Migrating To Tumblr

With 2014 nearly upon us, I'm making a clean break.  Blogger, it's been real.

Please continue to follow my stuff here!

Homophobic Dwarves

Dildo Dwarves

Angry Beardos

Beardo Beanies

Facing Right

Seattle Weekly studies

Tittyfish

Insertions / Erasures

Why Seattle Men Grow Beards

How I feel TODAY...

How I feel today...

Airplane Pr0n

Nudes From Abstracts Cntd.

As The Driven Snow

Abstract + Angle

What Bots May Come

See also.

Perma Boy

Pub Peeps

Stay Up Late

Study Hard

Real Women + Fake Women

Substrata Preview

Substrata is coming along quite nicely!

Spontaeous Bootay

Bot Demo

Here's a demonstration of variation to be found within a single thrumbnail, created from a square brush and selections in Photoshop.  #147 is broken up internally three different ways, with no drastic departures from the original plan.

Formed From Abstracts

Glued

Inky Scratch

H-ween!

Meeting Tits

...or "I need to look at more boots."

Edge Destruction / Mess Making

Dewlap Neck

pixelate > pointillize, gaussian blur, motion blur

In this Frazetta crop, I tried to come up with a way of synthesizing that grain texture he did.  Kinda didn't get it -- at all -- but using this effect on a layer set to "Exlusion" yieled this.

Meeting Bots

Flesh Collector -- Early Concept

Frazetta Lights

Grumblepus

Gorgons

Frazetta Darks

New Lines

Lena astutely pointed out that I was creating "new lines" or unwanted edges into my stuff, and showed how gradients could fix this.  I have to make sure that sharpness I add into my paintings serves a purpose (changing plane, etc.) and isn't just there for its own sake.  

Pencil Test

Painting under lines hasn't been working out for me -- was always getting away from the spirit of the drawing -- so I decided what I needed was something halfway between lines and shadow data.  By working under/over/within this "pattern mask" (i.e. the darkest darks) and keeping the original drawing nearby for comparison, I came up with this.