Cheshire Cat

Sooo, since the new Alice in Wonderland came out (No I haven't seen it, I'm waiting to download it), and I recently met someone as fanatical about Lewis Carroll's original tale as I, I decided to make a painting about my personal favorite character from the story, Mr. Chesire Cat (my friend also requested it because she's crazy and believes that she's the Cheshire Cat^^) .

So i tried to work on my painting technique in Photoshop, as well as on my colors. See, I like REALLY REALLY bright saturated colors. Unfortunately, put too many in a composition, and pretty soon you have a hot mess. SO I tried to work it out where i could have some really bright colors and and some unsaturated colors to balance it out. I know there's no background. I'm thinking hard about where to put him, i mean i should have though of it before, but i was just thinking... you know... let me tackle these simple problems. Background (especially for me) bring in a whole new set of problems I need to work out (Backgrounds are NOT my forte... yet). Anyways, yeah, I said I'd have a painting up. Plus I want to keep this pace up of posting twice a week, it feels good.

2 life drawings and a rough character

hm... ok so 2 more life drawings... we get the model at work, and it's twice a week, so i've been going every time so far. I really like making proportions longer than they really are, but oh well, these two i founf acceptable. The other is a sketch of a character that my friend Felipe wants to make... I tried my hand at it, but its more graphic than he wants. Oh well I liked it, so its up. Must do more painting, i should have something up by this WE

so life drawing... the only one i found acceptable.. it was the last one i did. after months of not doing life drawing, it's good to be back. it will help me with my characters, i know it

ok so i painted this on my iPhone with an App called brushes. It's pretty sweet. the app. not the painting. the painting is just ok. i guess i am trying to research a stylization of person.. half based on cartoony style half based on street art with this kind of character.

went to a life drawing session and some came out not so bad. I'll post those later

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_5V_S--yjk

all my student crap. Most of it hurts my eyes. hopefully with the projects i got going on, I'll do stuff that hurts eyes less.

life drawing

this is old. need more life drawing. the end

more research

I like this one better. But i need to get better with hats. and accent colors. I wanted to do something fast, i think i spent an hour on this, something like that. its rough, but i think i got the mood down right. he's quite mean, and very mysterious and maybe a bit mean. I need to do the other characters ASAP... and seriously post more work.. jeez