June 30, 2015

Scene Planning

Often times, especially for a technically complicated shot, I start planning a scene like this:

June 23, 2015

Wow. Go baby naps. I got painting done!

I can hardly believe how quickly I made progress on these backgrounds. The babeh has had a few good naps and I got some work done!

June 19, 2015

4 backgrounds Left to Paint!

A long time ago I took a break from painting backgrounds since I basically felt like my entire life was painting backgrounds. I've got 4 bgs left to finish up now. I think that using Corel Painter really slowed me down... It's such a laggy program! But I love the brushes and so dealt with the extreme lag. (There are a few awful things about the layers window in Painter as well that make organising files tough.) Here is a screen capture of the 4 leftover bgs in Bridge:
Seeing the 4 of them at once is motivational. I like being able to see the big picture when I can, it helps.

Come with me to the Ghibli Museum!

I made a video for my youtube channel about my visit to the Ghibli Museum this past March.