Mineself

These are pages that I made for the Mineself website project. I figured I would post the artwork up for all to enjoy in its original format before I put together the site :)

World of Wick-Craft Character Profile: Beck

Down-to-earth, nonsensical, and many would say brilliant, Beck is a woman transformed by Wick-craft. Originally shy and naive, this Troll is now one of the most outgoing and extroverted of all. She enjoys playing video games, reading indie comics, and collecting all sorts of weird things that end up taking up residence in her room on the second floor of Townhouse A2.

World of Wick-Craft Character Profile: Kayleigh

Kayleigh seems to have the most together out of anyone and seems to make the most sense. A Goblin, Kayleigh is pleasant to be around, funny, and witty. She is a huge fan of Doctor Who, Tumblr, and TV Tropes, and is the President of Women's Center.

Epic Artist Spotlight: Artgerm

As part of my art blog, I have decided to include little spotlights, showcasing some of the finest in digital art.

Due to his amazing process of taking characters already composed of small pixels and rethinking them in an entirely different way through digital art, I have decided to have this first entry sharing with viewers the amazing video game art of Stanley Lau, (aka Artgerm). Having played my fair share of video games, and read tons and tons of comic books, I really appreciate this artist's work, especially his collection of art made for the online version of Street Fighter 3, one of my favorite video games.

Link to artist's page: http://artgerm.deviantart.com/

Digital Coloring Done right

I am still mostly a traditional artist, but I love to color my artwork in photoshop. Here is my most successful coloring venture. Not only do the characters look very lifelike, but I have hardly any parts that are ruined by photoshop. Hopefully, with this success, I will have the confidence to continue working with digital coloring.

World of Wick-craft

Since I am running out of ideas, I have decided to start up a webcomic, featuring daily shennanigans at my school, re-imagined if everyone was a world of warcraft character.

This first issue didn't come out as well as I had hoped, but I'm still happy with it. It features me as a Troll waiting for a particularly dull class to end.

Interesting New Project

I'm a little confused and yet excited about my newest Digital Art and Design class project. In it, we have to look for things that may tell viewers something about us, like for instance our name, our school, our hometown, and anything else that we can think of. Then we have to form a 5 page website with it. I've never made a website before, although I do know html very well.

Here's a link to the Project if any visitors want to try it out themselves, just for fun:

Imagination: Overload

It is here...

What do you do with a creepy photo?

Make it EVEN CREEPIER with photoshop. Happy creating, everyone.

Late posts

I sincerely apologize for making all of my three posts this week on the last day of the week. I also haven't had much time to be creative as it has been a rough week.

One of the most fun types of digital art is cubeecraft. Different artists create all different characters, animals, and concepts as "cubees" or templates that you are meant to put together into a 3D paper sculpture. They are loads of fun and I recommend them to anyone who just wants a little craft that they can make. There are also templates so you can make your own design as mine, above.

cubeecraft website:

More Vector

I really enjoy making Vectors. I think I may make it a hobby. This one entitled "Super Kid" came from stumbling across an old adorable picture of my young cousin in her roller-skating gear. I had to make a vector of her because she's just too goofy looking not to.

Experimenting with Vector

Ok...well it isn't REALLY vector, but rather it's created in photoshop. It's relatively easy to cartoon yourself in photoshop if you have a steady hand, know how to use layers, and do not take yourself seriously. For fun, I made myself look like one of my favorite video game characters, The Fear. Fitting, since it's close to Halloween :)

Digital Art as a Statement

This is from yet another contest that I decided not to enter at the last minute. This is inspired by an x-ray, a technology used to identify fractures in bones. I compared the fracturing of bones to the fracturing of a child's psyche when they are bullied. This is a movement that I strongly support, as a person who was bullied as a child.

Photoshop Animation Project: Further Inspiration

I'm thinking of doing an abstract surreal horror short, (It has to be about 30 seconds) which would lend itself well to photoshop. To inspire myself, I am posting some more videos from wonderful artists, (including more Brothers Quay, because they are fantastic).







I'm thinking of a riff off "The Cat With Hands", because it truly is wonderful. Wonderfully creepy of course, but wonderful.

Joan + Joan = ?

This is my Joan Jett + Joan of Arc project. It was difficult to use a drawing and all, but I am very pleased with it. Other people had both a harder time and an easier time cramming celebrity faces together. Me? I wanted to make a statement. With music becoming more and more ridiculous over the years, artists that actually made sense like Ms Jett fade into obscurity, as do our historical heroes, hence the use of Joan of Arc.

Granted it's not funny, showy, or anything flashy. But it makes a statement, and that's what art should do.

moving digital art

We'll be progressing to photoshop stop motion animations next week, I believe starting tomorrow. To get into the animating spirit, I am posting one of my favorite stop motion animations. Granted, it's not done in photoshop, but it will certainly provide me with the inspiration that I need. It is called Are We Still Married, and is made by the people that I consider to be the masters of stop motion, the Brothers Quay.



I plan to make something surreal for my photoshop stop motion, so it will serve as a very strong inspiration in my own work.

Transforming Identity Project- Planning

So for my latest digital art project, I have to take one person's face and put it on another person's body. A challenging task...and many different ideas have been floating around in my head about this. Here are a couple of ideas that I have been contemplating.

• Joan Jett + Joan of Arc (This is the one that I think I might do because it would make a statement about infamy, female power, and the outcast.)


• Gene Kelley + Gene Simmons (Societal statement...oh fun)

Face on Body Practice

To get the hang of putting someone's face on someone else's body, I messed around with a picture of my cat, Cervantes. I found a picture of a woman with a sombrero and I attempted to make it look like my cat's hair. I then made his face and body look more human-shaped and added some "makeup" to him. I'm somewhat pleased with the results, so I'm really looking forward to the actual project.

Transforming in Photoshop

Our next project will be to put a celebrity's face on another celebrity's body, essentially warping them and changing their identity. Well, I did a similar project that involved changing something's identity. I chose a picture of a cat from the website http://www.icanhascheeseburger.com/ and toyed around with it in photoshop until it resembled an owl. Granted it's not the best it could be, but it was my first experiment in transforming one thing into another.

Happiness in Three Parts

This is my latest project in the world of Digital Art, a Triptych. A triptych is a grouping of three related images. At first you might ask "what does a kitten, a little girl, and a turtle have to do with anything?" Well, you see, my theme was the many escalating expressions of happiness. The turtle with his tattooed, ragged back and above the clouds soaring represents tranquility and contentment. The little girl represents joy, as she runs up the rainbow to greet her parents. Childlike joy is one of the greatest emotions in the whole world. The last image represents ecstatic behavior and overenthusiasm. The little kitten is so happy that he has three mouths to smile with. Also note the appearance of the rainbow, it grows larger as the level of happiness grows larger as well.