Superhero's on sale!

I recently discovered an amazing website by the name of Fiverr where people offer services like singing, drawing, acting, etc. The selling point is that all services are 5 dollars. Its great if you need a quick drawing or banner on the  cheap or if you are just looking for an interesting gift.

fiverr

So loving bandwagons I quickly hopped aboard this one with a superhero commission service. Basically I take a normal picture of a person like this:

 

And turn it into this:

Or this

 

  I try to talk to the customer and ask them a little bit about what they want then I sketch it up in illustrator using the photo as a base.

All of the above pictures are actually doodles I made from stock photos since I don't really want to post other peoples pictures on the internet :)

2 of the pictures are stock photos from devaintart that I have included links to below but the third is a picture of Katy Parry I found on google images, unfortunately I did not think to save the link.

Sailor moon, Adobe illustrator and experimentation in coloring.

 

Recently I've been expanding on my knowledge of adobe illustrator, a program I picked up some time ago but was always very intimidated by. That changed recently when my roommate sat down and demonstrated many of the basic functions and after some experimentation with black and white line art I decided to try my hand at a fully colored picture. Since I'd never done anything like this before I decided to find a tutorial. Though I only loosely followed the steps it was very helpful in getting to my finished picture.

 Using this stock photo found on www.deviantart.com I used the picture to position the base shapes then colored each base with additional shapes I made largely at random. After I had added all the shapes and was about half way done the tutorial I had something that looked like this:

I was pretty happy with how easy the coloring was and was enjoying filling in random shapes with random colors, Its a lot more loose and free then my usual methods. but before I could move on to adding the shine and final details I decided I needed to make a few revisions.

Here it is after adding the shine to the hair, face, and other key areas as well as a few other alterations. I decided to make the bow a little smaller and to move her one pig tail so they both moved along the sailor collar.

































 But I  still wasn't happy with it... So I started to play around with the colors. After a long time of experimenting I ended up with this:

In the end I used the previous two pictures to make the final image. I layered the 3ed draft over the second and reduced the opacity until I was happy with the result. 

I then moved the image over to photoshop where I added a soft pink granulate background and then used this brush set to add in the stars and circles behind sailor moon. :)

And that's how I did it! I'd like to say a great big thank you to the creators of the resources I used and if you would like to view the resources just click on the picture of them and it will open a new tab to the creators page.

Banana Charm Tutorial

I drew this well I waited for the clay to bake  ^^

 

I forgot to put the eye pin you need to stick into the banana

in this picture of materials but I will point it out in later photos.

 

smaller yellow all and white ball.

 

Role them together! :)

 

 It should be a solid inner banana color

 

Split it in two and role each half into a banana shape

 

Take the larger yellow ball and split it into 3 smaller balls.

 

 like this!

 

role the balls into sticks... lol

 

flatten the sticks.

 

shape the flattened sticks into your banana peel.

 

wrap the banana peel around the banana =^_^=

 

 Ba ba ba ba ba... Banana Phone!

 

 Bend the peel back to expose the banana

 

 Eye pin mentioned earlier!

 

Take a set of pliers and brake the eye pin

so it is small enough to fit into the banana

like so! than carefully stick the pin into the banana

I don't have any pictures of the baking steps but I put tin foil over a baking sheet and bake for as long as it says on the package the cay came in. Be careful not to over bake as it will make the clay go a light brown color that is not very nice -.-

After you finish baking they should look something like this...

 

 you can also make closed banana's by adding a brown 

section of clayto the end and sealing up both sides.

 

Or by cutting the banana in half you can 

secure the flat side to an earing stud

I hope you guys liked

@my Roommate ;P

I have just undertaken the adventure of moving into a new house with two new roommates. My one roommate Liam loves interesting kitchen gadgets almost as much as I do so taking into account that we still need lots of more useful things for our new kitchen I thought I'd make a wish list of things I would like to add to our kitchen.

I may do a second part to this post since this one was so much fun :)

Sailor moon theme update; ok so it's not a really a big update but it's better than nothing. I'm still working on icons since I think they're going to be the longest and hardest part and I'd like to get that out of the way first. This week I've got 4 new icons. I'm not super happy with some of them but I'm sick of redoing icons so I'm over it.
The first one is a really cute picture of melvin\---- from the first episode. It's been re-done in photoshop but I think it turned out really cute and I'm planning to make another one of him.

