Watercolor test, and score is fail.

I went out bought some watercolor pencils, having never used them before and amazed at the results this 8 year old art prodigy got (she is one of my son's dearest friends), and I wanted to give it a try.

This was my first try, and it does not show the time and effort I put in to layer and craft the colors. To me, it looks like I could have gotten the same end result if I just randomly splashed the brush around because that is what it looks like I did (I did not...at first).

Even my signature is ticking my off right now.

the Mere Exposure Effect

The Mere Exposure Effect relates to the fact that the repeated exposure to a unfamiliar stimulus increases our liking to it.

I have hope that the Mere Exposure Effect will eventually wear any possible detractors to my artwork down. (Van Gogh was supposedly not hailed too highly in his time, I hear. On the other hand, I might be in for a long, long, long wait.)

some in-progress characters

Some in-progress pages, I just scanned them in and did not clean them up in photoshop (my scanner glass, I've noticed, is both dusty and cracked/scratched). So pardon the mess due to the scan and the rough art at this stage.

pg. 89

unbalanced trees oppose the blue.

devil

work-in-progress

Another from July

I crafted this from the drawing on the left, to see if it could make a decent t-shirt graphic back in July.

semi-"happy holloween"

I have been sitting on this iteration of my drawing that looks too much like a manga mummy since July. I think it is because my ink drawing is an iteration of a manga mummy I saw on the back cover of a book in a store (for books). So, full circle! <somber "...meh...yay.">