New Painting.

Baby Caleb. My baby boy. He's such a happy boy. I plan to do more paintings of my kids. Also some WoW fan art. Because I just love WoW! :)

So I started a new digital painting today after taking a few days off. Well I started it at like midnight. I notice that I work better in the middle of the night. I also installed my new version of Photoshop. I was using CS4 and now I'm using CS5. It has some nice features. I love the whole "painting" mode with the preset brushes that work with my Wacom Cintiq pen. I can't wait to play with those more. Probably not on this one.

No kids.. no noise... just my music and my art. I get the occasional disturbance of baby Caleb, but its ok because I know he's gotta eat!

So what we have so far...

Everything needs a bit more work. The mouth is wrong too. I'll get it though.

Self Portrait Revisited....

Its been almost a year since I did a self portrait. I think it was because I wasn't really pleased with the others.. So I revisited the last one.. and did it in digital as that's my new favorite medium...

Old Version: See Below
Time: 4 hours
Used: Photoshop CS4. Cintiq 12WX

It's awesome I just love it! I just cant wait to paint more after doing this! I am going to

It's a little rough in a few spots, I think I will go back and retouch the area where the hair and the skin meets. Soften those edges. There is a scribbly spot in the hair ends that flip up to fix. Perhaps the tips of the hair could use some help too. That's just my own critic on it!

Hehehe. I'm proud. Yes... I am



So I dug up the old self portrait completed in charcoal. I know its a different medium but I had to compare!

I was just so surprised in the difference, time can make when I put these side by side.


I have to have this for a review in my class next week, so thought I would also post it here!