http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/gallery/00006tab.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/gallery/00006tab Artwork by me http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00064hpw.xml Click for larger. Took me /three days/ to complete. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00064hpw.xml a58aaa908485457876ef0bd7e9cf4aed image/jpeg 750 648 125407 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00064hpw This is Kya White Sapphire's alternate form, a gargoyle. (As opposed to my human form, which I am currently wearing.) http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00028cb2.xml 45676a46dfa3d548e3002ea411b74a09 image/jpeg 500 417 26346 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00028cb2 A simple "Polymorph Self" spell, and here I am as a Naga. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/000290bd.xml 1706e0407d39075a6f5cb50f60922c65 image/jpeg 240 500 36117 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/000290bd Polymorph Self can come in handy when you need to get around under water. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0002as4y.xml 36eceac71a19283d59f8e2d09820c5a7 image/jpeg 500 195 24218 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0002as4y A trio, done WCIII style. Bunny, Uni and I are all named Kelly, so we often do images of the three of us together. Here we are as some of the cooler units from Warcraft III. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0002br10.xml b2244c49e9fcd06e3031b7fd5685e289 image/jpeg 500 384 61618 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0002br10 Hida commissioned a picture of himself and Julie/Chameleongirl. Of course LOADS of detail was lost when resized. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0003s5ey.xml ea8e2a00e9a1b95f478b1df3eeb58cea image/jpeg 700 351 69350 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0003s5ey For Liz's birthday- Dec 18, 2004 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0003ta3h.xml 349d953687e9319aaaab0594f025fbb9 image/jpeg 449 550 67557 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0003ta3h Image by Liz Chesterman, colored by me. Seed is the patroness of wood, and rules over family, tradition, herbalism, the harvest, and wisdom. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/001gez32.xml 002b4722ce9e19db1448ef70420816eb image/jpeg 530 735 43583 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/001gez32 I blame Nambroth. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00054xw3.xml 18454d60d80302a1656f15847b7c2f36 image/jpeg 640 480 51381 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00054xw3 My name's Ginny, but the only people who call me that are my dad and people who want parts of their body surgically removed with my rocket launcher. Most people call me Gin, and I run a Jenner Mech for hire. I’m about to meet up with a band of military brats. I hate military families, but right now I need the cash. My mech’s called The Raptor, and if you see me coming, either fall in behind me or get the hell out of my way. Incidentally, my favorite liquor is vodka, and my favorite game is Mao. Gin jokes result in a process I lovingly call "bazooka enema." [One of the few "honerable mercs" Gin likes to put up a badass attitude, but she's loyal to a fault.. to whoever she's contracted by. Once she's been contracted she can't be bought by anyone else, until her current contract is fufilled. After that it's anyone's game.] http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0006d605.xml 06312a7b99fcbeaaaaedbac55e13a271 image/jpeg 480 640 22864 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0006d605 I was listening to Blue Man Group and browsing art at work. Nambroth's auctions led me to her art led me to someone else's gallery. One of the images he did was relatively dynamic, and I was suddenly compelled to draw this woman. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0006e1gb.xml 818ba0eb583c6b61278b5ff98f3d0143 image/jpeg 640 480 48938 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0006e1gb For Eldarath & Nambroth.. May you two forever be happy together :) http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0007a3p2.xml 2f4e5ae2a52eac44bd914319891f54f8 image/jpeg 600 576 61129 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0007a3p2 For Nambroth :) http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0007yfyb.xml 5f21aaa02e9ee6a3db0acd9a6d42bf4b image/jpeg 640 480 78161 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0007yfyb My first time ever beating the Terra Volta trial. I SO HAPPEH! http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00081eh0.xml b7532dfea1cd6b11d3ed9f806a7bd3d1 image/jpeg 800 600 78243 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00081eh0 True story. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/000823y9.xml 9b839712cd0fa08fef8a526b57e1bc78 image/jpeg 640 480 53844 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/000823y9 Yeah, so, I think Deadly Instinct had the belt. And he never really HAD to heal the core, he just topped it off a couple of times. It probably only ever got 5% damaged. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00083s5t.xml 758ae3346566a46f3ea2a22c92bc75c3 image/jpeg 640 480 59475 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00083s5t Im working on getting a comic style down to draw BubbleYumm in. Its hard to get the pose to be dynamic AND balanced. Harder still is making sure she looks bubbly (as opposed to skinny). She's too skinny here. