Inktober day #3

#inktober day 3 in which I have a confusing line drawing that turns in to an ink wash painting.

Inktober day #2

Inktober Day 1

My poor blog has been a bit ignored, because of my new facebook page, twitter and tumblr accounts. But I won't forget it through #inktober!

Percy Jackson Fan Art?

I am working on some new pieces for the good ol' portfolio, This is the first of five that I will be working on over the next little while.

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I finished this a while ago, you may recognize a detail of Aslan that I posted earlier but since I updated my website and put this on their I might as well post it hear as well. And speaking of Websites, I did update it so check it out www.kimberlistudio.com

Beorn

I am a self proclaimed Hobbit geek, so when I found out about a hobbit fan art contest, that is being judged by Alan Lee, I just had to do a piece to submit.

Native Americans

A WIP of some native americans.

This is a sketch that I decided to color.

My friend over at Victorian Haus and I went "plein air" painting yesterday, this little study is the result.    It was good to accomplish some of my goals about painting from life, and I just have to keep telling myself that one day I will be able to paint a decent landscape, I am doing this to learn, but in the mean time I settle for these little studies.

Walk like an Egyptian

This is a warm up I got a little bit carried away with, As always there are things that could be better like the negative spaces but it was fun, And no this has nothing to do with any of the projects I am working on, this senile Pharaoh just popped into my head so I painted him

This is a WIP I have been experimenting with using water color and digital media again. The top is a water color under painting and the bottom has digital. I miss the color variation  of the water color in the back ground, but I do like the texture I feel like my digital work is too plastic looking, so  If I can make this work it should fix that problem.

This is a WIP from a commission I have been working on.  This is the first YA novel I have worked on and it is FUN! I love being able to decide how the characters look and design the world they live in; I guess that is why I wanted to be an illustrator.   I don’t dare say too much, so I don’t give anything away from the book, but I just wanted to share this image.

P.S. I think the book will be out next February.

tradigital

Last week I posted a video on the upsides and downsides to digital and traditional art.  This week I spent a little bit of time on an experiment, It was to blend watercolors and digital.  I really love Watercolor and the beautiful water marks and spontaneous things that happen, but I can control digital “paint” better and get more detail, and better values digitally (plus when I mess up I don’t have to redo the entire painting.)  So I am trying to blend the two so I can have the best of both worlds. 

This is a detail from one of my BFA pieces, the first is the original the second I have worked on digitally.  I wish I had more time to play around with this technique but I like the look enough to continue to experiment with the watercolors and digital art