Canada and Croatia egg

Its another set of red and blue eggs only with a flag theme this time. The Canada and Croatia egg. 
I decided to create an egg which reflected my birth country Canada while the Croatian egg was based on where my parents came from. So it was only fitting to make these. If this proved interesting to other people other then me I may consider making other flag versions next year when there are more plaster eggs being sold in the stores.  Hope you like them.  :)

See previous eggs;
Polka-dot egg  Tulip egg and Chamomile egg

Tulip and Camomile egg

This time I got a two for one deal in a flower theme.

Again both eggs are in a nice folksy art style.

The first one is a bit of a tulip design on red background. It sort of looks like a Dutch egg design but an expert in this can probably do a better job then then I have but then I'm only looking for something that is close to that. For the blue egg I decided to make it a camomile theme design since I just love the white camomile against the blue background of a box of a tea I once drank as a child. I don't think they make those any more unless they have a new design that I don't recognize.

After I complete colouring all the eggs I'll probably clear coat for protection, clean up this dusty basket that sitting in the corner of a neglected living room and place the finished eggs in that. Going to look really egg-strodinary.

Latest egg designs can also be soon seen at my website as well.

See first coloured egg here.

Polka-dot egg

The first Easter egg completed is a simple spotted one inspired by the Super Mario bro's video games.

It was made to look like a Yoshi egg but not like the more common green egg in the games. I wanted to have a white egg with pink spots.

Expect the Easter eggs to get more intricate but will have a "folksy" look to them. 
Maybe down the line I may do other themed eggs like character eggs or based on shows eggs but for now these are good enough. :)

Also these eggs are not the real thing. Instead I used these nice plaster eggs I found at a discount store such as Giant Tiger.

They already had some designs on them so I had to sand them off and gesso them to prepare them.

I may plan on purchasing and making more in the future if I feel like it. 

Happy Easter. :) 

Projects to be made....

Started working on some new small projects.

1. Is going to be a decorated light switch with some of the shells I collected in past vacations to Florida.

A great use for some of my souvenirs for an otherwise boring object on the wall. Plus I really go sick of looking at that old light switch plate with the plastic corner chipped out of edge. That thing has been there for ages. Also later I can always take my little art piece with me should I need to.

2. Finally got around to painting those fake Easter eggs. I bought them last year but never got around to do much with them. I got as far as sanding down those generic images that came with the eggs and then gessoing them for colour. I coloured one white egg with pink spots. It reminds me of a Yoshi egg from the Mario bro's games.

I hope to colour more in the next day or so. So we'll have to see if I get around to showing them off in time for Easter. Maybe afterwords but that's OK.

3. I'm removing some old patchwork decorations from an old pair of jeans I decorated years ago, The patches are still great so I plan on sewing them back on to an old jean jacket along with another large patch I salvaged from an old jean purse. I think it'll look great.

4. Last but not least there's this really old project I like to finish that I started long ago but sort of forgot about. Will explain later.

Then there's always more vector graphics to be made.

Cherub Baby Oops

A little late this time, but for next year's Valentines day, it'll be just in time.

Its a twin version of the NewYear Baby Oops I made a few years ago only in Cherub form.

Also now viewable at my web site. Probably at several different places of mine too. 

Blue Moth with LED Bulb

New year, new vector.

A new spin on an old classic. A blue moth in love with the concept of this new kind tech and the fact of not dieing from the heat of the older bulb types. Not sure if I'm going to make another one of these but then you never know what kind of tech may come down the road in the future. So will see.

Now available for viewing on my web site too. 

Dunking Dunked.

Just finished my newest and latest online portfolio. I need yet another mini port site since Dunked decided that we can all pay rich peoples money. So I had to dunk the Dunked. Oh well. Just as well this new place is way more flexible and more generous for my needs. At first the impressions I got from this site, snooty, pompous, for overly stuck up design artistes. But then I actually dove in and it wasn't so bad after all. Just to show you that you can't judge a book by its cover. So glad I didn't over look this place. Just hope it stays this way. What a great service for a basic account. Its generous with its space, and with a bit of tinkering very easy to use. One down side is that its a bit time consuming with the layout. Other then that this site is great.

