Art Pictorial

Today seems like as good a day as any to share some of my digital art. A couple years ago I bought a digital pen tablet from Ebay after many years of fighting with my mouse for control. At the time, I was in a guild on the Shards of Dalaya EverQuest free server. For those who don't know, EverQuest is an insanely popular Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Game, and a guild is like an in-game family of sorts. Anyway, my guild leader and her husband are both insanely talented digital artists. As far as I know, they both use their talents commercially. My guild leader helped me learn some basics of PhotoShop and Flash drawing and illustrating and was always very supportive in helping me improve. She was the one who told me about pen tablets -- if I hadn't met her, I'd likely still be wondering how some people can draw so darn well with just a mouse!

So a little less than a story today, but rather a pictorial of some of my adventures in visual art after the jump. Hope you enjoy it.

This is the first piece I ever finished in Flash.
My nephew, Taylor, is much cuter in photos than as line-art, though.
All I did to make this was trace over a photo of him, block in some color behind the lines, and add a background. It was fairly easy; the most difficult part of this one was getting the layers organized.














My first "finished" project in PhotoShop. It's supposed to be my Gnome Warrior from EverQuest.

This is an unnamed collaboration between my sister and myself.
She began painting and drawing on her bedroom walls around
the same time that I officially became the band geek. This was
(and still is) my favorite out of the many illustrations she put
up on her walls.

"Kosteafai" -- another of my EverQuest characters.

A colorful, fun self-portrait from my Denny's days,
aptly titled "Diner Chic."

Another trace-n-paint over jobbie. Untitled.

My personal favorite, "The Squid Lady."
She's actually a siren, or so I'm told.
I think she's just squiddy.