I’ve been calling Pokemon #566 Archaeopteryxmon because there’s no official English name yet and because that’s basically what he is. His Japanese official romanji is Aaken, but I’d rather not get attached to it. Regardless, I’m pretty sure this guy is my favorite generation five Pokemon, and it was awesome to ignore other obligations for a few brief hours to work on the sketch I posted Saturday. I regret nothing!
Yesterday, I finished up a series of paintings I had been working on for the past few weeks. I wanted to try out some more message-oriented, magazine-style illustrations, so I figured this was a good way to go about it. It was also a good way to get back into doing watercolor paintings since I didn’t get to do much painting while I was working on Rainbows and Rainclouds (which, by the way, is still available for preorder). There are five paintings in the series, though one of them is debatably a painting at all.
I’ve never really painted text, so this was interesting. For “Write It,” I was more concerned about getting it to look good than I was about the fact that there’s no way a typewriter could 1) produce copy that big, 2) change fonts, 3) change inks. The text here was outlined with quill and ink first and then filled in with waercolor, which is why the edges are a bit uneven. I rather like that look though. Read the rest of this entry »
The SCAD Society of Illustrators usually has a juried show every fall and winter quarter, but I’ve skipped out on submitting to a bunch of them mostly because the themes didn’t interest me. As it’s my last year in school, I want to submit to as many things as possible, so it’s nice that this year’s fall show also has an agreeable theme: “Monster Masquerade.” As usual, they don’t elaborate more that, so I just started scribbling random things:
I had two ideas. One was just two generic kind of monsters dressed for a traditional masquerade — cute, I suppose. The other was based mostly on the Japanese kitsunetsuki — pretty much any fox demon that possesses young women. I thought it was a pretty nice twist on the words of the theme.
