Dominance War, we begin.

So, I had decided to join Dominancewar, an international digital artists competition where you have to design a character and illustrate it according to a set topic.

Anyway, so I've started thumbnailing (silhouetting) some designs for my character. I have a beginning idea, but I tend to flit around ideas so I won't say it out loud or it might freeze in the air.

Some old mspaint paintings

I was going through my image archives and found these MSpaint images that I did before every getting a scanner, photoshop, or a tablet. I was totally a MSpaint badass. Posted for coolness' sake.

Something new!

I've been getting a few requests from people to paint on their linearts. Just little anime portraits. I took a lot of liberty fudging the lineart and correcting certain areas. I didn't feel too concerned about keeping the virgin lines cause I wasn't getting paid to do so. I'd find it difficult to work around noses/mouths/eyes that I didn't feel comfortable with anyway.

New series of images from LON 06

Hey, so Legends of Norrath set 6 came out last week so I suppose I'm allowed to post my images. My sister seems to think I did better on the last series. I tend to go back and forth, I think I had a bigger range of quality in the images this time, some I like much better than the last set on average and some are just.... approved cause the deadline was nearing. Also, formatting a splurge of new images is a major headache on blogspot. This window I'm typing in is teeny and its a pain tracking the images everywhere.

Small update

Trying to figure out my color profile issues with the air genasi. I seem to have found the reverse problem... but its getting better, or at least it seems to adjust in my favor.

Update on a picture

*sigh* I'm having a bunch of trouble with my color profiles, everything keeps saving out with a bluish tint. Its really getting on my nerves because it also messing up the contrast of my images. Compensating is hard too because its imprecise and doesn't really prevent the contrast evenly. I'm going through my monitor's color profile and photoshop's color settings and setting them to Adobe RGB 1998 but the "monitor color" preview for photoshop is still showing the image with more blue added.

So anyway, I've changed my character a bit and gave him a full pauldron and more armor along the arm. I'm worried about balance but the character is just looking too badass at the moment for me to care that much.

Two new images for January

Alright, I have myself a face study, Tortuga (someone from ventrilo) was doing a face study on ventrilo and I was bored so I stole the photograph that he posted and did my own study. Note to self: Get a solid drawing down when doing portrait studies.
Also, new character!

Made a new air genasi character in D&D and I was having some fun doing an illustration for him. Not completely done but here's what I have for today. I plan on finishing the hand and maybe redoing the gauntlet, the clothes need some polish too. There might be issues with the canvas color, I might do something with it to get his head and hair to pop out a bit. I'm also having problem with color profiles, apparently the color profile that I'm working in Photoshop is NOT the same profile that it uses to save my work, so my images are coming out lighter and with a blue tint to them :/
Bit nervous about the aftermath of a job interview.... was hoping they'd call by today, otherwise it seems like I'm waiting for... a kind of letter, which I hope isn't the sort that I think these letters are for. Didn't really feel I was a very COMPELLING interviewee, hindsight is 20/20 though, so hopefully I wasn't as bad as I thought I was. It did bring up a good point though, not enough thumbnailing on my site and blog, which was... crippling during the interview. So expect to see me uploading them more often along with their finished products. Except for these last couple of images... I kinda... didn't thumbnail... for them.