Mizu-Media Designs

Askars

2011-02-17T14:11:00.000-08:00

A portrait of the Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård (Generation Kill, True Blood) from a Photograph.

Four Hours+Photoshop CS4+Wacom Intuos4

Self Portrait

2011-02-17T14:10:00.001-08:00

Another for my Portfolio. A self portrait with a Photo-Reference.

Two Hours+Photoshop CS4 + Wacom Intuos4

Valentine Gift

2011-02-17T14:09:00.000-08:00

A painting for another friend as part of a Valentine's Day Secret Santa sort of thing. This is his OC Hien.

Photoshop CS4 + Wacom Intuos4

Mikoko

2011-02-17T14:06:00.000-08:00

A picture I painted of my friend for her birthday. It was kind of rushed, but I was still able to use it in my portfolio. Yay.

Photoshop CS4 + Wacom Intuos4

Lt. Aldo Raine - Inglorious Basterds

2011-01-31T02:38:00.000-08:00

Finally finished my painting of Brad Pitt as Aldo. Worked on it over three days on and off, after school that is. Just trying to get stuff to beef up my portfolio for my University interviews :]

Photoshop CS4 + Intuos4

Click here to watch the process animation

Askars

2011-01-24T08:47:00.000-08:00

Another image for my portfolio, again painted from scratch in Photoshop CS4 using my Wacom Intuos4 tablet (Gilbert) and with Photo reference. That would be myself on the left, and Alexander Skarsgard on the right - who plays Eric on the HBO show True Blood.

Working Hard or Hardly Working?

2011-01-24T08:44:00.000-08:00

One of the new images for my portfolio. Which I've been working on basically non stop for what feels like months.

Political Commentary Illustration on the Student Fees and Nick Clegg's Pre-election promises.

Done entirely in photoshop, painted from scratch with photo references.

Late Christmas Digistamps for Sale + FREE STAMP!

2010-12-01T10:10:00.000-08:00

Three new Christmas Stamps have now been added to my section of the Stitchy Bear Stamps store. You can see the coloured versions of these below:

These coloured versions come in the bundle you get when you purchase, along with the separate line-art in three different formats, all high-resolution and large in size.

From now until 7pm GMT(London) on Wednesday, if you buy one any of my stamps from the store, you can get any other of my stamps free just by sending me a quick email with proof of your purchase and listing which of my stamps it is you would like.

This is a limited offer, and there are a total of eleven stamps to choose from - however for an extra £1 ($1.55) you can commission me to design a digistamp specifically to your requirements.

View my stamps in the SBS store here.

Email me on: mizumedia_designs@hotmail.co.uk

Thank you!

Countdown to Free Stamp Offer Expires

This is Halloween :]

2010-10-31T13:59:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween everyone!

I'm just getting ready to go out, so I thought I'd post a few pics of my outfit!

Took a while on the hair, and the make-up is a sort of monroe-inspired thing I guess. Just going for 50s wartime officer. Though apparently this is a sergeant uniform. Who cares lol
Awkward smile is awkward >:

Also did a little digital painting of myself as a Zombie today!

That is all :]

Have a good night!

New Digi Stamps

2010-09-12T09:50:00.002-07:00

Okay, so I have three new stamps now or soon to be available in the One Stitch At A Time Shop.

The first is in association with the Autism appeal, which you can read about in the post below. This is my character Plug at the age of fourteen ;]

Next is plug at the age of 7, looking pretty sad >:

Finally this is Angel, an old OC of mine, I don't think I've drawn her in a while, but I redesigned her for a recent concept.

Find Angel Here

Find Plug Aged 7 Here

Find Plug Aged 14 Here

Autism Challenge at One Stitch At A Time

2010-09-12T05:22:00.000-07:00

One Stitch At A Time has a very special challenge for you this week. We are challenging you to make a special "Rainbow Themed" card - it's an anything goes type of challenge. The only rule is you must have a rainbow or the colours of a rainbow in your creation. The reason for this Rainbow challenge is in honor of a very special little guy named Cameron.

