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Watercolor Ornaments
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
2 Watercolor Ornaments by Amy Crook
A few years back I painted a bunch of one-of-a-kind cards for a friend, and these were two of my favorites. The metallic paint I used for the designs didn’t scan too well, but it does give you the sense of glittery reflectiveness with all the false colors scattered in among the gold and silver. I was trying not to spend more than 15 minutes or so on each card, though I’m pretty sure I cheated on the red ornament’s intricate gold designs.
Happy Holidays!
Categories: Completed Commissions, Daily Art
Tags: all rights reserved, christmas, commission, nfs, sold, watercolor
More Coloring Book Doodles
Monday, December 6th, 2010
I’ve been busy this holiday season and I keep falling behind on my art posts! So, here, have some more doodles done for fine recipients of my Cthulhu Coloring Book.
Evil Mermaid sketch by Amy Crook
Weeble Ninja sketch by Amy Crook
Mad Scientist With Gas Mask sketch by Amy Crook
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: coloring book, cthulhu, lovecraft, nfs, pen and ink, silly, sketch, weeble
Custom Character Moleskines
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
Custom Character Portrait Moleskine Cahier Plain Journals by Amy Crook
Get your favorite character put on a pocket journal just for you — or give one as a gift certificate for the holidays. Take notes with Spock, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, or whoever tickles your fancy.
These are available in two styles, the soft pencil sketch or stark Sharpie marker relief, as shown above. One character per journal, please.
Cahier Journals sport a heavy-duty kraft brown cardboard cover, with visible thread stitching on the spine. Inside each journal you’ll find acid-free paper pages and a spacious pocket for notes or clippings. Size: 3.5 x 5.5 in. (9 x 14 cm), 64 plain pages each, last 16 sheets detachable.
Custom Moleskines – $29 apiece, with free first class shipping. Priority Mail shipping is available, or I can send you a pdf gift certificate if you’d like to give one as a gift!
Or read on to see examples of all the ones I’ve done so far (all sold, I’m afraid!). (more…)
Categories: Completed Commissions, Daily Art, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: all rights reserved, commission, for sale, moleskine, pencil, sharpie marker
Toby
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Toby by Amy Crook
Back before I ever did a NaNoWriMo, I briefly considered doing a webcomic — the intensive schedule forces one to really develop a style and refine it quickly, which sounded more appealing than slogging through years more of feeling like an incompetent. In the long run, though, I decided that I just didn’t have the motivation to keep up a comic schedule, shelved the idea and turned it into my very first NaNoWriMo win.
This is Toby, one of the two main characters from Makeshift. It’s one of the first things I ever did using Copic markers, which then languished on my shelf for a long time before I picked them back up and got busy learning the long, hard way to suck less.
Toby, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic markers on sketchbook paper, not for sale.
Categories: Daily Art, Nudes and Other Sexy Things, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books
Tags: copic marker, makeshift, nanowrimo, nfs, pen and ink
Dancer Shard
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Dancer Shard by Amy Crook
Another piece that shows my fascination with dancers! This one is also long lost to the mists of time, or possibly in that one box on that shelf I can’t actually get to right now. There was a local shop that made stained glass windows and would let me come raid the stuff that was broken for interesting pieces. The background is painted in pearlescent white on a thick shard of semi-opaque buff stained glass, and the foreground daubed in wetly with a fat brush and barely-mixed colours for a rough, abstract effect.
From what I recall this piece is about 3″x5″ or a little smaller, heavy in the hand.
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces
Tags: acrylic, glass, nfs
Wedding Invitations
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Wedding Invitations by Amy Crook
When my Mom decided to get married at short notice, she actually arranged everyone’s attendance by phone — it was a small wedding of just immediate family, so mainly she had to work around everyone’s schedules in time for me to get a reasonably-priced flight out. She asked me to make wedding invitations as sort of a keepsake for everyone, and after a bit of prodding added the descriptors “bright green swirls” to her vague request of “something nice.”
I picked up the cardstock first, simple non-folding cards with a nice embossed “frame” that I’ve faked in here in Photoshop. Names & details have been changed, of course, but this is what I came up with. I first made two sets of swirly, romantic designs in watercolor and scanned them, then I ended up deciding on the lighter green and making them into transparent Photoshop files so I could layer them in InDesign. I printed them by hand at home the same way I make my holiday cards, on my high-quality inkjet printer.
The project (which was my wedding present to them) ended up being a fun combination of fine art, design, and actual production work. She was pleased with the final product, and I kept forgetting to make this “generic-ified” version so I could post them to the site.
If you’re interested in having custom design done for you, you can take a look at my portfolio over at Not Dead Yet Studios or just drop me a line to discuss your project. My December is pretty full, but I’d love to work with you to make something beautiful and functional to fit your needs.
Wedding Invitations, 5.5″x8.5″ hp inks on cardstock, not for sale.
Categories: Completed Commissions, Daily Art, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: all rights reserved, commission, design, nfs, wedding
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Alex Benedict
Monday, November 29th, 2010
Alex Benedict by Amy Crook
A few of you might be aware that I’m doing NaNoWriMo this year — it’s my 6th year & 5th win (I passed 50K on the 25th). I haven’t titled this year’s novel yet, but in the inevitability of being an artist writing about the same thing every day, I decided to do a sketch of my main character, Alexander Benedict.
Since I was drawing him as procrastination for actual writing, he’s in the client meeting notebook I use, which is a proper sketchbook that got wet at some point in its life and has warped pages — perfect for taking notes in, not so great for art I want to scan and/or keep later. Oops.
Alex Benedict, 4″x7″ pencil on sketchbook paper, not for sale.
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books
Tags: nanowrimo, nfs, pencil, sketch
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