Snapper's Blog

text messaging

2006-10-12T13:28:00.000-07:00

Here's another pic done in the same way as the camera boy one. It's a mate of mine while text messaging. It's not finished yet, but i like it a lot how it is... so i might leave it.

Snapper Out.

camera boy to the rescue!

2006-10-12T13:25:00.000-07:00

Ok, just thought i'd use a blog to show a recent picture i've done on Photoshop. It was done by printing off a photo, lightboxing it, scanning that sketch in then working off the printed photo as reference to photoshop.

Snapper Out.

2006-10-06T00:27:00.000-07:00

Oh god. Right, 'cos photobucket has changed and i can't be f**ked to use it, this blog is lame. Well, it's probably better than the livejournal.com one i did... but that's irrelevant. Here's a sketch i did last night, and the painting that happened shortly after. Original sketch done with a new marker pen my dad got me... looks expensive. Bit better than the '4 for 50p' pens i usually get.

The two above images are crap quality, but that don't matter. It started out as a blue dude 'cos i wanted to do something to Frazier Irving (sorry if spelt that wrong) but i lost interest in that pretty quick. I started paintin over before doing a red painted cardboard background to stick it to.

Here's the finished thing, before i scanned it in and photoshopped his ass. There's a link for my deviantart page, where the finished-finished thing can be located. If anyone is interested and wants to see.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40943645/

And that's it for this blog... Dunno when the next one will be. I hope the layout of this one looks okay, but if it doesn't, then... Ah well.
I borrowed the first two Swallow books off a friend last night, they're bloody amazing. I have a new love for Phil Hale, Jason Alexander and Jeremy Geddes. Absollutely brilliant. AND i just saw that the paperback of The Fountain, by Kent Williams is supposed to be out this week. I really wish i could afford that. Anyway, yeah i need to go.
Snapper Out.

PopBot

2006-10-05T00:26:00.000-07:00

Okay then, guess i'm not putting up a new blog everyday... Ah well. Here's a pic of Popbot i did the day before yesterday, using a scanned in scribble of pop.

The original sketch was just the robot and several rectangles, i photoshopped the skyscrapers onto the retangles from google. I like this image loooads... though maybe i should have made the actual robot a bit darker. Hmm might change the contrast one of these days. And there was a kind of orange-yellow colour to it. Might have to re-post this soon. But for now... there you go.

Snapper Out.

Guitar pic

2006-10-01T04:05:00.000-07:00

Right, the plan was to just fill the blogs on this site up with all the old pictures from my photobucket account, but i did this pic last night and am mighty proud of it. So, another step-by-step thing! Yaaay! ...So, i started off by drawing these two characters onto some cartridge paper with a marker pen. I didn't use pencil 'cos they were just gonna be quick sketches.

After doing those, i decided to stick 'em both together and make it look more interesting. But, of course, they didn't fit onto the A4 sheet. So, i got one of those plastic comic bag things and drew over the images. I couldn't find any acetate, so i went for the next best thing. I stuck them down to the back of an envelope, then took a photo. 'Cos it was dark, it gave it a weird coulour lighting that i kinda like.

I painted black over some of the bits and made some minor alterations, then declared it a finished piece. I'm really proud of it... But i'll probably end up messing about with it on photoshop or illustrator or something.

Right, well, that's it for this blog i think. I'm gonna be drawing a few more music-inspired pictures today probably. So this theme might continue into the next blog.

Snapper Out.

Step-by-step painting

2006-09-30T13:25:00.000-07:00

So, this is the second Blog today, but i don't really care. I hate seeing my page with just the one blog on!! I just checked out Ash Wood's blog, 'cos he's my hero, and it is bloody brilliant. Just had to say that. Right, anyway, here's a series of images created by me... This is supposed to be like a 'step by step' thing of how i produced the final picture. You should know, this didn't take long, but it's pretty much the only picture i've done that i've took photos of the different stages. I usually start a drawing and finish it without realising...

That's the original sketch, and then the inked version. I say inked, i used a gray teal acrylic...

After adding the paint, i left it a couple of days before i realised it needed something else. So, i sketched up a soldier, painted it and cut it out. I was gonna add the soldier straight into the original picture, but as it was an A4 drawing it didn't fit. SO, i stuck both images onto the back of an envelope i'd recieved that day. I altered a few bits then declared it a finished piece. I'm waiting for someone to offer to colour it, 'cos i can't do it. A friend was going to, but he kinda lost interest i think. Anyway, that's it for the second blog today... gonna go draw some.

Snapper Out.

First blog

2006-09-30T12:15:00.000-07:00

Okay, this is my first blog on this site. I have been using Livejournal.com for a while, but i really wanted to try this site out as some of my heroes use this site. What i did/do with livejournal is to put an image in every blog i do, mostly showing people what i've been drawing on the day i post. For this site, i'm just going to be putting up pretty much all the images i have in my photobucket. Here's the first from my Photobucket account.

Even though this was just a quick sketch, I used to use this image loads, for example it was my userpic on myspace for about three months. It was made using acrylics and chalk pastels... i think i did it about half a year ago now. Anyway, i'm not sure how often i'll be updating this site, but it should be near enough everry day/every other day as it doesn't take long.

Snapper Out.