Promotional images
Here are some colour images I did for The Dreaming. It doesn’t include the covers, and are mostly done in Corel Painter, though there are some also done in Corel Photo-Paint. The colouring techniques are okay for the time being… to be honest, I don’t have much experience with colouring art, since much of my interest is in telling stories. I spend most of my time creating stories and drawing them, so there isn’t much time left to practice colouring on the computer. However, it’s a skill I have to refine sooner or later, so I hope I will be able to find some time in the future to do so.
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One of the first CGs I did. I still like this picture alot. It was done in Corel Photo-Paint, hence the cel-painting look.
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An early wallpaper I did. This was done a long time ago, still using Corel Photo-Paint. It’s not a bad program, but it’s not really suited for colouring. After getting Corel Painter, I stopped using it altogether. But then it’s not a bad CG style - it’s more like cel-shading than actual “painting”. It has its uses though.
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This was originally done in colour, but I didn’t like the results halfway, and so reverted it to a sepia-tone, and just added the effects after that. It’s got that old-photo look that I like so much… for The Dreaming anyway.
An image for a signing card, which TOKYOPOP had printed and sent to me. This was originally done in colour, and that’s the picture on the printed signing cards, but I decided to show this version because I like it better. It’s just the original colour version turned into a duo-tone (with some alternations), and it’s got that “old photo” look that I think looks great with nice costumes.
Promotional art for TokyoPop, which eventually found its way onto the cover of Publisher’s Weekly. I like to do clothing designs at random, so whipping up stuff like this is alot of fun. The colours are pretty strange, but they seem to work here.
More promotional artwork. This one was just a doodle for this website. Check the title bar and you can see a chunk of it, with the “runny paint” effect pasted onto the eyes. Apart from that, it’s just another CG.
These are autographs for a free giveaway contest. The original idea was to just send 10 signing cards in with my autograph on it, but I thought there should be more of a “reward” for winners, and so decided to do more than just squiggle my autograph. The pictures on the signing cards are all originals, so the only copies I have left are these electronic ones. As usual, designing the costumes was the most fun - since I just drew all of them off the top of my head. It’s amazing the pictures turned out okay, because the type of cardboard the signing cards were, are totally unsuited to drawing or inking.
Page 4 doodle, found in the book. Usually, you fill up any blank pages you’ll have in your book because of page numbering with drawings like this. That way, the book feels more complete, since each page will have something on it (instead of a blank page).
