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This year I’m doing NaNoWriMo in a different way. Instead of writing 50K words, I’m painting 30 pictures for my children’s book “Rory goes to the dentist.” I’m valuing each picture at 2K words, though I will say it should … Continue reading
This weekend I did a bit more painting with the ArtRage app on my iPad. I like it because it has layers and there issn’t any cleanup involved, also, I can paint from anywhere. Humidity doesn’t effect my paintings and there is no drying time. Often my oil paintings take forever to dry because I use a lot of paint and I will use linseed oil as a medium too. I once let a painting dry for three weeks and the white was still tacky when I gave the painting to the owner.
This first painting was done from a photo of Christina Hendricks. I don’t think I did her justice but then again who can? I do love how the brush stroke on her hair came out.
Next I did a painting of Rory as a Steampunked gentleman. What more does a genteldragon need other than a top hat, a monocle, vest, cane, ray gun, and a curly mustache.
The thing that is great about doing a painting on your iPad is that if you like the basic outline, you’r not committed to just one painting or painting style. I then took the outline and did a watercolor painting.
This time I painted Rory in watercolors and dressed him up as Doctor 11, Fez, Bowtie, Sonic Screwdriver and all.
I had fun with this, and liked how I could make different incarnations with the same basic outline. I may just end up using ArtRage for the future children’s book that stars Rory. Originally I was going to do a series of watercolors but I think I might do better with this app. For now I’m playing an experimenting with it. Hey you never know, if I do end up using it for the book, does that mean I can take the iPad off as a deduction from my taxes? :)
This painting I did from a reference photo of Rory at SiglerFest 2011 (that’s a little Krakens Tee he is wearing), he is sitting on a chair so you can’t see his magnificent tail.
I like how this came out. It was a lot of fun painting it.
When watching Xmen first class the other day got Tek and I talking about Rory moving about the house like Nightcrawler, one moment he’s next to you, the next, next to the cookie jar, then next to you again chomping on cookies. So I drew Rory AS Night crawler :)
I used my new pastel pencils, I like how they work.
Remember I said I would hand draw a better Rory and Daenerys picture? Here it is. I based it off a photo I took during HalCon when we ran into a woman cosplayed as the mother of Dragons. She was so excited to see Rory because she was sad she hadn’t figured out how to add a dragon to her costume. Rory was thrilled to see her because she had a bloody horse heart to eat and blood dripping down her chin :)
I admit, I cheated slightly to get the proportions right on this picture, I printed out the photo and used it as a guide. This was drawn with pencil, then inked with my new sharpies.
Tek mentioned I drew a lot of Rory pictures for lent this year, and I did. I admit that using Rory makes it easy for me to find inspiration, also, it gives me more practice drawing him so when I commence working on his children’s book it will be nicer. I missed a few days this year, but all in all I think this was a good lent and a good Daily Creativity project. Expect to see more from me, but as lent is over they won’t be arriving every day.
thank you.