Tada!
Here’s another set I’ve been working on for a while. Since…. whew: September 2009! When I dug it back up from my archives, I noticed how different my style has changed in less than a year. I’ve somewhat started up on a new style of shading: creating highlights and shadows using blocks of color instead of lines and dithering to blend and copious amounts of anti-aliasing for a softer look. In deviantART, Dae mentioned that my style is moving away from traditional dolling techniques and ‘closer to digital painting’. ^__^ Recently, too, I’ve adopted to excessive base-editing. From years ago, even until the Amelie doll, I’d just take a base, edit the face and skintone and leave everything else alone. You can’t tell, I guess, but these are new arm positions and were made solely to suit these characters.
Speaking of the characters, if you don’t know, “Mad Men” is a television series set in Manhattan in the early 60′s. The costumes are elaborate, the sets meticulous, the actors superb and the plot lines subtle and full of force at the same time. Each episode is like a movie. Faaaar different from typical sitcoms and traditional dramas.
Anyways, I’m thinking of finally uploading some stuff to PixelJoint. The people there intimidate the heck out of me but… they’re so awesome. I wanna be you. PLEASE. :3
And Voila! I’ve been working on this piece for a few months now- not that it was THAT detailed… I just happen to be very slow and…slow. ^^; The full animation of the work in progress is in the bottom of this post..
Toughest part: The Shading. For the longest time, I couldn’t figure out how I wanted to shade the dress. I had the shape figured out, the pose and the shading of the face… but …Continue reading to see the final piece.
I’ve been quite absent these past few months ^_^; I have this thing called school, you see. And we have our final exams of the semester currently.
So anyways, during my study breaks, I’ve been playing with watercolours again. It’s a bit tricky cause I haven’t played with them in a while.
and, it’s done. Check out the gallery for a bigger view.
There hasn’t been much progress (considering it’s been a few weeks!) on this piece…. my bad.
This one hits a little closer to home, a lot more personal than my usual portrayal of pretty clothes on pretty dolls. I was thinking about Typhoon Ondoy (2009, floods up to 20ft buried the country and its people) and I drew this out. I’ve been working it into a painting on Photoshop with meh results. I don’t have brush pressure and I’m kinda lamenting that.
I’m rethinking this piece though. What is the goal? To make poverty-porn? You know, where ‘artists’ just depict poor people over and over and over in some lame attempt to feel like they’re doing something and are being ‘one with the people’. Recently, a photograph was submitted to devPinoys (a group for Filipinos on deviantART) wherein the ‘artist’ had taken a photograph of a homeless boy, clad in only a pair of shorts, beside a textile factory (as the signs indicated, I think) and sleeping on the pavement. Underneath the statement were the words: “If only we could only do something.” The photograph didn’t piss me off, but the stupidity of adding that as the caption was just… ugh. Blood boiling. I’m not saying they should have gone and adopted the child, but…
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