Archive for the ‘cats’ Category

May 23, 2012 0

More Faces

By in black and white, brush pen, cats, men, pen and ink, sketches, women

More faces, like it said up top, but this time I’m inking them with the brush pen, so they’re not as scratchy. Not sure which I prefer. Above are Liv Tyler from The Lord of the Rings, two faces from the DVD cover for “Sky Captain,” and the sinister Conrad Black, recently released from prison […]

May 10, 2012 0

Brown Studies

By in ballpoint pen, cats, dinosaurs, machines, men, sketches, women

Bought some fun new pens (called “Pilot FriXion Ball” gel pens, in brown, .5 mm and .7mm respectively, plus a new sketchbook, because those were on sale at the art store). So I decided to sketch with them using brown pencils to embellish, as necessary. “Brown Studies” is not what the name really means, which […]

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April 25, 2012 0

Small Cat and Food Dish

By in black and white, cats, pen and ink, sketches

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April 8, 2012 0

Disgruntled Cat

By in cats, color, digital, sketches

Digital drawing of a cat, from the cover of this week’s Montreal Mirror.

April 4, 2012 0

Cat Drawings

By in black and white, cats, color, pen and ink, pencil, sketches

I’m afraid I’m going for the simple SEO on the title here. If you’re not aware, that means “Search Engine Optimisation,” and is where people put words in that they think will be used in Google-type searches, to win more views for their article. Still, cats are pretty popular on the internet (as if you […]

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April 2, 2012 0

Relaxing

By in cats, digital, men, paintings

A couple of quick digital paintings I did on my little computer (an Asus EEE subnotebook) while chatting with a friend. This is good, because it means I’m generally getting more relaxed with it! Still so much to learn. Check this page, for instance. I should post most of my useful digital painting training links, […]

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March 29, 2012 0

Sherwin Tjia Cat

By in cats, ruttan's place

As the artist promised, Sherwin Tjia has sent me this sketch of a cat. The postman folded it, of course, but I am flattening it out.

March 9, 2012 0

It’s Mr. Boggedy!

By in cats, pen and ink, sketches

He had a pill today, and so hated me fiercely for about 5 minutes. But soon was back to his old gentle self. It was sunny, so we even sat out on the balcony today. Thank goodness for spring.

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March 5, 2012 0

Cat All Alone

By in cats, Nora the cat, paintings

I’ve got a new, slightly intimidating photoshop. Took a while to paint this, and it’s not exactly according to the tutorials I was watching, but interesting enough. For more Nora the cat, go here.

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February 29, 2012 0

Various Watercolour Paintings

By in cats, men, sketches, watercolour, women

Ye Huntyng Catt Keanu (Feel the Heat?) A California Woman Little Watercolour People

February 28, 2012 0

Scoundrels and Shady Dealings

By in cats, men, sketches, watercolour, women

Plus the usual cat.

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February 24, 2012 0

Some More Painting

By in cats, sketches, women

The digital thing is frustrating, because of all the switches you have to throw (if you start working on the wrong layer, then you’re lost). Also, I keep losing brushes I like. In Photoshop, those are collections of settings and sometimes an image. This can all be solved, but it’s a learning curve for me. […]

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February 22, 2012 0

More Cats, and Star Trek People

By in cats, men, sketches, women

My sketches have become a little more, um, “sketchy” since I’ve been on this digital art kick. Still drawing, however, and the books are filling up with pencil drawings, actually drawing in all kinds of media, since it really doesn’t matter if I can mess with the lines and colours. So, I’ve been enjoying my […]

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January 17, 2012 0

Digital and Ballpoint Pen Critters (and folk)

By in cats, horses, paintings, sketches, women

Still playing with the digital painting. I think I get so carried away with the technical challenge I sometimes forget to make an interesting picture. Hence this horse, not doing much of anything. George Stubbs I am not! Actually, without the “ink” lines, this looks a lot like one of those paint by numbers kits. […]

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