Angry women with knives

Sword-dancer
Medium: Mechanical pencil, Photoshop
Bit of a recurring theme, really. Maybe I should get some professional help or something. In any case, I need lots of practice with digital art and this was the first sketch I had lying around. Comments or criticisms accepted.

Consider It Mashed

Ha HA! Bet you'd all thought I'd dropped off the face of the earth, huh? Well, fair enough, I had. But I'm back, for mashups-related goodness.

Mashups, I'd have to say, are one of the things that I've learned the most from in 23 Things: mostly because it goes directly against my idea that two types of information are difficult if not impossible to shove together properly. I mean, I can barely get two different versions of Outlook Express to talk to each other.

I had planned a simple (de)motivational poster, but then I couldn't find the pic I wanted. So I decided to draw it. And colour it. And make it one of a series....

I'm sure you can all see where this is going, so in the end I just decided to post what I had so far and run with it. It needs a lot more work, and I don't know if the other sketches will ever see the light of day- other scribbles are calling my name...

For any who are interested, the art is based off a pencil sketch, lined then coloured in photoshop. The motivational poster mashup over at Bighugelabs took care of the rest.

And Now For Something Completely Different

Portrait
Medium: Photoshop
I wasn't going to post this one, as I'm not too happy with it: but then that's true of practically everything, so why not? Unusual for a few reasons- it was drawn from a photo reference, whereas I normally just sketch without references, and it was done entirely in Photoshop. That's a little challenging, as I normally rough out a sketch and scan it in first, but I could really get used to the fluidity it give you, too.

Me, Robot

Machinemind
Medium: Mechanical pencil, Artliner, Photoshop
I thought it might be nice to show a more-or-less finished work. I don't often finish my sketches because it takes a little while, but colouring a lined drawing like this is much quicker for me than doing a fully rendered piece. And really, we can't do anything about technology with out least one robot, right?