a challenger approaches

So some friends of mine put together a challenge: everyone picks a photo, and out of that set, everyone has to do a drawing for each photo using only colors sampled from it. The idea is to try new palettes and work with color in a different way. I’ve done a bunch of drawings using the photos we picked, so here they are. :B

paint!

I’ve been goofing off with brushes in Photoshop a lot lately. Finding a brush that does what I want is one of my major points of dissatisfaction with making drawings entirely in Photoshop, but I’ve found a few that do what I want and so I’ve been experimenting a bunch.

pixel work

Been experimenting with pixel work.

milo j’s house of noodles

milo j's house of noodles

We cook at home a lot, so the running joke in the kitchen is that we’re eating at “Milo J’s House of whatever”. I’m thinking about doing a series of these and making a big poster print of a menu board to hang on the kitchen wall. Not sure yet, because then I’d have to come up with one title and it wouldn’t be interchangable anymore. (Milo J’s House of Pancakes, Milo J’s House of Pizza, etc.)

Still, fun little test sketch thing.

experiments

Today’s experiments (in addition to just doodling and playing around) included trying to work out a watercolor brush in Photoshop. I know it can be done, because Photoshop is the most amazing program known to mankind (according to my dad). After a little reading for ideas, I came up with something roughly similar. I ought to be able to work it into something more watercolory-correct in time.

My next step will be trying to do some comic-style drawings and see if I can come up with something similar enough to my current style of comicking to satisfy my inner consistency freak. I’d love to just drop what I’m doing and do the whole thing digitally, but the inconsistency would bother me forever. Real supplies cost too much, and are too inconvenient. If I can figure this out in a way that makes me happy, it would be better.