Sweeping Strokes

Many works call for subtlety and gentle strokes, however if one is too subtle in their work it won't be noticed at all. For this reason I chose to use more distinct versions of the colors when I applied the shading. Originally I intended to use a white background but the contrast looked poor so I ended up settling for a gray one. I feel that the impression given by this piece leaves a smile on the face of the viewer.

Thank you for your time.

Golden Light

The monotonous golden mixture of yellow and orange contrasts wonderfully with the heavy black shading the artist used in some of his previous works. The choice to use the golden colors makes the light seem more distinct than in pieces where whit is used as the white generally feels passive. The shading leaves a hard striking impression while the background softly blends waves of yellow and gold.

Project Page Header

I decided that my project page could use a bit of sprucing up so I thought a bit and decided it needed some sort of banner or header or soemthing. It needed at least one picture on it at any rate. So here it is:

It's got a general-use chicken on the left because that's what I do on this site, a chicken foot on the far right because I'm not very good at those and decided I needed to practice, though I probably shouldn't have done that on a semi-permanent thing... A chicken in flight in the middle because it seemed exciting. A generic version of Shades McCoolGuy is on the Bottom right for character. The background is a silver tipped wing because it came to me and the thing looked rather empty. Faded look was kinda hard to get right but I think I got it right..

S.

Here we have a classic letter. The chicken is upside-down and the entire this is rather minimalistic, though I have gone a lot farther with that before. The chicken is upside-down because that was how he looked best. Questions? No. Okay, good.

Not A New Banner

Well, I was messing around, thinking maybe I should change my banner. I mean I've had this one for a while. So I thought up a design and tossed it together. After a bit of "Eh... maybe"-ing I decided it wasn't good to go so I stamped the word alternate on the corner and decided to show you folks. Like I said though, I decided against it in the end. Probably because its too empty.

Constellation

Well, I told you tune in for this one. It's a constellation. I'm sure you've seen them. Generally you just have 4-5 stars that vaguely look like a square and someone went, "Looks like a T-Rex to me" and BAM! T-Rex constellation. I put a tad more effort into this chicken. I purposely made it not like up with the actual look of a chicken but tried to make it still vaguely look like a chicken. If you're wondering why the lines connecting the stars are green it's because that's the color they are on star charts and the light blue was being used for the chicken form in the background.

R.

R. is a pretty good letter and this chicken beak-wattle combo makes one very easily. I was actually just drawing a chicken then I turned my head a bit and saw the R. The chicken wasn't going very well but this detail didn't escape me. This chicken is a rather good design.

Stand By for Next Time!