Concept Art

I'm still awaiting the results from the art competition I entered so in the mean time I've been quilting and working on other pieces. While I anxiously await the results I thought I would share with you some of the concepts I've started with and when completed I will post the finished projects.

What do you get when you cross Strawberry Shortcake with Wednesday Addams? My alter ego, Blackberry Buckle. I'm trying different styles and Manga is one of my newer challenges, this is my first attempt. The outfit will be in the color scheme of a blackberry, green and dark purple.

While I was watching a marathon of Ink Masters one of the episodes was of people getting portrait tattoos in a military style that was exaggerated proportions. When I saw that one of the tattoo seekers was getting a portrait of herself tattooed on her upper thigh my initial thought was how narcissistic, however my brain didn't finish the word narcissistic, the word was cut off by this image invading my mind of a woman having to paint her face on every morning--literally. This is the concept sketch for one of my pieces I sent in to competition.

This is meant to be a room on a spacecraft and is the background for one of the pieces I sent in for competition. In the window I used my piece, Nebula. This background is entirely created in Photoshop CS6 manipulating the shapes. The columns were a wavy arrow that I rasterized and then erased the arrow head, after that I played with the texture in the blending options to try and make the columns look like gold, silver, copper, and bronze DNA strands.

This is a staircase that I am touching up for a work in progress. The stairs themselves will be alternating between white and black marble, the window and the door are likely to change shape, but this is the rough background for now.

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