Spoilers for The Originals are likely to follow. Warning done. In general, I’ve tended to find The Vampire Diaries spin-off show The Originals more interesting than its parent. I think the pull of the latter comes in part with the way the writers seem to play with moral ambiguity in more interesting ways. A fair …
I didn’t make quite as many promo posters for our upcoming local production of Peter Pan as I intended, and with the holidays and a show I’m actually in starting to rehearse, this is likely the last. I did want to get some equal time for our antagonist, though. And the Facebook version for those …
Amy Reeder’s posted a great look at her personal coloring process: I’m not an uber-experienced colorist and I have no idea what the standard technique for coloring is—so maybe this is common knowledge—but there’s something new I’ve been trying occasionally when I really want to play with opposing hues as light sources. And I thought …
Still working on images for Peter Pan. This time more of a gag image: I’m still not doing anything particularly sophisticated to achieve the effects. A multiply layer with rendered clouds to give it the mottling, then some manual erasing of that layer so it hopefully didn’t obscure Pan’s face. Threw in some darkening at …
I’ve been fiddling with some of the costume sketches for that production of Peter Pan of late. I’ve been wanting to do something more than just coloring figures, and I thought maybe trying my hand at a full-blown poster might be a decent first step. I’ve got a couple of these in mind, but the …
Inspired a lot by these minimalist super-icon iPhone wallpapers, and the fact that my old wallpaper and lock screen didn’t play as nice with iOS 7, I started playing at trying to make some Power Pack symbol wallpapers. So far, I’ve managed to do the boys: Gee is all square edges, of course, so he …
I’ve been a big fan of Ctrl+Paint since I started really trying to play with digital coloring / art. I’m not especially good, but, seriously, Matt Kohr’s videos are responsible for both most of the small improvements I’ve made, and the fact that I haven’t yet thrown up my hands in defeat and utter self-loathing. …
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As will surprise pretty much no one, I’ve been super-excited that Marvel’s collecting the original Simonson / Brigman / Bogdanove runs on Power Pack in the Classic collections. I had long ago stopped re-reading my own individual issues for fear they’d fall apart on me. Having bound volumes (I’m still missing volume 2, but I …