Christine’s Journal

I’ve uploaded the revised custom brush set for Corel Painter. I made a few modifications to some of the brushes and I’ve added a pencil set. I also organized the different brush types into sets to make it easier to use in Painter.

Custom brush set for October 2008

I’ll be going away for the weekend, but please let me know what you think of the brushes if you have a second.

I’m useless as blog titles.

This is a study I’ve done today. It’s not really anything I want to finish yet, I’m not sure what it is really. I took some inspiration from a pose in one of Mucha’s illustrations, then just made the rest up.

red and green

detail of red and green study

Banshee concept, just a quick colour study in Painter. I want to do more reference on this yet, so I’ll save the description till later.

Banshee colour concept

treehouse

A costume study

I thought I should stop procrastinating and just get back to the drawing board. Bit like the old saying “stop trying to hit me and just hit me” or something like that.

I’ll be working on an illustrated book project to get rid of my art block, learn some new skills and update my portfolio with something a bit more in depth than the usual “fairy”. I want to show … Continue Reading