I Don't Mind Treadin' Water
Unless otherwise gone unnoticed, Ghostco has been completely redesigned with a small handful of new work. It has been a long time coming. So now I brace myself for complaint emails.
- After inking this i realized that the time for new brushes has come. i battled with my inks for over 3 hours. I was a little iffy on the mask, but figured what the hell. I should mention though that this is heavily inspired by the awkwardly beautiful positions that Autumn Whitehurst is able to put her figures into.
- The pink represents the template i set up for myself with ink on another piece of paper. this has become kind of second nature for me these days....though, i do need to up the anty on the dry brushing to have a little more texture in my separations.
- I have been using "dry texture" brushes in photoshop a lot recently. it really takes away from that slick photoshop look a little bit, and while they are a bit of a bitch to control they really get the job done. I would also like to mention that i hate drawing women's shoes (so does Brendan Larsen) and i also hate red shoes...and maybe just the color red in general.
- I went in a little more and added freckles and makeup (which you really cant see in the long run). The tattoos were actually one of the main reason i started drawing this in the first place, but i have to admit they didn't really work out very well.
- Gradient washes, about 7 colors in total with about 12 layers. I have been mixing my reds and blues a lot recently, seems to give the skin tone a more natural look then just some eyedropper cream.
- I wanted to pull some things forward, and push some other things back. ended up actually using the ink template i had done in the beginning as a layer in the final image, saturating it red and laying it over everything. I also went in and pushed some spots back with a multiplied dark blue.
- Some texture and a background and its done. After looking at some older work, my main goal in doing this piece was to not use the final de-saturation of colors as a crutch. Very very slowly i am coming the realization that i love color. Too bad everything i do still looks grey in the end.
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- After inking this i realized that the time for new brushes has come. i battled with my inks for over 3 hours. I was a little iffy on the mask, but figured what the hell. I should mention though that this is heavily inspired by the awkwardly beautiful positions that Autumn Whitehurst is able to put her figures into.
- The pink represents the template i set up for myself with ink on another piece of paper. this has become kind of second nature for me these days....though, i do need to up the anty on the dry brushing to have a little more texture in my separations.
- I have been using "dry texture" brushes in photoshop a lot recently. it really takes away from that slick photoshop look a little bit, and while they are a bit of a bitch to control they really get the job done. I would also like to mention that i hate drawing women's shoes (so does Brendan Larsen) and i also hate red shoes...and maybe just the color red in general.
- I went in a little more and added freckles and makeup (which you really cant see in the long run). The tattoos were actually one of the main reason i started drawing this in the first place, but i have to admit they didn't really work out very well.
- Gradient washes, about 7 colors in total with about 12 layers. I have been mixing my reds and blues a lot recently, seems to give the skin tone a more natural look then just some eyedropper cream.
- I wanted to pull some things forward, and push some other things back. ended up actually using the ink template i had done in the beginning as a layer in the final image, saturating it red and laying it over everything. I also went in and pushed some spots back with a multiplied dark blue.
- Some texture and a background and its done. After looking at some older work, my main goal in doing this piece was to not use the final de-saturation of colors as a crutch. Very very slowly i am coming the realization that i love color. Too bad everything i do still looks grey in the end.
posted by matthew at 1:30 PM
3 Comments:
Complaint #1
The lightbox for the illustrations should have a way to go to next image just like the sequential ones.
I absolutely love the new site. This is the third version of the site I've seen since I've been reading your blog and I think it's the best yet.
Matt, I just have to say that your work kicks may ass every time I look at it. Here's what I mean: It makes me want to be a better artist...or at least a more prolific artists if I can't improve. There's times when I get home from a long day at work and I just want to veg out while watching my Futurama DVDs or playing Wii...but then I think of your work and I think that if I don't open up my sketchbook or my laptop and start creating I'll never progress.
So thanks for the inspiration man.
Beautiful.
I really appreciate that you put out step by step your artwork, so not only do we appreciate it more, we also get the chance to learn how you do it.
Keep it up, Matt
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