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.

Warm up

This is another warm up  I liked doing a warm up so much that I am going to try to do one every day, I hope it will help me with my character design. I get stuck with only a few different shapes that I use for nearly all my characters. I will post these warm ups but not on this blog I got a tumbler account so I will use that so you can check it out the link is http://kimberlistudio.tumblr.com/. I hope to keep up with these warm ups and post more finished art on this blog.

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

Digital and Traditional Media

Today I wanted to talk a little bit about the mediums I use.  All through College I used traditional mediums, I recently have been using digital media, there are up sides and down sides to both… but I am not really a writer so watch this short film by Emily Switzer with some of the worlds best illustrators talking about digital and traditional art.