Merlin's House- Final Tones

Final tones for Merlin's house set in 18th century India.

The keywords are:
Drunkenly leaning
Cozy
cluttered
patched-together
Scholarly
Isolated
Magical
exotic

 Click fr enlarged image.

Feedback welcome- it's due Thursday morning!

Inspired by Lee White

Need more time to do things like this. It took me 2 hours and 3 sheets of paper to warm up and then this painting itself took me 2 hours.

The Power of Pandas

I have SO MUCH STUFF to scan and put here and GUESS WHAT. I will probably do that Sunday. How cool is that?


In the mean time, an inspiring tale:

A year or so ago, the inspirational Meredith Gran of http://octopuspie.com/ fame put up an ad asking for an intern. She was based in Portland, and I happened to be jobless. The only downside- it iterated that having a car was preferable.

This was one month after my car was stolen and the insurance company deemed it worth a whole $1200.

BUT I APPLIED. Because I am persistent and because I have hope and because I REALLY REALLY wanted to do it.

So I wrote an e-mail detailing my credentials, explaining my fervor for her experience and delicious, delicious talent, and stated that while I no longer had a car, I did have a bike that ran on the power of magical pandas, love, and my Chun Li thighs.

I then attached an image of how I imagined life would be as Meredith's Assistant.

 I got the job.

It was awesome.

I don't think I was perhaps the best fit for a long-term position like that, but I learned so so much about the business aspect of things. Also, I got to hang out and hobnob with Meredith, R. Stevens (http://www.dieselsweeties.com), Aaron Diaz (http://www.dresdencodak.com), and Erica Moen (http://www.darcomic.org/ and http://buckocomic.com ). It was a great experience and I never would have gotten it if I hadn't taken a risk, put msyelf out there and proven that I would go above and beyond.

Tonal Background

Here are the rough tones for that sewer drawing.

Sewer Gypsy

An assignment for my background Design and Layout class. I took this still life:

And made it into this:

I will be adding values to the lines tomorrowish. Maybe Wednesday evening. As always, click for a larger image.

Arts will be back mid-August

SO, long story short, I requested a transfer from the survival-job store I am at to one much closer that could give me less intense hours (I'm working about 25 hours a week plus a 1.5 hour commute one-way- and I have a second job where I work about 14 hours a week on top of it... plus school....).

This transfer won't go through until August 16th. After that I will actually be able to do art again and I am so excited.

Sorry for the long delay. It's really tricky finding a good balance between making money to put food in your mouth and making time to further your career as an artist. This is the only way I know how to do it. =P

Questions 02

The next questions. I think she thought I would be tripped up by this one but it was a no-brainer!

 

Of  course, you can see where I goofed on the lettering. BUT WHATEVER I'M NOT PERFECT.