If you click on the badge on the right of my page, you can read his story.

A little History and the reason for this Super Challenge this week.
A very very good friend of Stitchy's who is known in the digital world by the name "FUNKY" , has built a beautiful fundraiser blog for her grandson Cameron. He is Autistic, and Funky and her daughter are striving to help Cameron.

Some of you may know Funky, she has been in the digital scrapping world for a very long time. If you could find it in your heart to help Funky and her little guy out, it will not go unrewarded. We know times are very hard for everyone right now, so if you can't give even a dollar, please don't feel bad, but please do go and read his story, he's quite a character! Thank you in advance all that take part in this very special challenge - have fun & good luck!

We have 10 GREAT PRIZES FOR 10 equally great WINNERS...and that is only at the main blog...

Prize #1 is all 5 of Stitchy Stamps New Release Stamps
Prize #2 is all 5 of Beary Dust's New Release Stamps
Prize #3 is a package from Craftbrulee
Prize #4 is a package from Rod
Prize #5 is a package from I Am Roses
Prize #6 is 3 New Release Stamps
Prize #7 is 3 New Release Stamps
Prize #8 is 3 New Release Stamps
Prize #9 is 3 New Release Stamps
Prize #10 is 2 New Release Paper Packs and A Sentiment Sheet

We will also have one Kid winner, who will win one prize of the three new Kids Korner release stamps!

New Digi Sneak Peek

2010-08-24T14:45:00.000-07:00

Sophie and Thompson <3~

Now Available at the Stitchy Bear Stamp Shop, click here or on the banner on my sidebar!

I love Thompson, so much <3~

Forest Prank

2010-08-23T15:23:00.000-07:00

If you're up for a laugh, this is the video prank which I based the comic on.

Click on the image for a close-up look.

Drawn entirely by hand with speech bubbles and text added later with MSD4

It was an assignment for another of my online art role-plays called Academy of Heroes. My character is Tyler Sullivan, and in this comic he was pranking fellow student Lee. My other assignments and some of my other art are all available to view on my DeviantArt Page.

I Can't Believe I Did This To You...

2010-08-23T15:14:00.000-07:00

This is another of my OCs Hibiki, who you might remember from the last Digi-Stamps I released through OSAAT. He looks... a lot more serious here, but that is the face of remorse. And, yes, his muscles are rather exaggerated, but I've never really had a character which I felt suited that kind of physique. Now I know why >:

I had the most fun with his tattoo though, it's more my own style. I was really just experimenting with colours and lighting here :]

Below is my process animation. It might not work on all computers, but if you're interested, you can also view it on my DeviantArt Account here.

Overall, it took around 3 days on and off in Photoshop. With no pencil sketches to accompany, which is new for me, and probably why his anatomy is so awful.

Character Concept - Chester Holloway

2010-08-23T14:12:00.000-07:00

Chester Holloway, a new character concept for part of an art role-play. I actually really like this guy ;] His Full Biography can be viewed here. I also have a new digi-stamp in the works, which I should be releasing on the One Stitch At A Time shop tomorrow.

Chester was sketched and shaded in graphite then scanned and coloured, and his skin tones and tattoos rendered in Photoshop, over three hours.

Leap into Wonderland

2010-08-09T04:37:00.000-07:00

Painted this last night, completely in Photoshop CS4. Its a creature concept for a contest a friends of mine is running on DeviantArt. I still haven't finished the reference sheets for it, so I'll probably upload those when I'm done. But I really like this one, so I thought I'd upload it now! I had so much fun doing it yesterday, even though it took the best part of the days in at around 6-8 hours to finish it.

Thanks for looking!

I Love the Rain the Most, When It Stops

2010-08-09T03:27:00.000-07:00

Wanted to make a card using the new digistamps, so.. here we are :D All stuff from the stash, I think the sentiment is from SWALK, and everything else I found hidden away in my mum's craft room, so thanks Pinky

The girl is called Hinata and she is now available to buy at Stitchy Bears Shop, along with Hibiki digistamps, so please check them out if you have the time!

