Karyn Lewis Illustration

Custom Character Portrait: Rakel

karynlewis — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:04:38 +0000

I just completed this character commission. Meet lovely Rakel, a RPG character who belongs to Kirei.

To see a larger version, please check it out in my Fantasy & Illustration gallery:

Please do not use, modify, sell, or manipulate this image in any way.

Shelter Ad

karynlewis — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:53:40 +0000

New work

Here’s a recent illustrated ad I did for a Colorado Animal Shelter. They needed a full page ad to announce the grand opening of their brand new facility, and wanted a subject that expressed that theme. They suggested the idea of a gala unveiling of their new logo, with a door or a curtain being opened by a dog, and here’s the result. In addition to the illustration, I designed the layout and text. Please click on the image below to see it larger in my portfolio.

This was created right as I was waiting for the new iMac, so I did it in Photoshop CS3, and it just about killed my old PC. LOL.

Flying Cowboy Digital Painting Work in Progress Video

karynlewis — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:57:00 +0000

Hey, guys. Here’s another video work in progress, this time of an old painting I started working on again, Flying Cowboy. In it, I describe how I use the color picker in Photoshop CS5 to not choose colors as you’re working, but how to keep them integrated into the rest of the painting.

Check out the video below, or see it on YouTube here:

First YouTube Video

karynlewis — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 04:02:48 +0000

So far, I’ve only used YouTube to share videos of my son with family and friends. Now that I have the iMac, however, I can easily, as I discovered, record myself as I work/paint in Photoshop CS5. So, behold, I unleash my very first video:

If you can’t watch the video above, click here to view it on YouTube.

New Computer

karynlewis — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:35:37 +0000

I have some exciting news! I got a brand new iMac!

Here you can see it next to my old PC. Look at the difference between the two. Since taking it out of the box, plugging it in, and turning it on, which, btw, was so ridiculously easy, my three year old probably could have done it, I have been blown away by everything on this new mac.

I’ve worked on Macs before, and wasn’t impressed. They were no better or worse to me than PCs. But these new models… Wow! Everything about these new iMacs is elegant and easy. You can even feel the difference in the quality of materials they used, from the softness of the keyboard keys right down to the power cord!

But the biggest and, for an artist like myself, difference that I’ve noticed was when I fired up my brand new copy of Photoshop CS5. I’m using an old Intuos 2 Wacom tablet (and luckily I was able to download the drivers from the wacom site), and let me tell you, using the tablet on the mac with CS5… it was, as Barbara would say, “like butter!”

I could not believe how responsive and fluid my brush strokes were. Geek art heaven! Also, CS5 has some new brushes that mimic some of the Painter brushes, with tips that change when you tilt, etc. Very freaking cool. I wonder what an Intuous 4 would be like on here… LOL.

Needless to say, I’m thrilled, and I’m going to have a very hard time going back to my old PC ways…

-k

ps: You’ll probably never see my desk this clean again, although, it’s a crime to surround that pretty iMac with clutter, so I’m going to try and keep it clean.