Nate Holmes Trapnell 
 
thesouthpaw.com.au

Inks, sweeeet.
His logo alone is pretty nice.
His illustrations take me back to comics & graffiti - sweet as.

Nice hands, details and nuances.
The hotrods and characters with life (postures, expressions, customes) work nicely.
And, he does animation too, Bonus!

Something to strive towards and I'm inspired!

Anyhoot
These hot summer days has sweat
pooling in my eye sockets. Salty.

plug

2 Swords

ink, 3x4 inch postcard

6 feet low tech helmet

ink+photoshop, 4x4 inch

little ed

ink, 4x4 inch

If I were you

ink+photoshop, 3x4 inch postcard

Monk humour - If I were Monk

Alvin J. Clarke

Melbourne's free summer heating sale is on now! so come on down.



No photograph references for the:  car, girl, or sun. Just a lot of studies.
And no 3D over-paints! Not yet  :)  
 

Kseniya Simonova's time well spent

No undo buttons here folks. Super awesome!

The undertone is really strong. I wouldn't mind having
a gander at the lyrics/meanings of them folk songs.
A fleeting performance art piece. Brilliant.

Belle & Clarkes

Trying to marry two different styles in one book.
It's possible,  I'll figure it out. Belle isn't exactly a ghost.Perhaps I'll make it a black and white picture book.

ink (B. Murphy)  - photoshop for both Clarke's

Practising trads

 

-Markers, inks and whites. 
-weird feet & back elbow/s.blades too high
-weird bumm lump, or it could be the specific cut, i don't know.
-Big fat bird atop my head. Don't leave cats next to this bird.

Clint

If Clint Eastwood went shiny, and didn't have the cigar.

To create anew

-"The more I change, the more I'm me, the new me of the new time"-
-"To change is to invent, to create anew" Isamu Noguchi -

 
 


I've always loved green. If I could, I'd marry one.  (Alien)
It'd show me the Universe and the back of my head, without the use of a mirror.

Collab creations

Something I've always wanted to post. It's an unfinished collaboration piece with Käthu Kürich.

Her delicate touches and details are so nice and makes up most of the quality of the piece. To collab with real mediums I'm all for it, but this children's book :P will have to be through digital medium. Sending creative vibes your way.

digital and trads

Digital beachgoers. Leather tanned, check!


Some wobbly watercolours ruined by black lines. :P Learning watercolour is like playing chess, you have to be 5 steps ahead -
I've never been good at chess, but the battle has just begun.

 
Pen and ink.  Part of the battle also.



I need skulls in my repertoire. Expect to see them as keychains and such, perhaps.

Off to the left

Tristesse

Deep sound resonance - They can't hear it. o.O

(no reference and trying to be more aware of light)
hue and saturations i'll have to get more clearer on

Kaitlin Beckett

edit: Gallery ended.
Digital layers can never replicate the delicate works of traditional mediums. Transparent shimmering layers are golden. Undersea Curiosities by Kaitlin Beckett

website

Kendo-PED - Martial Arts of Foot Kendo

anito, Luscious & Minotaur-ED

Character descriptions

anito (spirits)

Luscious
Gender: Male
Race: Half Baywatch hair and half Slow-motion
Class: Warmonger
Alignment: Evil

Minotaur-ED
Gender: Male
Race: Unknown, but he looks Filipino
Class: Rogue Ranger
Alignment: Good (sometimes)

A Big 'Thank You' for Kenneth Yarus who did a brilliant finish on the bad anito (above). Cheers bratha!
And of course, the master Collywobbles, Thank you for looking out for us.

August pieces

The portrait didn't end up being used as a background.


The Devil and Geezus playin around in Spain.
Thank you to BlackSpot from the CA boards for your super human eyes.  [Her attention to details,  Superhero level]



Waking Moments (Newborn entry - Alternative edit)



Wood sculptor & Hello human




The third of the triplettes for Team Chow II


Group shot of anitos


An extra character for Team Chow II Good and Evil - Good character o.0

Lightwave to ZBrush workflow

 

Still tryin to figure a workflow out, but here is one archer character by Tandy1000 from the CA forums.
He was nice enough to let me hack one of his beautiful and ugly concept creatures into this thing right here. Some type of Boar/Bat/Man thing. Could be a deer in there too, we'll never know.

726 polys, bow & arrows included. Still has to be rigged and furred. Those fur would definitely be nice silouhettes while in motion. The fur could be plain poly, bit the motion if so wouldn't be as be fluid. Maybe. There's definitely tricks that I need to learn.

I'll have to stop here, I made the noob mistake of not blocking in the hands. Doh! Oh well, time passed quick when it's something sweet.


Cheers Tandy.
Cheers guys n gals.

Thumbnails n Julys

Catnap dreamin / Horse-Camel-Cow swagger 
 
Orange flavoured goodness / CA'ers 
 
Hungry for some protein / Cart lady & son
 

:)

Syd

STick

Old Brotherhood & 2 strangers

 
 

The cook and the thief

Early birds

sb13

smoker

sb10

sb11

Light & Shadow

 

Chalk & Light

imagi.

photo-ref

photo-ref

For the rights of an artist

Dina Gottliebova Babbitt
artfordina.wordpress
Dina Babbitt
Petition (Ipetitions.com)

-She was forced to use her talents, to save both her life and her mother’s.
-The museum at Auschwitz refuses to return her paintings.
"But that educational purpose could just as easily be achieved by displaying high-quality reproductions of the paintings, while returning the originals to their creator and rightful owner."
-We have the right to choose and support what drives us. One of many things.

Ladybugs

Studies

the colours hide and dodge away from me

still life from imagination

krispy kreme

soft feathered patricia's way 

Valencia oranges

thirsty aliens

I learnt this on the way

Joan As Policewoman with Terje Rypdal-esque guitar wailings.

From the plate they stare back.

Original (plate with bread crumbs, texture made by sauce.
I like to wipe the olive oil clean with bread)



Feel free to dodge and burn.
'Ctrl+J' to duplicate layer (for erasing back to the original)
before merging down.

In bloom

The petals weave and tangle, dancing that invisible force.
Life. 

Jean Juc Cohen's surfscape playing in the background.My heart is for this, so here it is.

Good Old World Waltz

Giant steps

Donut twins

30 minute studies. :) 

 

Seeing value in colours

Riot starter

Still water

Still in PS. 

Quicks

some quicks before the beauty sleep

Sheep keys

From one nooblette to other 'oblettes. Photoshop.

'F2' & 'F3' keyed to 'Flip Canvas Hor/Vert'
B=Brush
E=Eraser
D=Reset Background Foreground Colours
X=Swap Background and Foreground Colours
[ & ] = for brush size (I have it 'Scratched' left side of Intuos3)
Shift+[ & Shift+] for brush hardness
Keys 1-0 for opacity 

Using 'Visibone pallete'. (for the Photoshoppers)

the Hunt covers

Brute Wars

http://baddis.mybrute.com Fight me now. 

The only way is up

WIP Marco's way WIP

WIP: Marco's way.
 

Value system

I'm trying to figure out a concise way to show values
before putting colour in.edit: Everything has a gradient. Every crack and bump.Different materials, render light differently.

1. I do selections, the thigh for example, then a black and white
gradient towards the light source.
Finish over it and fill in with incremental changes, for creases, scars, whatever.
But at least it kind of blocks in and reminds me what values it should be around.

2. I've only recently started to keep a 6 step grey for easy 'eye dropping'.
It kind of works for now, so I'll keep using it.

Gesture

Save the Net. Anti-ISP filtering

WIPs

works in progress

Can opener