Inking

Here's one of the sketches that I did at Wizard World - PA. I took out my set of rapidograph pens and my trusty 0/10 brush and had a little smack down between the 2 inking methods. To cut it short, my brush still win. It's not because just the flow of the brush but the rapidographs are a bit scratchy. You can get a smoother line with the disposable ones. It takes a bit to get use to the flow of the ink too. I'm still going to play with them but I'm not going use it on characters. Maybe on cityscape.

Super Imposing

Originals

Final

Photo retouch

So has it really been a month since I have last posted?

As everyone can see I really haven't been drawing nor continue being active on my deviant for the past months. I call it the complete creative block. Picking up a pencil and placing the tip on a white sheet of paper, it still remain blank. Even though the thing I am mainly creating now are for print advertisements, I still prefer drawing.

After attending a seminar about photoretouching I picked up my stylus and decided to play something different. That's right. Photo retouching, and the most simple kind too. If you ask me, I think I'm on a decent start. Maybe this will get me back on track again. I only have one month left to draw an eight pages comic and four other illustrations. Oh boy, how can I achieve it?

These is a photo from my sister's graduation. Isn't she's adorable?
(original > retouched)

first year of pinkimoon.com

So I have been away for a while and fought long battles with Verizon DSL, I have finally won. The casualty count? No internet for 2 weeks and a deceased router. So the replacement came today. Anyway, I was spring cleaning my computer and I have found this.


This is the first version of my website, pinkimoon.com. Yes, you are reading it correctly, as much as most sites nowadays do not specify that you need to have a flash and quicktime player, we had to put that when we first did our site. Apparently, not everyone installed flash players, and divx and all those fun little codecs that we need. In the beginning my site was purely flash and now I have switched to HTML for it's simplicity. I miss my old site a bit, especially the dancing envelope that is at the corner.

facial sketch #2

Here's sketch #2. Still the same criteria. Tonight, I feel a lot looser than last night. I guess that my improvement. I'm am more satisfied with this one, however, because the shape of the face is one that I use more often than others, I am not. I definitely have to work more on just not structure but also the shadow. Sometimes I focus too much on accuracy in turn it back fires.