July 2009
64 posts
Mermaids love the surface - video [Flickr] →
chrishoward.author posted a video:
This is the progress video of the mermaid work I posted earlier here: www.flickr.com/photos/the0phrastus/3672684620/
Mermaid progress video →
Here’s what it looks like from start to finish. And here’s a link to the final work. Also posted it below—so scroll down.
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Soldier with Blue Scarf - video [Flickr] →
chrishoward.author posted a video:
Brushes progress video for my Soldier with Blue Scarf piece.
Video of Blue Scarf painting →
Brushes app on my iPhone. Video showing every step in the work, and a detail crop below.
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June 2009
48 posts
Mermaid on my iPhone [Flickr] →
chrishoward.author posted a photo:
Painted this in Brushes on the iPhone over lunch today, a little over an hour, a lot of save and duplicates, but I like the way this ended up. I was…
Mermaid on my iPhone (Illustration Friday:... →
Painted this in Brushes on the iPhone over lunch today, a little over an hour, a lot of save and duplicates, but I like the way this ended up. I was planning to make the water a bit rougher, a…
Soldier with Blue Scarf →
A quick sketch on my iPhone using the Brushes app, fingers (no stylus on this one), about an hour.
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Soldier with Blue Scarf [Flickr] →
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Quick sketch on my iPhone with Brushes. I was doing everything in shades of red, and on a whim, went with a blue scarf. About an hour.
Dryads don't like zombies →
Especially zombies from space. Painted with the Brushes app on my iPhone, about forty minutes. A couple more things I’ve painted on my iPhone here and here.
Here’s my initial sketch…
Dryads don't like zombies [Flickr] →
chrishoward.author posted a photo:
Especially zombies from space.
iPhone, Brushes app, about forty minutes.
Dryad and Zombie First save, progress [Flickr] →
chrishoward.author posted a photo:
This is my first save for the “Dryad’s don’t like Zombies” thing, the first lines in place (See the stream for the complete work).
Young Dryad [Flickr] →
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iPhone, Brushes, about an hour
Young Dryad on the iPhone →
Painted on my iPhone, Brushes app, finger painting (left my stylus at home), about an hour. Also posting two of my saved work in progress.
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Young Dryad --in progress 1 [Flickr] →
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Young Dryad --in progress 2 [Flickr] →
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This is my second save and duplicate, the first sketching (See the stream for the complete work).
Painting Purple Vampires on my iPhone →
Just painted this on my iPhone using the Brushes app.
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Vampire [Flickr] →
chrishoward.author posted a photo:
Painted with the Brushes up on my iPhone 3Gs, about 45 minutes. This is my first painting with Brushes—took me a few minutes to get the hang of it,…
Readercon →
Registered for Readercon—way late, but I’ll be there. Readercon 20
July 9-12, 2009 Burlington Marriott, Burlington, Massachusetts. Guest of Honor:
Elizabeth Hand & …
If you had to come back as an insect... →
…you’d definitely want wings like these. Shot this beauty in the garden fondling all the flowers.
Fondling the flowers 2 [Flickr] →
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Beautiful wings 2 [Flickr] →
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Beautiful wings [Flickr] →
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Fondling the flowers [Flickr] →
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UltimateSF Workshop Poster →
Okay…still tweaking, but nearly done. Taken me a little longer than I’d planned, but a lot going in this piece. I’ve posted the art, and below a peak at some of the titling I’m working on. For…
Poster Details →
Here are some detail crops for the poster I’m doing for the UltimateSF Workshop 2009. Click for the full view.
What I'm working on... →
Here’s a screenshot of my Art Rage space with one of six characters in a scene I’m working on—the main characters for the six writers in the latest UltimateSF Workshop in Boston. We had our final…
Jokingly Moscow →
Jokingly Moscow Originally uploaded by chrishoward.author
I even created a new Flickr Group called Captcha Book Titles!
IF: unfold →
I continue to tweak this one, starting out as from the perspective of someone looking over a vast forested landscape from above, and from there, drawing it deeper until we’re now looking up at the…
Jokingly Moscow [Flickr] →
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make a great book title…
Building Platforms →
I have just sent my fifth novel Winterdim to my agent. Now what?
Okay, the obvious thing. I’m three chapters into the next one, so, yes, I am continuing to write, but I still have this store of…
First scene painting of book 2 →
Got up early this morning, and went right to work painting this scene from the next book. Art Rage, tablet, about 3 hours. The boy’s her student, holding an arm out in a let-me-handle-this motion,…
illustration Friday topic: Craving →
I painted this one in Art Rage, about 2.5 hours. A scene from the last book, main character’s a dryad, and here she’s up in the trees, in the rain, staring down her man, and she’s a…
Sun goddess →
This is a couple year old digital work of mine that I recently touched up and cropped. It’s a character study for my current series—that went by several titles, Pele, Fire Goddess, etc. Finally,…
You lookin' for the East Pediment of the... →
Yeah, I got one of those right here. You got Athena herself (my all time favorite goddess). See my “Athena Rocks!” post with an old watercolor. You got Zeus, his brother Poseidon. The whole…
Novel writing and bowling--like fire and gasoline? →
I’ve been thinking about a physical analogy for the writing process, and here’s the sort of lame idea that came to me:
If you bundle the plotting, characterization, everything that goes into…
