H814//The Second Coming!

SO YEAH, It's totally not obvious I'm a fan of Mark Riddick.

Anyways yeah, just a shirt design I threw together in photoshop. I've been wanting to do my own clothing company for some time, I'm not sure where to begin or what to do other than make designs until I know what else to do, so here's where I'm starting. The name H814 Clothing (HATE ONE FOUR if you didn't get that adurrrrrr) is basically a mixture of me respecting my roots and pretending I'm a clever badass. 814 is my hometown's area code and I just threw the H on there to be cool. :V

Anyways that crap aside check it. 24 hours from now, I'll have been through all the airport shit and I'll be with my boyfriend! After 5 months of not seeing him you can only imagine how pumped I am to see him. :)

WE'RE MOVING FORWARD

So I've been letting DIDY stagnate a bit, about time I post again. I haven't got much to post that I really feel like posting. I think I'll post a WIP of the above wallpaper soon but yeah. I've been working on my anatomy and hopefully will be buying "Anatomy For The Artist" to help me stop sucking at figures and you know, ANATOMY. I might post the resulting sketches. Anyways yeah. Just an "I'M NOT DEAD GUYS" kinda post.

In other news in a few days (monday the 20th to be exact) I'll be leaving FL for 8 days to see my boyfriend who somehow manages to be the inspiration for a good part of the crap I post on here, or at least my FA.

Awwwww just look at that face.

PILOT SEQUENCE

So I've been inspired mostly due to Attack Attack!, DJ Hydroice and Renard to make some TECHNO. YEAH, TECHNO. Don't be alarmed though! I already made album art even though I have yet to make songs and I made sure there was plenty of deathcore in it. Techno or not it's not my style to have anything else. And yes I know there's already the band "Bodies In The Gears Of The Apparatus" but I just randomly thought of this and it sounded like a badass name for a techno project so whatever.

Towards the end I was like whoa... this doesn't really look like furry techno at all. So I added bloody paw prints on the skull and in the background haha, I really didn't know what to do to add that extra furry element to it. Hopefully this will be a reminder to finish a progect for once though I doubt it. I have no idea what the hell I'm doing with Fruity Loops and Z3ta+...

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.