Friday, January 29, 2010

Life Explodes -- and then you make art.

The bit about posting more regularly?  It seems it is a great big fib but no one told on purpose, I swear!  The mother person has been prodding me with continual and loving reminders and I promise that I have not forgotten!  Life has exploded and I have found myself with less spare time on my hands, though I know that loved ones do greatly appreciate the time that I have turned over to them.  It is all quite worth it as Aunt Lizzy gets to spend extra time with her nieces when not at work for ten hours a day.

There has also been a new fuzzy love in my life which I have enjoyed pampering and snuggling -- Boo the Dutch Rabbit.  It's a zoo but it is a very happy zoo that does manage to all get along!

There has been art.  Which I present to you now!  Done for work, at work, where it was a quiet and child free environment.  So here I present to you sharing puppies, in steps.

Step 1:  Sketch the idea!  I'll admit.  I need to work on multiple concept sketches but I have found that my first one tends to end up being the strongest one in the end.  I like to sketch in ink -- it keeps me from over thinking and over working something that is just a quick concept doodling.
Step 2:  Crack out the pencils and get going on the final piece!
 
 Step 3:  Time to ink!  Bristol paper has such a lovely smooth surface for ink.  With the beauty of photoshop, any inking mistakes I had made vanished like magic!

Step 4:  Fun with photoshop!

4 comments:

  1. This is awesome! The mother person will back off now. And we do all appreciate you helping with the munchkins. They love you so.

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  2. I do love my mother person very much so! <3

    They asked N- who I was at school the other day. Her response? "She's my Liz! I love her." I melted when her teacher told me this. Melted!

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  3. So glad to see you putting stuff up... I hope to have some pictures going up soon enough... one never knows. I do have some inks that could go up, so one never knows.

    Thank you again for showing me this place... I too need to be more active.

    And that is the meltingest thing any little one could say about you.

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  4. Love the way this end product came out. Nice to see the progression as well from the initial sketch to the finish product. I think I like the final pattern you chose for the pup as well compared to your original sketch. Way to much fun!

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