Chicks with Hats: März 2012

Mittwoch, 28. März 2012

Oh Art-School

What I should be doing

What I do instead

Montag, 26. März 2012

Doodledooo

And that's how boredom looks in my book. Ignore futtbugly handwriting, I'm trying to prove a point here. Don't let me get bored or I will draw nerdy shit on everything you own.

Sonntag, 25. März 2012

Snowwhite + WIP

I thought you guys might enjoy to see how the process goes with my artwork.

So that's how I roll! :)Have fun and enjoy yourselves. (But not too much.)

Step one is sketching. I like that part.

Most of the time I work on the sketch until I like it.

Step two is inking. I don't like it that much. Most difficult part for me. So much can go wrong here. Often the ink sucks up most of the dynamics and life of the original sketch it seems...

This time I was satisfied.

Step three. Scan that Motherfucker. Fuck with the levels in PS until satisfied and clean Lineart. Then, Color Select and put Lineart on sepperate Layer. Set on Multiply.

Step four. COLOOORRRR. Best part.

I work with sepperate layers as well. My usual layer-setting (for the complex coloring) is:

ink - multiply

highlights - normal

lighter - lighter color

light - lighter color

dark - darker color

darkest - darker color or multiply

flats - muliply

and a white canvas

Then, play with shadows, gaussian blur, textures and alike for background pleasures. Add background and signum and we are ready to annoy other people online.

Aaaand finally, the finnished result:

Fun Fact: This picture is a remake of an old drawing of mine. So there ya go! Fun comparison.

I consider this progress. *shudder* Oh god the anatomy...Kill it with fire!!

Don't touch yourself too much.

Something to think about

Today, I came across a quote by Mother Teresa. I'm not christian, not even slightly religious, I might be considered as an Atheist even, but nonetheless. It made me think.

People are often unreasonable, illogical and selfcentered.
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish motives.
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere, people may deceive you.
Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight.
Build anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough.
Give them your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and god;
it never was between you and them anyway.

Mother Teresa.

There are times, when I feel I have have accomplished nothing in life, being a burden to my loved ones and even for myself. But THAT makes me overthink it allover. Even from a non-religious-point of perspective, there is a lot of wisdom and truth in those words.

We should be grateful for what we have and stop being whiny bitches. I believe, if someone is giving his or her best, there is nothing to feel ashamed or bad about. In a sense of "I gave the world my best and they are not satisfied. Fuck it, it's not me who's being greedy here."

Alas, there are worse places to be on the world.

YOU NEED TO ENJOY YOUR LIFE MORE!

I often have to force myself to remember the most basic principles, and that is one of them.

Stop worrying so much and enjoy being young, for fuck's sake.