PURE PAIN

WELL HOWDY KIDS. It's Furry Jacob Bannon Deathcore messy art time!

Finally something I'd call official art for Dawn Brings Revenge. Spent a few hours on this this morning and I figured I'd post a quick WIP of it.

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This is actually a bunch of different things crammed into one, I deleted the sketch layer of course so that's not there, this has the background I loosely threw in so I could tell what was going on and some other basic things. I think at one point the skull was a separate layer from the flesh/fur but I merged it to simplify (this thing had a TON of layers). Don't mind the white splatter, that came in later as I was doing some editing and uh, yeah.

02

This is just the teeth and some more detail added, or something I dunno, none of this until later in the WIP is exactly in order, that's what I get for making the WIP AFTER I do the piece and not DURING.

03

Adding the fur and probably other stuff I dunno.

04

Here I added a layer with a low opacity over the background I made in Art Rage just to add a little bit of brush stroke and feel to it, then added the dark stuff around the edges just throw in some depth and keep the background from getting too bright.

05

WHAT I DO BEST. MESSES. I don't even know, I think there's about 10+ layers of splatter brushes in this.

06

Added some coffee ring stains just to bring focus to the dead/dying/idk wolfdude.

07

Cool little thing I picked up from J Bannon, drew a shoddy little sketch of a screw made to look as if a picture of one with a TON of contrast or something, and transformed it (ctrl+alt+shift+t) at 6 degrees uhhh, I think about 52 times or something like that, you can count all of those if you want, I don't feel like it. Afterwards there were 50+ layers of screws so I merged them all down into one layer. I threw a splatter eraser over them to add some texture to it then reduced the opacity a tiny bit.

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Lastly, what I always do, threw a layer of grunge texture over everything just to add some character. :)

FUN STUFF EH?

I destroy furry art haha, this is a mess.

PAINTY EDGE WIP

I've finally gotten around to trying my hand at a painterly style again, this time with better results than the first time I tried. This little doodle was mostly Sai and PS CS4 but I just got Art Rage so once I start getting commissions for them I'll maybe give Art Rage a shot. I just wanted to post a WIP of some sort since it's been a while. I completely forgot I did this in only 3 layers, though I deleted the initial sketch layer because I'm so cool like that. :V

INKS

COLOR/PAINTING/IDK WHAT TO CALL THIS

FINAL/BACKGROUND

Sooooo there you have it, it looks pretty simple with only 3 layers but I think I spent hmmmm, probably 4 hours on this or something. Getting digital painting down is definitely not easy but the outcome is worth the work.

Ion Dissonance WIP

The blogger always uploads pictures in an order that confuses me and I'm too lazy to fix it so just deal with it I guess. One of my favorite things I've drawn EVER, I actually showed a lot of improvement in anatomy and shading in this so I'm hella proud of it. Anyways the breakdown.

Check it, inks+lines. Right after this it's pretty obvious I just threw a watercolor brush in then set a splatter brush on the eraser and boosh, fancy background things. WHATEVS.

I thought it'd be pretty cool to show just the shading layer for some reason. I did this for the most part in Paint Tool Sai (like everything else) so the shading is done with the marker and pen tools.

Lines... Yup. They sure are.

The initial sketch from my sketchbook. I added some more pencil work to it later in regular .3 lead but I was too lazy to scan again. The scanner ATE this anyways.

Final piece. Most of this as I said is Sai, all I used photoshop for was the splattery brush crap in the back and adding the border/text/and my fancy new watermark.

That's all for today kiddos. Just posting to stem any fears that I might be dead. Or disappoint those hoping for it. :D

A Knight In Shining Amore WIP

My boyfriend has almost always been the only thing on my mind but more so now than ever before. He's really the only thing I can think about lately. So here we have more Storm+Edge art with a Conditions title.

LINES.

COLORS.

For this I tried experimenting with a painting style similar to Taoren's paint-on-the-same-layer-as-your-lines style though I didn't realize until I was done I made the lines too thin and it really didn't work. Fortunately I knew I'd probably mess it up so I made a second line layer on top of the first before I started painting. Good thing I did. When I switched the topmost line layer off I had brushed most of the facial details away haha. This is only 600x1005 px so I guess I can't be surprised everything kind of blended together at such a small size but whatever. I covered my tracks that time.

