Tag Archives: Art

Animated Darren Criss Portrait

Posted on 29/12/2011 by in Art Submission, Tutorials/Making of

I draw portraits a lot. In particular, I’ve made a lot of digital portraits of Darren Criss, which my portfolio will attest to… Sometimes, I like to push my limits on art, and yesterday, I did so when I decided to animate Darren Criss’ face. It was inspired by the surge of popularity of animated GIFs on Tumblr. Little did I know, but it ended up being a rather hellish task to do. In total, I drew eleven frames, one of which I ended up not using.

However difficult it was, I am so very excited that it actually worked out! Below, you can see the animation and a gallery of all the frames for entertainment value.




 

Celebrity Portraits signed by the celebs

Posted on 02/12/2011 by in Artist Stories

I recently went on vacation to America, visiting both Boston and NYC. While I was there, I was fortunate enough to meet some of the people who I’d painted and whose prints are currently in the art book that I made for my portfolio.

I met Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Bartha at their play called Asuncion in New York, and Darren Criss and Joey Richter after their music/musical/theatre performance in Boston.

See their signed portraits, and my photos with them, below.




T-shirt Design up on Threadless

Posted on 11/10/2011 by in Art Submission

Looking at my website, you probably wouldn’t hold me for much of a designer, and I’m not. I’m a digital painter, a portraitist, calling me an illustrator would be a stretch, even though I aspire to be one, but I am not a designer.

However, sometimes, when life gives you lemons… (I’m disabled, receive a disability allowance, but started working more hours and now have to pay the government a lot of money back)

…you gotta make t-shirts.

So I have made a design ( called Upside Down Umbrella) and it is now up for voting on Threadless. If it gets enough (high) votes, it gets printed and I get 2500 dollars from Threadless!

You can rate it on Threadless.

What else can you do? Well, some of my friends really showed me the best way to help me out is by sharing the link to the t-shirt design on Facebook. What most of them have done is not only shared the link but wrote some very nice encouragements while doing so. Some even tagged their friends on Facebook in the comments of the shared message, meaning their friends get notified more directly about my design!

So, what can I say, tweet, share on Facebook, +1 on GooglePlus or just e-mail your friends if you think they would like my design and would be willing to score it for me! The design is still subject to six more days of voting!