The second one is one of Rie/Sailor Mars paper charms. I'm not sure if this one is maybe a little too simple but I'm thinking I might use it for the calendar. If you can think of a better use for it let me know.

The third icon is my fave so far, it's the luna pen and I think it turned out really cute. Some of the line art was a little funny but when shrunk down you can't see it any more.

And last we have a picture of Artemis from when luna finds out he was mission control. He has the little head set on so I'm going to use it for the voice recognition icon. This is the icon I'm the least happy with but I'm planning to use it anyway just becuase I can't think of anything else to use for that icon.

Upcoming icons? I've been downloading sailor moon pictures trying to come up with ideas and I think the next one I'm going to make is the black crystal used in season one by Zoisite to find the rainbow crystals and then maybe the rainbow crystals and the silver crystal. I also want to make an icon of each scouts' henshin wand and sailor moons' tiara but I havn't given a lot of thought as to what those icons will be used for.

Other projects? I'm working on some other stuff but it's all been on the back burner for a few days. Well I worked on these icons, and have been lazy. XD I'm working on a new picture for a contest entry on devaintart http://news.deviantart.com/article/119572/ and I'm planning to start work on those cell phone covers this week as well.
All Jewelry is on hold 'til my next trip to Toronto for supplies, unless I decide to make an etsy order this week.

And I think that's it for tonight ladies and gentlemen. I'll see you soon;
Hawkingbird

So I went to Michael's for eye hole pins and lobster clasps for my jewelry this week. They're so expensive there! I couldn't beleive it was $5 for something that should have been $2 at the very most! Needless to say I didn't buy it. I did however get a great deal on clay. It's not the brand I usually buy but it's a very comparable brand and I got it for $1.30, regular $4.00.


I used it to make some rose pins and rings that look really amazing! I'm planning to post pictures but I'm currenty without a camera. My fiend is going to come over later this week to take pictures for me though so look forward to all kinds of colorful pictures!


Other great news, I've been in contact with a new company just getting started in the UK. They make cellphone covers and I'm going to make vector pictures that are going to be on the stickers that go on the backs of cellphones.


This is a pretty big deal for me. Even if I don't make a lot of money ( I'm getting a percentage of everything sold with my picture on it) they found my work and contacted me so thats super exciting all on its own, but the extra money will be a really big deal even if it's not a lot.


I don't think there is really any other news. I'm still working on getting my etsy store up. I sould be able to finish it up as soon as I get some of those pictures taken of all my stuff. I think I have close to $100 in jewelry done now so assuming it all sells that should cover all my materials for the next few weeks. I'm running really low on a lot of stuff. Mostly small things like clasps and pins. I can't wait to go shopping for all the little things I need.


Also I'm thinking of doing a giveaway to attract some more followers. Maybe an overloaded bracelet or a rose ring. I need to give it some thought. So if you guys are interested in winning a prize the giveaway would be for a random person on my list of followers. Is there anything you guys would like? I'd be more than open to suggestions. I want to give away something you guys would like.

Ok, so I know I've been talking about uploading pictures of my sailor moon blackberry theme and so I pulled a few of them off my computer. there are 5 here and I gotta say I was going for a very cartoonish feel but I'm not sure that I like some of the icons. the communicator is a little to cartoonish but it was the first one I made. the others for the most part I'm ok with but the zapped Sailor V turned out to have shrunk down too much to really look that great. I'd welcome any feedback you guys might have.

Real life update time! I'm at work right now on my lunch brake and so far its been pretty slow all night witch is good. :) I work in a call center where we take phone calls for an American cable company and I do the overnight shift from 11pm to 7:30am.

For the most part I like it, but there are some pretty weird calls that come in at 4 in the morning. Last night I got a call about how the church was out to get him because the only channel that was working was the Christian network.

Slow nights are nice though, because I get to talk about glee episodes and boys with my friend Mallorie and techie stuff with my friends Cody and dale. :)

Oh and speaking of techie things, I got my Iphone today. Its in rough shape; the screen is broken and the back is all dinged up. Its not really worth the 75 dollars it would take to repair it so instead I ordered a new screen and digitizer from eBay that came with a kit to disassemble the Iphone. I'm going to try and take it apart and see if I can replace the screen myself. An expensive experiment but if it works it will be worth it. I expect the kit to get here in about 2 weeks so I'll keep you guys posted on that.

Till next time,

Hakingbird