BACKGROUND.

I dunno why I've been using teal so much lately, it's just a nice tranquil color. It's probably my favorite color right now.

TEXTURE AND LIGHT.

Once again I've used the whispy light and such in this. I'm not really sure. The first time I did it in the original Illuminati I was just doing it because it looked cool, now I think I'm doing it to symbolize our hearts/spirits/etc, not really sure but whatever I do it for it looks cool.

TEXT

I decided to make matching badges out of this for us to wear to whatever our first con together is. Obviously as is it's just one badge but it'll be cut in half once I print it and then you put them together to make the complete picture. Cute I guess or whatever. For those of you wondering the font I used is Aristotle Punk, you can get it for free from dafont.com.

For my boyfriend, as is everything I do.

Goodbye Good Name

Just some more conditions/depression inspired art. Boy I just am not the happy camper lately am I?

Illuminati

So yeah. I guess this one is kinda a bit of vent art. I was supposed to move in with my boyfriend next week but due to our roommate being irresponsible or something... I don't even really know yet, he doesn't have his part of the rent and my boyfriend's mom doesn't want to wait for him to get his act together so I really don't know when I'll see my boyfriend again. Ugh. Just a little post-apocalyptic depression vent art here.

LINES.

Nothing special. THE HANDS. DAMN THE HANDS. I Just kinda finally settled on them being like that after 30 minutes of trying to make them look right.

LINES AND BACKGROUND.

I actually did the background first and put the lines over them but I figured it'd be better to show the lines on their own first.

COLORS.

LIGHT.

The shiny balls of light and all that are actually on 3 separate layers but why not just add them all at once here. It saves some of my space on here for more pictures. :B

TEXTURE.

BIG SURPRISE, I USED TEXTURE.

What's new haha.

So yeah. There you have it. The piece is named after the song of the same title by Conditions. Go to their myspace and check it out, they're an awesome band.

Some dreams just take longer to come true.

ICON TUTORIAL... THING

I figured I'd just show you a quick progression of an icon commission so you can see how I make them. Just so you know I do all my stuff (or at least this icon, just to cover my tracks if my line art in Photoshop stops sucking and I go back to that later after I post this) in Paint Tool Sai.

STEP ONE: SKETCH.

I actually don't have a picture of this since after I draw the inks/line art, I delete the sketch layer but basically just imagine a crappy version of the ink layer in a lighter color and that's about it.

STEP TWO: INKS.

Self explanatory, just the clean line art drawn over the sketch.

STEP THREE: COLORS.

I'M PRETTY SURE YOU DON'T NEED AN EXPLANATION FOR THIS ONE.

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STEP FOUR: BACKGROUND.

Typically I use a flat single color for my backgrounds but once in a while I'll switch it up and add other colors or shades just to make it a bit less boring

STEP FIVE: TEXTURE.

Since I started adding texture to my stuff I just can't work without it now, when I add texture then make the layer with it hidden the work just looks so bland. Then again I usually only add texture (at least at a high opacity) to stuff I don't do a ridiculous amount of shading on. If you haven't noticed yet, up until now I create the new layers for color and background under each other, just to make sure things stay clean. Texture I always make the top-most layer and set the blend mode on multiply. If the image I use for the texture has an area that's too dark and messes with the overall appearance of the work, I set my eraser on a very low opacity, with soft edges and a fairly large size and try to lighten it up without removing too much and making the spot where I erased stand out. Here you can see where I had to erase around the white on the face in a few spots. It was mostly just around the area of the mouth just above the lower jaw but I erased a bit more to spread out and create more of a gradient so it didn't look so obvious I had to erase the texture there.

STEP SIX: GRADIENT... THING.

Just to add a little depth or whatever to my icons... hmm that kinds sounds like bs. JUST TO MAKE IT LOOK COOLER, I darken around the edges of my icons. depending on the icon I either use black or a dark shade of the background color. This is usually with the Air Brush tool, set with a soft edge, low opacity and large size. This icon is 300x300 px and the Air Brush was set to 80 px just to give a general idea of how big a "large size" is

And there you have it, that's how I do my icons and actually how I do a lot of my art. You can pretty much see that in any of my other WIP posts of cheaper commissions or stuff that doesn't have shading/a lot of shading.

