a quick something

I was talking to a friend and he mentioned a dream he had where something sort of like this happened so I quickly made an art of it.

some sketches

Scanned some pages out of my current sketchbook so I could play around with a new colouring style, I think they turned out pretty well.

Stay tuned for more! Or don't!

Some arts

Innocent child tries to catch snowflakes seconds before impending doom? Or giant child saves city? YOU be the judge.

I just had an idea that I thought I would work with, mostly to mess around and teach myself some more photoshop.

For one of my classes we were told to make a painting of a mythological creature, I chose the biblical leviathan and but a kind of Mike Mignola spin on it. However I really do not like painting so I wanted to do a second version with tools I'm more comfortable with. Again, this was mostly just to mess around in photoshop.

more inks and watercolours

I've been playing more with inks and watercolours, just messing around really:

Not sure about this guy, at first I liked the look of the negative space in his cloak... thing, but after getting it scanned I'm not so sure.

those crazy things you Cthulhu

So I was working on my Funeral for a Magician assignment for school (http://halftonepixels.blogspot.com/2011/02/funeral-for-magician.html)
and decided that I wanted to do some more with all the inks and watercolours strewn about my table. Now the day before while in lecture I had been reading up on H.P. Lovecrafts Cthulhu Mythos and decided I'd try my hand at a Cthulhu.

I really like how it turned out. I had done all the colour first and really liked it, I new I had to add some lines in there but I was so worried that I would completely ruin it. Finally I did and and I'm happy with the end result.

That night though, as I was watching some TVO documentary I started doodling more weird Lovecraft-inspired creatures:

I like this guy, the mountains around him turned out a little screwy but that's only because I coloured them in like, a minute after I was done colouring Mr. Fleshymountain. I had originally intended him to be a kind of mottled green to blend in with the other mountains but the near-flesh colour looked so gross I couldn't resist. And you think those are normal, Earth birds flapping around his head?

WRONG.

I filled the background in for this guy in less time than it took to do the mountains, I just didn't want to leave him on a blank white background. The colouring for the bird itself I think turned out really well.

While I coloured this guy first I'm posting him last because he's probably my favourite. I had an idea for a show/movie/comic/book where aliens attack the human empire in the future and I wanted the aliens and their technology to be these weird sort of biomechanical things, this horsey evolved from the original sketches for the aliens.

Funeral for a Magician

That is the theme to a project I'm working on from school, we're meant to be using watercolour and inks which is amazing because they are great to work with.
Now the quality is kind of... well awful because my scanner isn't great and I'm scanning from a large illustration board. I really do need to get a camera for larger stuff.

This one is probably my favourite, this is why I like the way the inks and paint work together, it gives a really nice effect. Now yeah, it is really cliché, but not quite so much as my first idea where there's just a coffin cut in half (get it? ha.) Also this guy kind of reminds me of Uncle Sam.

This one I really like, it as a nice stylized thing happening. However it doesn't so much say "funeral for a magician" as it does "brutal slaughter for a magician".

This is my least favourite hands down though I do like the concept. In case you can't tell it's a wand broken in half and bleeding. Again it's less "funeral" and more "murder" but I'll probably kep going with this concept.

Ech, again, sorry for the quality of the scans.

These sketches are really only experiments so I'm not to worried that the concepts are pretty weak. The class this is for is called "Media Studios" so it's more for being exposed to new mediums and ways of working than it is about creating deep and thought provoking illustrations.

First Post Woo

New Blog, woo! Hi, I'm Mitchell McLeod, currently attending the Ontario College of Art and Design University and starting now I'll be posting my arts up on this blog. I used to have a gallery going at DeviantArt but I was always unhappy with the stuff I was posting, it all seemed too juvenile, too sketchy and unfinished, and after going through two accounts trying to get it right I've decided to change settings altogether and see if a blog could fix things. Will it? Who knows, stay tuned!
For serious though, the reason I'm starting a blog is to start posting my work in an at least semi-professional environment. I'm moving towards the far end of my second year in university and I want like, a portfolio or collection of my work that I can start directing people to rather than the go to line "oh, I have a DeviantArt account but everything on it sucks."

So here it is, first piece of arts, I drew it up quickly for the purposes of being in my first post:

Until next time.