So anyways yeah I needed a decent backup site to show things to people since my main site isn't always that reliable for it to be online. So hopefully this lasts quite awhile.

Check it out your self. ALLYOU

The secret treasure vault refurbished

Treasure/collection site now up and renovated. But it still needs a few bugs worked out due to the aging of my web site builder program. The fonts mainly Arial does not show correctly when you see my site in the latest FireFox or InternetExplorer. I think WebSiteCreator could use an update. Its showing as Times Roman. Going to have to figure out a work around in the mean time. I also may go back and add a few teeny animated surprises to the title pic. But over all I really think the new renovations turned out great. 

 

Also if you look carefully on my main site there is a secret way of getting to the treasure/collection site. Try and find it if you like.

Treasure Spike

Yes! Finally completed.

After all those delays due to things breaking like my computer and then there’s the constant interruptions. Its finally done. Speaking of interruptions, still get interrupted while I'm working. Most annoying when you get in the zone and you loose your place or thought possess on how you are going to do something. Some things just have lots of details and if you get distracted well, you get annoying mistakes.

Anyways its another Spike the tiger illustration and this time its for my treasure/collection half of my site which as been under refurbishment for over a year. Of course it will be a bit till I recalibrate things as I said before and organize things. Oh yeah here's the original drawings and previous completed illustration with the same theme in case you're interested. 

 Full image^

 Close up so you can see some details. ^

FYI

The illustration was completed the same way as the last one with PhotoShop using the digital graphics technique. Oh yeah and another thing, in case you haven't noised or maybe don't care, (too bad!)I didn't bother adding the blue spiked collar since you wouldn't really see it properly any how. It would just look too weird and make him look like he had horns and we all know that Spike isn't evil. Besides horns belong on other animals and things like a tyger. That’s a creature that looks like a wolf that has spikes on its back or some place and curly horns on its head like a ram of some sort. A little trivia for you. ;) Also the treasure chest was actually recycled from an earlier project and used on that part of my site originally only now its refurbished. Refurbishing seems to be the thing these days, am I right? :)

Actual progress

Happy to say I actually got some of my illustration done. Also good news, its almost done.

After all the stuff that happened this year with stuff breaking with my computer being one of them things have finally settled down enough for me to actually get some things completed. Hopefully now I can finally get caught up not to mention get back to some paying jobs soon considering my job provider has been keeping in touch too. Thank goodness. Hears hoping for things to get better.

Expect to see something here soon, just not on my website for a bit. Still have to reconfigure that since the great data move to my new computer.

Monarch Butterfly tee-shirt 1

Finally got the thing done after many distractions. Actually it was completed weeks ago but only recently got around to posting about it.

It’s a bit of an experiment. I’m using a heat transfer that I designed and for the first time I used it as a guide for airbrushing the artwork.

Pro, it was easy to airbrush light colours on a multi-coloured tee such as this tie dye tee I made a number of years ago. Con, you can’t place frisket or some other paint blockers on to already painted areas on the heat transfer image or you may run into annoyances like peeling paint. With that said with I just repainted those areas that peeled, by hand then reairbrushed the damaged areas.  No problem.  Then I added some very small gems on the antennas for that extra something.  Finally I gave it a few shots of clear coat just to make sure. Hopefully that did the trick for making it last with out scratches for instance.

Over all it looks great but just not sure if I can heat set the design. Still have to figure that one out.

I have another look-a-like in the works and hopefully I can work on it soon. 

Also can be seen on my web site soon.

Changing direction.

Well I kind of changed my mine temporarily about finding a new web site after thinking about it. Instead I’m going to use this really nice online portfolio that I found at one of my favorite haunts for fellow artists.
Its really great because its quite generous with its space regarding how much content you can load in there regarding your works. Plus when you get the hang of using the stuff to customize your site, its easy to put together.  So for now going to use this as a mini backup web site for a more stable way of showing the people who are behind these potential job opportunities and not worrying about the darn site being down.
That unfortunately always seems to happen to me when I have stuff to show with my original site. Its embarrassing and frustrating.
So anyway, for a free portfolio site this mini site for me is really great and hopefully stable enough so that in the future, I don’t go though any more of this nonsense.  There’s also a premium part of the site of course but I really don’t need that.
So any one needing a really good and generous place for your portfolio check out dunked.com.

