Xena, Warrior Princess

The composition I started out with wasn't working, so I had to go back to the thumbnail stage once or twice.


I feel so rusty at digital painting. I guess I haven't been practicing enough, most of what I've been doing is just drawing.




and here is what it looks like right now:

We Are All Businessmen

Posting some of the process for my illustration for "We Are All Businessmen" by Mark Fabiano.

I went through a bunch of different background colors before I found something I liked.

final product:

Squid Party Regular

With the discovery of the magical site yourfonts.com, I have been messing around with making sweet bangin' little novelty fonts. Anyone with access to a printer and scanner can do this, but I got best results from my wacom tablet.

This one is based on my own handwriting and is my first successful font. I call it Squid Party Regular. I'm also working on some fonts I can use for all my comics... it'll give each comic that unique and personal look without being a pain in the ass to letter! Oh man, I am SO GEEKING OUT for this site!

On a different note, I realize I haven't updated with much in some time, though it's not due to lack of material to update with. I've been so busy lately because not only am I a full time student, but I have two retail jobs, and I've also been moonlighting as a photographer. In fact, the very latest issue of RVA magazine has one of my pictures on the back cover in an ad for Rumors Boutique. You can check it out here.

Lastly, I've been trying to convert my blogger template to xml but have so far been unsuccessful. Any of you readers know how to help me out?


squidpartyreg, originally uploaded by Caitlin Bridges / Squid Party.

Marat/Sade

Here is something I've been working on for my Projects in Illustration class. It's a theater poster for Peter Weiss' play, The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, or as is most commonly referred to as Marat/Sade. I very much enjoyed researching the play, reading it and watching all of it on YouTube. However, I think I probably got a little too into it and overthought the piece. Even though it's no longer due, I'm going to try to make it a much stronger piece for my portfolio.

The jpg compression does it no justice, it looks much better in print.

It made me rediscover how much I enjoy oil painting. I started out with some acrylics and quickly realized that the paints I bought were completely shitty, so I ended up slapping some oils on it and made it ten times better in less than fifteen minutes. Oils are amazing. I tightened the rest up digitally, and added the lettering (which I know needs a lot of work) but overall it wasn't the complete calamity I thought it would be.

Random sketch dump

My sketchbook is still in an awkward stage. But whatever, here is some stuff for the sake of an update.









I was gonna upload to blogger, but that takes too long so screw it.

My first 3D model

Exploring new territory in the land of Maya. This character is a space chick. Low poly count, but that was mostly intentional, because I wanted the feel of a video game character. I never got around to hair or her space helmet buuuuut I'll figure out how to do it someday.

my crappy animation

i did this in like a day... i think i could have done better but hopefully it gets a chuckle

Bluebeard

Here is a spread illustration I did for a retelling of Bluebeard. I'm pleased with how most of the color turned out. I don't normally work in so many layers but it seemed to happen for this one. I did a spot illustration as well, I'll probably post that if it gets a good review in Graphic Essay, but it's not as cool.

this is my shirt that i wear sometimes

doing more self portraits these days. call it auto discovery!

this is my shirt i wear, originally uploaded by C'est Sabotage.

MASSIVE SKETCH DUMP