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00084syd.xml f17e94919bc59d9f18240487340130cb image/jpeg 480 640 58679 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00084syd This was a previous version of my website. While I still like the look, it's kind of hard to update and add pages to. Frames are better. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/001gdecf.xml 98ba5f0951e5083eec910298619671c2 image/jpeg 800 600 57053 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/001gdecf A recent site design I created for coloden.com http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/002azt1z.xml c189ace5bcba86a3854139277c4e2239 image/jpeg 800 600 121079 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/002azt1z I consider this cheating. Taking pictures of things that are already beautiful. It's too easy: point and shoot. I didn't even grow this flower, it's just in my back yard. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0001xbp4.xml 7c58f88e8f64b813770f471a8966e710 image/jpeg 640 480 97246 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0001xbp4 It looks like I got the sunrays in there on purpose, doesn't it. I wish I could claim credit for that. I was just trying to take photos of flowers from angles OTHER than head on. So I went from the side, and managed to capture the rising sun. Lucky shot ;) http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0001ypy8.xml a6f446252b209eb04436363d974be730 image/jpeg 640 480 32077 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0001ypy8 One of my favorite tactics is to lay on the ground and take photos up through the branches of trees. This is a golden raintree in my parents' yard, at night, when it's just starting to put leaves back out. For part of the year the trees just look like huge sticks in the ground. When in full bloom, there are leaves EVERYWHERE. This is an inbetween phase. I love how the leaves look so fractal-like... does science mimic nature, or vice versa? http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0001z2qa.xml 85f150765fdde1c8a5a9ec0764b90eed image/jpeg 640 480 43302 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0001z2qa I didn't actually have to work to get this shot. I just walked outside one morning to let the dog go do his business, and suddenly noticed this gorgeous purple flower in the back garden. I did not cultivate this garden, the previous owner did. I just let it go wild. Anyway, when I saw this flower I just ran in the house and grabbed my camera. So I cheated, this isn't really art :P http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0002072x.xml 0d9ea5ac119b10a14c62752644f0c592 image/jpeg 640 480 23554 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0002072x This is my favorite photo EVER. I walked outside to take the dog out (this was when I was still living with my parents) and the weather was GORGEOUS. I looked up at the moon, and was inspired. I grabbed the camera and took this shot, along with about three others. This is the only one I really, really liked. Not only do I love the photo, but I also love the memories that this photo inspires- memories of how beautiful the weather was that night. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/000212x1.xml 912b0b8de5db70e9b4b25c704247af0f image/jpeg 640 480 27153 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/000212x1 This plant is right outside the front door to work. I wanted to see if I could get any neat effects with focusing on something RIGHT in front of the camera, and have the background be out of focus. But the wind kept blowing around, so it was the foreground that was out of focus. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00022akr.xml 3205e601d2230176593f45ee683f4c0d image/jpeg 640 480 49178 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00022akr I took this at Starkey Wilderness Park. No, that's not the sky you're looking at, that's a reflection of the sky in the Anclote River. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/000230ab.xml a77cfe87c882a4ee659afa57e814f297 image/jpeg 640 480 72170 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/000230ab Roses are so easy to get good shots of. At least my mom's roses are. "Oh look, pretty flower, point and click." http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00024b1k.xml 9b8f4dc3559e722aa05d758c412d25b0 image/jpeg 640 480 13959 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00024b1k I take a lot of photos of my mom's roses. They're just easy to get good shots of. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00025tra.xml b41d63bdc01bd88a8cd38e28ee332fab image/jpeg 640 480 18822 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00025tra I don't know why this rose bud grew this way. I guess it's going to open but not quite there yet. When I got this close, it reminded me of a spider with it's legs sprawled. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00026xw5.xml 80f9b63d0183814665bc50445bb13154 image/jpeg 640 480 25374 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00026xw5 I'm pretty sure I took this photo at night, which is why the leaves have such a blue-ish tint. I love the contrast of the teal leaves next to the yellow and pink rose. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00027a4w.xml c7eb9e04e0446c6d49feef9901d2a781 image/jpeg 640 480 30123 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00027a4w I really like the way the light reflects off my windows in this shot. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00051b36.xml 7e60bda95060c7146b5e707231116e3a image/jpeg 640 480 98907 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00051b36 I love taking photos of the sky at night. Yes, yes I do. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/000530gq.xml 59ec559c5d03521af6acb5506955fe88 image/jpeg 640 480 54040 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/000530gq The only modifications I did were: smudge a chip in my windshield glass out of the image, clone over a telephone poll on the lower right. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0006s6q7.xml 5321c93d0d23ea54769d646da7557f6d image/jpeg 1280 692 17002 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0006s6q7 The sky looked really cool, so I said "Quick, get the camera out of the glove compartment and take a picture of that sky!" In his wisdom, Will captured part of the road too, and thus we started getting some really cool exposure shots... http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/000ew3xc.xml 2bf8f59bec93301ec62b0613381576f2 image/jpeg 640 480 60934 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/000ew3xc Second in a series of exposure shots while driving down Dale Mabry http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/000exfeg.xml 5271c849707dc93fab8882fa1eceb568 image/jpeg 640 480 62921 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/000exfeg This is my favorite of the three exposure shots, because of all the COLOR. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/000ey3zk.xml 4daf905b93a5222e41533ed5f64432d5 image/jpeg 640 480 59722 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/000ey3zk This is actually two photos, taken about ten minutes apart, of the same tree. The first photos was very yellow-lit, the second was very pink. I overlayed one with the other and played with opacity and blending options, and voila! http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/000hygwc.xml 17b7e14169d92b130ab3a42ffb07bea5 image/jpeg 640 480 64956 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/000hygwc http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/001rdwdg.xml 4755abcc4ba03b0a42b1c40c4d72fc0e image/jpeg 514 600 32010 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/001rdwdg Animated image showing progress of Spirit pic http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/002ws7ka.xml a2c9cbcacb0ee930204c161d3a53d0f1 image/gif 301 480 330296 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/002ws7ka Spirit of Tampa Bay, finished (background is a screenshot from in-game) http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/002wte1p.xml 9f46680e459f7972f9d415175a10896f image/jpeg 433 600 78970 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/002wte1p Aeris, for LineNoise - thanks for the IO builds!! http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/002zxdqf.xml 0f97faf14d015b7cfb50cf206de53d81 image/jpeg 617 850 127775 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/002zxdqf I took a photo of Dezi with my cell phone. It was tiny and low quality, so I applied a paint filter in photoshop. I think it came out pretty cool.. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00308drh.xml 13bc27c80d769857027524a3d128977a image/jpeg 320 240 12196 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00308drh http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00314w76.xml c129e1e1c2f6ef1a863f5cbcdfac05d5 image/jpeg 865 677 37002 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00314w76 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003157rb.xml 69fdae1038eab7412670d0d394f8f845 image/jpeg 352 557 18080 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003157rb This is very, very mixed media. The horses were drawn by hand and colored with colored pencils, the sky is a photo that I took and digitally manipulated, and the grass is a brush from photoshop. This is part of a picture trade I'm doing with Kimira (http://kimira.deviantart.com/) of two of her characters, Star and Nil'Chi. I hadn't drawn horses in a long time, and I hadn't used traditional media in even longer, so it was fun to break out the prismacolors again. Of course my coloring skills aren't as leet as some other people I know, and this is made even more obvious by all the whitespace the scanner picked up (I used a blending pencil, I swear!) .. I'd considered adding a painterly effect (dry brush) to the horses, which actually looked quite nice, but was out of place with the rest of the picture. And it obscured too much detail. Anyway, this didn't take me very long at all (three or four hours?) so I'm going to be doing another pic for Kimira as well. [photo references used] http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003205ey.xml c60922e6ccffccb7c5d1195a2e338883 image/jpeg 1000 800 182132 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003205ey Several years ago my good friend Sonia asked if she could commission me for a picture of my character Sapphire. At the time I was very unhappy with my artwork, and while I didn't mind giving little "gifts" to people, I never felt like it was could enough to give to someone as part of a "request". When I recently got back into the drawing habit, I realized I might actually be able to complete a commission for Sonia, finally. I obviously need more practice with the medium - while I'm proud of the blending on Sapphire's skin, I haven't practiced with light and shadow with colored pencils. The background was done with crayon, just so there'd be something there other than whitespace. It's actually a little darker in person, the scan didn't pick up all of the color. Photo reference used. