Mug painting 60/365

Acrylic painting 7"10" on paper

Mushroom 59/365

Here is an animation of how i made "Mushroom"

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final instalment to this :)

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Only a small update today as i've been busy working today. 

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More of the 'shroom :)

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Adding some more to this, there is more definition on the face and i've started working on a background.  at the moment alice has been removed - she'll probably return soon :) i know it looks like he's floating but i will start to block the mushroom is tomorrow :)

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carry on working on this :D

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Back to doodling :D 

Breakfast 52/365

Sorry I've not done anything "arty" recently will get back into doodles soon :)

Guild hall 51/365

Trying out a darkroom app :)

Guild hall lion 50/365

Took the kids to town to see "the war" as Harvey calls it.

An iPod drawing 49/376

I've been pretty busy today so I tried out a iPod drawing app :)

tilt shift 48/365

a bit of an experiment ive been working on :)  

Boat manipulation 47/365

a photomanipulation today :D  Also an animation of it...



and the wizard from yesterday :D

Wizard 46/365

I think this maybe the end of the wizard painting - i'll have to think about it! :D

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Adding some more to my wizard :D  

home 44/365

Taking a little break from my wizard tonight :D this was done on my Ipod :D i liked it - but it is a bit filtered :D

Playing with my iPod

Sent from my iPod

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More on this picture :D he now has a beard and different hair! :D 

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day 3 :D 

Wizard in colour 41/365

coloured version :D

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Digital, line art, type thing :) 

crappy ufo 39/365

pretty crap - feeling uninspired today!

Here kitty kitty 38/365

I have no idea what is going on here! :D  

Posh man 37/365

I had a struggle yesterday after i killed my laptop trying to install linux on a seperate partition - grrr!  silly simon!!  still it seems to be okay now!!

Simple face 36/365

I've been fighting with ubuntu today, trying to get it installed on its own partition.  the fun neve stops :) 

Artrage doodle 35/365

Trying out artrage - its a bit "stiff" but fairly cool :D 

Comic Book style text Photoshop tutorial 34/365

I'm a huge fan of comics – not that I've been able to buy any in the last 5 years or so :( but I do love rereading my old ones. This had me thinking about the old style Pow's and Thwaks they used to put in fight scenes. I liked them, so I thought i'd show you a way of making them in Photoshop.

Step 1.

Go to http://www.dafont.com/badaboom-bb.font and download and install the font Badaboom, this is a fantastic comic font that I love. Also we want to download a cloud brush from http://simonrudd.info/brushes/. Next make a 1024x768 sized document inside Photoshop. Next using the Gradient Tool make a 50% grey to black gradient.

Step 2.

First set your foreground colour to white by pressing D followed by X on your keyboard, Select the Text Tool from the Toolbar and using the Badaboom font type KABOOM! I set my font size to 72 but you can choose what ever size you want.

Step 3.

we now want to add a Layer style, go to Layer>Layer Style>Drop Shadow. Leave the settings as default, next add a Inner shadow style, set the colour to #f70a0a and the blending mode to normal. Increase the distance to 5, choke to 8 and size to 24. Finally add a Bevel and Emboss Style leaving the default settings.

Step 4.

We now add a new Layer under the text layer and using Control and E merge the text layer and new layer together (First select the Text layer then merge). Select the now flattened text layer and go to Edit>Transform>Perspective. Grab the top right hand anchor and pull it up so the right hand side is larger than the left.

Step 5.

Now duplicate the Text Layer using Control & J, This layer is going to be a sort of shadow. First we hide our original text layer by pressing the eye icon in the layer window. Next we want to make it black, the easiest way of doing this is to add a Colour overlay Layer style (Layer>Layer style>Colour Overlay) set to black. Then we unhide the original text layer.

Step 6.

Finally we use the cloud brush we downloaded in step one, on a new layer brush in some clouds around the word. Make it thicker towards to beginning of the word and less at the end :)

Hope you liked the tutorial and please feel free to visit my website :)

Night Scene 33/365

This is pretty much the result of slapping some paint down and seeing where it evolved :D  Acrylics on Paper 7"x10"

Egg box crocodile 32/365

I painted an egg box crocodile my son made at school :D  acrylics on paper 7” x 10”