Lil' Skulls

Father's Day Card

A quick and silly sketch I made for my Father's Day card - "The Veatles" (essentially Vulcan Beatles if you can't tell)...

Updated work - Geisha & Skulls

Today I entered in these 2 updated versions of my work in the OC Fair Competition (Computer Image section)... I don't expect much but it feels nice to enter work in and participate. As far as the pieces go, I'm a lot more satisfied with the little cartooney lanterns and skulls than with the previous ones (I've been meaning to change them for some time now - I like the mix between cartoon and painterly). If anyone's watching, sorry it's been awhile... this part of the year is always busy for me with all the birthdays and holidays.
More to come!

Sketches from the Tuesday Train

Star Trek Sketches

So... I have already seen the new Star Trek movie twice and am more than half-way through watching all the previous Star Trek movies (from which we will move on to the original series).
I'm definitely considering making a "Spockette" costume for Comic-Con (especially since I can't seem to think of anything else than Trekki-ness) - and I absolutely cannot wait to start on my vulcan pinup series. Here are some doodles:

Color note to self

...Playing with the color brush in Photoshop.
Definitely a better way to preserve graphite values when coloring them.

Loranthal Scionas

Latest D & D sketch of Captain Scionas:
Did a pencil sketch, scanned it in, colored in Painter, and fiddled in Photoshop.

I know it's always a risk playing around with Photoshop filters (most of the time they look cheesy)... but somehow I prefer this poster-edged version over the others.

Card for G-Ma B-Day

The final decision was to color it in Painter, print on porous paper, and go over it with colored pencil. The texture of the paper I used makes the prismacolor pencils feel creamy :)