Dancer 1

Tried something new today.  Ended up watching parts of Step Up with my daughter so decided to try a new style of popping the main character out of the background using freehand painting.

Grape Crush Sketch

This is a quick sketch done during a break at a "Discover Your Strengths" class I was helping to facilitate.  I created it because I was looking back at my notes from the last course (about a year ago) and wrote down that I would draw something once per day.  

I haven't been drawing once per day so I felt guilty.  :-)

Guess the Celebrity #1

Changing gears a bit, this is a work-in-progress so I thought I would put it out here as a "guess the celebrity".  

I've just started this one so I'll be posting a few steps between now and the finished product.  In the meantime, take a stab at guessing this famous celebrity.  

I'd also love to get your comments, so just click the icon below.

Thanks!

The Girls "On a Rainbow"

Still learning, but really like this picture of the girls superimposed on a rainbow background.  I personally wouldn't have chosen a rainbow background, but I'm confident they will like it.

Still need to remove the redeye but I'll leave that for later.  Too nice a day today.

Learning Photoshop

Ok, I took a break from drawing again but this time it was to learn Photoshop.  Must be the A.D.D. again.  

In any case, here's an example of how it's fairly simple to add an image inside of text for some pretty cool effects.  It basically involves creating some text, bringing in the image, making the image transparent, dragging it into the original image that contains the text and converting it to a clipping group.

What's nice about this technique is that you can then change the background, manipulate the text, edit the text and add more images to the text very easily.

Clearly I've got more to learn but this is a good start.