austineustice
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Twiggy & Harry - log pals.
Hadn’t seen this one before, very tense and creepy. Poor bunny.
It’s October so we’re watching spookies. Here’s good ol’ Deputy Dewey from Scream 1.
I whittled a collection of fruit and veg for my nephew. All hand carved from basswood with a Carvin’ Jack knife and lightly finished with a smooth sandpaper to preserve the faceted look of the knife cuts. Main body colors were applied with an airbrush using Vallejo Model Air paint. Details painted on by hand with brush. First real foray into carving and will be doing lots more.
I play with my banana all day at work. https://www.instagram.com/p/BsOn-qzH8rm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gttg3n3azmet
A ghost story of a playlist for the spookiest month. And a skull floating in an ocean listening to music on bone headphones?
Take a Septembral stroll with me through 10 new choice tracks. As usual, most are what's been on heavy repeat, filled in with classics from the vault that fit just right for a Septembral stroll. Enjoy.
My first proper sculpt and paint. Seemed only fitting that it be Hellboy as that continues to be my most valued media for both art and storytelling. The white figure at the bottom was my actual first stab that melted in the oven which taught me the valuable lesson of creating a proper armature (and using clay that wasn’t many years old). More sculpts coming.
Original Beige Super Sculpey with acrylic paints applied with various brushes. Base is a piece of pine with medium-gauge wire for armature covered in aluminum foil to pad out bulky areas.
I’ve been missing sharing music, so I’d like to get back into mixes. I’ll plan on having one each month with an accompanying illustration. It’ll mostly be what I’m listening to at the time with some perennial favorites mixed in no doubt.
I made a little “booklet of warning” as part of a proposal to my wife. Working in black and white with screentone was different and fun for me. Bound this little book with a glued spine and the help of an archivists toolkit (see: bone folding tool).
Last October I Married a Witch and for her birthday I made this poster to remind her. Pulled inspiration for text elements from several vintage “IMAW” movie posters but ended up going with my own character design and layout.
GIF from an animation project for a mobile service carrier. Video chats, voice calls and live streams.
Food Patterns
A series of patterns based on a key ingredient of a baked good. All hand drawn and fun to make. Color palette taken from dessert in question but shifted to create uniformity.
Front of a recent wedding invite illustrated for a couple getting hitched in Scotland.
MOVIE POSTER
Big holiday gift for my girlfriend this year was my own rendition of a movie poster for Jacques Demy’s lovely Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Really pleased with how it came out and made me work really big - final was 27x40 inches. Also really forced me to come up with a script I liked and could duplicate across several signatures. Liked it so much I hope that jaggedy cursive can be my own.
The holiday card this year, featuring our real-life clothes and seemingly fake dog.
Doing some hand-drawn animation test stuff and decided to use some of my favorite characters. Here's Abe having a spotlight swung onto him, getting spooked, and getting pretty upset. Check out my fancy blog for an outtake.
Aurora Vs Coil
Reading the second installment of Aurora West's story in the Battling Boy universe. Love the art and monster-world. My only gripe (more a disappointment) is the printing quality. Kinda cruddy newsprint makes the greyscale coloring pretty muddy. Wanted to draw Aurora taking on her nemesis baddy Coil (in that sweet Paul Pope color).
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Really enjoyed the first issue of All-New Wolverine in which Laura Kinney (X-23) takes up the mantle of Wolverine. She was a fun addition to the original crew in All-New X-Men, bringing 'oh so tough' I've been missing with no Logan. Hope it keeps up! Felt like drawing her gearing up into that classic uni.
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Five Deadly Venoms
Pupil #2: The Snake from Chang Cheh’s (much more) story-driven martial arts film Five Deadly Venoms. One hand represents the snake’s head, the other the tail. Trying to keep the warmup game going.
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The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
Morning warmup today of Chia-Hui Liu in The 36th Chamber of Shaolin. More Photoshop coloring technique practice - just so many things to do in there.
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Arkon
A little morning warmup of Arkon: King of Polemachus! Some pencil practice, digital ink practice and new photoshop color technique practice. Arkon based on Mike Del Mundo’s insanely awesome Weirdworld design.
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Some watercolor doodles. Bad Boy Stare Down.
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Some unused style tests for a Sesame Street segment, The Letter D.
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2015 Calendar - September: Sabrina
Continuing the 2015 calendar project, this month is Madam Satan as seen in the excellent ongoing comic The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Felt like doing one in physical materials, so made a bunch of stencils and painted this one piece by piece. Visit my site! Visit my new, pretty blog!
New art for a new mix, filled with 70s and 80s pop from The Other Side. Many of these artists have become fast favorites of mine (especially Akiko Yano, Miharu Koshi and Dip in the Pool). No 80s Japanese pop mix would be complete without YMO, as described in the album art. Anyway, enjoy! Visit my site! Visit my new, pretty blog!
The Other Side - Side A by Austineustice on Mixcloud
The Other Side - Side B by Austineustice on Mixcloud
Continuing the 2015 calendar project, this month is Akira! Again. Just a very important comic (to me and recipient of all these cal pages!). Did lots and lots of texture on this bad boy and bloomy light effects (new to my work stuff). Different styling and very pleased with the outcome. More comin’.
Screenshots of the video project I recently completed, in which I drew many, many buildings.