3/6/15 - Twin Staff Progress

I started something of an underpainting for the Twin Staff pic, so here it is:

Not much else to say at the moment. I'm trying a different technique, so the process is gonna look different than most of the 'sketch' pieces I posted.

Till tomorrow!

3/5/15 - Twin Staff Portrait

So going off of the sketches I did yesterday, I put a face to my middle figure, the lady with twin staffs. Based off of my Warlock in Destiny - I took inspiration for the hair and tattoo thing. I did this to get a sense of the character - I'm going to try and do a more fleshed out painting again, using this figure as a guide and the portrait as reference. I'll update if it goes anywhere!

Until tomorrow!

3/4/15 - Character Sketches

I did these as part of a class assignment to establish a rough character to work with. I tried to give them all pretty distinct silhouettes.

I'll be going back over these sometime to fix them up, get back to the fundamentals and hopefully polish the designs as a self-practice activity.

Till tomorrow!

3/3/15 - Messing with Illustrator

God I need to fix my sleep schedule. Well, here's a little self portrait from when I was playing with Illustrator. I think it came out alright, given the graphic style:

Not much else to report. I've been stuck in a bit of a rut these past weeks. Hoping I find the drive I need to break it this week. In any case, I'll be back tomorrow!

3/2/15 - Portrait as Lobster Thing

Just showing line is probably going to get boring, so I'll pepper it with a lot of other work. Here's a portrait I did a couple weeks back of me as a lobster. Don't ask why. School.

I actually think it came out okay for a 30-40 minute sketch. This was used as a sort of preliminary drawing for the finished piece, done in acrylic.

I plan on doing more studies from life or at least with a focus on good reference imagery soon as I feel like use of reference (or lack thereof) is also a big shortcoming of mine. With that, See you tomorrow!

3/1/15 - Drone and Linework

So I'm thinking I should break down my practice into smaller parts, and practice smaller pieces of the process of painting in more detail, putting them together once I feel more comfortable with all of the parts that go into it. So for this month, or however long it takes, I'm going to put a lot of time towards mastering line and its application by itself. So there's gonna be a lot of linework over the course of this month. I might put basic value on it but I have a couple of professional examples of the quality I want to achieve, and I'm going to dedicate a decent amount of time towards getting close to that level. So, this sketch is to be something of a before picture:

Basically it's just a design for a drone that I doodled up. It's unfinished obviously, and I'll come back to it at the end and either clean this up or redesign.

So that's it for today. See you tomorrow!

2/28/15 - Nomad

I forgot I had this:

I needed to design a character for a project and came up with this. I came up with the cloak and the way it wrapped around by drawing several two-color silhouettes and picking out the interesting ones. That said, I think I can do much better than this, so I'll probably be reusing this design, or parts of it, in the future.

Well, that's all for today. Till tomorrow!