Spits's Gallery

Classic Movie Club by Spits

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:30:14 -0000

My patron gave me a list of classic movies that I should see to "complete my education" ;). CWTyger suggested that I post the list in case anyone else wants to join 'Spits' Classic Movie Club'! CW came up with the name and because he too is going to try to watch a few of these, I thought it'd be fun to draw both of our characters enjoying a movie! My list of movies to see/seen can be found at my LJ here: http://silverspitfire.livejournal.com/327034.html

Medium: Pencil, Adobe Photoshop
Tags: wolves Tiger wolf tigers cwtyger spits

Bright Eyes by Spits

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:28:08 -0000

I was driving home the other night with my iPod on shuffle when the song 'Bright Eyes' by Art Garfunkel started playing (from the animated version of Watership Down). It was a beautiful, clear night and I was inspired to go home and paint a sunset (one of my favorite things to paint)...this actually started as a speedpaint but soon turned into something more substantial.

Medium: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Tags: rabbit FanArt Watership Down rabbits

Sketch Dump #1 by Spits

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:45:05 -0000

Major sketch dump including things drawn just recently to all the way back in March...

Medium: Pencil, Painter 7, Adobe Photoshop CS2
Tags: wolf dog silver penguin spitfire chimp spits

Guys, wait up! by Spits

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:35:13 -0000

This was originally one of the ideas for Huskyteer's commission before we settled upon the final design ('Tales of the Northern Lights'). I found the sketch, tweaked it a little, slapped on some color, added a texture (http://hibbary.deviantart.com/art/paper-textures-75974801) and called it done. Spitfire and her teammates race ahead, unaware that one of their fans has tagged along until he calls out 'Guys, wait up!'.

Medium: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Tags: dog dogs sled spitfire

Flightless Bird by Spits

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:33:27 -0000

Just a bit of art therapy...haven't drawn much in a while :/. "I was a quick wet boy Diving too deep for coins All of your straight blind eyes Wide on my plastic toys And when the cops closed the fair I cut my long baby hair Stole me a dog-eared map And called for you everywhere Have I found you? Flightless bird, jealous, weeping Or lost you? American mouth Big bill looming Now I’m a fat house cat Cursing my sore blunt tongue Watching the warm poison rats Curl through the wide/white fence cracks Kissing on magazine photos Those fishing lures thrown in the cold and clean Blood of Christ mountain stream Have I found you? Flightless bird, brown hair bleeding Or lost you? American mouth Big bill, stuck going down" -- Iron & Wine Paper texture: http://hibbary.deviantart.com/art/paper-textures-75974801

Medium: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Tags: wolves wolf the of sangilak boundary waters

Black Eyed Dog by Spits

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:37:01 -0000

A black eyed dog he called at my door The black eyed dog he called for more A black eyed dog he knew my name A black eyed dog he knew my name A black eyed dog A black eyed dog. I'm growing old and I wanna go home I'm growing old and I don't wanna know I'm growing old and I wanna go home. A black eyed dog he called at my door A black eyed dog he called for more. -- Nick Drake

Medium: Pencil
Tags: dog black eyed

A Warmer World - Characters by Spits

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:42:47 -0000

Just playing around with character designs for a story that I've been kicking around for a bit now...nothing final yet, but I think I'm going to use these characters (that I've drawn before) as two of the major players.

Medium: Painter 7
Tags: dog dogs world a warmer

Tales of the Northern Lights by Spits

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:03:05 -0000

Commission (my first ever) for the wonderful Huskyteer!

Medium: Adobe Photoshop CS2
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Chimp Sketches by Spits

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:41:27 -0000

Just felt like drawing something different...I have an idea for a picture drawn from a line from one of Beck's songs (great way to break an art block), but it involves drawing primates...with which I have no experience. I'm going to need more practice (especially with hands, dear God), but this was fun. Photo references most definitely used.

