Notches

This and the other the diver pieces will be compiled into a little book I'm making for the up coming Alternative Press Expo (aka APE).

Some Prelims

Some composition thumbs and value study for the next piece.

Art by committee

This work was done for James Gurney's monthly art by committee assignment. This month's Abc was to illustrate the owner of a business card, which went something like this.

Harvard Depository

Trudy. L.
Operations Manager

A depository for books and records

As you can see I took a pretty playful approach. I hope it reads ok.

Above is a quick look at the steps I'm taking to make a finished picture. First one on the left I'm just reinforcing the drawing, setting up the darkest lines and some of the texture. Next using washes I establish the major value shapes, no details so when you squint or see it in a thumbnail it looks alot like it will when done. In the third image using white ink the lighting is fine tuned, adding in small value shapes but not altering the previous step's value hierarchy. Finally the details are added with a few tweaks and fine tuning.

Hope this wasn't too long winded, brain numbing or strait up dumb but I hope you enjoyed it anyways.

Ama portrait

Quick portrait of Ama I did tonight (or this morning I guess)

Transparent

This piece was based off the much quicker version seen earlier in the Various verticals post. Really trying to play with textures here, the helmet is pitted and worn, there is a bit of a grain texture in the bones. Thinking the next piece won't be about a diver.

Down The Hall

(Click to enlarge Copyright Michael Manomivibul 2009)

Down The Hall (wip)

A work in progress update, here's a working drawing for a new piece I'm making for an art exchange with a friend of mine. This is the final working drawing, with basic value shapes and very general value scale in place. I tend to work out the final nuances of value as i work on teh final pushing and pulling as needed.

Fish, clouds and various verticals....

Here is the complete set of book mark experiments so far. Gotta say the fish are my favorite so far, as purely technical exercises they are a lot of fun there is something about the shiny segmented heads and the shapes found there that is really beautiful. These are all bait fish by the way, top we have Mackerel, Anchovy, Sardine, Minnow and Ballyhoo.



These clouds were referenced from pictures I took while in Hawaii for the first time, truly the land of epic clouds!


And lastly we have the "various verticals" mostly just playing with materials and effects here.