Now that I’m in between commissions, H.E. has been hounding me to make new artwork, so I spent last weekend working on a rather large Photoshop file and have been adding to it every now and then when I can catch a moment. Because the file is bigger than my computer can handle, the work has been slow, and I still plan on adding more layers and details to the picture. The images below show what I saved each night:…
I love everyone’s suggestions so far, and I’m actually going to try all of them at one point or another. For now, though, I’ve been basking in that wonderful feeling I can only describe as Yay! Please note the following image: I recently entered this image in a contest with the theme Heat, and I actually placed second after judging—woohoo! I’m feeling warm all over. Share this post:
So I had some Chinese take-out food for dinner, and I felt fat and happy with my belly filled. When I opened my fortune cookie, I felt even more content, for my fortune told me, “You will always be successful in your professional career,” and there I was, feeling really good about my art and myself and thinking, I should really iron the little folds out of this fortune paper and keep it someplace safe. So I pulled at the…
Since this time last year, my situation has improved somewhat from the near hand-to-mouth, disaster-every-month existence I used to live, and with that in mind, I’m so very thankful. Thanks go especially to those who have in some way monetarily funded my unfortunate art and web habits this year—people like Broch, for being the absolute best patron of the arts and for providing the inspiration that spawned Whimsytoons; Mark, for the challenging commission that inspired me to write this tutorial…
It feels so wrong to be getting out the Christmas card list when Thanksgiving hasn’t even rolled around yet, but already the temporary pumpkin patches have turned into temporary Christmas tree lots, all decorated in red and green and of all things advertising custom flocking. (It’s too flocking soon!) Anyway, I already hear the carols and the sleigh bells, which seem odd enough in a snowless region, and I find myself cutting out snowflakes from spare printer paper. It doesn’t…