Elephants

fiftyforty — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:11:32 +0000

I made these for my clarinet teacher. There was a tribute concert for him a little while ago, and I painted these as a tribute to him.

The scanner blew out the colors as scanners tend to do sometimes. There’s actually a lot more variation in color on them. They’re inked with a brush, and painted with watercolor.

Electric Blue

fiftyforty — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:45:47 +0000

Another post within five days of the last one? It’s crazy, I know.

Done with pencil and Photoshop.

Conneisseur of Hats

fiftyforty — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:03:19 +0000

A silly thing I did that was both an inking warmup and a Photoshop coloring practice. It was fun. Also, I made some of the brushes myself in Photoshop! It was a fun time.

Also, I got a tumblr! You can view it here. I’m not sure how this is going to work (like what I’m going to post where) but I hope to post more often on this site and my tumblr than I did last year!

Self-Portrait

fiftyforty — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:58:07 +0000

Done in Photoshop.

Today I Learned: has moved!

fiftyforty — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:47:15 +0000

My silly comic “Today I Learned:” moved to a new place! A friend of mine and I started a blog to post comics on: http://lestwentytwo.wordpress.com

There’s only one comic on there as of now, but check it out if you’d like!

Long time, no blog

fiftyforty — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 06:11:11 +0000

Sorry about that. I’ve been busy doing art though, so it’s been good!

Also, I updated my website with a new look. Check it out if you’d like!

Gifts for Friends in Japan

fiftyforty — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:03:46 +0000

I made some more art for the people I homestayed with in Japan:

They were inked with a brush and painted in watercolor.

‘I said, “Her skin is cinnamon”‘

fiftyforty — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:13:18 +0000

Inspired by the song “Cinnamon” by The Long Winters. So is the title of the post.

Done completely in Photoshop CS3. Her skin didn’t turn out as cinnamon colored as I intended though. I might fiddle with it again later.

Fish.

fiftyforty — Sat, 15 May 2010 00:58:28 +0000

I am mega proud of the inking on this fish:

It’s a crop of a larger piece I am working on. I will have the finished piece up soon.

art art art art

fiftyforty — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:15:49 +0000

Hey, new Today I Learned: in the gallery! —>

Also, some new sketchbook stuff that I thought was cool.

I really like the girl on the right in the top one.

Also, some fanart from my most favorite game ever, Final Fanstasy Tactics for the PS1:

Agrias was one of my favorite characters from that game. I was listening to the soundtrack, and started drawing some of the characters, and I thought they turned out pretty ok so I turned them into sort of Photoshop warm-ups. So this was colored in Photoshop CS3. Final Fantasy Tactics (c) Squaresoft/SquareEnix