Buncha stuff

For the artistically inclined in the NYC area: There’s gonna be a Sketchcrawl this Sunday, at the Museum of Natural History, starting at 11 AM, in the Hall of North American Mammals. Meet Enrico Casarosa and Danny Gregory.

And for the rest of you, watch this amazingly cool Xbox commercial that Microsoft decided not to use. (via cthulhia)

Girl in snow, but not sad

It’s the slow season at work. The advantage to being employed is that I get paid anyway. The down side is spending the day in the office not really doing very much. So I figured why not get in some drawing time?

This one’s based loosely on the woman who sits across the partition from me. They way her hair hung half-loose, silhouetting her face as she put on her coat, really struck me.


( Full image, something like 500 pixels wide, cut to keep from screwing up your Friends page layout, aren't I considerate? )

I’m still swiping coloring tricks from Ian McConville. This time, not just the 30% blue-black Multiple shading layer, but also the Overlay layer on top of that to intensify both the shadows and the brights. And then, to unify the colors and give it a sense of dim blueish lighting, I duped the whole thing (sans background and vapor trail) to a new file, flattened it, desaturated it, blurred it, ran Flaming Pear’s Ghost filter on it, dragged that back into the main file, colored it blue-black, merged it with a flat 35% opacity blue-black layer, and set that to Multiply. I’m pretty happy with it.

Tomorrow I’ll look at it from work, and get pissed off at how washed-out it looks with the crappy Windows screen gamma.