Arizona Artist Jephyr (aka Jeff Curtis)

Thursday, January 26, 2012

A recent sketchbook drawing. And then a dash of color.

Hi...tiz I! : )

I've been having the greatest time posting at my ConceptArt.org sketchbook. I'm getting to know some very cool people over there and feel it's been helping me tremendously to be a part of a large, active art community. Just seeing all the fantastic stuff people post is inspiring enough...but people also offer advice and cheer you on. If you're an artist I'd highly recommend checking it out!

Anywho...on to some art:

Here's a recent sketch from my "real world" sketchbook done over the last couple of days.

Last night when I got home, using Adobe Photoshop and my Wacom Intuos Tablet, I threw some monochromatic blues across it...and even though it's far from polished kinda liked the effect.

Thanks for looking in on my lil ole blog.

Ciao fer now,

Jephyr

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Oh and I just updated my website....and would love to have you stop by there too! :)

Jephyr.com

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Field Marshal Chuck: A recent digital painting done using Sketchbook Pro and a Wacom tablet.

Howdy!

This summer, I've been spending a lot of time over at the Sketchbook Section of the Concept Art Forum. Artists from all over the world post paintings, drawings from their "real world" sketchbooks, and because so many of them work with digital software they post a lot of digital images as well.

Generally they're pretty helpful and post encouragement and tips and critiques about each others work.

I began my Sketchbook there a while back and have been posting more and more of my work there. If you're an artist I would really recommend you do the same...it can be very helpful and inspiring to be in contact with so many artists all trying to improve their art.

I've been doing a lot of caricatures/cartoony characters in my real world sketchbook and had a comment or two that I should work them up into digital paintings. 

So I took a recent image into Sketchbook Pro and had a lot of fun bringing it to life.

I call him "Field Marshal Chuck" and have posted the final image as well as the original sketch below. I also included a composite of a few of the steps along the way.