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00325afb.xml 9ca22f9fb2905febb76063cb3cc11973 image/jpeg 631 820 166983 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00325afb This is my (current) avater on gaiaonline.com - I'm amazed at how long this took, or rather, how long it didn't take. I only spent about 3 hours on it! That would be the difference between traditional and digital work!! ^_^ I did add a filter/effect in photoshop: "colored pencil" which gave it a much smoother feel. There are some things I'm really happy with - I like the skirt, and I think the gold/jewelry came out really really well. I didn't know how hard the hair was going to be, since I've never attempted that hair style. I also colored right over my sketch (usually I trace my sketch onto a clean piece of paper) so you can see some of my initial lines. I know the image isn't perfect, but instead of being discouraged (as I used to be by my art) I'm actually encouraged. I can't wait to try again! http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003267cg.xml be691f48ae3cd69c5aa4637d86568810 image/jpeg 690 850 85320 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003267cg Sonia's gaia avatar - this took about 3.5 hours. Prismacolor colored pencil, plus some tweaking & effects in photoshop. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0032df2x.xml 1e3529bd2ddaca5965fdca2d15a78a41 image/jpeg 659 850 116615 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0032df2x http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00332f0a.xml 8ead3cb5805d984cea32c485ddd757ea image/jpeg 1024 738 106972 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00332f0a My friend Ping and I decided to "reincarnate" our main characters in City of Heroes. His main character is Penguina, the lady on the lower left. She is an ice/ice blaster. But I have two main characters, really: BubbleYumm (top left), a FF/Psy defender, and White Sapphire (top right), an ice/ice blaster. So he remade Penguina as Empress Penguin (bottom right), an ice/storm controller, and I blended Bubs and WS to create BubbleMint (middle), an ice/sonic controller. Ping asked for an image of BubbleYumm and Penguina, since they teamed together back in ye olden days, but I decided to include all five characters. This image took over 30 hours total. The Photoshop file is over 400MB, and over 6000 pixels square. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00368f0p.xml af0be657da0b9cd5ad9af59a940e8e2d image/jpeg 2000 2027 705793 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00368f0p After seeing the image I did for Ping, my friend Rogh asked for an image of several of his characters. From left to right, they are: Hel's Angel's Zombies, Infernal Glacier (Fire/Ice Tank, the only hero), Hel's Angel (Necro/Dark Mastermind), Baal Chanan (Claws/Regen Stalker), Destrado Baryon (Mind/Energy Dominator), Deathwatch Daughter (Ninja Blade/Dark Stalker), Project 20-05 (Bots/Force Field Mastermind) and Project 20-05's bot. I started work on this in August, after I finished Ping's pic, so it obviously took me well over a month to complete. I don't know exactly how many hours I put into it, but it has to be in the 20-30 range. Needless to say, I'm very happy to be finished. There are some mistakes to be sure, but I'm going to pretend they're on purpose in the interest of excluding too much detail where it would detract from the image. Yeah, that's the ticket. (Oh, and the towers in the background that you can barely see are from a City of Villains Euro Server Desktop image. Because as much as I suck at inorganics, I suck harder at architecture. :P) http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0036abg9.xml 84443fd6d6038648f83892f67cd7d3e5 image/jpeg 1000 768 352115 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0036abg9 Every year the Fairy King hosts a feast of the harvest. Traditional dishes include pumpkin soup, large ripe fruit, and seed casseroles. This is my entry for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Monthly Art Challenge (community.livejournal.com/sfmac). The theme was "The Harvest". I was hoping someone would go with a macabre "human harvest" type image, but no one else has submitted an entry yet, so that remains to be seen. For my entry I wanted to show a harvest feast, Fairy style. I realize nothing is to scale and the perspective is way off, but for once I wasn't going for "correctness". Really, my goal was just to have fun doing this image, and I certainly did. Also, I realize this pretty cliche... but frankly, I don't give a damn. XD Oh, I used Liz's colored pencil tutorial for this (which I stumbled over via google.. even though I knew she'd done this and I'd seen it before.. I just forgot about it). I didn't do it justice, however I'm much happier with this than I have been with previous colored pencil pieces. I guess that means the tutorial served its purpose. ^_^ http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0036d2b1.xml 423adca29e92453ba5e0671c5066fe6b image/jpeg 706 900 402295 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0036d2b1 2007 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/gallery/0007h28x.