Ninja vs Penguin

Ninja March 31st, 2009

With my Powerbook in the shop, it’s difficult to get my Photoshop work done. Penguin kindly let me hop onto his PC in the meantime. My fingers felt a tad off when it came to the keyboard shortcuts, but with a quad-processor and 4 gigs of ram, it’s hard to complain.

Here’s the scan. The paper was too big for the scanner, so I had to piece it together. It has a very obvious seam, but no worries, all will be well in Photoshop.

I cloned out stray bits of dust, adjusted the levels and curves, and painted in some of the gaps with the paintbrush tool.

Afterwards, I painted several ugly, color layers. This is an example of one of my color layers with the normal blending mode selected.

To add more color and depth to my original painting, I simply changed the layer blending modes of the messy, color layers (mentioned above). I’ve still many more layers to go, but you get the idea.

Happy drawing,
Ninja

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Ninja February 8th, 2009

I really like having some background noise while I paint. I’ve recently discovered Penguin’s old X-files episodes and since playing them, productivity has increased.

Hope you’re having a lovely weekend,
Ninja

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Tags: Acrylic, ink, Painting, Process, Swan Lake, Tanya Dakin, X-files

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Ninja February 4th, 2009

I am slowly making progress on my Swan Lake paintings of Ms. Tanya Dakin. This is as far as I got because I need to run out and get more paint.

Odile & Odette
Acrylic and ink on my favorite paper, Rives BFK White

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Ninja January 6th, 2009

My eyes are starting to burn, so I will keep this brief. Here are my first sketches from yesterday’s drawing session with Tanya Dakin. With luck, I’ll have some free time to tighten them up tomorrow.

Odile & Odette
Graphite on Bond

I hope 2009 is treating you well! With this new start, I’m going to try and post more personal work. I do hope you’ll stick around for the ride.

Good nite,
Ninja

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Tags: Graphite, Odette, Odile, Portraits, Process, Skethces, Swan Lake, Tanya Dakin

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