Moving is kicking my ass, but I'm so excited for the next chapter. 

 I have definitely been in the groove lately. I was on a roll with this one, having a ton of fun, especially when I got to the rough shading part and finished up the line-art. Then I got to coloring and I realized something I had never really thought about - I think I hate coloring. I feel like it destroys my image, makes it look so much worse, and that probably has to do with my limited scope of color theory. Interestingly though, I love playing with paint, markers, and other traditional mediums. It's the digital part I hate. I still love comic-accurate Ben Day Dots though, so going forward I may just stick with very basic colors. 

 Today is April 24th, 2025. I have, quite serendipitously, found my old blogspot exactly 14 years after it's conception. Hello, 21 year old me. Hello to anyone that may still be out there.

Chatroulette

Having some fun drawing on Chatroulette.

Sam Dumas

1989 - 2012

"Ink'd"

After a failed attempt and a ruined canvas I present to you, Ink'd!

My fiance didn't much like the squid, but for some reason I really liked the doodle so I made a stencil of it.

How I did this one;
- Lay down cut out stencil of the squid on white canvas and paint whole thing blue (stencil will leave the squid white, but his eyes will be blue.)
- Lay down inverted "ink" stencil. I call it inverted because it is a hole in a larger piece of paper rather than a 'cut out' of the image. Spray it black, and remember to leave the squid down on the white, do not remove it.
- remove the 'ink' stencil and splotch a few drips on there for good measure.
- When I removed the squid it had a sort of vanilla color, while i wanted straight up white, so I laid down the negative of the squid and sprayed it white, then put the positive down on top of the negative just for the eyes. This also gave the tentacles a sort of shadow line which I liked.
- Touch up the edges, autograph, and you're done!

Spray Paint

I think I may have found my calling. I love working with spray paint and I plan on continuing in the future. For now though? I'm tired so I'm just going to kind of explain what I did. So first of all something is wrong with my scanner. It's scanning choppy and sometimes giving a sort of purple line like you see in "Tentacles".

For "Tentacles" I simply spray painted the entire canvas black, then used cardstock and cut out the actual tentacles. Then I simply (lightly) glued them to the canvas and stuck a leaf to the sprayer on some blue paint to give the "bubbles" and splats you see. Then after that I did a light graze with the blue and removed the stencil. Done.

"Why, God, why?!" was a bit more tricky. After completely ruining one canvas with gloss paint I got some matte and redid it. So the best way to describe this is to think of it as 'layers'. First I painted the blue, then I painted the white body of the bunny, following with the outline. Then i put down the carrot  stencil and painting the body orange, then the outline, and same with the leaf at the end, only green obviously. "Why, God, Why?!" took about an hour while the tentacles only took about 10 minutes. Both of these were really fun to do, and I plan on doing more.