Medium: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Tags: chimp chimpanzee chimps

MS Paint Sangilak by Spits

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:29:21 -0000

I'm not sure what motivated me to do this, but I felt like drawing something completely in MS Paint (save for when I got rid of the "sketch" layer in Photoshop). It's none other than Sangilak looking kinda moody for...some reason. January, 2008

Medium: MS Paint
Tags: wolves wolf the of sangilak boundary waters

Erin by Spits

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:39:07 -0000

For the January round of sketch_xchange @ LJ. Erin (c) Sisterelwood.

Medium: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Tags: wolf winged erin sisterelwood

Across the Universe by Spits

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:32:00 -0000

Inspired by the Beatles song of the same name... Just some art therapy.

Medium: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Tags: the silver stars universe across

Christmas Card 2007 by Spits

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:54:28 -0000

It's done *collapses*. I'm not entirely happy with this, but it is what it is - I kinda ran out of time this year to finish my family's Christmas card. I had the worst art block and for the life of me couldn't figure out what to do...of course now I have another (and better) idea, but I'll save that for next year. Special thanks to OzyOxy, Huskyteer, Wendy, Pardo, and gorengal of LJ for helping and encouraging me along the way! Thanks again, everyone - I really appreciate it :). Happy holidays! I tried Shayde's "paper look" with this...it was fun and I think I'll have to experiment with it a little more!

Medium: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Tags: raccoon christmas raccoons

Quietly by Spits

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:04:00 -0000

A quiet moment shared by Duke and Adlai near the crime scene. I wanted to have this done for the first night of Hanukkah as a present for my dear friend, Endless Night...happy holidays :). Duke and Adlai (c) Endless Night. I wanted to go for a painterly look when it came to the background...I absolutely love painting sunrises and sunsets. *needs to work on hands* This was a good challenge for me as I don't draw anthros (with significant human characteristics) all that often...thanks EN for suggesting this and I really hope you like it!

Medium: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Tags: night dog lynx adlai endless duke

HOHAHA #1 - Lab Partners by Spits

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:34:40 -0000

Oh, lab partners... I think reading webcomics - mainly rockerbot27's (http://community.livejournal.com/ascommentary/ - if you're not subscribed to read it already, you should be!), PHD Comics (see http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php), xkcd (see http://xkcd.com) and the amazing Lackadaisy comic (see http://www.lackadaisycats.com/) - inspired me to try this. I highly doubt this is going to be a regular thing, but it might be a fun way to deal with lab horror stories ;). HOHAHA = Homonuclear Hartmann-Hahn Spectroscopy, a NMR experiment...my spectroscopy class is currently giving me grief, hence the title. I have no idea if it will stick or what I'll do with this, but it's all in good fun :).

Medium: Adobe Photoshop
Tags: comic lab Science chemistry spits hohaha partners

Schrödinger's Cat by Spits

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:00:45 -0000

Just a quick (and fun!) speed paint... See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat

Medium: Painter 7
Tags: cat feline Schrödinger's quantum mechanics physics paradox

Civil Twilight by Spits

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:56:39 -0000

Holy crap, art! Anyway...whenever I have a "new" favorite song, I tend to listen to it on repeat. Currently, it's 'Civil Twilight' by the Weakerthans and it served as the inspiration for the picture. Why I felt the need to do the background using only the marquee tool to create shapes (and then modifying them as necessary via free transform) and gradients is beyond me...but it was fun :). Still no names or back stories for these characters yet...

Medium: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Tags: dog life dogs city twilight civil canines

Noni by Spits

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:25:03 -0000

Character design for a friend. After I finished this, I still can't seem to shake the fact that the paw design seems very familiar to me...any help in identifying why this would be much appreciated as I don't want to step on anyone's toes!

Medium: Adobe Photoshop
Tags: wolf husky noni shannon

Shadow D Husky by Spits

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:00:45 -0000

More experimentation in OpenCanvas... Shadow (c) Shadow D Husky

Medium: OpenCanvas
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Erin, the winged wolf by Spits

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:59:26 -0000

It's none other than Erin, the winged wolf! Erin (c) herself. I really like using oC...

Medium: OpenCanvas
Tags: wolf winged erin