kanzashi 4

A new kanzashi that will be one of the main ones I sell coming up.

The Sakura

Kanzashi 3

Little update on the final product

Kanzashi 2

Here is the next attempt. Easily better, I figured out a bunch of teniques that will help make them more professional but there are still plenty of n00b mistakes in it. I will be making a whole series of them that are just copies of this design though I wont post them. However, I may post the end result to compare and contrast.

Kanzashi

Silk flowers do not a man make, but they can make you some coin. Im a regular attendee to anime, comic book and horror conventions where I vend various wares. The latest project that I am learning to do is Kanzashi, the japanese art of silk flowers. This is a co-op project with my gf and another friend but these are my first:

more on these as I get better at them

A Devil in DoozelDorf

The current table top that Im playing is Pathfinder (all of the good of D&D none of the bad). The campaign that Im running is called "A Devil in DoozelDorf", DoozelDorf being the moutain villiage that the campaign started in. Without going into the story itself, DoozelDorf has turned out to be a fun town to illustrate and flesh out for the group.

Ive decided to undertake a very large project that will basically illustrate every building in DoozelDorf as well as every floor and make it all interactive in Flash. That said, Im going to start posting the work as its done. That said, here is one of the various homes from the town:

Pencil

Painted

Tengu Troll

From a D&D campaign that we had 2 years ago that my group still talks about. To sum up the campagin, it was an asian setting. The group had recieved orders from a daimyo to infiltraite and observe a subject in a fortress that bordered his domain. On their way through the forest, they had a random encounter that ended up being the theme of the night. James, a player whos character is on the ground in this image was actually killed (twice) but at the complaining of my players I had to un-write him back to life. Not something I like to have to do in a game. In the end however that nights game was a lot of fun, even if I had a rewrite and so I drew this in memorial of it. Its been sitting in my portfolio for 2 years now and so I wanted to finally finish it so that it would have the color I hopefully showed them with it.

Icons Project 1

For a long time, Ive been a huge fan of Chuck Close. In Close's work the basic theme is pixilation. Downgrading an image to the point where it seems irrelevant, ideally skirting the line between when exactly an image is and when it is not.


That said, I find his work profound and in the air of all artists, I intend to take the idea and run with it. Among the Icons that I will be painting will be his Holiness the Dali Lama, whom I have a great appreciation of.

In the piece that Im working on, of what the belong is just the digital preliminary work, I chose to stay with the original photographs black and whites as the photo uses the Grey tones as an example of the symbolic ethics of Buddhism that he represents. Grey being the middle path between white and black.

The below, as always goes from oldest to most recent, but in this case, shows the progression of grid and numbers into pixel image. click and then reclick the images as they open in a new window so you can understand the size. When this project is done it will be 4'x5.5'