Now to Weaver a New Tale

Oh goodness, will the bad puns never end? You got that right. Clearly you are not looking at the right blog then. And I also realize, as time goes on and the more people I will put up.....well......I hope I don't get in trouble for having this blog!
Anyways, this week's artist is the lovely Miss E.K. Weaver. With a very lovely piece of hers, Brave As We Were.

http://bigbigtruck.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=96#/d1oqq9s
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Miss E.K. Weaver is an illustrator and....hmm, to quote her website "E.K. Weaver was born during disco and grew up in a town full of rockets. She briefly slipped into and out of the Bible Belt and now lives in Austin, Texas with her husband Brett, two dopey dogs, a cat who likes everyone, and a cat who hates everyone. She has been drawing since childhood, and really should be better at it than she is now." (E.K.Weaver)
She is currently working on a long term (and long awaited on my part) comic known as The Less than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal. Brave As We Were is a piece associated with it, featuring the two main characters TJ and Amal. 
This piece is 1200x545, and was made in Photoshop (version unknown). Miss Weaver has a very nice control of colour and shading, and has excellent background skills. Her pieces have nice composition, with an off center focal point in this one. The value of colour is gradual and fades from light to dark, the closer to the bottom it is, helping give perspective to the sky. 
I really like this piece because it is a more.....realistic digital painting. And has many things..."in focus" I suppose I could say. A lot of times, what ends up happening to artists that have characters and stories, many of them have the character and a colour background, or the character is smack in the middle and takes up most of the piece. Miss Weaver varies her art up with off center pieces like this. And well, I'm a sucker for a great background, and a bigger sucker for nicely done clouds.