Halloween Fun

A while ago I designed a new character while watching a Photoshop demonstration by Michael Bear back in July. His subject was a boy and his dog, which quickly turned into a ghost dog. I was very interested in this match between boy and dog and drew up some sketches.

 

Bear is a golden retriever mix with an incredibly long tongue. Barry is the classical blond haired, blue-eyed boy, with a lobe of bow ties.  After designing the two, I drew some activity sketches for them and thought it would be fun to give them some friends. During a head drawing session, I found 2 such people. Seen below, Ryan was the name of one model and I felt the name fit the face very well. His sister is based off another model but with a name change to fit her dress-wearing-tom-boy attitude.

This month I thought it would be fun to dress everyone up. I had originally planned to do 13 images for the 13 days of Halloween, but ran out of time so instead I focused on the individual characters.I painted them with gouche on illustration broad, then put on backgrounds in Photoshop. The logo was designed in Adobe Illustrator.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Count Barry.

She-wolf Delilah.

Mummified Ryan.

Bear is the red dog, 2nd in from the left.

Gouche Test - Barn Owl

This semester I'm taking a Media Experimentation class. So far we have done an photo rendring in oil and a painting in the style of Mark English, but the next assignment is a gouche painting. I've worked with gouche before, but that was very in a very limited setting and without much instruction or understanding of the medium.

Needless to say, I need to practice.

I drew a quick sketch of a barn owl and then layered it with gouche, sticking to a lavender-yellow, warm theme. The paper is just the cut out from a matte board I cut yesterday (black-black core).

Tools: gouche, matte board 5x6in
Time: 35min

The Beginnings of a New Medium

I've only ever played around with watercolor as a child and once in high school more professionally. Finally, this semester, I've been able to take a watercolor class. i am very excited because it is a medium that has always interested me. The painting and reference photo is from an assignment from last weekend, to paint a single object still life. I chose my friend's Scentzy, disassembled it and added a flower and leaf for extra color. My class was very pleased with how it turned it, especially my instructor, so I won't be touching this specific piece, but I plan doing better work than this. I just need more practice.