I'm entering it in the following challenges:

1. The Kaboodle Blog - Add A Little Metal

2. "Priscillastyles" Midnight Madness - Sketch

3. Paper Sundaes - Metal

much love!

Hibiki and Hinata DigiStamps

2010-08-06T10:07:00.000-07:00

Say hello to the new guys and gals :D my pretty little twins. (although most of them are Hibiki). They're brand new and now available exlusively on the Stitchy Bear Stamps store via the One Stitch At A Time Challenge Blog! Hope you guys like them!

Find them here.

Love,
Mizu
xxx

House MD

2010-06-16T15:27:00.000-07:00

Any fans of House... in the house?

SuperMilo :D

2010-06-11T13:09:00.000-07:00

I totally made a doll!

-proud-

It took me all day.
But I've never tried something like this before, and I think It looks sort of okay :3

Made with these pretty new cleaning cloth things I spotted and stole (so it totally doubles as a duster :DDD) and an old T-shirt or two, with my own template design. Hand-stitched, because my mum's sewing machine is a mystery to me; and I stuffed it with cotton wool. Because I really wasn't at all prepared to make this D:

I am happy though.

It's for my brother, Milo (hense the 'M') because I love him, and he is awesome :3

Who Killed Amanda Palmer?

2010-06-08T15:14:00.000-07:00

8 Hours of painting D:

For anyone who doesn't know, Amada Palmer is the former singer/pianist of Punk Cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls.

saaaaad faec D: + Your suggestions

2010-05-21T18:02:00.001-07:00

I've been abandoning this blog. So, pierrot the clown is saaaad [well, no more than usual].

Painted him a few days ago in photoshop, poor guy never had a chance.

I really want to get into this whole digi-business hoo-ha, so as I officially finished school for the summer last week, and finally handed up the last of my art coursework today, I think I should really dive into this.

So, I'm looking for some ideas and suggestions from whoever actually still looks at this blog, which I fear at this point is probably only my dear mother D:

but, on the off chance that anyone else is out their in that great crafty abyss, what do you look for in digi designs, what do you really use/need, and what price would you expect?

You're Late For Tea!

2010-03-05T13:36:00.000-08:00

My entry for Cute Daisy May's challenge this week, which is a sketch. I drew the image for it myself, based on Alice from Alice In Wonderland - my favourite story, and I'm so excited to be seeing the new movie tomorrow.

The sketch was designed by my lovely mother - Pinky! So I just had to have a go!

Coloured with Promarkers, and drawn with Copic Fineliners. Papers from Pinky's stash.

Winner of Gus Give-away!

2009-11-30T12:59:00.000-08:00

so, i compiled all of the responces to Pinky's blog and mine, and put all of the names into my lovely fedora :D

and then i picked one name at random - must've been fate that the lovely lady who won was the only one who posted here!

That's right, the gorgeous FINK!

So Fink, all you have to do is email me so that I can send you your free gus image!

Momentarily, i will be adding a new sheet of designs in my shop which you can find a link to on my sidebar [which doesn't seem to be working at the moment but you can click just above the text to follow the link on the sidebar].

Sorry for the late post, my computer wasn't working >:

So, congradulations Fink, hope you enjoy my little Gussy <3

Freebie!

2009-11-27T13:48:00.000-08:00

These are two of my most recent designs - a little boy named Gus. The top image used is more of a summer vibe, so it's probably a little weird to see him out this time of year. The second image is Gus dressed as a little elf for Christmas.

Both of the creations above were made by my marvelous mother - Pinky :D

To celebrate my new designs, I'm giving away the little Christmas sketch for FREE! To be in for a chance, all you have to do is post a comment here, the winner will be chosen at random on Sunday, so be sure to check back to see if you're a winner. After the winner is drawn, these sketches will go on sale in my shop along with a few other of my new designs, so keep an eye on those as well.

Good luck!
Mizu
xxx

Arley Cats

2009-10-06T12:40:00.000-07:00

Just finished this yesterday, it's mixed media - Arley [the "cat-man"] and the cats were drawn and coloured using copic multi-liners and Promarkers, and the background was created in Open Canvas 4.5 [similar to photoshop if you haven't heard of it before].

