Meh.

So I've been working on that drawing for about five hours today. As it turns out I've lost my concentration.

Meh. 

Eh. 

Bleck!

I'm calling it quits. I don't want to ruin it. I might look at finishing it when I get my glasses on Saturday. I'm curious about how different my drawings might look to me when I wear them...I'm a wee bit worried. Anyway here is how it looks so far.

The perspective on this photo is a little weird. Have fun with that!

I've never stopped mid drawing before. I feel guilty now. Argh.

Suspicious eyeballs

So I had an eye test yesterday and it turns out I'm actually very short sighted. Whoopie! I had been suspicious of my eyeballs for a while but the change in my vision has been so gradual that I had adapted to it and so I quess it didn't bother me. (Even though I've been creeping closer to my drawings over the years.) I think now my nose hovers quite close to the paper.

Anyway I'm working through my next piece. I wanted to draw a Leptoceratops and a Tyrannosaurus on a bike chase so the rough started with some dodgy looking stick figures as I worked out the posturing. It was looking bad.

Eventually I was able to work it out. Today, however, I have completed the final pencil drawing on A2 and this is how it looks now.

Boosh!

Expect an update tomorrow. Thanks for the support.~Nuggie

Them snazzy doodles

So I spent the last week cleaning up my pieces and adding watermarks on Photoshop and I'm finally up to date again. (Yay!) Now images that looked like this...

 ...look like this...

"Tadaah!"

I've updated my gallery so you can see what my doodles actually look like, free of lens distortion and ambient light discolouration.
Next I'll make a few aesthetic alterations to the blog, add a funky shop page, a commissions and contact page, and create a few banners for them. So, no drawings for another week but once all this is done it's unlikely I'll need to do it again...and I'd like my blog to start looking a little better.

In the mean time I'll post a couple of Photoshop tutorials for anyone who may want to "clean up" any traditional imagery, without effecting the integrity of the original pieces, and assist with the kind of temperamental behaviours I discovered while working with photomerge.

"Quack, Quack, Quack!"

So I finally got round to finishing this piece. It was a foreshortening nightmare and was the first time I attempted to draw pompoms or wool but I'm happy enough with the results. Also I believe I've discovered I really like ducks. (Mostly out of immature amusement as I've always felt that a duck, face on, looks as though someone with a pair of frying pans smashed them together, with the duck's head betwixt them, causing their little eyes to pop out under the pressure) Anyway, as always, feel free to give feedback. It's helpful.

So many duck skulls...

I don't have any plans to draw this week as I have a backlog of drawings that need to be "cleaned" for screen visibility and water marked, as well as make my blog look snazzy. Also, until I make a proper link to my shop, here is a crude tag in the mean time. http://www.redbubble.com/people/nuggie?ref=artist_title_name

Thanks~Nuggie

A small update

So I've spent the last couple of days working on my new piece and it seems it'll be taking a little bit longer than I thought but most of the hard stuff is done.
Also I've also decided to set up a new little work space too.

first is the pencil work

then the ink, presently half done

I recon another morning or afternoon should see it finished.
Anyway, about my new work space-Until this point someone had kindly given me access to a studio space they didn't use but I felt I needed a little spot of my own for those occasions when I wouldn't be able to go there. I've put together a little corner behind a chest of draws. There is a dinky little table, a beanbag for a seat and the easel which is set at table hight (effectively making it floor hight.) So, yeah, it's a little den to hide in. I'm a fully functioning grown up. I love having a den!

Photoshop, Photomerge and Ducks

So this last week I've been altering my pieces on Photoshop, not to fix them or "improve" them but to give the images clarity on a computer screen (as dodgy photos were removing all semblance of detail) and so they can also be applied cleanly on my Redbubble products.

It began with the scans of my A2 drawings on an A4 scanner, which had to be done section by section, and took several attempts in order to get a consistent set of images for each piece. Then I then "patched together" on Photoshop using photomerge. Some of the images merged together almost seamlessly, with minor need for alteration, while others were pretty damn weird so I would have to do something a little like this.

Meh...I'm working on it...

I found that Photoshop seemed to learn from corrections I made, so sometimes I could shorten the process by making a few changes and running photomerge again afterwards. "Skidoosh!"
Suspended like all things was one of the more difficult pictures to merge on Photoshop. After several hours aligning the separate scans, and adjustments of colour and saturation levels, it turned out like this and I think I like it.

Done. Boom!

Anyway, as I have not done another drawing in just over a week, I decided to make a start on my next piece. Here is a little sneaky peek. It's a rough drawing uncompleted and not yet finalised.

Thanks for reading~Nuggie