Art again :)

Well what can I say it my ususal thing of posting my new art.
So here it is-> ('A lil' Round Red Fruit' http://mayonakasun.deviantart.com/art/A-lil-Round-Red-Fruit-155513372)

As you can see its a Pomegranate fruit.
This is a photo I took for my college work, as a reference for the project I was doing.
It brought instant inspiration, with the vibrant colours, the shapes and textures that are formed, I couldn't help but take a photo.

This was taken November 2009 using my Phone camera surspirsingly enough haha :).

Well thats it :)

Artist that work with decay

Well, when doing my art textiles essays on artists that work with decay,
I found that there where not many answers whilst I was searching

and that a lot just repeated themselves saying the same artist over and over such as Salavdor Dali, who only works with time decay like death and life not material decay which is what most people seemed to actually want.
So as I know how hard it is to find artists that work with decay on the web, for references for books to look for and reference in essays like myself, I thought I'd give you a small list of them.

So first one I though really helped me was a British contemporary artist called Helen Chadwick. She works with various mixed medias, such as rotten fruit, meat, urine, flowers and chocolate.

Anime digital art tutorial

Well I shall be telling you how I make a digital anime art painting using a scanner, Photoshop and a cheap graphics tablet, which is a Wacom Bamboo fun.
Please visit my more recent anime digital art tutorial here 'Falling Apart' -Digital anime art tutorial.

*Most/all the parts I made on all separate layers.

*All this is from what I know to do easiest, I am not the best and there will probably be much better ways of doing this, mine just comes as an example for techniques.

*I am only using Photoshop CS2, things may varies of different versions.
*More in depth examplainations on all the images, so please click to enlarge them. :).
*All images are above the examplanation of that section.
*This painting can be found on my deviantART page ->http://mayonakasun.deviantart.com/art/Pirate-Girl-126031671

Updates....

Well I'm posting to just to tell you about one more of my recent art.

Its called 'Messed Up' which was inspired by the 'Dark Horse Manga' series 'MPD-Psycho' hopefully you can see why if you've read that manga haha~ If you havent read it though I recommend it, if you like slightly disturbing, murder scenes :)

Anyway back to my art, this was done in about 3 or so hours, using Mechanical Pencil, copic markers and Photoshop.

This is the very basic steps I took to create this. For Full details visit my deviantART page. here, my links have stopped working yet again so unfortunatly this will have to be copy and pasted in the address bar sorry .http://mayonakasun.deviantart.com/art/Messed-Up-153263715

Also, my scanner is not working, so I can't post anything new for a while unless, I find the scanner disc so I can 'uninstall reinstall' the scanner, or get a new one......which I'm hoping it won't come to that :(

How to make a basic banner

Well ok so this is a tutorial on how to make basic banners for your own blogs and websites.

First thing you need is Photoshop and hopefully saved pictures on your PC or MAC.

All I used was pictures I had saved on my PC.

First thing I did was open the pictures I wanted to use.

I will be using these for my tutorial. Simply click all the images to enlarge them the main image you will be looking at is the smaller sideways one.

Photoshop Small Explainations/Tutorials....

Well I thought I'd make make a small tutorial/ explanation thing for Photoshop for editing pictures and Photos and things . Ok so I’m not saying I’m the best, in any way as I am still learning myself even though I’ve had it for ages now haha~xD
But still maybe it’ll help some of you too, so I thought I’d post it here.
For my examples or models I should say I will be using a picture of the Tidus from Final Fantasy X and Kyo from Dir en grey ‘cause their cool ‘n all :)
Right so for some effects I sometimes like to use first:

New Art....

This is the ususal thing, showing you my new art.
Well this time its only one and its Rikku from Final Fantasy X/X-2....
Which can be found on my deviantART (sorry you will have to copy and paste, my links are still not working http://mayonakasun.deviantart.com/art/Rikku-152566675)

With this one I wanted to make it looks a lot more simple and change up my style
a lot. I tried making it look different, from making the colours simplier, the lines, and overall less detail.
I hope you can see that haha.
It took me absolutely ages for some strange reason haha, about 2-3 hours which is kinda bad really for what it is haha :).

But anyway, thats it, I dont know what else to type haha :D