I've been doing a bit of doodling. Not quite sure where this came from, but I liked it enough to transfer it into Corel Painter and paint over the original colored pencil drawing. Still needs a bit of a clean-up but I'll do that once I'm done with the queue of Christmas and New Year designs I have to finish up or redo! Cheers.
A few months ago my sister asked me to design a space rocket for the birthday party of a young wannabe-astronaut, an event she was helping out with. So I drew her the above image and apparently it was very well-received by the little spaceboy.
I took another look at it recently and decided to work on it a bit more, so I redid the rocket in 5 different colour combinations before uploading the lot onto just about all the available products at Zazzle. Here they are:
Rocket blue green Rocket blue pink
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Just a quickie as have lots on my plate this week! Here's an updated version of my older "Blue Tulips" coloured pencil drawing that I dragged into Corel and painted over. I then took it over to Photoshop to fiddle with. It's all very experimental and I'm still a beginner who's having fun exploring the options the digital world has to offer. Cheers!
Blue Tulips cards and matching gifts at Floating Lemons @Zazzle.
I was recently very reliably informed that now is a good time to start designing for Halloween. Seriously. So when the time came to look for a good reason to procrastinate (though I don't necessarily need much of a reason at all) from completing items on my to-do list, I decided to explore Corel Painter further and try an illustration on the computer from scratch, i.e. without preparatory paper sketches to scan in ... and this was the result.
I'm not sure of where she came from, this little witch but she does look rather like she's enjoying herself. It's my first ever completely digital illustration and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I may do more soon ... Cheers!
These little digital doodles of mine are nothing particulary special as far as Art (with a capital A) is concerned, I know. They aren't meant to be. They are bits of colourful fun that pop into my mind throughout the day, are quickly sketched down into my book with marker pens, scanned in, and then digitally painted over whenever I have the time to do so.
I like them. They're cheerful and bright ... and perhaps they're trying to tell me that somewhere deep within this rather cynical husk there's still, rather well-hidden perhaps, a sense of uncomplicated joy left.
Above is Colored Pencils and below is a Red Coffee Cupcake. Enjoy.
Another one of my doodles, originally drawn in marker pens in my Moleskine Ideas Book and then digitally painted in Corel Painter 11.
I'm a bit behind with everything -- I've been working on a job, trying to sort out the business side of things, and have just completed a clean-out of my computers by reinstalling the operating systems ... always a stressful procedure although this time it went relatively well and I didn't end up bashing my head against any walls. Still, it takes two days to back everything up, reinstall programmes, then transfer the lot back. But it's all done!
I'm itching to lose myself in a good, long, therapeutic coloured pencil drawing, but I'll have to wait another week as I have a long to-do list that's screaming for attention. Priorities. Cheers.
Pink Owl cards and matching gifts are at: Pink Owl at Floating Lemons @Zazzle.
A quick doodle, drawn in marker pens in my large Moleskine and then painted in Corel Painter 11. Catching up on tons of work so it's doodles for a while before I can get back to a more-time-consuming coloured pencil drawing. Cheers.
Pink & Green Cupcake cards & matching gifts at Floating Lemons @ Zazzle.
By: paula,
on 1/22/2010
This might fit this week's topic. I experimented a few months ago with using different brushes in Painter and came up with the above style, one that is more painterly. I loved it and it felt like "me". The above was done for a client as part of some curriculum. I used Corel Painter 10's (now using 11) digital watercolor brushes. I will set the opacity low so I can see the simulated brush affect. Because the brushes work on an "gel" (transparent) layer only, I will then double up the layer and mess with the second layers opacity to bump up the saturation to my liking. I will also work on top of the piece as well, adding pencil or chalk for details.
Anyway, the results are pleasing to me and it's been a nice change of pace from the pen, ink & wash style I usually use.
I love it too!! I't s great! :o)
Isn't Painter amazing?
I've been wanting to try out Painter for a while. Thanks for the info on techniques you used for your art!