The Love of Your Life

I want to start painting flat, graphic images again.  They're incredibly fun to do, I love how such simplistic shapes and colors can convey so much.  I thought I'd warm up with the simplest design I could think of.  I guess I just have a thing for hearts and skulls.

I was thinking of putting this one up for sale on Etsy, but I'm unsure of what to charge for it. I've never priced my own work before.  I want to avoid charging an inflated price, but at the same time I'd like to squeeze every cent I can out of it.  What do you think?

she would be mass destruction

Here is the image I promised last post.  I made it into a pretty sweet wallpaper for my laptop.

It's looking really nice as my background, but it doesn't look right to me as an image.  I messed around with it a little in Photoshop to change it to a vertical orientation, which I think suits it better.

I also played with the textures a little more because the background of the wallpaper looked a little too simple.

The textures are by him and her.  They both have some great stock.

What do you think?  Which one looks better?

Illustrator practice

Here is some digital art I've done. It's mostly me using the mouse to mess around with the pen tool in Illustrator. But now that I have a pen tablet I've been practicing my digital drawing. I'm working on something right now that I'll post soon, it's turning out nicely.

The first of many

Hello, my name is Austin and I like to call myself an artist. I just started this blog so bear with me while I try to get things set up and figure out blogging etiquette.  While you wait and to help fill up all of this empty space, here are a handful of traditional paintings I've done.  They're in no particular order.

Thinking of You

acrylic on canvas

Octo Lover

acrylic on canvas

Untitled

oil on canvas

Untitled

oil on canvas

The Bacon Fairy

acrylic on canvas

Scott Pilgrim vs. Acrylic

(Scott Pilgrim fanart, based on the videogame title screen)

acrylic on canvas

Mystical Powers

(Scott Pilgrim fanart, based on Alex Ahad's art)
acrylic on canvas



I WANT YER FACE
(Avatar the Last Airbender fanart)
acrylic on canvas


I have several more paintings sitting in my apartment that I have yet to take photos of, it's on my to-do list.

Till next time.