Weary Eye's. (Caution, may contain boobies.)

[TheEYE]

A few things I have done since getting home.

This is going to be the centerpiece for this half sleeve on this side. There is a pirate ship on the reverse of the arm.
The next session will be to do waves crashing up to and behind the island, and around the ship.
Then there will be a few sessions to do a storm with forked lightning for the background.
The lighthouse still needs some shading but I will save that for when I do the storm background. I want to use the same deep purples for both the clouds and the shade.


Pen and ink in my sketchbook. 8.5X11


Crits welcome as always. 

[CLiNK]

Can't wait to see the tat finished. Make sure you get a shot of the ship too, sounds like a pretty intense concept

[TheEYE]

I was bored last night and figured it had been a long time since I tattooed myself. I still have to finish adding in the bright orange of the sun behind her, but after 3 1/2 hours I figured that could wait until next time. Tattooing right on the shin bone lacked any real fun factor....

[TheEYE]

This is a logo for a website I am working on. I'm not sure I am really happy with it, at least as far as the gradients go. I will most likely do a fair bit more tweaking on it yet, anyone have any good ideas for me? (?? ?? ?? Extra question marks added just to piss off PlasticCup, and a few smilies as well....  )

<a href="http://www.fraudwatchcanada.org/images/fwc_logo_final.swf" target="_blank">http://www.fraudwatchcanada.org/images/fwc_logo_final.swf</a>

[Juggleballz]

As far as an emblem goes its pretty damn good, but as a logo it seems a little too busy. The simpler a logo is the better and easier it is to recognise. Reduce the amount of shapes you are using, and also colors, and to be honest steer clear of bright saturated colours such as the royal blue and bright reds.It should look as good in black and white multiple different sizes down to the tiniest black and white logo etc, and also create logos in vector format.

I persoanally see a really simple dsign for this, but of course keeping your intial concept in mind. Almost like a 1 or 2 colour vector image, a simplistic smoother logo that still looks like the initial idea but stylized in a simple way.

Sorry if this message seems blunt. Its not intended to be. I'm piss drunk right now and rambling like a good 'un.

By the way...Did you tatoo yourself? Like your hands, sticking a needle into yourself constantly? If so dude that is awesome! Cant wait to see the finished version.

[TheEYE]

You can be as blunt as you like with me Juggsy, I respect your opinions immensely and always take what you say to heart my friend! 

I guess calling it a logo is the wrong name, it is more the company crest, and doesn't necessarily have to be the "official" logo. This is done in vector format, I saw the importance of doing that as the crest would need to be re-sized for different uses. I'm not sure I can visualize the concept you have in mind for the design however Juggs, can you explain a bit more what you mean?

I still have the tendency to use saturated colors, I know. I wish I could get away from that damn habit. I don't know why I always do that, I think I should just stick to black and white pen and ink! <<<(I found the smilies Arthur made for me the other day!!! )

The tattoo above of the naked girly I tattooed on the front of my left leg. (The pic is the tattoo!). I have done quite a bloody few on that leg, and have a huge thigh piece on my right leg as well. I have to get the girl and the one on my thigh finished one of these days. I have to be really inspired to actually get at it and tattoo myself! hehe

Thanky you my good sir for your comments, appreciated as always! 

[Espen]

AWESOME, BOOBIES!!!

[Anghenfil]

Great to see you posting again, Shayne.

I'd like to see more life studies from you.  Particularly, work on volumes - render something simple like an apple or an opaque mug, practice your lights and shadows to create a sense of 3D shapes rather than just lines.  Or if you're feeling brave, try to draw someone's face - even from a photograph is fine.  Take your time, measure stuff out, and draw volumes.  Build up tones slowly.  Concentrate on the lights, highlights, terminus, darks, and backlights, where they are, their tone, and how they blend into one another.  If you have any Bridgeman, Loomis, or Anatomy for the Artist, practice the shading techniques in those.  Look at the quality of their pencil lines, the direction they go on different surface angles.  Watch how they build shapes up by looking at their draft lines.

Also:  Boobs!   

[Pieter]

I agree with what others have said about the logo. Try to work with flat areas of tone, use gradients with caution. Gradients tend to make things look cheap if they're not used correctly.
If you use lines try to not have them to thin so when the logo is sized down you don't lose them. Also, black and white is about as clear as you can get for a logo, if your logo doesn't work with two or three tones it's not gonna work with 5 and so on.

Try http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/ if you want to study other logos.

Remember, be as simple as possible.
Here's the history of the shell logo as an example how they went more and more abstract and simple



BOOBZ!

[PlasticCup]

(?? ?? ?? Extra question marks added just to piss off PlasticCup, and a few smilies as well....  )

You thought of me? How sweet. *blushes*

As far as your logo goes; as Pieter said gradients can easily make any good piece look cheap when used wrongly. Few things I personally think make gradients look better:
- Subtle gradients. "Hard", strong gradients look cheap imho, especially when you have many of them close together. This is especially noticeable on those pentagons. By the way, were the lines on those pentagons done a little wonky on purpose?
- When using radial gradients it often looks better to adjust the gradient by hand (there's a tool for that, called the gradient edit tool or something similar), as often the default size/position of them doesn't look as good as it could. For example the little balls on the crown have the gradient slap bang in the middle with the size of the gradient the same size as the balls themselves as far as I can see. Usually when giving balls a 3D look with a gradient I make the gradient a little bit bigger and move it up (size should get bigger as you move the "edge" more towards the centre) and maybe slightly to the left/right (depending on the position of the light source). The leaves could also do with some adjusted gradients, because now they all look as if they have their own private light source.

Just my two cents (tips)

And your two boobies 

[TheEYE]

Thanks for the comments guys. I took them to heart for this next logo. The customer was pretty adamant on what they wanted as what was needed to be included. I talked them out of going for a very detailed full color draft to a more silhouetted concept. This is for an animal rescue group. (Where I got both of my dogs actually.)

This is the first draft I came up with, it still needs to be cleaned up considerably. I think I like the overall composition though, but then again I may be missing something that some of you others will see straight away, so as always, let me have it without the sugary coating folks! 



Red, I will do those life studies you asked for, as soon as I have any time to draw for me as opposed to drawing for someone else! Thanks for the ideas and the kick in the arse! 

[TheEYE]

11 x 17 Prismacolor pencils and ink.
Something I worked on while up North. I'm fairly happy with the outcome, I'm getting used to how prisma's layer and blend. 

[TheEYE]

I searched high and low to find a twitter button for my site, and everything I found was just sooooo cutesy. And I am more the crusty 'ol buzzard type then the cutesy birdy type. (Ask Red if ya don't believe me!) So I decided to make a graphic instead of just downloading one.



Sketchbook pro, Flash, Prismacolor, and Photoshop.