Horkinfiber

Back with a brand new invention

It's been 7 hours and 16 days. It's been one week since you looked at me. I haven't posted in one billion years. As a result I'm putting up this somewhat un-ambitious image. The boy has finally stopped his sailing and will meet some new folks and hopefully make some new friends.

Let's Get EnvironMental

This is another piece for my company art group. The assignment was to paint a scene that had a canyon, a monolith, the scene should be ominous, and there should be some patchy foliage with snow. There are bonus points if you can also get a banana and a hammock in there too, heheh. I used two brushes for this, a flat opaque brush for the stream and then the rest was done with an opacity sponge brush.

I had a lot of fun with this one. This is the first environment that I've done that looks decent! =)

How do you do the voodoo?

I'm working on a new painting all from scratch but it looks terrible right now. I'm experimenting with some new brushes but the learning curve is a bit steep for me. So I'm posting voodoo boy here as a stand in. I drew him a few years back in a meeting with my boss at a now defunct dotcom.

Paint By Numbers

I didn't really draw this guy. It was an assignment for some internal seminars they're holding at work. The purpose was to take a screenshot of a game model and paint over it to add your own detail and lighting. It's basically paint by numbers for wannabe artists like myself =P. If you mouseover the image you can see the original screenshot. Clicking on the image will give you a higher res version.

Meet the Characters

This post is a week late! I have no excuse except that I've been battling monsters on a bejeweled battlefield

Lost at Sea

I did this in one day all digitally. The line work is a bit sloppy in places and the composition is pretty odd, but I had a lot of fun with the colors in this one. I'm trying to get away from "obvious" hues. The story begins!

The Boy, the Tree, and the Sea

I've been saying I want to create a children's story, but I could never fully flesh out the story I wanted to tell. As a result the project never got off of the ground. To get things jump started I decided to just start drawing and see what comes out. Hopefully if I do enough of these I'll come up with something good. Until then, this is what I got =P

Ninja with glowing eyes, so original!

I painted this a while back when I was in a group drawing club with my friends. Unfortunately I couldn't keep up with the assignments and I had to drop out. The topic for this drawing project was "Stealth". I guess the image is pretty trite, but I'm happy with the way it turned out.

Baby it's cold outside

This guy was done from scratch on the computer. I was finally able to do the initial sketch digitally. It started out pretty ho-hum in the beginning but once I got the idea for the eyes melting the snow, I really started to like how it was looking. I also wanted to do a drawing that had a hint of a story rather than just having a random/strange image. One of my goals is to do a children's story and I think this is look that I'm shooting for.

This week you can click on the image for a larger view. I will probably switch to this format since the small images don't really show too much detail.

I've also posted an animated gif of progression of this drawing Click here to view

All Hail Whale Boy!

As you can see, most of my drawings come from who knows where. This one might stem from the fact that I really want to see a whale when I scuba dive. It also might come from the fact that I'm drinking lemon green tea and stuffing my face with Danish Butter Cookies from Solvang. Who really knows? Who really cares? Certainly not me.

Holy smokes, I just realized that all the subjects of my drawings are facing to the left. I wonder what they're all looking at?! I hope it's something really cool.

The Earth Moves Under My Feet

I think that this was the beginning of my anthropomorphizing of objects. I did this painting a while back. I was a bit too busy/lazy this week to finish up the drawing I was working on. Posting once a week is going to be hard!

DinoBoy

DinoBoy was a napkin sketch that I made a couple of days ago. It's not very polished but I like the general feel.

I'm not Weird I'm Just Big Boned

This was a drawing I did while under pressure at work. After completing it I wanted to make it into a children's story somehow. Like many of my grandiose plans, it never made it to fruition.

One day I will be able to draw for a living... and you will be scared.

Turtle Turtle!

This is a robotic rendition of a turtle that I did as a trial digital painting. It took quite a while since I only worked on it for an hour or so at a time. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I could have worked on it a lot more, but I needed to be "done"