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/gallery/0007h28x The Harvest http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/gallery/0007pg7t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/gallery/0007pg7t kwsapphire http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/gallery/0007kggs.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/gallery/0007kggs october http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/gallery/0007g1b9.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/gallery/0007g1b9 Some people call it a temple, some people call it an oracle. It is the Elemental Temple, and it floats in the void like an intricate, living piece of jewelry. One creates one's own gravity around the structure, and so can travel from level to level as if flying. The platforms are made of pearl, the struts of pure gold. Elemental Acolytes wait at every level to help you on your journey. -- The pearl is actually a photo of a pearl I found on google image search. I tried for about three hours to create my own pearl effect, and while I made some pretty neat looking things, none of them looked like pearl. So the texture on all of the platforms are just the photo, stretched to fit. I really hate that I had to do that, but I just wasn't getting it on my own. The structure itself was inked via Corel Draw, as well as some of the elemental items (lightning, minerals, trees). Everything was colored in Adobe Photoshop. It took me around 15 hours if I had to guess. I realize that perspective does not apparently exist in this universe, but I don't see how I could have shown all six levels and actually kept any perspective. I'm sure it would have been possible, but it would have required SKILL, of which regarding the field of perspective in art, I have NONE. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003778wf.xml 88bca51f6824140b5036429f40965a40 image/jpeg 714 1000 200186 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003778wf 2007 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/gallery/0007h28x.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/gallery/0007h28x Religion http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/gallery/0007yb7e.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/gallery/0007yb7e kwsapphire http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/gallery/0007kggs.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/gallery/0007kggs november http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/gallery/0007xzdd.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/gallery/0007xzdd I put a good amount of time into this (hour and a half at least), and I like it, but I feel like it's missing something. Or maybe it has too much, since my first image with this idea has far less in it, but looks better. I dunno. I don't think I'll ever be able to express via art the emotions I feel for him, but it was nice to try at least. Time: About 1.5 hours Medium: Artrage http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0037ts4h.xml ee8e42cfdb4ce777a5626c050c15071e image/jpeg 800 640 88809 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0037ts4h I am so, so freaking disappointed by this. Don't get me wrong, I love the image. That's why I am so disappointed. You see, this was supposed to be a "doll". I spent hours and hours working on a picture of Sapphire. She was supposed to be on her own layer. I was then going to draw different outfits on different layers, so I could show all the different outfits Sapphire is likely to wear. But when I opened the photoshop file today, I discovered that I accidentally merged all the layers before saving yesterday. So I no longer have Sapphire on her own layer - the outfit is attached now. I don't even have the heart to draw the beaded jewelry, or finish the shading. I feel ill. I want to cry. Ten hours of work shot to hell. GO ME. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00381fba.xml d3d54eb97ebd5f3a26e37d88913b07c5 image/jpeg 800 800 121006 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00381fba Finished commission for Liera Antionette of her Gaia avatar. Time: about ten hours Medium: Prismacolor colored pencils http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0038xb1e.xml b5046f7729bbab436625a6a04322d97d image/jpeg 1000 688 200151 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0038xb1e Vendetta Angel's Gaia avatar http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00395rw5.xml bc13fedb192a9eca73087b73a88ee9b0 image/jpeg 506 800 71942 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/00395rw5 This is Aggelakis, my friend Kelci's Empathy/Archery defender. I will be doing two images of Agge: here she is using Recovery Aura, one of her empathy powers. In the other image she will be using one of her Archery powers. And then I'm going to put the two pics together with a creative border and simple background. WOO! [Sorry, all of my creativity seems to have been used up today working on this image, I have none left for snappy descriptions.] I did three separate sketches for this image - I used a photo reference for the second sketch but I still hated it so I threw it away and went back to working off the screenshot. I still think the anatomy got a boost from that photo, though. I'm not entirely happy with her green fist aura, but I can't seem to duplicate the look from in-game. I'm REALLY pleased with the RA itself, even though in-game it would be more faded and trasnlucent... but I think the blue ring