The Crabshack Gallery » Art

Looooong Necks

MashPotato — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:02:54 +0000

Some giraffes with loooooooong necks!

Traditional ink with one of those fancy metal nib dip pens. Those make me feel like a proper artist ;)

Three Pages

MashPotato — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:55:27 +0000

Well, here I am at the end of my semester, and I find myself updating for the first time since it started. This blog format was supposed to make me post MORE :(

Here’s a sequence of 3 pages done for a children’s illustration course in which we illustrated an Aesop fable. I did the North Wind and the Sun :)

All the Noise, Noise, Noise, Noise!

MashPotato — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:15:58 +0000

Illustrator work from last semester :)

Ahoy thar!

MashPotato — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:31:22 +0000

Wheee, end of second semester, and two more to go :)

A character design for a bloodthirsty harlot-turned-pirate. I have more of her, but I like this one best :)

Putting the “Crab” in “Crabshack”

MashPotato — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:21:48 +0000

Something I did last semester and only got around to scanning now. My second use of ink and washes :)

Pie

MashPotato — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:50:11 +0000

For a school assignment I had to mess around with halftone stuff, and inspired by Neil Gaiman’s Rule of Pie, I decided to go all retro with a slice of delicious pie ;) I was thinking cherry rather than strawberry, though.

I’m Tired of Looking at Me

MashPotato — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:46:58 +0000

I made about 5 self-portraits within the span of about two weeks…eep. Anyhow, here’s one I finished tonight :)

Hopefully I can take a break from these for a while ;)

We’re Back!

MashPotato — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:38:21 +0000

After some downtime due to server changes and general busyness, I am now back! Some images may still be missing while the cache tries to catch up :)

Something of note that happened during the break: the alpha-tech demo of Project Zomboid was released! It’s been getting quite a lot of nice buzz, which is very exciting, and we’re hoping to live up to those lofty expectations :D

I have lots of new art to post, but will try and space it out a bit. In keeping with the theme of zombies, though, here’s a creepy pattern I made with an ink dip pen and adjusted in Photoshop. It will tile, so it can be used as a desktop background if you want it staring at you all day ;)

Tree Frog Paradise

MashPotato — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:50:54 +0000

Sun, palm trees, and little coconut huts. What more could a tree frog want? :D

Done for a small school project with the theme “trees protecting the city” (it’s a frog city ;) ). I tried a new style, and did this entirely with a brush. Couldn’t quite control the ink in places with my shaky hands, but it was nice to attempt. I also think I need to invest in a smaller brush ;)

Mona Lisa(ish) after Sophie Griotto (sorta)

MashPotato — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:26:35 +0000

It’s nearing the end of my first semester in my illustration program, and so I should have a small slew of things to post when I get some time. For now, here’s a painting I did in which we were to reinterpret the Mona Lisa in the style of a different illustrator. I chose the fantastic Sophie Griotto, whose lovely website you can visit here. I couldn’t really capture her style, as I just couldn’t mimic the loose spontaneity of her work… it’s more of a weird hybrid between her art and my usual style. If you ignore the point of the exercise, I think it turned out okay in itself ;)

Btw, I’m going to be erasing all my book reviews, as I highly doubt anyone really cares about my opinion on books, and I update my reviews so sporadically it just ruins the flow of the blog ;)