Heathertoft Artworks (updated 12/1/13, p. 3)

[Kyle@theWintertime]

Figured I'd start an artwork thread so I can post sketches, finished works, all sorts of stuff.

I swing back and forth between tradmat and digital...this year I'm fancying digital medium, LOL. All digital works are generated by hand with a computer art tablet and a version of Photoshop a friend was kind enough to give me.

The other day, I tossed this small/resized WIP sketch on my FB...

...it would become a rabbitry logo for Bad Habit in short order. I always sketch in blue, so when I ink things I don't get confused (black on black eats my brain, black on blue is better). Like I said, I sketch by hand...but I sketch "loose," LOL. So it looks...scribbly.

Next, I inked it, which I took no WIP shots of. I was too engrossed in reruns of Eureka to remember, WHOOPS.

Then...some slap-dash cell-style shading...and I hand-blur/smudge it in for textures. I took a WIP shot of the Lionhead; I had only blurred/worked the facial shading yet, no mane-texture or markings, but...the face was SO PRETTY.

After a lot of fur texturing, blending, overlaying markings, detailing things like the eyes...DONE!!!

Since this was a rabbitry logo, I did several versions...my personal favorite is the "sharpened" PNG/clear BG one, since I love the visual effects of sharpening an image and the clear BG means it should work on any colored page without being in a brick of whiteness.

Got another few rabbit pictures to do...plus one'a these days I should make my own freaking logo...hmmmm. :?

 

[Cattle Cait]

Super cool! I love them!

 

[Bad Habit]

I love and hate them at the same time... NO IDEA which to use for my new business cards!!! !!!

 

[Kyle@theWintertime]

I love and hate them at the same time... NO IDEA which to use for my new business cards!!! !!!

LOL sorry!!!! :lol:

 

[Bad Habit]

I think I like the grey scale best, but then I like the plain line art best, but then the one with the maple leaf, but then the one with the blue circle, but then the one with no background, but then the grey scale, but then the plain line art, but then....

Oh well, Vistaprint put their prices up again, so I'm going to wait to order new cards, gives me time to decide, lol.

 

[Demamma]

I love the lop. Outstanding work I am sure Bad Habit is going to be very pleased. Onthebrightside is designing my logo now. So exciting can't wait to see finished product.

 

[Miss M]

I sure am glad I don't have to decide!!! They all look great! (Yes, even the "scribbly" sketch!)

 

[Zab]

Awesome work!

 

[tailwagging]

very nice kyle. very nice.

 

[Peach]

Love it!

 

[Marinea]

I would have a terrible time deciding which to use- they're terrific.

 

[SarahMelisse]

LOVE them all, but especially the line drawing

 

[Heritage Homestead]

Those all look really neat!

 

[Kyle@theWintertime]

Thanks guys!!! <br /><br />__________ Fri Sep 13, 2013 1:57 pm __________<br /><br />BTW...I do more than bunnies. I consider dogs and horses to be my specialty.

Drew this quite a while ago, but I still adore it. Lavender dun pony:

Someone got on my case about it though, claimed I must have no real talent because I use a computer drawing tablet and Photoshop is my program of choice...CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

I drew this dun-colored AQHA gelding with my mouse in MSpaint. I'm super-proud of it!!!

WITH A MOUSE. IN MSPAINT. Sorry, that picture always makes me gloat a little. Haven't heard anyone complain about my methods/technology since, either!!!

 

[Zab]

Pixel art for the win

I know, it's annoying when people seem to think that as long as you use photoshop you just have to think of the image and press a button, and it'll be there by the magic of technology... too bad it doesn't work that way

 

[Kyle@theWintertime]

Pixel art for the win

I know, it's annoying when people seem to think that as long as you use photoshop you just have to think of the image and press a button, and it'll be there by the magic of technology... too bad it doesn't work that way

Yeah inevitably the people who claim that "photoshop does all the work" have NEVER used the program themselves.

Man I WISH I could just push a button and have an image appear, LOL!!!

 

[Zab]

That would be awesome... but boring

 

[Kyle@theWintertime]

Some more arts!!! Mini Lop and some peaches for Georgia Peach Rabbitry.

But of course, I love the "sharpened" smaller version the best.

And here's a teaser of some me-arts I'm workin' on.

 

[OneAcreFarm]

Thanks guys!!!

__________ Fri Sep 13, 2013 1:57 pm __________

BTW...I do more than bunnies. I consider dogs and horses to be my specialty.

Drew this quite a while ago, but I still adore it. Lavender dun pony:

Someone got on my case about it though, claimed I must have no real talent because I use a computer drawing tablet and Photoshop is my program of choice...CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

I drew this dun-colored AQHA gelding with my mouse in MSpaint. I'm super-proud of it!!!

WITH A MOUSE. IN MSPAINT. Sorry, that picture always makes me gloat a little. Haven't heard anyone complain about my methods/technology since, either!!!

That, my friend, is pretty darn impressive!

 

[Miss M]

That, my friend, is pretty darn impressive!

YES. :yeahthat:

I can't imagine what about using a stylus or your fingertip on a pad, and watching it appear on the screen, would not be HARDER than using a pencil and watching it appear on the paper.

And drawing with a mouse? That's just... freakishly hard. I've done it before.