Pandora is done!

I finally finished Pandora and added her to the Works page.

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Greek Goddesses: Inspiration

As promised, here are my final drawings side-by-side with the original paintings that inspired them. All original paintings scanned from “Gil Elvgren: The Complete Pin-ups,” © 2009 TASCHEN GmbH.

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Greek Goddess Phase III: Color & Completion

All of the coloring was done digitally in Photoshop CS4, with a Wacom Intuos®3 6″x8″ tablet. The previous 2007 iterations of these goddesses were colored in Corel Painter XI. I never got a firm grasp on that software, though. It was difficult for me to get the control I wanted, and the final results always [...]

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Greek Goddesses Phase II: Ink

The inking process of these is pretty straight-forward. I was a bit nervous because pen and ink are not my media of choice and the one in which I probably have the least practice. Because I knew I needed clean, high-contrast line work for the Photoshop coloring, though, I knew it was a necessity. I [...]

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Greek Goddesses, Phase I

Huzzah! The new and improved blog is back up, shiny and fully functional. A couple of months ago, I started posting about my Greek goddesses project. I’m happy to say that I’ve fully finished four of the five and will write in more detail about their creation process very soon. In the meantime, the finished [...]

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