Monthly Stylized Challenge

Which means I can do this. 

I like to use Illustrator to colour as much of my work as possible and the fact that I was struggling to turn my line work into vectors suggested that once again I would go without submitting an image for the monthly challenge.

However, I just made the deadline and in the process learnt that I can happily take a picture of my line work -if I have to- and still be able to vectorise the image and colour within Illustrator...

...So here is Tiq Taq. A sort of 'Steampunk' styled robot, who over the century has undergone various upgrades -- resulting in a  droid of rather discombobulated parts.

...the main reason why I wasn't going to bother was because I don't yet have a scanner. So scanning in a clean and clear image was going to be tricky. However thanks to my girlfriend who insisted I use her digital camera to 'capture' this image (black ink on tracing paper) I was able to at least take a picture of this Robot. After opening it with Photoshop I was then able to clean up the image -- which really meant removing any 'greys'. Once saved I imported this to Illustrator as a tiff file, and using the Trace' option, I was finally able to vectorise the linework...

Pheeeuw!

This is my first drawing since moving to Australia. It's my initial sketch for last months challenge set at: conceptart.org which is ROBOTS. As my usual 'set-up' was not yet up and running I wasn't entirely sure I'd bother submitting anything this month....

Stylized monthly challenge - CENTAUR.

Had fun with this one. At first I was going to do a robot Centaur but that just seemed to lack any overall enjoyment at the rendering stage. I eventually decided on the idea of a little girl; 'Jabbie', having a jolly good time on her own at some kind of abandoned 'Merry-go-round' where the ride was made up of these Centaurs instead of the customary horses. Here she has befriended a Centaur called: Winston.

Lilley And The Cyclops

For this particular cartoon I used illustrator

to add the colour and then imported the

image into photoshop and layered it with

extra  detail. The soft shading and highlights

were easier in photoshop on this occaision.

Usually I'd stick to Illustrator.

Tiffin Crew Poster

I had some spare time so I made this poster for a film that some friends and I made one weekend.

I changed my method for this one. I scanned a pencil sketch and just coloured in Photoshop.

On reflection it probably took me longer than if I'd vectorized the image and coloured it in Illustrator.

Still it's always fun doing cartoons of your friends.

Wood Wicket... Or Troll.

Another stylized entry

for the monthly challenge.

Doodles of Firefly Characters

Images from: Rufus Hebrides Across the Rings of Neptune