tripsis' Art Blog

Meh I started working on this picture about a week ago, but haven't touched it for a few days now. Not sure if I'll end up finishing it.. I think I made it too cartoony for my liking. Anyway it's very unfinished still. The girl will be holding a trick-or-treat bag and then I was probably going to put a boy next to her in a ghost costume or something.

In other news, I'm wearing a mood ring, how awesome is that?

ARRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :angry: :wall: :evil: :x

So I started a new picture about an hour or two ago. I decided I really wanted to draw something with a lot of stars because star scenes are fun. So I sketched out a person under a sky and spent about an hour drawing in 50 billion stars and blocking in the colours for the whole scene, etc. Of course, since I'm brilliant, I didn't save, and then my computer decided to log me out.

*headdesk*

*facepalm*

*headdesk*

*facepalm*

*headdesk x50*

*facepalm x50*

*rage*

I was JUST ABOUT to save too. Anyway... maybe I'll start working on it again tomorrow. I was pretty excited about the picture. I just don't feel like starting over again right now.

In other news, that picture I mentioned I was working on in my previous entry is finished now. I redid part of it and it's done. But you guys still don't get to see it until November :P *taunts Peter* Here's a teeny tiny sneak peak. This is only a very tiny part of the canvas:

And right now I'm just flipping through my various picture folders and I guess I'll post a few more things:

This is a result of boredom. And it also became my new Tip.it Forum signature haha. Drew this the night before Tip.it made the final move to IPB.

 

This is an unfinished picture of Anubis. It's a few months old now and I just sort of lost interest part way through. I used a reference to help mostly with the anatomy. I wanted it to be awesome :P I don't know if I'll ever finish this.. I need to finish shading Anubis, fix/finish the fire/torches which looks silly, shade the background, add hieroglyphics to the wall... etc.

 

Random star field fun.

 

Shazarabbit told me I should make a blog for my graphics.. so I decided to do it :lol: I'll just occasionally post my new digital paintings or photographs. I don't know if I'll even keep this up, but hey, I'll give it a go.

To start off, I guess I'll share a little bit about the tools I use. For all of my digital paintings I use PhotoShop CS2 and a few months ago I bought my first tablet: a Wacom Intuos 4. The time it takes for me to complete each picture varies greatly. I have spent 5-10 hours on each of my 'best' pictures. I've been drawing my whole life but only started taking it seriously the past year or two.

As for photography, again, I've always loved taking pictures but for most of my life I used a cheaper point and shoot so my pictures were never that great. In November of 2008 I finally got my first DSLR camera, a Canon XSi. With that, I got the kit lens (EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS) and I bought a 100mm f/2.8 macro lens as well. Since then, I have bought a few other goodies (like a flash, filters, etc.). Winter is my favourite time to take pictures because I have an obsession with water drops.

Recent Digital Paintings

This is a digital painting of my Lore-Master on Lord of the Rings Online. Lore-Masters can summon various pets so I included my character's Raven. Very unoriginal background and hopefully I'll get around to replacing it with something better some day... =/

Time spent: ~6 hours.

29 June 2009

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This is actually "version 2" and what you see here is probably ~25% of the original image size. Maybe even a bit less.. Version one was drawn with a mouse and took about 10 hours. When I decided to retouch the image, I redrew the sky, made the sand a bit more detailed, redid the head of the horse as well as the mane and tail and added more detail to the ocean.

Total time spent: ~13-15 hours

28 May 2009 (for version 1. Version 2 was sometime in June or July)

Recent Photography

This macro photograph was actually taken for a contest in the Tip.it Gallery forum. This is probably my favourite photograph of mine like this (water drop) beceause I love the reflection in the drop.

19 June 2009

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Taken in Alaska.

14 June 2009

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Water splashes are equally as fun to photograph as water drops! Though they do get a bit boring after you've taken several hundred... Anyway the colours in this photograph have NOT been manipulated. I had two different bowls of water: one with yellow food colouring and one with red food colouring. The yellow bowl of water was placed on the ground and the bowl of red water was the water I used to fill up a cooking baster. I then held up the cooking baster a few feet in the air, squeezed it and the red water fell into the yellow water, creating this splash. The red water stayed red for the splash, which is why you can see that red drop of water. Pretty cool ;)

31 January 2009

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Not all of these are terribly recent. All of the digital paintings and photos I post from now on will be brand new. If you want to see more of my artwork or photography, you can visit my deviantART gallery. I am currently working on a new digital painting which is almost done but I won't be posting it until November.