Toast is evil; Monkey #8

Painting with Ink

I was exploring the contents of youtube for new and interesting painting techniques and found this intriguing video of how to paint a Cherry Blossom tree, using ink and a straw to create the branches and stippling paint to make the petals. It looks fun and unpredictable so you know each set of tree branches will be unique.

 

7th Monkey, Sleepy

Monkey drawing day 7, challenge almost over.

Once I have all my school work out of the way I promise I'll upload more than monkey illustrations.

Bad Monkey; Day 6

Black BiC pen

Comic Pannel

Ever since I was a young kid I've read comics, and one day I hope to be a successful graphic novel artist. But before I learned about perspective and how to draw backgrounds for my comic ideas, I used to use photoshop to alter photos to make the backgrounds. I thought I might upload this technique to show anyone who may be interested. Basic photoshop skills required (just as long as you know the tools)

First start with a photo of your choice, I used a photo I took while on an drawing excursion to the city.

Then use the cropping tool to crop the image to whatever scale you like.















Next click Filter>Pixelate>Colour Halftone (make sure you have black and white colours selected)

You'll get this spotty old comic book effect.

Next, select Filter>Sketch>Stamp






By this point it's personal preference to change the detail/contrast of the image, but I changed my settings to;
Light/Dark Balance: 32
Smoothness: 1 



And here you go! Hope that was either of some use or entertaining.

Ballad Monkey; No.5

Inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest 2012

Black BiC pen.

Light Photography

 On a sunnier day than this drizzly one we're having currently, I practiced some photography and using the zoom lens to capture the light bouncing off my cat (Angel)'s fur as he slept on the old picnic table.