Thursday, November 08, 2007

Subjecting My Own Head To Technique Experimentation

Illustrator- my first few tries are pretty primitive!






Photoshop doodle break to ease my tormented mind (via The Vampire Lestat). The book never seems to end! Oh the agony!

51 comments:

Eric Carl said...

Hi Kali, your drawings are always super fantastic rockingness!

I've personally never found Illustrator to be too great for line art. I don't think they simulate traditional inking tools too well. Have you experimented with a program called Manga Studio at all?

http://www.e-frontier.com/go/mangastudio

A buddy turned me onto it and I swear by it now. Lots of control over line-making tools, definitely great for more than just manga. The interface can take a little getting used to if you're more familiar with Adobe stuff, but its totally worth it!

Keep drawing! I love it.

PCUnfunny said...

Great drawings and Happy Berfday ! And yes, I do mean Berfday.

Kevin Langley said...

Happy Birthday! I love the way you draw Eddie.

Hammerson said...

That's pretty good for the first attempt with Illustrator. I love the profile in particular, and Photoshop doodles are really cool (are you using the graphic tablet for those).

And by the way, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
I prepared a special surprise for you on my blog, and I hope it's the pleasant one... or maybe you'll be horrified :)
Take a look.

Vincent Waller said...

Ha!Those are great!
Happy BIRTHDAY!

quack said...

hooray you picked some good meat! happy birfday.

Mitch K said...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Kali! =]

NateBear said...

Happy Birthday, Kali!

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a170/bizzlebear/ART/Picture1.png

Julián höek said...

happy birthday girl!

i like the first one the most, cool illustrator work!

MikeSnj said...

Happy Birthday! Great drawings also.

Will Finn said...

happy birthday you llama-devouring fellow scorpio you!

JohnK said...

Happy Birthday!

Ha ha, I'm fascinated by the way you draw guys.

We think of ourselves as piles of lumps, pores and stubble, but you draw men as if they are cuddly little toys.

Girls are weird!

But you are very talented.

Mack said...

happy birthday, miss kali. i love your art.

Ryan G. said...

Hey nice! Illustrators not so bad huh? Happy Birthday too Kali!

Kali Fontecchio said...

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! Thank you so much everyone!!!!!!!!!! I'm blushing and smiling ear to ear!!!!

"We think of ourselves as piles of lumps, pores and stubble, but you draw men as if they are cuddly little toys."

You, Eddie and Mike are my favorite pile-pals!

boootooons ltd. said...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KALI! i hope you get what you want!

- trevor.

Pat McMicheal said...

KALI.....You sure are Tough on yourself!!! those teeth! thosenorth-facing boobs! that pointed proboscis! Dang!
I think I will draw a CUTE version of you...I bet you will love it!
I really like those sexy legs in the bottom frame!!! Eddie has that elephant-man head going on!
Happy Birthday too.

Jorge Garrido said...

Happy Birthday! Your present is my comment!

Joe Henderson said...

Happy Birthday!!!!

Whens the Party???

kamikazesquid said...

you wont be happy until i wish you happy birthday on your blog, through julianne just isn't good enough.

and i was gonna post the image i did of you in your comments but your blog just won't let me. blagh!!!!

Jack said...

Nice work. Oh and apparently it's your birthday. Have a good one.

Lester Hunt said...

Yes, happy birthday! Say, I didn't realize your birthday is so close to mine. About two weeks. Well, two weeks and forty years.

Luke C. said...

Happy Birthday, Kali!

Jenny said...

...is it your BIRTHDAY?

All funny girls seem to be Scorpios. And I'm not even, like, into astrology or anything.

Love yer Illustrator fun too!

Dartman said...

Great drawings as always! And Happy Birthday!

Jenny said...

OK, this is pretty darn craptastic, but I still wanted to give you a present:
for u

Kali Fontecchio said...

"I think I will draw a CUTE version of you...I bet you will love it!"

I bet you're right!!

"ay, I didn't realize your birthday is so close to mine. About two weeks. Well, two weeks and forty years."

Haw!!!!

Yay Jenny, thanks!!! You made me super hot!!! Yaaaaayyyyyyy!!!

Art F. said...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KALI!!
you are one of the most talented cartoonists i know! keep inspiring us!

Joe said...

Happy Birthday!

Katie said...

Happy Birthday Kali! I drew you a picture for your birthday...I'm swamped at work though so I had to do it digital! I hope you like it!

David Germain said...

Happy Birthday. Wow! HAs it been another full year already?

That is a great Mike F. picture. I'd love to see an animated series starring him.

Wicks for Candlesticks said...

Hey,

I use Illustrator for my digital inking and find it to be a pretty good tool. Check out BRIAN ROMERO's ILLUSTRATOR INKING posts. Those helped me a ton.

Oh, and Happy birthday! I didn't have time to do something fun or funny so I went the artsy fartsy route with a portrait sketch. Hope you like, and have a good birthday.

-David

Marlo Meekins said...

happy birthday, kali!

Kali Fontecchio said...

Thanks David- you made me puuuurdy!

Erik Griott said...

happy birfday kali!

Bruce said...

Happy Birthday, you CRAAAAZY!

For a birthday present, I'll do a post on one of your favorite characters, Bosko. Does that sound swell?

Later, from an inspiring cartoonist/ artist

Bruce

P.S., I hope you had a wonderful birthday!

From Bruce

JoJo said...

Hey Kali,

Happy Birthday! Hope everything goes really well.

Paul B said...

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

TO THE GIFT:
http://img223.imageshack.us/my.php?image=kalibirthdayop3.jpg

HOPE YOU LIKE IT!

Ken Mitchroney said...

Happy Birthday Kali, The drawing of Mike is Hi -larious. Thanks!

Monica Grue said...

happy birthday.... sorry i didnt call to say so.... we'll do somethin sometime!

Kali Fontecchio said...

"For a birthday present, I'll do a post on one of your favorite characters, Bosko. Does that sound swell?"

YES!

"HOPE YOU LIKE IT!"

I did Paul!!! Thanks!!

Thanks again to everybody!! Ya'all made me feel special!!

Josh "Just What the Doctor Ordered" Heisie said...

Merry Birthday from us filthy inbred Canadians!

Jeff Wong said...

Kali - I really like the no line version of your self-portrait; the purity and simplicity seem more striking than the lined one. Hope you had a good birthday.

Daniel Aguilar said...

Zájales

Lee said...

Happy birthday Kali!

(Illustrator's going to do me in.)

Brian Romero said...

Happy birthday Kali!

Keep practicing with Illustrator. I hated it at first, but once you get used to how it works you'll see how useful it is for inking and coloring.

Chloe Cumming said...

Fascinating! In response to John... I think of men as piles of lumps, gristle and stubble that are ALSO immensely cute and puppy-like and delightful to my eye. Well not all of them.

S'funny, the thing I was going to comment on was the cuteness of the man drawings.

Happy belated birthday Kali! You do the best blogs.

Nico said...

whoa!! Very cool Kali! omg i LOVE that Mike!! What a lil' rascal!!


and whoa, for a split-second I thought that drawing of John was a drawing of me!

hope you had a fantastical b-day!
(I hope you didn't give up on the caricature of me!! i quite liked them)

Max Ward said...

This is a bit late, but Happy Birthday! I've been so busy, I'm sorry, good friend Kali!

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