I'm always looking out for music I find interesting and just recently discovered Matthew Parker, a new Christian artist who's just about the same age as I am.
One of my favorite songs he wrote is "Thinking of You" an Owl City-sound alike song. I decided to make this fanart out of it, based on the lyrics in the song. You can listen to it here.
Definitely check out his music up on iTunes or listen on SoundCloud. He's a talented musician giving honor and glory to God through his skills.
If you're into dance music, chillstep/dubstep, electronic/trance music, then you'll definitely like most of Matthew's songs.
The wallnut is, hands down, my favorite plant. I mean - look at it! He sacrifices himself to defend you from all those zombies. Poor thing. That's why I thought it really needs some love.
This was featured in the Jetpack Joyride facebook page last April. Check out the feature here, with more than 3,000 likes and more than 200 comments.
I made this in Photoshop. I also just might show a bit of a tutorial on the process soon, since I have the raw file backed up still. Stay tuned to that!
Really awesome to see that a lot of people loved it and saw the Nyan Cat parody. The rainbow jetpack is my favorite.
I've made a video tutorial on making hair strands for vector portraits. I remember finding it so much fun to do and very interesting. Often, when I am making these portraits, I really have no idea how it's gonna turn out but then I surprise myself when it comes out really beautiful.
So here's the video. It's not actually a tutorial though - I just captured how I make the process for the base hair, and haven't put it into much detail. (Sorry about that.)
With the pen tool set to make paths, not to make shapes, I create single curved strokes and then while holding Ctrl + Alt, I drag each stroke to duplicate it and to make multiple copies of paths. With the brush set to Opacity 100% and the second default Hard Round brush, I stroke the path and...voila!
The video shows me how I copy all these to make the hair of the subject. Well, I didn't really capture how I made the rest of the hair, and wishing I did, but for the rest of the hair, I've done the same process except with varying colors and brush sizes.
And here is how it turned out when I finished making it.
Sorry about not explaining how I made the rest of the portrait but hopefully I could make more tutorials in the near future. I made this last September of 2012. And also, let me just add that Kerryn makes very good food. :)
"Hope at the Edge"
Colored by Tactician Jenro
Drawing by Sent16
Inspired by the drawing of a fellow artist, I colored one her works showing a young girl, with her head rested on the bed...holding on tight to a part of the blanket that is colored somewhat like a rainbow. She appears to be dreaming and holding on tightly to hope. And I know there is hope for me, too, that someday things will get better and the future will shine brighter. There's hope. Keep trusting and believing.
