Monkey Girl

I was on a bit of a cutesy vibe after my anime picture, so I drew this picture of a little girl and her giant imaginary monkey friend.

I used the scanned pencil lines for this one (no ink). More sub-par colouring. Might come back and fix parts of it later. For now enjoy my dodge-ish clouds and specular effects.

My Attempt at Anime

A friend suggested I do an "anime" picture. Apparently that's what the kiddies are into these days. About 99% of internet art seems to be people attempting to draw manga, so I guess I've joined the masses. - Woot!



This was actually a caricature of someone, but seeing as all anime characters kind of look the same, doing a caricature mainly consists of just making hair roughly look like something like the original person's.

Originally I stuck in my rabbit mascots - but they were so badly drawn, my eyeballs kept bleeding all over my keyboard. So I changed them to cute tigers, cause, y'know, tigers.

At least anime caricatures look cuter than regular caricatures. Gave me some more colour practice too.

Colouring - first non Graphic Design post

I figure may as well put up some non Graphic Design posts on this blog (even though though there's only been about 2 visitors in it's entire history. If you're reading this, you're number 3)

I think it's fair to say that I'm pretty crap when it comes to colour. Therefore, I figure it's the area I should practise more. I coloured this image of Ott and Bird, trying to use a simple 3 colour lighting method.

It looks a bit clip-artish, and I don't really like the shape of the highlights on Bird's head (not to mention the cruddy background grass/flowers) - but I guess for a quick practise it kinda worked.

I should probably try and move away from using too many primary and secondary colours; I think that's what gives it that clip-art feel - especially the background.