Spewing the Sparks

The ramblings of a crazy artist. Visit my portfolio site for more of  my art!

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Doodle of my Tiefling Epizon after finding a fancy scarf and buying a cute horn dongle at a summer festival. What can I say, my boy likes shinies.

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Logo Design: A Bun in the Oven

My friend wanted to do a custom logo for their friend’s rabbit-themed baby shower, so I designed this adorable bun loaf. She ended up making some really creative gifts using a laser etcher!

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Another D&D character illustration! This time it's Thom, Darius Grayson's half elf rogue/warlock. His familiar is lovingly based on my fluffy daughter, Creature. She's doing so good in D&D, even if she is dumb as a brick in real life. <3

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Commission!

This week, I finished up this piece for my friend Katelin Harrington. 

Drawing her son Ivar riding into battle on the back of his awesome armored T-Rex was SO much fun!

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Throwback Thursday Art!

Concept sketch for a mini robot I designed in my 3D modeling class back in 2010. I want to create a new model now that I’ve learned more because I really like this little guy!

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It's time for another Oddly Specific Art & Design tip! This time, I'll show you how to use the Interactive Grid feature in InDesign using keyboard shortcuts.

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Throwback Thursday, with a PSA I wish artists didn’t have to keep making.

Friendly reminder: Here’s why reposting art is a serious problem.

17 Likes on my Retweet of Nick Carter’s post 7 Likes on my original post

The repost by Nick - which doesn’t even mention me: 2,166 Likes.

That’s a lot of exposure. Love you Nick, but please Never. Repost. Art.

Facebook: Share Twitter: Retweet - DO NOT Retweet with Comment Instagram: DO NOT SAVE AND REPOST, EVER. Tumblr: Reblog

Artists work hard on their craft and every Like, Share, Retweet, Reblog, etc. is exposure (which by the way, is NOT an acceptable form of payment).

NEVER REPOST ART YOU DIDN’T CREATE.

FIND THE ARTIST’S POST AND SHARE IT.

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Sparky's Oddly Specific Art & Design Tips!

Trying to select hair in Photoshop to separate it from the background can be SUPER annoying, but this tool saves time and makes it much easier.

Interested in learning more? Contact me for lessons! https://www.wyzant.com/Tutors/NC/Raleigh/8508186/

https://youtu.be/0sUzBiFLWmE

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Throwback Thursday Art!

This piece is called "Unwound". I created it in Design I at East Carolina University back in 2008. Medium: Graphite undersketch, Microns on Cardstock

Contact me for prints on art paper or canvas!

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Meet Jaye, my current Exalted character! 

Been playing around with colors and trying out different methods for coloring lines, and I really like how he’s coming along.

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Throwback Thursday Art!

This week, I organized my old self-doodles. There's a metric butt-ton of them, but here's a few of my favorites, from 2004 to 2016.

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Sparky's Totally Random Art & Design Tips!

In which I share oddly specific skills and techniques for anything art and design related.

This time, I go over how to separate Fill and Stroke in Adobe Illustrator in order to use them as independent objects.

https://youtu.be/xLVzg7FLhyU

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Recent projects: Logo design for AquaClan.

Visit their site for information on their marine conservation work! https://www.aquaclan.net

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When you get a song stuck in your head and it gives you feels…

Thinking of Brotherhood era Prompto, at home alone in the middle of the night, pining after a certain someone (or someones?) and too afraid of rejection to say anything. Wonder who it could be? >.> Don’t look at me like that just ‘cause I’m an FFXV shipper…

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Throwback Thursday Art!

This week is a double throwback featuring my Lost Past OC Vaan. Here we have a side-by-side of my very first rendition of Vaan from 2001 and the 2013 redesign.

More from Lost Past here: https://www.coyote-spark.com/lost-past-reboot

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Speed Paint!

This was a commission gift for @winterfollows ‘s D&D character, Haleir the bard. Look closely and you might see some familiar Critical Role silhouettes in the crowd! ;)

Painted in Procreate.

Finished piece and other digital paintings of mine: https://www.coyote-spark.com/digital-painting

Information on Haleir: https://winterfollows.tumblr.com/bio

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It just occurred to me that I never posted about this piece!

This was a commission gift for @winterfollows​'s D&D character, Haleir the bard​. Look closely and you might see some familiar Critical Role silhouettes in the crowd ;)

Painted in Procreate.

Finished piece and other digital paintings of mine: https://www.coyote-spark.com/digital-painting

Information on Haleir: https://winterfollows.tumblr.com/bio