just looks really freaking cool. That was three different layers. The green is also three different layers. The hair was two. The final file is 8000 pixels square and over 75MB. Heh. I really should keep track of how much time I spend on these things, but let's put it this way: I started the first sketch over two weeks ago. Actually once I got a sketch I finally liked, it went pretty fast - I'd guess I spent 15-20 hours or so on this? (But that's a total guess..) Anyway.. I'll be starting on the other pic soon... http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0039pfx7.xml f9830c29862cf430e449996b3830b59a image/jpeg 800 800 104454 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/0039pfx7 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003aw6tb.xml 4bd64823f537628f85e69312d7968b9b image/jpeg 1000 1000 245623 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003aw6tb Crantz commissioned me for an image of some characters of his and a friend's in a Super Group recruiting poster. That's Sailor Mutilation (spines/regen scrapper), Geothunder (stone/stone tank), and Desert Diamond (fire/kin controller). I attempted sketching this several times both on paper and digitally. I think I finally went with a combination of the two. I cleaned the sketch up digitally, printed it, colored it with prismacolors, and then scanned it and touched it up again digitally. The image mostly just needed color correction where the pencils smeared or obscured details. Much thanks to all of my friends who helped me with critiques! http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003bbfdk.xml 97cfbda40a2b4eec18c0b6c40c55899f image/jpeg 775 1000 420423 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003bbfdk I saw some pretty awesome artwork on DA that was painted in 15 minutes. This guy participates in a challenge where everyone is given a scene and tries to paint it in 15 minutes. Well, of course his was far more awesome than I could accomplish if given 40 hours, but I digress. There's been a scene in my head for several months, possibly over a year now. The scene includes Master as Fu-Dog, lounging in the sun, and myself in various forms catering to his every whim. Obviously this is a pretty sucky painting, but I've been trying to get the scene on paper for a long time, and I can't. Eventually I'd like to really attempt this as a real image, but since that's not working yet, this will suffice for now. http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003bffgr.xml 91f1562ac6caf5e5bb1b6440c4db1d21 image/jpeg 1049 859 743384 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003bffgr This is for Deuco of his character Miss Brr. I sketched it by hand, scanned it, resketched it digitally, printed it, traced it on a light table with colored pencil, colored it with colored pencil, scanned it, and did a lot of digital touch-up. So like most of my recent artwork this is a pretty good combination of traditional and digital media. I didn't actually plan on doing that much digital cleanup, but once I started I liked how nice it looked so I kept going. You can see the before-and-after digital cleanup image here: http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003cd79f I worked at an extremely high resolution for this image. A friend of mine (Jill) showed me that a plethora of errors can be hidden if you're working at high enough resolution. So you can see the actual size I was working at here: http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003ce82e I couldn't tell you how many hours I spent on this (you think I'd have found a way to keep track by now, alas) but if I had to guess... I'd say more than ten but probably less than twenty. Which is pretty good for me! I am really very happy with this image. I know, I'm still not as good as a lot of the people on DA, not even as good as many of my friends, but I think this shows a great improvement in my art over the last several years. I keep all my old artwork, and I improved a lot between 1995 and 2000, but then I hit a plateau and stopped improving. Sure, my artwork got a little better, but I really wasn't making the kind of progress that you'd think would come with so many years. But I finally see a lot of improvement and it makes me very happy. :) This image was an absolute pleasure to work on, I hope Deuco likes it! http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003cfhd3.xml 31144c00c27c7c4e3af8a316b1da7607 image/jpeg 1000 778 236517 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003cfhd3 Can you break the bond between the Sun and the Earth? Indeed, but it takes the strongest celestial forces to do so. Can you separate the mountains from the Earth? Indeed, though only with the strength of thousands. And who would dare come between a Master and his slave? Perhaps with the entire armies of Heaven and Hell... and even then the endeavour would be foolish. // Medium: ArtRage2 // Time: 6-8 hours http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003e4sds.xml c7339f583c3965f030391e5f1d2547f8 image/jpeg 1280 987 305577 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003e4sds http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003gbk7y.xml 9547c60786a2eea5b071077dafd5c13d image/jpeg 1200 800 241896 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003gbk7y http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003k6ckb.xml 8a6fd1613c14ba8510b874009bb4b69c image/jpeg 514 716 156387 http://pics.livejournal.com/kwsapphire/pic/003k6ckb