These are simple, but done with different techniques and programs. Up above is purely digital, drawn and painted in Photoshop.

The guy below was drawn in Adobe Illustrator according to a pencil sketch, then coloured in Photoshop. I’m happy with the ink lines I’m able to create, and they’re fast to do, too.

This strange woman was painted in black wash on paper, then coloured in Photoshop. Nifty! I want to be able to blend the colours more.

Still, all things considered, they look good to me, and my pics will continue to get only better.

More cartoon colouring. I’ve noted that few people are visiting the blog on Sunday, so I can post today in relative obscurity.

Happy New Year’s, all three of you visiting this blog! It’s business as usual at Utopia Moment. I’m still playing with my Wacom Intuos, but I also enjoy the old school tools. These are a pile of faces, in gloomy watercolours.

I’m very happy that my local art store has returned to stocking this paper that I like. Will have to buy a block of it soon, before it vanishes again.

Haven’t blogged much recently. Mainly because I’ve been busy, and drawing little bits and pieces of things as I learn my new tool, the Wacom Intuous Tablet. But there are some exciting projects happening in the new year, and I hope lots of interesting stuff to draw and put up.

This is a watercolour man with an odd photoshop background. Compelling, for sure. I’m working on more ambitious things, when the cats don’t throw up on them.

Sorry for the absence, but I’ve been playing with a new toy. A Wacom Intuous 4 stylus. Still working with it. I’ve used a Bamboo Pen stylus for a while, but though i liked it, the lines were jiggly and I couldn’t really draw with it the way I could with pencils, pens and brushes. This device is much smoother, but it still has a learning curve. I love gadgets, but also love my pen and paper, which I’m more used to. Stil, it’s interesting experimenting with this, and seeing all that it can do.

Here, it seems to be able to do everything my dip pen can do, plus be erasable:

Still painting random faces, from DVDs, and my squirming imagination. Kind of enjoying it at the moment.

Some bonus kitty-cats as well.

I’m doing comic colouring in Photoshop. Shouldn’t be so difficult, but I’m thinking of it a lot. Then a little watercolour.

That’s where these drawings are from. When winter sets in it’s less practicable to draw things out on the street. So I sit around looking at books, watching DVDs, also drawing anything that tickles my fancy. Hate drawing directly from photographs, but those give you different ideas, and also keeps one closer to reality. So here are imagined pictures I was drawing last night, mainly while watching episodes of “Star Trek Enterprise” on youtube via the computer.