Practice, Practice, Practice

I took a little time this holiday weekend to practice digital painting techniques using my Wacom tablet. I still need many hours of practice, but here's what I worked on today. More celeb nonsense coming soon - look for Jeff Polage doing his Heidi Montag impression tomorrow, and then later in the week, a fresh look at Jack Nicholson. Medium: wacom tablet, photoshop.

Comments

[Gilmore]

Gorgeous! Just gorgeous.

Miss you.

xoxo
Gilmore

[Demon Kitty]

Digital tablet? Wow!

I dig your eyes. I always thought there was something portentous about a single staring eye.

[ChaosbyDesign]

Great stuff...looks like you don't need any Cintiq ;-)
OK...I say the eys are
Bill Clinton
Denise Richards
Salvador Dali
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[sara fisher]

wowww!!

i love these.

Nope; Bill Clinton's eyes have white, fuller brows. But whose eye is that?

[Natalilly]

These are incredible.

Just wondering how long, roughly, each eye took you?

[Charlene]

I thought the first was Bill too.

[DollyDollar]

that's just fucking great.

[14]

Poor Bill, he DOES look like an elderly man these days. Nope, these images are all from random photos I found on google. "Bill" is actually an elderly man in a nursing home. Next time I do this exercise, I'm going to use Flickr images and then link to the person I used as a model.

Each eye took a little over an hour to create. I used my typical messy and energetic line work that I normally use in my sketchbooks so it would seem more natural. Messy art is freeing.

Thanks everyone! Have a go at creating an eye on a digital tablet. It's fun and easy once you get the hang of it.

xoxo
14

[Lynnster]

It's like an opening scene for Lost.

You'll get the hang of the wacom soon and then you'll never want to touch a mouse again. I mean a computer mouse. And by touch I don't mean in a sexual way. Ummm. I mean, umm. I wasn't saying you are one of those people who molests rodents or anything. I'm sure you know that. I mean. That would be really weird. But. Ummm. Okay, I'll stop talking now. Good luck with the wacom tablet.

[Marie]

You are incredible...

[Kipling]

Gorgeous! More eyeballs!!!!!! I LOVE EYEBALLS!!!!

[Jenn F.]

Nice work! The last eye does have a Daliesque feel to it.

*laughing @ Lynnster*

[Eize]

I almost called the last one Mr. Bean, because it reminded me of Rowan Atkinson.

Awesome.

[Pet Portraits and Jan]

Beautiful work. You have master the tablet and photoshop!

[midevil]

I haven't used a mouse in years! Love my tablet, baby, love it!

Oh, and your art, yes, um, BEAUTIFUL, as always.

[Rebecca]

Absolutely fantastic! I love eyes!

[Kamala]

Holy SHIT these are great! Especially the top one. Wow. You made this on a damn computer? You are toooo, too good. Damn you!

[Mrs Gail j Gray]

I love all but the one that sticks out the most that really deserves an extra applause is the Jack Nicolson one, its fantastic i wouldnt a copy of that for my lounge, its outrageous, and awesome, whoever done it, has done a marvellos job,well done to the artist.that gets my thumbs up for approval,it ought to be shown in "The Tate gallery" for all to see.thats what i call art, forget about the page 3 girls thoses photos havent got class.