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Tonight, I'm adding a few sketches from the latest iteration of The Game is Afoot, a smartphone/tablet game based on Sherlock Holmes.
Back in 2010, we used character sketches directly from public domain work of Sidney Paget. These were pretty low resolution with a ton of JPG artifacts. They were barely OK for iPhone, but I didn't think they'd cut it for iPad and other tablets. And so I undertook to redraw the images for the new game using Prismacolor grayscale markers.
Above: my Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson and Professor Moriarty
I'm both proud and not so proud about these three images. I really went out of my comfort zone in painting them, and wanted to prove myself. Then, after critique, I found it tough to edit these purely raster graphics in PhotoShop. So I look at them as an accomplishment, but know they have a lot of flaws. In the end, by the third image (Prof. Moriarty) I had a better grasp of the medium, and I had learned a few more tricks for raster painting in PhotoShop. It was a learning experience.
But I'm also very glad to see TGIA back on the App Store shelves this week, beautifully up-resed for today's stunning tablet screens. I view it as some of my best work and among the best of MobileDeluxe's offerings.
Back in 2010, we used character sketches directly from public domain work of Sidney Paget. These were pretty low resolution with a ton of JPG artifacts. They were barely OK for iPhone, but I didn't think they'd cut it for iPad and other tablets. And so I undertook to redraw the images for the new game using Prismacolor grayscale markers.
Above: my Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson and Professor Moriarty
I'm both proud and not so proud about these three images. I really went out of my comfort zone in painting them, and wanted to prove myself. Then, after critique, I found it tough to edit these purely raster graphics in PhotoShop. So I look at them as an accomplishment, but know they have a lot of flaws. In the end, by the third image (Prof. Moriarty) I had a better grasp of the medium, and I had learned a few more tricks for raster painting in PhotoShop. It was a learning experience.
But I'm also very glad to see TGIA back on the App Store shelves this week, beautifully up-resed for today's stunning tablet screens. I view it as some of my best work and among the best of MobileDeluxe's offerings.
New so-called Office
Late February and early March was a period where I was "moving" between "offices". Air quotes because it is how I think of transitioning between graphics computers. My old one had been beat to hell and required repair. I kept it online as long as I could while I went through a bumpy process of getting another computer. I didn't do the obvious thing and head down to BestBuy or CostCo or any other big store. No. I like to get computers from my computer repair guy. Welll.... That doesn't always work out smoothly. The first one I tried was too wimpy. The second had memory errors and was Bluescreening all over the place. The third had Windows inco
T-Shirt Business
Recently, I've started making clothing designs for sale on Redbubble.
To begin with, I have been helping my daughter with her Korean classes. I like to work her homework with her. I've always been interested in decorative writing, calligraphy, calligrams, etc. Hangul gives me a whole new set of shapes to work with. And, looking at some Korean graphical design work, I see there is great flexibility in the letterforms. (also, from an English perspective, Korean writing is shockingly logical)
And so, I began with some crazy letter illustration, and added to that some K-Pop specific subjects.
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February 2016 SCA Covers
With a Valentine's day theme, Leah Jolifaunt of Schattentor provides the Northshield Northwatch cover, "L O V E". Lovely, little figures peck between the letters. She also provided a few internal illustrations for the issue.
Check out the cover of the February Atlantia Acorn. It's a fabulous drawing of a courtly couple by Lady Daniela Schwartzhaupt. "Cover Artwork Documentation: Main image based on Noblewoman with Halberdier Woodcut after an engraving (c. 1520) by Albrecht Dürer (German painter and engraver, 1471 - 1528) Border design based on various woodcut engraving styles."
Also really great is the cover of the February Calontir Me
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