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Repeating Dog Background – Tank!

Posted on September 25, 2013 by BrassyDel

Here’s a shot of the repeating dog pattern that’s currently on the website. It’s Tank, of course, since he adorns everything Studio Brassy-related. I just did some simple sketches in my sketchbook, scanned, did minor cleanup, then arranged them and did a single color overlay. On the site, the background image is actually a transparent .png, so if I felt…

Final Art: The Evil Dr. Brassy

Posted on September 23, 2013 by BrassyDel

Happy Monday! I brought you something shiny: the finished, fully shaded colors for Dr. B. I am especially happy with her hair, just FYI. Enjoy!

Flat Colors: The Evil Dr. Brassy

Posted on September 18, 2013 by BrassyDel

Follow-up to Monday’s post, we have the flat colored version of Dr. Brassy. Flat colors means that there is no shading. After this step comes the shading, which happens on layers in Photoshop as described in this previous art post.

Lineart: The Evil Dr. Brassy

Posted on September 16, 2013 by BrassyDel

The evil Dr. Brassy casts tenebrous tentacles! I drew Dr. B on bristol board with a mechanical pencil, inked with microns 005 and 08 size pens. I scanned the piece at 600 dpi B & W (bitmap) then cleaned it up in Photoshop. I used such a large resolution because I wanted to make sure the lineart looked smooth instead…

Logo Design: Studio Brassy

Posted on September 10, 2013 by BrassyDel

Hey, guys! I designed a new Studio Brassy logo. The old one was a little dated (the colors were not driving me wild anymore) and it was too long for the new responsive website design! That’s right, if you check out Studio Brassy on your phone or tablet now, it’ll rearrange itself all willy-nilly so that it looks good. The…

Final Colors: GlitterFey is Really Hot

Posted on September 2, 2013 by BrassyDel

Back with the final installment of this three part series on drawing GlitterFey, we have a fully shaded piece. Comprising 14 separate Photoshop layers, GlitterFey now boasts fancy translucent wings and five levels of highlights and shading. I’m especially fond of how her ridiculously pink (and ridiculously short) tartan skirt turned out. I stole a brilliant shading technique from David…

Flats! GlitterFey is Really Hot

Posted on August 30, 2013 by BrassyDel

A follow-up to yesterday’s SketchBlog post, GlitterFey is back again with flats. This means that, after following the clean-up process I described yesterday, I laid down a bunch of non-shaded colors. As you’ll notice, the hair is all one color, each segment of the skirt is all one color, and the wings are all one color – excluding the varied…

Lineart: GlitterFey is Really Hot

Posted on August 29, 2013 by BrassyDel

Oh my goodness, it’s GLITTERFEY! If you’ve been a long, long time fan, you probably recognize the name if not the character. If you played City of Heroes with us, way back in the day before it was shuttered (obviously), then you might even recognize this outfit and the big ol’ fire sword. GlitterFey here is a fire blaster, because…

Let’s Buy Books

Posted on August 12, 2013 by BrassyDel

I’ve been hearing that bookstores are all going out of business because of online book-buying, either as eBooks or cheaper physical books from Amazon. Well, we had family in town recently and they needed some books for the kids. They were in the middle of a cross-country road trip, so we went to the brick-and-mortar store. Excited to influence my…

Date With A Vampire

Posted on August 1, 2013 by BrassyDel

I’d barely walked into the bar when I noticed her. It was hard not to. Her skin was the color of cheap sea shells, pale and extravagantly white, with a wash of blue undertones. Her hair thick, wildly curly, with a shocking mix of white, grey, and purple streaks. The big hair was a striking contrast to her tiny frame….

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