Weekly Photoshop Challenge: Silhouette

I've recently taken an interest in Photoshop so I was excited to see the "Weekly Photoshop Challenge" hosted by Txartcgal. This week's challenge is to make an interesting silhouette out of a picture. I used this tutorial to make this silhouette:

Here's the original photo...it's a girl standing against the wall like a wierdo. This girl may or may not be me....OKAY it's me..but it's a bad pic. This is what I look like when I'm trying not to smile & look serious. LOL.

Illustration Friday: "Under the Sea"

Title: Miss October
Medium: Prismacolor Colored pencils & ink
Support: 100 lb Smooth Bristol
Size: 2" x 3.5" (business card size)

 An exotic mermaid does her best pin-up pose under the sea. This is a self portrait....kidding!

Thanks for lookin' :)

Illustration Friday: "Robot"

Title: Miss Adventure
Medium: Prismacolor colored pencils & ink
Support: 100 lb smooth bristol
Size: 2.5" x 3.5"

  I love old tin robots but have always been disappointed with the lack of female robots out there...so here is "Miss Adventure", a girlybot with a delicate face and heavy duty pink body.  She's out for a stroll with her toy kitty on the moon. On Miss Adventure's chest is a Girl-O-Meter, and on a scale of 1-13 of girliness, she's a 13 of course! This little drawing won 1st place in eBay's "Nibblefest Art Contest" in November 2005.

Thanks for lookin' :)

ACEO #40 - "Watching"

Title: Watching
Medium: Caran D'Ache Water Soluble pencils & ink
Paper: 130 lb Fabriano Medioevalis Watercolor Paper
Size: 2.5" x 3.5"

This little birdy is waiting for her first egg to hatch.

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ATC2 #19 - "Enigma"

Title: Enigma
Medium: Caran D'Ache Water Soluble pencils & ink
Paper: 130 lb Fabriano Medioevalis Watercolor Paper
Size: 2" x 2"

Is this a kitty? Or two butterflies resting on a flower, above a flying duck?

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Artists' Choice Awards on eBay

The Artists'  Choice Awards acknowledges eBay artists based on the artistic merits of their work.  After a month-long nomination process, over 7,000 votes were cast for eBay's favorite artists in 44 categories.  Many thanks to those who nominated & voted for me!  I was honored with the following awards: 

1st Place - Most Creative Art

1st Place - Most Imaginative small format Art

3rd Place - Favorite Miniature Art

Honorable Mention: Favorite ACEO

Honorable Mention: Favorite Drawings

Honorable Mention: Favorite Fantasy/Faeries small format Art

(thanks!) :)

Illustration Friday: "Spring"

I've been neglecting my blog & Illustration Friday (so sowwy)...I meant to do last week's "Monster" topic but didn't finish on time:( Here is my "Spring" IF thingy:

"End of the Season"
Winter is ending and life becomes dull for this horned flying fish creature. She looks at the ground as strange flowers pop up from the melting spring snow.

2.5" x 3.5" watercolor & ink

Thanks for looking:)

ACEO #38 - "Naked Dream" Reversible Painting

Title: Naked Dream
Medium: Caran D'Ache Water Soluble pencils & ink
Paper: 100lb Smooth bristol
Size: 2.5" x 3.5"

This is the first ACEO I've done using watercolor pencils, and it's reversible! All the colors were done using Caran d'Ache water soluble pencils, and the skeletons were drawn in ink.

REVERSED

Thank you Amy for introducing me to Caran d'Ache :)