This Is Halloween

...okay, not really, it's April.  But when I did these images it was Halloween.  There's nothing more inspiring than a holiday to get you drawing (well, there is, but not in the context of this post), and no holiday is cooler than Halloween.  I was wanting to strengthen my portfolio with some environments, and I also wanted to do some witches, as well as test out some new brushes.  So, here they are!

Witch Digital Paint, Photoshop CS4

Pumpkin City Digital Paint, Photoshop CS5

Mermaid Sushi is good for you!

Alrighty, today I have a good evolution of imagery for you!  This started as a painting in a painting class I took in college my Junior year--we were supposed to do something that imitated another painter, and I chose my all time favorite, Alphonse Mucha.  He's just too awesome not to!  So after deciding on that, I settled on a Mermaid made into sushi.  That was the easy part.  Let's just say that my painting skills were terrible that year.

Well, a year and a half later, I remade the image for a digital illustration class, with much more satisfying results.  Below is the WIP for the painting and the final result in digital illustration.

And who knows? I may touch it up again sometime--I personally want a t-shirt of it. :3

Original WIP for Mermaid sushi.  Rough, rough with color.  I then drew out the details and projected it onto a canvas, resulting in the painting on the end there.  It looks terrible.

Second pass prep for Mermaid sushi.  Image was scanned in and outlined.  Color corrections were made to be better matched to Alphonse Mucha's style.

Final product:  Digital Illustration made in Photoshop CS5.

Delicious or Torture?

So, I made this series of illustrations that I like to call food torture. :3  These are all a mixed media of pen, prismacolor pencils, markers, and acrylic paint. I based all of them off a color scheme, and went from there!  Enjoy!

Aaaa! Medium: Prismacolor Pencil, pen, and marker

Poor Onion Soup Medium: Prismacolor Pencil, pen, and marker

Sacrifice Medium: Prismacolor Pencil, pen, and Acrylic Paint

Saute Medium: Prismacolor Pencil, Pen, and Marker

High Velocity Splatter Medium: Prismacolor Pencil, Pen, and Marker

Graveyard Medium: Prismacolor Pencil, Pen, and Marker

Nightmare Comic Character Sheets

Hey guys!  Here's some character sheets for the Nightmare comic below. :3  There's color overlays, and then the expression underneath.

  Color Overlay;  Medium:  Pencil, Pen, Prismacolor Pencil

Some sketchy work

Some fun drawings.  Nothing like designing and drawing some fun characters!

 Medium:  Pencil, Pen, and Prismacolor pencils

 Medium:  Pencil, Pen, Prismacolor pencils

 Medium:  Pencil, Pen, Prismacolor pencils, Acrylic Paint

Medium:  Pencil, Pen, Prismacolor markers

Some Traditional work

Here's some work from a little while back--some figures done in conte crayon and charcoal.  Fun stuff.  Horribly messy, but the fun things in life usually are.

Medium:  Charcoal on Newsprint

Medium:  Conte Crayon on Newsprint

Medium:  Conte Crayon on textured paper

Medium:  Conte Crayon on Newsprint

Hansel and Gretal

Yeah, another post.  With a self contained manga!  If I were better at making strips actually, I'd probably do more of them with these two.

                                                       Medium: Sakura markers and Pencil, zip tone

And because I forgot to mention in my last post, those pages were done in pencil and Sakura Markers as well, but the zip tone was digital whereas the ziptone in this image was an actual sheet of zip tone.


--Audrey Greenhalgh
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