Trying to stay enthusiastic

Looks like I started yet another personal project. Another Spike the tiger illustration this time for the other part of my site. See previous post about the drawings, completed project and renovated creative part of my site. It sure beats, being bummed out over my current situation. 

Oh yeah got rid of the "labels thing"  Felt it was pretty redundant since you can view current and previous art work at my web site. Going to replace that with something else soon.

Where are they????

Ugh what did I do with those tie-dye tees I did number of years ago, You know? The ones that are very similar to the ones I painted dolphins on?  Its so frustrating when you loose something that you really wanted to paint something on.  After I tie-dyed these pink and red glow-in-the -dark tees I put them away for awhile till I could use them for something. But now its like they fell in to the center of the earth and its driving me nuts now. But then so is every thing else these days. Like trying to make some cash. Yeah I know I’m not the only one in this situation ……..Aaaaaaaaack!

Just that I really wanted to paint some butterflies on them but instead I found every other tee I bought for the purpose of future decorating. So I settled on some other tie-dyed shirts that were similar that I also had put away earlier.  But instead of making a nice chalk print on the shirts, I got nothing. Yet more frustration. So now at that point I ran upstairs and made a few transfer prints from the printer and then ironed on those butterflies so I had a starting point for my painting.  Um no, I’m not cheating since I already drew these earlier elsewhere and fixed it up for this purpose.  OK so now I have something ready to paint but I’m still stumped as to where those other tees are.

Tapping in

This latest vector illustration represents “tapping in” to your talents and making them work for you. Kind of like milking a cow or in this case collecting sap from a tree and making syrup. Of course instead of collecting sap you’re collecting coins. Can now be viewed at my web site too.

Its me again..... completed.

Completed this a few weeks ago but only showing it now. See previous postings.
Media used was fine textured paper with markers, coloured pencils and fine black marker. Normally I would use ink pen but those things have had better days although they don’t look too bad on the out side. But time has warped them from the inside I think and sadly. Oh well. 

Yet another thing that was making me pretty frustrated and bummed out lately. My web site as yet again had down time. Its back up now but has been down one too many times. Going to have to find a new place but its just so hard to find a new decent place with all the things I’m looking for. Got to get my own domain eventually.  

Prospects for new jobs still sucks but one job I just sent a quote and proposal to looks very promising. They want a statue painting which is very similar to a painting I made a few years ago featuring a cat statue I doodled earlier and then painted  in a tropical setting. I really hop I can get this job. I know I can really shine in this one.

Neon Lights Snack bar 6

The last of the bunch of vector art sets featuring products you would find at a snack bar. Will be posting this soon on my web site as well.

Its me again.

Yeah I know. Its yet another profile pic but as you know I don’t like photos of my self on the internet and this is the only way I will have something of me other then avatars.
Just finished it yesterday but I have yet to colour it. I’ll probably colour it in a very traditional way and in the original way that I started off my art journey so very long ago. With coloured pencils, markers and some kind of ink pen. Don’t think I’ll be using my mechanical pens though I think they’re ca-poot. Tried filling them with ink and it just makes a mess. And yeah I cleaned them thru and thru and such but to no avail. I think they’re just too old and maybe over time things get warped. Guess I’ll have to get another set at Staples or something. Bummer now I have to spend money again. Got plenty of ink though.
Anyways my profile features me at work on many art project while my kitty Meetso has a little stretch on one of my art pieces in progress. But also featured are some of my doves are in the antics too. And I do mean some, since I have about 9 of them 7, 8 and 9 are just off the pic hiding someplace. ;)
Before I add some colour going to have to fix a few areas though but they’re just minor things.
Hope you like my work in progress.
Probably be the last profile pic featuring me in a while.

Neon Lights Snack bar 5

New tasty sweet vector graphics just in time for summer. 
Only one more in this series to go! ;)
Also may be viewed at my web site too.

Neon Lights Snack Bar 4

Just in time for the warmer months a new refreshing vector set to drink in.
You can also view at my web site now too. 

