In case you don't know what American Greed is, it is a documentary TV show about scams, con artists, ponzi schemes and how to detect the three. The show itself is voiced by actor Stacy Keach. An actor known for the films Nebraska, Planes, Prison Break, and Mikey Spillane's Mike Hammer. One of the other interesting things about this show, are the graphics. Each episode features an interesting collage of the US dollar, DC buildings or Sky Scrapers all with a green overlay.
Art Deco Style
As you can see here to the left, this is the fan poster of the series American Greed (mentioned above) one of my most favorite TV shows. The style I did this in, was obviously an Art Deco inspiration from the 1920's to the 1930's.
And of course, I to add the signature Green Overlay over the entire thing, since Green is considered to be the color of Money and Envy (sometimes).
This whole poster can also be seen in the making on my Instagram.
I would say it took about 30 Minutes to an hour in total to complete this poster. Mostly because I was coming up with what to add here and there.
It has been a while since I have last updated this blog site, because a few things have happened since then. In saying so, here is the latest on Artwork.
Sketch Book 2015
This year I just decided to show more on how I tend to plan paintings and also just continue being creative in my sketch book. This first sketch I am showing you, is a pen and ink drawing (by pen and ink, I mean purple pen and some kind of refillable ink pen I have).
If you play the game World of Warcraft, you'll get the reference in the first drawing.
If you do not know what WoW is or never played it, it is basically an online fantasy game (mmorpg to be exact), that has millions of players worldwide and is a lot of fun. The speech bubble says: "The Flames, They lick .... They bite....Always biting". and the background has a flame saying "Yup", with teeth.
The second photo was a sketch of a "selfie" (a picture I took of myself under a spotlight with blue lips) and one day I was bored and decided to sort of try my hand at "Shadowing" and ended up calling it "Shadows" since it seem to fit the picture.
As for the purple pen, well, I had a purple pen, (and gold if you can see it) on me, along with an ink pen, and decided to use it.
Also, I just wanted to add that, this is a lined notebook, and I just felt like using it because you can't really see the lines in it very well. I also picked it out since it is portable and you can pretty much sketch anywhere with it.
Artwork (updated)
What I am featuring now, is more updated pieces that I have done starting from December 2014 to now in 2015.
This first piece doesn't have a name. It was basically something that I had created inspired by an artist's "Turn a Scribble into a Drawing" picture (which is below to the left) by Mary Doodles (who is also a youtuber, check out her channel here, she does awesome work).
The actual name for the series is called "What will I Draw"? and the name of this particular video is called "Elbow scribble becomes a drawing"! I will say that she is defiantly amazing at this, because when I tried it with some other drawings of mine, it was very difficult.
As you can see, Mary included both hands, in which I just included one, the nails in hers are longer, and it has a more neon background as opposed to my more darker tone of yellow in mine. Though there are many more obvious differences in the two, it still was an interesting idea to cover.
(Before I forget, mine was done in both copic and prisma color markers) (Mary's, the one to the left, was done using copic markers)
Moving on to the next piece, (below) I have here a watercolor painting called "Elegance". This one is a tad bit different then the ones that I normally paint, but it has to be one of my more favorite paintings since it shows more detail then the previous ones. Of course this was also the time when I had actually gotten some better brushes and was able to add more detail to the painting itself.
I also used a white pen to add the light in the pupils and a brownish yellow prisma color marker for the rectangular shapes or rays, behind the girl, but with out touching her head.
There are more art pieces on the way, but those are going to be featured on my Deviant Art page. Mostly since these are a few picks that I wanted to sort of elaborate on.
NOTE:
House of Worlds is coming soon, still working on it.
-MS
