Creating Lino cut like prints via photoshop

coloured illustration to black and white lino print to coloured/inked lino print.

I saw an interesting job up on a freelance site and it asked for lino cut prints - traditional or computer generated. I had not a clue how to do this, but figured it should be possible. So I went off to google and play and this is the result. Yup I am rather happy with it :) This might be because I do not know the difference LOL
The tutorial can be found here http://www.edb.utexas.edu/minliu/multimedia/PSTip-linocut.pdf

Hope you all have a happy weekend and please join our friends at Sunday Sketches. 

Thinking of Halloween

I am thinking of Halloween and sort of scaring myself :)

Sleepy owls on a Sunday

Ahh back to the birds again :) Here are two sleepy white owls - a mama and baba. They are inspired from this little needle felting I did (below).  They are a digital painting using digital watercolour and "prismas" pencils.

Hope you have a great Sunday :)

Expectation on a Sunday

Below was my inspiration for this painting -  a little needle felted doll I made a couple weeks ago. It is funny how when you start to do something it seems to take a life of it own. The end painting was not what I expected as I am not a vintage chic person, however I covered an old diary (with lots of blank pages) to use as a journal of sorts and alas that also ended up being vintage chic. So I am being to think I am a closet vintage chic person - "gasp!"
Hope you all have a happy Sunday and please join our friends at Sunday Sketches. 

Digital oil and "prismas" pencils.
Art rage (painting)  and Photoshop (text).

a naked bear

Was practicing felting the last two days and made a little teddy. I like him but ... maybe he is a bit too naked ? :)

Catosity

I did this a little earlier this week and wanted to play :) So here is my SS entry and  remember to visit the cool friends at Sunday Sketches. 
Hope you have a wonderful week :)

creating a portfolio

For a while I have been trying to compile a portfolio as I am told it is a must. So after many months ( more than a year) of starting, stopping, hemming and hawing I think I have finally done one. This is little illustration comes from a felting I did and used as my "cover". There is still some fine tuning (and proof reading)  I need to do to the portfolio but I have published it and would love some feedback if you got a moment.  To see it click here

Wishing you all a happy Sunday and Sunday Sketchs
:)

p.s I used Wix.com free template to create the portfolio which is really cool at it is easy to use with all the gizmos I wanted, however to get rid of the ads I need to upgrade.

a kite

an old fashion slightly damage yet friendly kite.

a needle felted owl

 

While I am in book illustration limbo I felt and clean the house :) 

Ligo - Midsummer

inspiration from the window - Symbiosis

Symbiosis sketch

Winter has led straight into a ferocious summer and the insects are making up for the lack of transition by swarming it seems. Two days ago as I stood in the safety of the house behind the glass wall I watched the sheep outside as they twitched their ears trying to deal with the mosquitoes, when I noticed the birds.  The black birds we sitting on the fence and on the sheep! Whether sitting or walking a number of them had a bird on their back. It was actually quite funny and amazing to watch these passengers and the symbiotic relationship in play.
 Even though this is posted on Saturday it is my  Sunday Sketches entry:)Wishing you a Wonderful Sunday ♥♥♥ 

a 10 minute warm up

A little doodling pondering about mothers day. Wonder if it will get pass the doodle stage.  Playing with artrage symetery tool and prismapencil like brushes.

on my desk top

Morning, I am still suffering from the afterglow of reading my ArtRage 4 manual- sigh*** Below is what my present Wacom screen looks like just before 7am on a wet cold dreary morning.

 This is a WIP  page for a story I am working on.  What I wanted to share was the little custom colour picker which I discovered yesterday (yes by reading the manual). The custom color picker is the 1/4 circle in the lower left corner, with the painted bird in it.  I was quite concerned how I would paint the bird 30+ times throughout the story other than use the reference postcard (upper right with the pin). Then I read about how  I could sample my colours from another image. Yes that is nothing new, photoshop and illustrator etc can do it. So I got my original mock up and took the colour sample "shot" and I was expecting to see little squares which I would have to muddle my way through, but low and behold  when I opened the customer color picker I saw my bird and I just more my cursor on it and I get the color I need- WOW!! I am so thrilled about this! Yes Geeky I know.
I should state for the record this is not a new feature and is available in the lower version, whose manual I did not read.
:)
p.s - if any of you are wondering about the bird in the picture - she is in a cage, but as I am focusing on just painting her at the moment  I have made the cage's line art invisible, hence she floats in mid air :)
p.p.s I am using digital watercolour here.