My "Professional" Work

 

Here's a sample of my professional work. This is a commission that I'm currently finishing up. It's for a book cover, and I have spent months getting this just right. The customer wanted a Lichtenstein style comic of a voluptuous and dangerous woman, and it took several roughs to get the features just right. Then it took even more work to get the shading, line art, and colors just right.

This looks really nice, doesn't it? I have to admit though that a lot of this was traced. I did the original model in DAZ Studio using Victoria 3, then rendered an image and brought that into Corel Draw. I am the only person I know who uses Corel Draw and Corel Photopaint instead of Adobe products. I've always used Corel and probably always will because they're great programs and I can get the whole package for half of what Photoshop would cost me. But I'm pissed that Corel doesn't bother to promote these products more. It's like they just don't care that these products even exist and they think no one would use them for any serious work. Well I do, dammit! And I'm sick of having to translate Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials into Corel terms, so get your shit together, Corel, and treat your own damn products with some respect!

Where was I? Oh yeah, tracing. When my client said "Lichenstein," I did a Google search and came across this very nice tutorial by Melissa Clifton on turning photos into Lichtenstein-style art. Again, she uses Adobe, so I had to translate a few things, but I got the results I wanted, so it's all good.

However, one day I'd like to be able to do this kind of work without having to TRACE an image. Thus the purpose of this blog.

And that's all the artwork for today. Since it's now almost 1AM, I am not getting up at 5AM to do any sketching. So enjoy this instead and I'll do something new on Saturday maybe.