New Harley Quinn Still

Man, it’s been busy as hell the last few weeks, if it wasn’t for things like having to pay bills life would be so much easier. After two failed attempts I’ve finally finished a new Harley Quinn manip! I was going through the archives the other week and realized I’d never done a fuller body shot of the character, so I figure I may as well do one. I found a great image of my usual Harley model Kristen Bell that fit perfect for what I wanted, a slight look of craziness. Including the two failed attempts probably about 12-14 hours work.

When Artwork Goes Bad

Yes, we all make bloopers. We all make choices that make us go ‘WTF?’. I’m guilty of it as much as anyone. Sometimes, things just don’t work out. Way I look at it, you can do one of two things, either continue and try and resuscitate the dieing artwork, or simply start from scratch. Here are a couple of abandoned concepts that just never worked.

WW concept – turned into a different concept

Chun Li illustration – Pose wasn’t working for me, will start from scratch.

Magdalena Manip – Design was heading in the right direction, but wasn’t happy with the pose, will be doing this one again.

Harley Quinn movie still – pose was never quite right, started from scratch.

Riddler Teaser Concept 1 – too greenish all round.

Cheetah concept – Was never quite happy with how it was going, may come back to it at a later date.

Poison Ivy Concept – I have absolutely no idea WTF I was thinking here. This was a very old concept, I’ll put it down to being young and foolish.

Workshop 5: Movie Poster Madness!

I like seeing fan made posters of upcoming films and past films, I like seeing some amateur (or sometimes even professional) using promo photos and other elements and coming up with a completely different design to what gets officially released, in fact some of the ones I’ve seen end up looking better than the real stuff the studios produce. So what makes a good fan poster? Personally, the good ones look like the real thing, someone who’s taken the time to make things look official. In this workshop I’ll give some tips and tricks to give your fan posters more of an authentic feel to them.

Thor Teaser Concept

I’ve always had concerns Thor is going to be a tough sell, so the other day I thought I might do a little test to see what kind of support the character has. I whipped up this ‘teaser’ concept and had it posted in some forums via someone else under the guise of it coming from an ‘insider’. I deliberately added a few lighting errors and other errors just to see how perceptive people are.

The feedback results? Surprising muted. Make of that what you will.

Fan Art Exhibit Celebrates 1st Birthday!

Well what a year it’s been! Really this site all started after Slashfilm wrote an article of my photo manips that I was posting at Deviant Art. As cool as it was to get like 100,000 hits in a couple days the down side was some Neville Nobody decided I wasn’t playing by the Deviant Art rules, promptly complained to the admins of the site, resulting in most of the artworks being taken down. But It was not going to stop me! I decided to start this blog and after humble beginning, I’m pleased to say audience has steadily grown over the past 12 months. I’d like to thank all those who have commented and critiqued my designs, and for the many, many folks who have sent messages of support. More of a look back at the last 12 months after this.

Wonder Woman Illustration

Whipped this up in about 6 hours for a forum contest using an image reference, sorta kept it a bit loose and a little more comic book looking, not quite as detailed as my WW photo manips, but I kind like it a bit simpler for this style.

New Desktops

Brand new Desktops folks, right after this.

Catwoman Still

Man, it’s been a busy month, I’ve had very little time to do any personal artwork but none the less I’ve still managed to squeeze in a new Catwoman piece before the month’s end. Similar style to my previous design, but changed a few elements here and there.

UPDATE: I was clearly suffering from a combination of sleep deprivation and insanity coz I woke up this morning, looked at this image again and went WFT? I really butchered that mask up so I redid it again. Much happier this time.

New Wonder Woman Still

Thought I should do an updated WW still, nothing major here, just a few design tweaks here and there, and a bit of a colour boost.

Workshop 4 – Do It Yourself Two Face

Sadly we got very little in the form of promotional imagery of Two-Face from The Dark Knight but that hasn’t stopped many a photo manipulator from doing there darnedest in trying to create there own imagery. Here I’ll explain the process I went through with the Two Face gender swap I did a few weeks ago, but this can apply to any imagery really.