Another Quick Drawing

Image | January 26, 2013January 26, 2013 | edwardiantaylor

I took this image out of my sketchbook. Just took it into Photoshop and added some color. Hope you enjoy 🙂

Starbuck Lid Character “Samurai’s Bone”

Image | January 20, 2013January 20, 2013 | edwardiantaylor

Noticed that Samurai needs his bangs cut so I drew him on my coffee lid yesterday. Hope you enjoy.

Alberto Ruiz Drawing Challenge

Image | January 9, 2013January 9, 2013 | edwardiantaylor

Albert Ruiz Drawing Challenge

This probably the first real piece that I’ve completed in the new year. It took me about 2 hours. Alberto Ruiz is an artist and he sets up drawing contests with the use of model images. Since I’m trying to get more comfortable with color and less on line work I decided to try it out. Here is my submission for this months contest. All done with one single standard brush in Photoshop. I hope you enjoy.

Last Holiday Starbucks Lid Characters 2012

Image | January 4, 2013January 4, 2013 | edwardiantaylor

Last Holiday Starbucks Lid Characters 2012

Here are the last lids I created while visiting my parents for the holidays. Hope you enjoy these last ones for 2012.

Winter’s Mistress

Image | December 12, 2012December 12, 2012 | edwardiantaylor

For this piece I wanted to keep it fairly monotone. I took a quick sketch from my sketchbook and took 1 hr. to complete. I took inspiration from old vintage photographs. I also played around with making my own custom brushes. Lots of fun. Hope you all like it 😉

A new portfolio piece. Trying to work on my weaknesses- color and light.

Image | November 21, 2012November 21, 2012 | edwardiantaylor

A new portfolio piece. Trying to work on my weaknesses- color and light.

I recently had a friend that works in the animation industry give me critiques on my portfolio. Strengths I have many, but my weakness is my dependency in line. I guess having always wanted to be a comic book artist as a kid has set me in some habits I wasn’t quite aware of. To make it in the animation (specifically 3D) a development artist needs to be able to render things with the use of color and light. Both of which I struggle with. So going through my portfolio, I’ve decided to revamp it by adding more current work. I’ve been so busy working, teaching, and animating that I’ve started letting my artist side sit on the side lines. So this holiday break, along with Christmas break, I’m hoping to get some work done.

Here is a sample of a piece I’m working on at the moment. I call it Little Darkness Hunter.

Starbucks lid character continued.

Image | November 18, 2012November 18, 2012 | edwardiantaylor

Starbucks lid character continued.

I’ve been so busy with working and teaching (more like grading) that its been difficult to find time to post stuff. But here is my latest starbucks lid character. Sleepy Bear. Enjoy ;P

Revisiting an old drawing and updating it.

November 3, 2012November 3, 2012 | edwardiantaylor

Decided to take an old drawing I did and apply some new techniques that I’ve learned since then. I was told by a friend that I should do more pieces that depend less on line and more on shape. So here is one that I decided to explore that with. Hope you enjoy it.