Wednesday, May 6, 2009

You've asked, and I listened. Starting today, the banner won't contain the bare bones covers, but will instead have the typography on them.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

LSOK 52

Look, it's Atomic Skull! And not Ghost Rider!


Commentary here!

Friday, April 24, 2009

I made this using water color and photoshop. I hope my covers will improve over time (i.e. drawing more than just Martian Manhunter's head) Sigh lol. I hope they still liked it. :D
I wonder what I'll do next?

Seminar 25

Hey all! Long time, no see. XD

I been busy.

Anyway, I'm the new Seminar artist: yayyyyy!

So here's mah first cover.
I actually played around with this a bit before sending it out.
So this is what I started with...well, like. I laid down the base of the tea cup, which was easy enough. I just used elliptical marquees and gradients, &ct. Look closely, there's like depth and stuff (no leaves though). XD The background was originally green because I was going to try and do a computer motherboard for the background. I came to my senses eventually, though I don't doubt that would have been freakin' awesome.
Then came the wave of tea. I was actually pretty proud of my wave. It made me sad I intended to have Mal popping out at the viewer...which would essentially cover it up. I tried to figure out just how much would get covered up with the following:I was like...eh. I like the pose. Let's see if it works. So I then had to squiggle in some white so I could lay down ...some form of line work.Oh, I forgot to mention the dingy little surfboard. That came before anything else - he needed to stand on something. =nod= Plus that would give me an ending point for whatever weird perspective I was going for.
Then I wanted to cry - he's completely covering the wave. =head desk= Thank goodness for layers! I'm smart sometimes (usually I forget to make layers for certain things...).

So yeah. I moved it. Because I wanted some of the work I put into the wave to show up. And I moved the cup, too. Thing was - Mal was so small when I shrunk him and moved the surfboard...so I kept messing around to figure out how I could have Mal IN YOUR FACE...and then...uh...I kept playing around with it centered but it didn't look right, so I moved it to the side a wee bit and made Mal BIG. Woo.

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So then I added shading. =nod= You might notice the colors look a lot prettier like this. That's because .jpgs hate me and make my colors massively lighter.

Oh and fun sidenote, I rethought the positioning because I have a thing about mild symmetry. So I put it in the center and it looked a little awkward because I realized you couldn't see a handle. So I made one. >

It looks cool, but I guess it doesn't grab you as much. =nod=

I sent both out, though, because I was sleep deprived and indecisive.


Sooo...yeah. This is what happens when I have the forethought to prnt scrn. You get to see....my process? I guess I have a process. =shrug= It's fairly organic and there's a vast lack of forethought normally.


Perhaps if I gain massive forethought I'll make commentary in the future, though I'm already rambly enough in textual form. XD

Monday, April 20, 2009

Catwoman Issue 8

Hiya Folks,

I'll put up an auditory commentary on it soon. Here's cover 8 though. I'm not gonna post the photo references that I used cuz I took pictures of myself doing those poses....with a camera on a tripod.....and me jumpinng in the air onto my bed.....ya....anyways.......

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Defiant 34


Star Trek Defiant, Ep. 34 by ~xaqBazit on deviantART
You can view my inks and comments on my blog, here.