasted the image with the aged and cracked paint and the dirty border (I'd always wanted to try and achieve that "cracked paint" look). Anyway that's all for today. I hope I'll have something completely new for my next entry.

First Post.

Well, this is the first of what I hope will be many weelky or semi-weekly posts. I am currently unemployed (layed off when Sega Studios San Francisco closed) and therefore technically "freelance".  So with all this extra time on my hands, I figured I should put it to good use and start seriously stretching my digital painting muscles.
 My aim with this blog, is to document and share my exploration of the digital paint process and my own observations, frustrations and triumphs with the medium. So here we go.
  This is my most recent effort. The software used is Painter 8 and Photoshop CS4. The one issue and comment I've received on it, is about the large size of the electrical outlet. I have to agree, since the piece is about the sheer feline bulk of this cat and the oversized outlet is creating some confusion about his scale. It's certainly something I can fix though.  I'll post a revised version, when I do it. Well now I'll have to come up with a sketch to share next week. I can feel the pressure already.