Also incase you haven’t noticed I finally got the profile pic/link to what I wanted since Google didn’t give us that option. And besides it was kind of not working like it was suppose to any how.  Just got a nice html code from Dynamic Drive, did a bit of fiddling and wala! A nice pic/link that animates with no bugs in it.

Free beer inside.

Ok so I forgot about this place but then can you blame me. Freelancing, clip-art making and other things is much more lucrative anyway.  But I’ll give it another shot. I added another graphic to my product line. Its basically based on my very successful clip-art set that’s been out in the market for sometime. I might add more when I have some time or when I’m bored or something which is quite rare but not too uncommon if I was to spend more time online. But adding more graphics is limited on a free subscription. Oh well. Still I wonder if interest is waning in regards to operating on such a place with the average Jill? I mean sure some people are obviously making some kind of income there but still I don’t see too many conversations happening in the forums. Maybe I should try Zazzler’s in the future or what ever its called.
Going to have to check them out.

Super me!

Not much of a fan of picture taking. The camera never takes my best side any how. Not really a fan of drawing my self in to a self portrait either but sometimes you have to make a compromise. But I still do have fun working on the drawing and colouring part. This was actually drawn awhile ago but I only just now had the time to actually work on it because of other priorities.  
This is my latest persona in the form of an avatar or profile picture I designed for just that.  Yes it may be a bit exaggerated but its definitely me despite that, my current hair style is a bit shorter as of late. The glasses are the wrong colour and no I never had pink in my hair. Its just one of those fantasies/ persona things of mine but current situations do not allow for pink hair. But the boobs ……are all real.

 
Will also be on display soon via my web site just as soon as some lagging bug gets fixed over there at the providers. 

Here is the before and after. The pencil drawing then the final. Enjoy!

Oh yeah I left a bit of text space on the side in case I needed it someday.

Neon Lights Snack bar 3

New another one of those Neon Lights Snack bar series. One to enjoy a nice cuppa coffee with or what ever refreshes you at the moment. Three more left to show.

Neon Lights Snack bar 2

Another one of those Neon lights themed vector.
This one is based mostly on some refreshing drinks you would find at a snack bar.
Uploaded on to my web site a few days ago also.

Little Star the stick horse.

Originally was going to be a finger puppet but seem to fit better as a little stick puppet. Finally got around to finishing it. Not sure if and when I’ll get to make North Star the mommy stick horse or former finger puppet. But eventually I’d like to make that too.  To see what its made out of, the info is available via my web site when you click on the appropriate image in my miscellaneous art section.

Neon Lights Snack bar 1

New graphics in a neon lights theme. They are of stuff you may buy or see at a snack bar or concession stand which is pretty much the same thing. Expect 5 others unless I have to make a few changes.  Now I’m hungry.

Kt's place is back!

My K_t’s Creative layer renovations complete and now ready for your viewing pleasure.
Now to the hobby part of my web site not currently showing.

Here’s a sneak peak of the web site layout. Also clickable for entering my newly refurbished web site.

Thanks for visiting. :)

Lounging Spike

Ok There you have it. The Finished Lounging Spike.
I combined several drawings I did of him to get the look just right. You can see my process in the sketches in an earlier post.
I basically digitally painted it Photo shop using airbrushing and using the textured brushes technique. I also used many layers and channels all the while keeping in mind where and how the lighting should look on Spike est. Even though I wanted a realistic look, I still wanted to keep the cartoony look too. And there you have it.
As usual for now you will not be able to view it on my web site until the first half of my web site is done with the renovations.

 The full Lounging Spike.

 A close up so you can see the details of the hair est.

Featuring creatures

Just featuring a few creatures I’ve been drawing/doodling for the past few months and weeks scanned straight from my personal sketch book. As you know making up creatures and characters are my favorite things to draw.  These were shared earlier at a art web site where people of professional to novas come to share thoughts and their art in forum form. There are other handy artist related things there too. 

Now to the pics. These are mostly inspired by a number of random objects and some are from pure imagination.

 A chompy reptile creature inspired by a staple remover.

 A made up little wombat like creature.

 Another reptile dino like creature with a fingered lip. Inspired by some dumb children's hand puppet show.

