Pixel Art and GIF practice- Blinking Hazel bust

Late night Pixel art test turned into a Pixel GIF 

Art and Animation by Matt "WRETNECK" Billingsley ©2015

Hazel created and owned by Matt "WRETNECK" Billingsley ©2013

Lucy Cometh: part 1

been working on making a merchandise mascot, or what ever the term is when an Original Character is turned into stickers and vinyl figures. One character I know would help determine the look of the characters is their lead member- Lucy: Princess of Darkness

Just been bouncing around with this project trying to find something that makes her unique and different from my other characters and projects. And even though I don't plan to make Lucy here over sexualized, but I do what I can to make her appealing; the only hard part is what I find sexy usually doesn't stick for everyone, and I like short hair.

And before people make stapled opinions about these designs here, I need to state that these aren't even near the final design. I plan to make these characters more toony while retaining a creepy edge to them. For all I know, Lucy will have an even bigger head

concept-1

In the world of an artist, even we lose children...

so concept-2 is missing and didn't think about taking a picture of her before I lost her

concept-3

Later decided to give her bull/bovine horns, which frankly make her more demonic.
Also I already have 3 characters with ram or goat horns, and need the variety

Concept-4 (colored lines)

Concept-4 (black lines, harsh rendering)

Sure some would complain about cheesecake, but being the devil herself* she can choose how people see her, and frankly gives no weakness and is all dark and powerful... Think Jessica Rabbit, but hungry for souls and only sees the living as a buffet

On the same side, I need to think of a name for my characters as a group. Besides Lucy, the other 7 (8 total) are based around the deadly sins. The idea being inspired from the day I finally hit the big leagues and people started hate groups about me. Yay! The concept being that no matter how much you hate me and wish for me to die, I am who I am and if I don't want to change that then you either can suck it up or live miserably with my existence... Born to be Damned!!

The only characters I've already started working on are Pride, Envy and Wrath. Others will come along, but the one thing I know I will struggle with is Lust; would I do the scariest things and Rocky Horror the character or look for a PG-13 appropriate design? The idea is to let these be characters that can appeal to most ages and both genders, and probably see if I can sell them in collection stores like Hastings, FYE, Gray Whale (Utahn business) and other alternatives... Hot Topic...

So far my only plan is to start with Prints, stickers and decals. Would have to see if I can even get them popular enough to sell as Vinyl figures

This will be part one, more to come with progress and presentation

Art by Matt "Wretneck" Billingsley ©2015
Lucy created and owned by Matt "Wretneck" Billingsley

sorry for being late on this post

Digital Formatting vs Printing Formatting, 72dpi vs 300dpi

NOTE: this is not an art bash, and I would highly recommend following the artist's work; link provided in their usernames in the line bellow name

I've recently purchase a design from Society6 of the art piece by Silisboo, or mablerok

by Silisboo

"you don’t have to be uchi to join the uchi gang!

(also made it available as a shirt!)"

I can't tell you how awesome this design of their's is, and I liked it so much that I went out and bought a T-shirt of it to add to my odd collection of T-shirts

and moments ago the shirt finally arrived and... well...

actual close up

It could be that this was an iron-on transfer, but it's quality is quite muddy; also doesn't help since I purchased the light gray shirt and it came darker than what the site presented.

I'm not hating the shirt, and most definitely won't call for a refund, but it does leave a bit of sour in the mouth when it looks like this, And it leads in to a rant of mine about artists working with 72dpi vs 300dpi.

dpi- Dots Per Inch
(I don't know what the term would be in the metric system, unfortunately)

72dpi is usually a default resolution for digital applications because 72 is the resolution for most computers and television screens. 300dpi is the resolution that which most print from on paper, books, and T-shirts (exception on billboards and banners). also 350dpi is the usual resolution for photographs; taken and printed, slightly hire for detail.

I'm not the greatest teacher, and I don't have enough resources and knowledge to thoroughly speak about this. But I will advise that artists should take a look into researching about printing and resolutions/sizes, both for on hand knowledge and for selling and distributing their work as prints. And if you yourself have some info to add/share/correct, feel free to contribute

to also note: the original first 2 photographs were originally 5456 x 3632 at 350dpi, and had to shrink down due to file size. This being the third time I wrote this

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If you like the art in the post, follow her work on tumblr here- http://silisboo.tumblr.com/

And if you like the shirt, then you can buy it here- http://society6.com/product/ac-gang_t-shirt#11=49&4=87

Inktober plop

00- Logo

01- Deciever

02- Bill

03- Hazel

04- Penguin

05- Purple

06- Foreshadow

07- Dracula

08- Wolf

09- Adam

10- Emotehp

11- Gillman

12- Phantom

13- Hyde

14- Bride

15- Quasimodo

16- Medusa

17- Horseman

18- Invisible

All art and images above are created by, owned by and under copyright law of
Matt "Wretneck" Billingsley
©2014

Inktober 2014 #1- Deceiver (debut)

officially realized as a character for a project I'm working on

Art by Matt "Wretneck" Billingsley ©2014

Gear up, it's Inktober season again!!

A combination of Excavating my supply cupboard and going out with my lawn mowing money to prep my pockets and pencil cases with what-kinds and matters of inking tools- from liners, brushes, fountain pens to even my old dip pen set; ink included

Now all I got to do is start the madness!

the return of Boredoodles- the N (Nu) series

I'm bringing back the Boredoodles, since the boredom comes at the most creative moments

Boredoodle N001

Drew these during an art stream,let each participant get a free request. Though I don't get a lot of people there. So this was the best turn out I could get. so most of these are used with a Character generating app I got from a friend

1. Jackie Beaver- WMC (owned character)
2. Neck Beard Slug- half generated
3. Wrestling cat- Character Generator
4. Amanda Bot- KajimiStarship (owned character)
5. Cowardly Astronaut Monkey- Character Generator

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These bellow I did while practicing my gesture drawings on Pixelovely. I ended up getting carried away and made them into finalized pieces/doodles. Give chance to my character designing skills to practice the human figure

And no, I will not apologize for the creation of Mocha Coone! in fact she's here to stay!!

Boredoodle N002

Also I wanted to upload these on other sites, though knowing some of them would have reported me if I had exposed nudity on them. So I made each site their very own censor bar

Facebook Friendly version

Tumblr Tamed version

twitter topped version

All Art by Matt "Wretneck" Billingsley ©2014

Mocha Coone and Skyla (Faun) are characters owned by Matt "Wretneck" Billingsley ©2012-2014

Wretneck at DeviantART is no more

Gotta love how he's crying, but then has a look that says "well, I tried my best!"

♫

Goodbye so soon

And isn't this a crime?

We know by now that time knows how to fly
So here's goodbye so soon
You'll find your separate way
With time so short I'll say so long

And go

So soon

Goodbye

You followed me, I followed you

We were like each other's shadows for a while

Now as you see, this game is through

So although it hurts, I'll try to smile

As I say

Goodbye so soon

And isn't this a crime?

We know by now that time knows how to fly

So here's goodbye so soon

You'll find your separate way

With time so short I'll say so long

And go

So soon

Goodbye

♫

source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/

Big Blue Sea Beast

another Hazel portrait

Art by Matt "Wretneck" Billingsley ©2014

which spelling do you like better- Hazel or Hazelle?