Traditional Mix

My preferred art medium of choice is digital painting because I like the degree of flexibility I get from its tools. However, I do not ignore more traditional mediums as they carry qualities that makes them just a special. I have trained in the use of several different traditional mediums such as pencil rendering, charcoal, pastel, color pencil, and oil painting. While I believe in strong traditional background in artistic training I don't adhere to being a purest and I love experimenting with mixed media to see what kind of result I can attain. The last two pieces on this post are examples of mixed media. The Real Cause was my first real attempt at going hog wild with mix media and is a combination of digital, color pencil, gauche, and watercolor. Earth Bound is a simpler mix media and is a combination of Oil Painting and digital. Mixed media is something I plan on playing with more in the future.

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Children of the Gods

 Back in college, one of the classes I took was a sequential art class which was basically all about creating comics. I learned quite a bit about storytelling both visually and in a literary way. This five page comic was my final for that class and it was a story that was rolling around in my head for a while, even before I took the class. The comic is inspired by the mythos of H.P. Lovecraft and it is a pilot for something I might do in a larger scale down the road as either an online comic or as a graphic novel. When working on this comic I was unaware that we were allowed to go past five pages, which is why it is a little crowded, but in a way this was also good because it forced me to be creative in planning out the paneling for the story; to do more with less is a great way to push one's skills.

On a side note, if I do continue on with this idea then I might change the title to Liberis Deorum.

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My Lovecraftian Work

  Over on Deviant Art and during my time at Cal State Fullerton, those who knew me, knew me as a Cthulhu or Lovecraft nut. Back when I was just starting to get serious about my training in art I decided I needed a subject that I could be good in. I heard of Cthulhu and all the paintings/ drawings I saw of him peeked my interest, so I investigated and I have been hooked ever since. I think I have read all of H.P. Lovecraft's work, but I will admit to avoiding others who have continued the mythos, however this is another matter. What you see on this post is just a sample of some of the Lovecraftian artwork I have done and will do more in the future. You can see more through the links below.

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Webcam Symmetry Paint Over

I forget where I first learned the technique but I was reintroduced to this creative process in my digital illustration class. Most webcams these days have programs that come with them that allows you to do funny optical effects. One of these effects is the mirror function and this can be a great art tool in creating fantastical creatures.
1. Simply set up your camera to mirror mode.
2. Crunch up some paper (junk mail is great).
3. Hold the paper into the field of view of the camera but from an
4. Angle where you hand doesn't show.
5. Rotate the paper until you see a form on your screen you find interesting. Think of it like seeing objects a people in cloud formations.
6. Repeat this process many times.
7.Open up these digital files in your favorite painting program.
8.Now start to do a paint over changing the shape into something more recognizable. Treat it like a speed painting but you have all you colors and values already there. Don't spend more than an hour painting.

These bottom two pics are just pieces of paper mirrored in a webcam.

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Mundane Wars Project

 This is a special project I am working on which combines the elements of Wonderland characters, steam punk and the history of the Opium Wars. The concept is fairly loose still but is starting to develop more and more each day that I work on it.  I am unsure of what the final direction this project will be used for as it could be anything from a web comic, graphic novel or visual development for either the movie and video game industry.

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Steam Punk: Beginnings

 Recently, just about a month before I graduated. I was fortunate enough to be able to participate in a month long Steam Punk gallery show called Steam Punk: Beginnings. The show was a big success and all the artists featured in the show did illustrations based off of books by J.K. Jeter, Tim Powers, James Blaylock who not only are Cal State Fullerton Alumni, but started the whole steam punk genre. The two illustrations below are two of my works that got selected for the show and are based off of Tim Power's Anubis Gates. At the show I even got to meet Tim Powers and found he was a really approachable and friendly. He also told me that my depiction of Horrabin the Clown was spot on to what he envisioned when he wrote the book.

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Back to Blogging

After a long hiatus from blogging . . . I am back. I have just recently graduated from Cal State Fullerton with a BFA in Illustration and with honors to boot. The man next to me in the photo is my illustration instructor Cliff Cramp who gave me the instruction and motivation I needed to become a stronger artist. I am now pursuing my career as an illustrator and as a visual development artist. In order to help me gain more notice on the web I have returned to this old blog and I will be updating as I go. I also have a website which is now up to date and you can find more of my artwork there. http://www.wix.com/itosaithwebb/tobiaswhiteillustrations This is a temporary website and hopefully soon I will have a new website.

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