Comments are very much appreciated =D

They Clean Up Well..

2009-10-01T13:12:00.001-07:00

I've been kind of neglecting this blog, ain't I?

Sorry about that - here, have a little sketch =]

Hope you like it, please comment.

I'll be opening commissions on the website soon too [click on the image to view]

Thanks <3

Mizu xxx

Trouble Is A Friend

2009-09-05T11:04:00.000-07:00

Like it or not, you're being given characters ;;

This is Trouble. If you click on the picture, you can get more information on him. Yes - it's a him lawl. It's probably best you don't question 'what's going on in my head', you'll retain your innocence that way =]

Took three hours speed-painting on Open Canvas 4.5.09+

Care for some Creep?

2009-09-02T10:28:00.000-07:00

Well, saying as I haven't been uploading any Cards or that sort of thing, I may as well show you what I have been doing. I doubt anyone here keeps on top of my DA account, but it has been rather busy. I've been practicing my Characters for my comic, so i've been constantly on the computer messing around with textures and different doodles.

The guy up top is Creep, you can click on the picture to view it properly. It's just a mock-up, I've already planned changes to him. He is quite odd, not really the full shilling. He somehow has an obcession with bugs and has tattoos of them here and there on his body, but at the same time, his paranoia and dellusions make him insanely scared of insects. He runs around in what most people sleep in, but maybe he's not fully aware of that. His patchy beard is rather hard to keep on top of, especially with the beetle tattoo lurking behind the busy bristles =[

Tuesday Taggers - Week 10 - Swirls and Curls

2009-07-27T05:58:00.000-07:00

Yet another Challenge Blog my mum threw my way to get me going [really, I think she just loves my company and wants me to sit beside her bugging her for stuff and messing up her craft room all the time ;D]. Tuesday Taggers - Looked like fun so I gave it a shot.

For some reason I don't plan stuff a lot, I just go with the flow, so this somehow turned out to be a Spring-time theme.. I worry about myself sometimes.. The rabbit, the only way I can explain, is probably inspired by The White Rabbit from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - which is still stuck in my head for whatever reason. It took me quite a while to make him look anything less than sinister.

All background designs, drawings and wording by myself =]

The Corrosive Challenge Blog, Challenge #22

2009-07-27T05:37:00.000-07:00

So, I was sitting over my lovely mum's shoulder while she was blog-hopping, and she suggested I check out TCCB, because it's apparently to my taste. And well, she was right as usual. I couldn't resist but to give their challenge a go. The theme was based on 80s Jem dolls. I decided to do a sort of pop-art take on my character Melly, who's only been featured on my DA account. Blue hair suits her =]

So anyway, yus this is my attempt [Pop-art explosion, face/mic and random doodles all by myself]:

Brilliant challenge if I do say so =]

Something Completely Different [Month 3 - Week 11]

2009-07-24T10:36:00.000-07:00

I suppose there's no real excuse for my absence. I have been doodling quite a lot and have even encouraged a friend or two to give me a hand. So I will hopefully be putting some stuff up in the shop soon [and as I side note, I would also like to mention I've been had away with my CSS and HTML scripting to create a completely different, easy to use page for my selling].

Nevertheless, I'm here, and with a postcard covered in my own art =] As I just couldn't resist the challenge over at Something Completely Different

First of all, I'd like to mention it's completely inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Heart no Kuni no Alice [if you haven't heard of the latter, don't worry, not many have =D]. The Two characters are the [mad] Hatter, and the March Hare. The March Hare personified like with Heart no Kuni to be partly human. I should probably also say, for those interested, they are known as Blood Dupre and Elliot March in the manga.

The foremost centre image is Blood and Elliot and a tea-pot gushing tea, done with fine-liners, felt tips and a mix of a few pro-markers.

The background [just behind the first layer] was done with acrylic paint inspired by zooKa from DA.