NEVER BACK DOWN [WIP]

I've been pretty unmotivated lately but I finally got around to doing a commission I've been owing my bro Jase. I'll just post a few WIP shots of this because I'm lazy as usual. Funny thing about this is while I was drawing some mofo husky repping Throwdown and brass knuckles ready to beat some I was all chill listening to The Starting Line and Saosin.

Just a bit of the colors in this. I like the painterly feel I've gradually been trying to develop in Sai. Still needs some work, but yeah. Just the fur colors under the hair and clothing layers.

The finished product in Paint Tool Sai before I opened it up in Photoshop to add my watermark and throw in the texture and the shading around the edges. I guess I could've done the texture and shading in Sai but ...actually I really don't know why I didn't.

The blood splatters you can find in one of my brush packs. I'm not really sure which packages they're from but they're in there. Also I was too lazy to download and use one of my own textures (for some reason I don't keep them saved on my computer) so I just ripped one from zentextures.com. I usually go with their stuff and if you haven't checked them out even though I've recommended them before you'd best do it. The textures on Zen are ridiculously good.

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2LEGIT2QUIT: Husky Gets What Husky Wants WIP [Adult]

So I finally decided to work with some thin inks for once. I used to be a tragically huge Adam Wan fan (technically I still am, just not to such a tragic degree) and I HATED how he got such clean lines. I still can't do it in photoshop but I finally realized I was good enough in Sai to do a similar inking style. I also wanted to work with a more painterly style like Tao and Hush and I think for my first decent attempt at it, it turned out pretty good. A lot of the lines and shading in this I was just like "UGH, I WANT TO FINISH THIS I'M GONNA BE LAZY AND SLOPPY" but for the most part I tried to put as much effort as possible into it. 2LEGIT2QUIT. Definitely one of my best works so far.

I originally sketched this out on bristol with an H2 and HB pencil since traditionally even if I don't have CTRL+ALT+Z I tend to work better. I actually broke out Gray's Anatomy and some references from the internet of muscle and bone structure to make this as anatomically sound as possible since my usual full body works are TERRIBLE (hence my hesitance to take commissions for them). I also took a picture of myself to reference for Storm's pose since I had no idea how to draw him. I drew myself first then just kinda threw his head right there by the cock and said to myself "Well damn... how do I fit the rest of him in there and make it look right?". His pose was hard as HELL to get right, the legs especially gave me some trouble and I had to work a while to get the twist of his torso to look right but overall I think I managed to pull it off. I'm too lazy to upload any more pictures so I'll just start with the inks I did in Sai over the scan of the initial sketch.

The end result first pictured I'm really pleased with. I really wanted to expand on my inking and coloring styles/technique/skill/etc to try to give my stuff a bit more dimension. I'd like to say the angle of the bed was intentional to create an interesting composition but really it was just me realizing the original sketch put us at a crazy awkward angle that would never look right with the bed under us at 90 degrees. The posters I put up in there are 2 Impending Doom and a War Of Ages poster, all of which I own and have framed (along with 6 others) in my room. The poster for Impending Doom's "The Serpent Servant" I actually own signed but by the time I got to putting the posters in I was wayyyy to sick of working on this to bother forging all the signatures on.

I also realized that tomorrow is Ben (Storm) and I's 3 month anniversary so I ended up having a legit excuse for taking a break from commissions to make this. That wasn't my initial reason for doing it (which essentially was just for the hell of making him look like the bitch for once haha) but oh well.

To The Lions WIP

Bit of a birthday gift thing I did for my broham Lee. I was too lazy to make a full blown WIP of this going through adding the gradient and texture layers so here's a before and after of the original drawing I did in Sai. Normally I draw stuff in some light blue as a sketch then create a new layer and do the final inks in black over it but considering teal was a part of the color scheme anyways I just left it as it was. It didn't come out 100% how I wanted. More like... 60% but I'm still pretty happy with it. It's idiotically hard to imitate a high contrast, over exposed picture of an anthropomorphic cougar, I'm planning on taking commissions for these if people ask for them but I'll probably charge about $40 for them since the original drawing itself is kind of hard to figure out how to do. We'll see...