Hazel Eye
Jan 17th
A watercolor I did tonight of Jeff’s eye. I wanted to try to capture his interesting colors, and practice facial features so I can get better at drawing and painting people.
The Weeping Willow
Jan 17th
My first watercolor. I drew the tree first in pencil, then I took acrylic paints and watered them down for the color.
Given to my best friend as a present, I had to wait a couple weeks to upload this one. :P I finished it a little while before I started my nachos.
Concepts: Vanessa, Sakura, Bird of Paradise
Jan 15th
Well I’ve been playing around in Photoshop again. I came up with a few somewhat different/quirky makeup concepts. I’d have to be pretty inspired to try these out on a work-day.. maybe just the colors without the elements drawn in.
In any case, here’s what I came up with!
Bird of Paradise
Inspired from Planet Earth, a tribute to the animal that made me giggle the most. I don’t have this color yet (the blueish-green) but hopefully I’ll be able to find something to be able to try it out. Might be difficult to apply it over the black, but we’ll see.
Sakura – The Cherry Blossom
I’ve always been a fan of Japanese culture and imagery, and the cherry blossom tree is pretty popular. Also an excuse for me to use more black and pink. :) I would say they’re my favorite colors to use for makeup.
Vanessa – The Butterfly
Sounds a little conceited to name one after myself so early on. But I really wanted to take something and make it mine. So, since my name is also used to classify certain species of butterflies, I decided to base my concept of them. I got to use orange, gold, and a purplish blue in this one, as well as black and white liner. I love these colors together, I may try this one without the spots tomorrow. The shading on the browbone may be a little difficult though.
Nay-choz!
Jan 11th
Well its been a long time.. but I finally got around to oil painting again. Our kitchen/dining room is a little bland, so I decided to paint a picture of our favorite food to hang in there… nachos! The photos are a little shiny because the paint was still wet, but once its up in a frame I’ll get the photographer of the house to take a good one.
It took me about an hour to open up all of my oil paints.. I got them back in.. 1997? When I first started taking oil painting classes in high school. So the caps were goopy and hardened on there pretty tight.
I decided realism would be a little too difficult for one as rusty as I, so I wanted to go with a fun, bold, colorful, almost impressionism-style look. Kind of reminds me of something you’d see hanging up at Quiznos. Here’s my concept art! I spent aaaaboooutttt… 30 seconds creating it. Amazing huh?
I started out with just an orangey-red background as a base. Then starting from the outside and working my way in, I did the chips. Then put the cheese on them. This part looks a little… I have to do it… cheesy! I’m serious. I think the cheese came out looking a little goofy. So I went with that look and made it even more crazy and squiggly looking. Then I added the sour cream, which covered up some awkward looking cheese spots, and then the rest of the toppings: tomaters, olives, and jalapeños.
Now to see if I can find a frame the right size!
Let me know what you think, facebook me, tweet me @nessagood, or comment above.
“Stargazer Lily” Look
Jan 6th
Here is how my Stargazer concept turned out. The colors are a little more dull since I did it in the morning and the photos were taken in the evening, but it turned out almost exactly the same as my concept art.
Concept: Stargazer Lily
Jan 5th
A make-up idea I had while looking at my favorite flower.
I envision two shades of pink: light for the above the crease and a deeper pink-red for the outer crease, along with a sparkling of small dots inspired from the flower. White for the lid, and two eyeliners. A lime green that symbolizes the stem, and a black liquid liner. I have nothing for the lower lashlines, however, I could see the green being moved to this area along with a black waterline.
I might try this one out tomorrow to go with my lily-pattern shirt. Will post pics if it comes out as good as I hope! I may look at getting a larger picture to use as concept art.
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Inspiration:
Christmas Wreaths
Dec 26th
As promised, here are some photos of the Christmas Wreaths I made for my grandmoms this holiday season. I bought the silk wreaths plain at Walmart for 8 or 9 dollars, then decorated them with bows, poinsettias, berries, gold and red feathery-type ferns, and Christmas bulbs.
New Website!
Dec 20th
Ladies and gents, boys and girls… for the first time since 2005, nessagoodwin.com has been updated! I’ve mostly moved over some old content from my ex-portfolio site, and from my temporary blog as well.
I’m using this site to show off my creative design projects, old and new. Not just your vanilla website and graphics work, I’m including interior design, landscaping, art (including make-up), crafty creations, and more.
Stay tuned!
My Little Hobo
Nov 29th
This one was a project for a friend from work – we drew names for Christmas. I bought a doll from the store, and sewed clothes for it, gave him a beard, made him a fire barrel out of a tomato sauce can and a faux candle. Jeff drew his packaging.
Now in 3D!
Nov 20th
So after years of dreaming about the world of 3D Animation, I finally sat down and made myself try out Maya. And I thought Photoshop was scary at first! But with some help I finally got a couple smally sill projects started. Behold! The long-awaited Cotton-Candy Ice Cream Snowman. And a rendering of Frankie’s face. Nothing special yet, but its a start.
