cartoon portrait background

here preparatory studies I  made before realizing my friend's cartoon. 

copyed by some photo and I must be grateful to his ego, for he really have many,

furthermore, he likes to take photo while having foolish facial expressions, that really made my life much more simple ^_^ 

Davide, cartoon portrait

cartoon portrait of a friend of mine, my gift for his degree!

 he dislikes Disney, and junkfood, and he loves Apple and apples... finally he also draws, and I can't decide whether to admit he does better than I do, or deny it for my pride's sake... 

despite it all, anyway, we can say he's really a good fellow =D

 congrats, davide! ^_^  

link to his blog  http://davidepighin.blogspot.it/

Irish wisdom

when a child I was a little obsessed with the Braveheart movie, this one of my favourite  gags, about Irish people in the Irish Day.

yeah, that's cheating...not finishing previous work and posting some other rough colored pic...in my defence, I messed up the previous one with watercolours ( guess that typing the word 'mess' or  'messed up' on google one will probabily wind up finding my blog...)   and having to work on too much things lately, at least too much for me probabily...so took one just started one and finished in a hurry( maybe typing the word 'hurry' one will end up here too...)
computer coloring is so much more reliable than manual coloring, not that I were better at, but It's a little less stressing, no risk to get a stomach ulcer at least. ( though  I guess I unfortunately like the watercolor effect better)
however...this is not that bad I dare say!

Dorne

since I started to read the serie, I have longed to draw some Game Of Thrones scenery, so here we are. my first GOT fanart was to be about Dorne, I was inspired by a chapter about its Prince and his palace...though I'm not sure it was supposed to look so eastern, but that's quite how I imagined it...and yes I got some help from a photo of an Arabic Palace...just a rough sketch, with some color tries.  

...guess it looks a bit Disney-like....

making of

                                     

in the very first concept of Valentine's post the Little Mermaid was supposed to be this Little Mermaid, but it would have been quite depressing ^^

I'm getting photoshop addicted...

...worse, I just realized I'm getting photoshop's hue-addicted...if I were good at, at least...

Valentine's

took a while to make this one, and I was quite in a hurry coloring the last couples ^^

this year i feel a little more Valentine's mood than I used to, and that's stupid !

indeed  I used to be the Valentine's haters club vice-pres, i guess so...and I can't tell what this change of attitude is due to ..just, I guess, I'd rather like to cheer than complaining again ^_^

and since everyone's saying this is a commercial celebration, well I thought about that, I guess I'm glad it is: that is more work for artist producing cards and jewels, and all that stuff, so if I become good enough to do that that will mean more work for me ^^

however, I had quite a good time making this, trying to represent different ways of love through characters from movies and literature I love ^^ 

so Happy Valentine's my watchers, whatever Valentine's means to you ^^