I found a tutorial on how to make real photographs look like they're photos of miniature scenes. it's called Tiltshift photography. Much like the photographs on Adult Swim if you've seen those before. Here's a few attempts I made (using photographs either my friend or I took ourselves, not taken from the internet): From the top of some mountain in Acadia National Park (I think).
*sigh* I sort of had a rough patch in life ealier and left a lot of things alone. Including my blogspot. But trying to start where I left off here is the result of the contest entry I was working on:I got third place, in which my prize was some copic markers... they never sent them to me. I probably got third because I didn't have time to make the complicated background I wanted.
And on another note I am working on 2 commissions, 1 birthday gift, 1 comic, 1 video game and my first 3D art. All of this I thought was too much so I dropped everything to finish the commissions, and then I'll work on the birthday gift and the comic. (I'd show you a screen shot of the 3D project and game, but I don't have them on this computer. I'm on spring break with my mom helping her clean up the house for selling, as she is moving) I'll put up sketches of the first pages of the comic once I get the sketches done.
In the mean time here's some other pics: An extreme close up of the birthday gift:And an art trade with emorottie from deviantart (he doesn't like Sonic as you can tell):
Definitely not lion-O. Any way, my friend alerted me to a contest which I'm entering over here. I think I have a good chance of winning seeing as the contest is four times a year and I think only one person has entered each time lol. The prize is a wacom intuos3 tablet 6x8, which beats the crap out of the tablet I have now. haha
It's a cool contest, and I encourage you to enter it. It'd suck if you beat me, but at least there's another contest later this year.
I have a good bit of the picture done, but I'm only going to show the sketch until I'm done with it. This is one of the only pictures where I've used symmetry to the point of copying one side and flipping it. I think it looks really nice. But let me say this, I only copy and pasted the sketch, I'm painting each side.
I'm pretty proud of how this picture is turning out, I might even print it as a poster or something and hang it in my new apartment right next to the Wall-E poster I think my other friend is giving me.