Girl Robot

In the tradition of my previous paintings' titles, I present: "Girl Robot."

This robot tries to be a girl. Good thing she was manufactured with pink fiber optics hair!

Look for future adventures from Girl Robot. This was a character test sketch. Stay tuned for exciting episodes from the life of a Girl Robot.

Because this was a test, don't be surprised if future versions of Girl Robot are slightly different. I might change some features. For instance, I wanted the eyes to be big so they can look big and pitiful, but judging from my 2 year old son's reaction, they are most likely actually big and scary.

I just had one of those weird moments where you look at a word too long and start thinking it's strange. Girl? Girl? Girl. GIRL. Really? GIRL. How do r and l end up together in an actual English word? Eesh. Anyway. Enjoy.

Green Eyed Face

I come up with very interesting names for my paintings. "Green Eyed Face" is one of them. Oh, well. At least it's descriptive.

This took me a couple of days to do - just another exercise. This time I was working on being better about shading and I tried out some metal (in the headband). I'm learning more the more I do. As for clothes, yeah, I'll get to that...

Here's a close up of the face.

And a closer-upper.



Old Stuff

Back from Photoshop Elements 7:

Actually am pretty proud of this apple.

Gaussian blurred the skin to death and the hair looks like plastic. Still, it was an interesting exercise. By the way, it's supposed to be Mary.

Henry B. I was investigating a technique of doing portraits by putting in highlights and shadows and then blending them out over and over. Thus the foggy look.



Portrait Work

Some portrait work. Followed an online tutorial for some help.

And then I messed around with it to get:

I know these portraits have issues (especially around the eyes, *YEESH*), but they were good learning experiences.

Header Image

I worked today to create the image in the header. It didn't turn out exactly how I envisioned it, but I did it completely from my head (except one time when I looked at the way light shines on a face from underneath) so I'm not too displeased with it. Here is the image that was used in the header:

I used Photoshop CS5 and a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet. In the squished down form it looks kind of funny...it's lost some of the detail. Try clicking images to see them larger (and better!)

Then I played around with makeuping the water figure:

Didn't like the result as much as I thought I might. Thus the non-painted face in the header.

I might work more on this later - I don't really like how the water looks (yes, it's water) and I might want to add some sort of decoration to the head like a headband or something. Stay tuned.