Merry Christmas, everyone! My Christmas card 2009 done in Corel Painter

Labels: 2009, color

My experiment with lights and shadows in Corel Painter - Miho as played by Devon Aoki in Frank Miller's "Sin City". She's a bad-ass.

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So one of the reasons I'm back in the art mode is cause of my good friend mic? as mentioned in my first post. I've also drawn us a bunch of times so here's some samples.

09/09 - This was part of his birthday present this year, done completely in Illustrator. I made a print and replaced the cover of a cereal box with this, lol. Oh yeah, we got a big sweet tooth if you can't tell =P


01/09 - I did this one in Corel Painter X. Just some color experimentation. And I did his face in his trademark online smile as depicted on his shirt on the above piece.


09/08 - And this was a present for his birthday last year, haha. It was based off a picture where we did a "beefcake" and "cheesecake" pose. Yeah, we're really weird.


Anyway, come check out some of his art on his blog. He does update it sometimes. Maybe now that I've linked him, we'll be seeing more of his lovely works ;D

Labels: 2008, 2009, color, pencil

Just getting refamiliarized with Illustrator and working with the ol' bezier curves.

Labels: 2009, color

More color experimentations in Photoshop. Okay, this was done in May, but thought I'd post something in here since I haven't sketched in a while, hehe.

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So I finally caught "Wicked" over at the Orpheum theater in SF. What can I say other than WOW! Who knew a musical about the wicked witch of the west would be so freaking awesome! Highly recommended!

Labels: 2009, color

I'm learning to color, yay! This one was hand sketched, scanned, then inked and colored in Photoshop.

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It's my online Christmas card 2008, haha. Happy holidays!

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I helped my friend Chris make a poster for his Halloween party. We wanted to make cute Chibi versions of known monsters and decided on costumes for each one. He drew the top portion and coloring. I did the letters and the bottom scene.


I also carved my own Barack O' Lantern in spirit of the upcoming election! The template was downloaded from YesWeCarve.com. Check out the site for lots and lots of pumpkins that other people have done.

Labels: 2008, color

The following are from wayy back to my high school days. We're talking mid-nineties here, haha, so these artworks are over a decade old! They were up on my original site that I made on AOL, lol, back when that was the only way to get online. (That's when I put those ugly watermarks on the images.) Ok, enough about me being an old fart, let's proceed...


Here is my attempt to draw Goku from DBZ using watercolor paint.


I reallly loved the art in "Ah! My Goddess" manga! Especially the cover art! This one was one recreation done in pen and colored with watercolor pencils.


Another "Ah! My Goddess" piece - Belldandy and Keiichi about to kiss? I did this one using acrylic paint.

Labels: 1990s, color

OMG, just got back from watching "the Dark Knight", what can I say other than holy crap, what an awesomme movie!!! A must see in the theater, watch it on an IMAX screen if you can!


Ok, so Harley Quinn never made it to the live action movies, but I loved her in the animated series. If you aren't familiar with her, she was sort of the Joker's second banana.

I drew her on 07/09/08 with mechanical pencil 0.5mm HB lead (my current favorite sketch tool), and then colored in Photoshop.

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I've attempted to draw Angie twice already so I'll repost it here.


The first time was on the Oekaki Doodle Board on here in 2002 using the PaintBBS applet and my wacom tablet. The board is currently down, by the way =(. It was basically a place where anyone could register and leave their own sketches. I've been trying to revive it and it may have a relaunch soon.


I drew her again recently in my sketch book in April 2008. I needed to practice drawing a realistic face again so I chose her. At this point, I used a dull 2H and HB pencil for shading.

Labels: 2002, 2008, color, pencil