 A cute little creature with a deadly defensive secret weapon that you do not want to mess with.

 Another reptile creature inspired by the mayfly.

 Cute little alien girl.

 Some creatures inspired by a humble maple key. I may try and experiment more with this theme in the future. The long necked one is a type of sap sucker. Bother it and it can zing you. The other short and plump one likes to eat small insects.

The last one is a tripod creature who uses its tail like a third leg. And another little alien reptile sits.......in the corner.

3 Green Figs

New clip art. 3 Green figs. 
It wont' be in my personal web site/portfolio until after renovations are completed in my creative half of the site. Can't really access the other half here any ways. ;)

Oh and my first Spike the Tiger illustration for my creative part of my site is coming along fine. Its almost completed too. It will go on the index page.

Also fall or better known as autumn is this Saturday. Boooooo!  Where are my wings so I can fly south for the winter. :p

Drawn to attention.....Spike the tiger

A little history on Spike the Tiger, how he came to be.
When I was little, growing up  I was teased and bullied a lot. I didn’t have any one really to be on my side. No sisters, no brothers, no grandparents, no relatives. My mother was often sick and my dad was working. Friends/ neighbors only help so much and can’t be with you 24 hours a day. I only had one or two friends if I was lucky enough. I had the occasional guidance counselor at school est but in the end they move on to greener grasses and you never hear from them again. Being separated in to special classes which in my normal class time only creates a feeling of segregation to make matters worse. So often as I did, I  daydreamed in class or any where boring or being in a scary situation. I would imagine something powerful and only friendly to me to be on my side.  Then I would doodle the ideas of imaginary friends in on some paper or in some school book. I would draw the powerful black stallion from the movie The Black Stallion. I would draw him running and have smoke billowing out of his nostrils. I would draw big eagles, tigers, lions and powerful lizards and est. I would doodle my favorite characters from my favorite cartoons of the day and I began to make new characters and stories based on those cartoons and have my own persona character in those stories.  Eventually there was a cartoon called Voltron that I really enjoyed watching as a kid. I just loved how these characters were in charge of these huge and powerful robo lions and fought the forces of evil. I then as always created a story with characters of my own only with giant robo tigers. But over time favorite cartoons fade to black as so many times before, things change and so did my little imagined cartoon and characters. Many robo tigers and their operators dwindled to one beloved imaginary powerful tiger friend who was no longer robotic but something more with a heart and personality something that was just as good as those other things imagined to be on my side but can do so many more things and adventures.  

 In time I added a few more things like a world where he came from, a few more friends and enemies to fight est.  

Also over time I kept him as a mascot, as a learning tool and a wonderful story/cartoon idea.The rest is history and spoilers to be revealed someday when the time is right.

These set of drawings is for the front page of my web site. I'm just going to have to decide which pose is the best. Spike doesen't normally act this way. He normally does the typical poncing, fighting and protecting but he as made an exception to pose for my drawings so I can fix up and refurbish my web site. 
I would like to have Spike's tail to over lap some of the title. You can help me choose if you like. I have left the rough drawings as is so you can see how my ideas were coming along. As you can see, I had a few drawings that I did not continue since i did not like the direction they were going in.  Others were experiments. Also because I have a bad habit of making the drawing run off the page I had to draw extra arm/paw drawings to be added later.

I used a blue erasable pencil that animators and drafters use for the loose sketching part and then used a regular writing pencil on top of that for the details. 

Here below are the rest of the sleeping Spike drawings and a scratching Spike to be used for my new Scratching post banner.

 

Below I will use these potential drawings for my Creative blog banner here. Just have to make up my mind to which is best. BTW he's just gotten in to the paint and is painting paw prints all over your screen. Again not typical for Spike.

Another position for the paw printing Spike. With both of these positions I used some picture reference of small house cats so I can get the look right since I wasn't sure. Spike was a bit stubborn. ;)

I tried a different pose and theme in this one with Spike fighting with an airbrush gone crazy. 
The treasure box drawing is for potential over hauled idea for my treasure part of my site. 

The last drawing is another version of that treasure themed idea.

And that's all folks. ;)
Time for bed.