Nuts and Bolts
January 17, 2010
by dave
Filed under Artwork, Dave Posts
I’m not much of a handy man…and it’s all my fault. My dad has been involved with hardware and remodeling his entire life. He never ceases to amaze me with his work and his attention to detail. He mixes cases of paint by eye, constructed a 20×20 barn without using a single nail and has rejuvenated countless homes. Yet when I was growing up my head was buried in cartoons and comics.
I was reminded of this yet again as my wife and I battled a bathroom cabinet for 5 1/2 hours this weekend. In my defense, there was a bow in the drywall which didn’t want to play nice with metal rails. Somehow we found a way to laugh about it as we were entangled around the toilet all afternoon. It’s all about the adventure right?
I figured the best way to cap off the weekend was with a drooling grumpy robot. You can’t ever have enough of those in your life.
cool robot, the surface scratches and underlying cables look great.
handy work is an art of its own, requires lots of Patience.
i love this fresh every sunday thing.
Wow, Dave. I really like the way your art is progressing with added depth and complexity to tone and texture. Your technique continues to mature. Great work.
You could get the robot to punch the drywall flat!
Man that’s great once again, I pretty love this one ’cause of it changes besides the whole previous ones…for me^^
Great job for the new website, it is amazing, a little bit more complicated thank previously but it rocks!
Keep on drawing!
Really nice lighting. Id also like to comment that you guys have inspired me to embrace inner toonist. I had gotten to a point where I was trying for such a realistic style that really doesn’t suit me and kept me from progressing. The way you put together the style and realism has really given me something to think about. Now though I feel as though Im really on the move. So Thanks you two.
Thanks guys!
DS, much appreciated and I hear where you’re coming from. I spent the majority of my time in college driving after the realistic side of the fence – almost as if it made the work more respectable. Even when I wasn’t enjoying myself, I kept pushing. Then I realized early in my career it was most important just to have some fun. At the end of the day, I guess it’s one big journey but you have to drive in the direction that feels right deep down in your innards. Happy drawing!
SO cool!
Being entangled with your wife was probably not a bad thing for you guys….nice robot btw.
I’m sure you guys get this all the time but are there any good tutorials for Sketchbook? I’ve downloaded the trial and I’m stumped on some of the effects you’re getting in your videos. I assume (possibly falsely) that you’re doing almost everything in sketchbook (at least the digital stuff) and from watching your videos it looks as if you are using a large airbrush for coloring but somehow it only paints in select areas. I’m completely stumped on how you’re doing this seemingly simple but completely awesome effect!
Just wondering if there are any good tutorials to really get to know the application, it seems so far to be worth all the hype from a sketching standpoint but some things are still a mystery.
Thanks!
Ian
Hi Ian,
The inking is done in sketchbook. However, the coloring is done in Photoshop. Just check out the ‘lock transparant pixels’ and ‘lock image pixels’ icons in the top of your layers window.
Dave & Greg, great stuff! I love robots, especially imaginative ones like this!
Grtz,
Niels
ahhhh! that makes perfect sense, should have known. Thanks Niels!
Dave, thanks for the compliment but you are way more talented than your old man. Well maybe I’m a little more but I’m alot older too. LOL