And the furthest background is made up of cut playing cards and drawn playing cards [by myself]. Upon some are quotes from Carrol's book.

["Why is a raven like a writing desk?", "Twinkle Twinkle little bat, how I wonder what you're at. Up above the world you fly, like a tea-tray in the sky-" "Twinkle twinkle twinkle..." and the name of the postcard and chapter which features the two, "A Mad Tea-party."]

I also was inspired to place a few tea-rings, drips and butter stains. Brown shades in promarkers where used in the centre to create the illusion of the rabbit hole.

MizuMedia_Designs Shop is up and running!

2009-06-15T12:21:00.000-07:00

Yeah, so I said I would, and I have!

Check it out if you get the time, and I'll keep it updated, I should have some more stuff up as well as freebies and the likes soon enough!

CLICK HERE PLZ

So far only grunge stuff is up, but I might be getting a few more contributers as well as finishing up some other stuff.

Also, any ideas, comments or suggestions here or there would be much appreciated.

SAY NO TO SUMMER JOBS!

lol

Much love,

Mizu xxx

16th Birthday Card

2009-06-14T04:08:00.000-07:00

Had to make my friend a card for her birthday as I mentioned before. I didn't have a lot of time to do it, but I managed to pull something off.

She loves the guitar and has a very vintage look, so I doodled a little image for the card a while ago which I thought I could use. Used Promarkers and chalks to colour it in. The Vintage-y scraps are cut from old Victorian-style cards and the Lace is Papercraft 4 U paper lace boarder. The card and red paper is from my mum's lovely stash!

She really loved it and we all had a great day out, so smiles all around!

Sorry

2009-06-13T05:39:00.000-07:00

I've been pretty inactive recently - with good reason, I've JUST finished my GCSE's and was out celebrating yesterday with a bunch of my mates [Went to see Terminator - wasn't great lol]. But I have been doodling throughout the process and have come up with a bunch of new sketches, I've also set up a Paypal account and some of you may have noticed my new blog. I fully intend to have a business up and running in the coming weeks when I have time to tweek my images and make a few papers - so please look out for that.

And don't think to badly of me being so inactive - I've just had so much to do recently! Sorry!

I have a card to upload soon as well, which I made for my friend's 16th on Wednesday - so, yeah.

Keep crafting! And thanks for all your help and support - love you all!

Mizu xxx

Happy Birthday Mum

2009-05-28T05:53:00.000-07:00

As many followers of Pinky may be aware, it was her 50th birthday yesterday [27/05/09], and of course I made her a little card^^

I took so many pictures I put them in as an animation to make it easier to see, so you might have to click on them to see it. As I had to use a three-fold card. Card and paper, lace and flowers from the auld stash, the Pictures are drawn by myself and go in sequence.. like a sort of comic?

Above is the front of the card!

This is the second fold

And finally the inside!

Images coloured with Pro-Markers and Tria markers, with Tria Fine-liners.

Static Pictures:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Hope you all like it!

What I'm Here For

2009-05-21T05:05:00.001-07:00

As many of my mother's followers may have noticed, occasionally you'll find she [Pinky] uses a few of my drawings on her cards - she has convinced me create a blog and show some of them off and hopefully [when I find out exactly how], I'll soon be able to try and sell them - fingers crossed.

I'm a GCSE Art student and have been drawing comics and manga and the such for about 5 or 6 years and rarely stop doodling, so I'm constantly hoping to improve.

You can check out some of my old work on my DeviantArt Blogspot.

Here are a few of my pictures fully coloured Via JASCPSP9 which I drew for mum, so lineart is available - just click on the link below the picture to see where Pinky has used them!

Just a link to an 'Emo' Couple, which I haven't finished yet

Click Here To See Where Kaze Has Been Used

Click Here to see where Grunger has been used

The above are just sketches but have been used before, I expect to have updated versions available next month.

Click Here to see where Dolly Danger has been used

All colouring in the linked cards has been done by Pinky with little guidance from myself. Ain't she great? lawlz
Any comments are appreciated along with advice and the such!

Mizu