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The Time is Now!

You've just made a new friend!

Okay, so here another space themed Illustration i've been working on. I really love the look of space fantasy, sci-fi, the future, etc. I just basically wanted to have some fun and create a cool futuristic-looking space chick. probably form earth or some other far-away planet.--(Hence the blue hair!) The illustration is entirely my own, but the spaceship & background was copy & pasted from other sources. The background was put together from various stock-photos of outer space. The space ship I actually copy & pasted from this Anime poster I saw for a something called "Koshika". I just basically manipulated the color scheme a bit, added some glow effects and BAM! Made it into my own. I really like how this Illustration turned out though. Definitely a fun diversion from working on my graphic novel.

Here is the original drawing. Started off in pencil, then I hand-inked the drawing & scanned it into Illustrator. (Art Tip)--For those who don't know, Adobe Illustrator CS2--(What I use) has a function that will trace/re-trace your drawing using various styles--(Blck & white, Ink drawing, sketch, comics, photo, etc). I tend to like to trace my drawing using the comic option. Illustrator gives me even better, cleaner lines than Photoshop. As you can also see, some of the lines a little broken up, but that can be fixed later on in Illustrator. Also, once i've finished tracing the drawing, I can easily import the picture into Photoshop for coloring.

Sterling Visions

Sterling Visions

Ya' Boy is Back!

It's been a couple of months since I posted some new artwork, but I'm back again. Hope my fellow artists out there are doing well and staying productive.

This just a quick piece I put together. Well, actually I started out by working on the character designs and well, it just kinda turned into this finished piece. This is actually a concept for an animated cartoon that I hope to pitch one day. Truthfully, I think I'm still in Sci-Fi mode after having seen Star Trek for the second time.

Here are two alternate versions of the main Characters. I usually create 2/3 different versions for my characters just to have other options to choose from.

I have a thing for blue-skinned aliens, but thought it would be better to go with the orange-skinned version because it adds a better contrast between the 2 main characters.

"Just a little break from the Norm"....

I saw this photo of model Jessica White and had to do a sketch of her. I really liked how the light was used on the original photo.

Believe it or not, I sketched this picture using a ball point pen. I actually prefer sketching in pen as opposed to pencil sometimes. I guess I'm kinda weird like that.

The other sketches were all done in pen as well--Enjoy!

A fun sketch of a model I came across in one of those FHM magazines