Illustrations and picture making by Samala.
It’s been awhile.
Here we have Portland City Commissioner Steve Novick, whose Twitter slogan is “Commissioner with a hard left hook.” I don’t follow politics, but I think he’s kind of amazing.
Whippet good.
Ode to Summer Being Nearly Over.
I’ve been working a lot in watercolor since my GMac died last spring. I found myself getting a little bored with it, so I decided to explore the drawing app ArtStudio on my iPad. I’ve owned it forever and never did anything serious with it. I took a photo and opened it in the app, which does almost everything that I use Photoshop for. I have a $10 stylus that I picked up at Walgreens, and I just dug in. I’m pretty impressed with the software. The tools are intuitive, and I like that you can rotate your drawing just like a sketchbook. This is just a work in progress that I’ll be playing with for awhile, but it’s been fun to get back into digital painting.
Here’s some concept art I’m developing for one of my most beloved online games, Armageddon MUD. I was asked to come up with some designs loosely based on Mayan and Egyptian garments and accessories. I haven’t done such minimalistic pen and ink drawings in awhile. It was a fun exercise.
Some more fun character portraits from Armageddon MUD. We have one wind magicker, and one dwarven badass mama.
