WTD?! Espouse

This week's "What the Doodle?" word over on Creative Juices is espouse.

"Espouse" (v)

to adopt, embrace, take up, accept, welcome, support, back, champion, prefer
to adopt or support a cause, belief, or way of life

I thought with Halloween creeping around the corner, I would jazz this week's wtd?! with a bit of sci fi..

...someone is getting a ride home tonight.

Buyer Beware!

So i just found out that my friend Julia has had her artwork literally ripped right off the web, and sold as "original" artwork on Etsy under the shop name "Vintage Childhood". We all know people lift images off the internet, but it's another thing to see it happening right in front of you. It's so aggravating that someone had the guts to steal low res 72 dpi images, and sell them as originals, claiming that he/she has used only the "best paints" to create it.

So in the end, not only does the ACTUAL artist get ripped off, but the buyer gets a shitty pixelated piece of artwork, no refund, out of luck. Not to mention that you really can't do anything about it, unless you wanna shell out thousands of dollars on legal fees.

ya. awesome.


-z

Here are some related links:


-I would post the link to the vintage childhood shop, but Etsy has since removed the site.


http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/blog3/

http://www.pxleyes.com/tutorial/photoshop/1397/Create-An-Audrey-Kawasaki-Style-Wood-Girl.html

family time

WTD?! Trace

Latest word to crawl our way at FV was..... trace

along with the color study

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bLARgh

YArgh!

WTD?!: stubble

Just a hint of jealousy...

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Terrible Yellow Eyes revised!

before

after

So I was over at Terrible Yellow Eyes, drooling over what everyone had made and I started to glance back at what I had created for Cory. I was (and still am) satisfied with how it came out, but I always felt like there was something missing. I think I always felt like there was a lack of soul in the beast. My intent was to make him jovial, so in doing so, squish up the ol' eyeballs and make him squint. However, considering Max is facing away from the viewer and the second beast is basically a faceless creature in the shadows, this basically leaves us with three characters without eyes.


So I noodled with it a bit, I personally think I got what it needed. Now you can see a spark of life in his eyes, and a bit more sense of curiosity.

-also another note, I think having his eyes open, lead the view up and around the illustration. Where as, when they were closed, you kinda just stopped on his face.

Let me know what you think, maybe I'm wrong!

-kzoo

More LotL goodies

hmm a bit late. WTD:publicity

he will ruin all your hopes and dreams. fear him, human.


seriously tho, I forgot to put this up on here. Sorry guys!

shh. secrets

TOP secret! well, maybe. I'll look into that actually...

for now, check this out!

LotL

It's funny, everyone always makes fun of me for wanting to make things glow in my illustrations. So what better way to do that, than shove an actual lightbulb behind it! ha!

check it out!

Please excuse the cruddy image quality. These are photos from the hallway at work.

original image below-

bunny man!

If you want to try out this little dude, click around! If you want to see him LARGE click here

soul patch

maskmin

Here he is! Watch out girls!

- side note, he will eventually have arms... this isn't done yet. ha

WTD: Razor

It's a bit late, but here is what I did for WTD: Razor. Check out more at the Creative Juices blog