5/7/15 - More character designs

Hey! So this is a character design for a friend project gift thing:

I'm going to be doing a lot of these over the next few weeks, so expect a lot of that. Obviously it's not done, but I finished the line and I'll most likely be valuing it up tomorrow or the day after. I've got many more of these in progress and in queue, so again, there's a lot of figures and costumes in the future. I'll try to space them out with two other illustrations, Colossus and Radiance, that I've also got on the production line. So stay tuned!

I'll be back again tomorrow!

5/6/15 - Halo Story

So today was more reflection than work. I started a few small projects, did a few small studies and got an awesome lesson, but I don't have anything particularly interesting or new to show today. Well, not as far as my usually illustration goes.

I did make this though:

As you may be able to tell, it's a CaveStory and Halo crossover! I decided for no good reason to recreate it all from scratch, so the text, hud and sprites are all "hand painted". It was a small little thing for a daily post that turned into a much bigger project than I had planned, but two and a half hours later I had this. It was fun! I don't usually do pixel art, so it was interesting.

That's all for today, I'll be back tomorrow!

5/5/15 - Radiance Start

So I started up my next big-ish Illustration after Olivia:

I started using a lot more reference for poses, which I think has been extraordinarily helpful. It also gives me a head start on the lighting. There's a lot of linework this time around because I learned my lesson last time - any problems I don't solve early will come back to haunt me later, and for longer and harder when I get to the later stages of the painting. So I'm trying to solve all of the perspective and surface problems now.

As for the subject itself, well, it's Destiny! That new chestpiece, Purifier Robes, looks amazing, so I had to try my hand at it. And if you play Destiny a bit, you might realize I'm cheating here: I have two exotics equipped: the Purifier Robes and Light Beyond Nemesis. This wouldn't be possible in game, but I thought the feathers on LBN (the helm) matched the robes well and I couldn't think of a better helmet to match. And if you're really curious, the gloves are Tengu Operant I, which is from a really cool early blue armor set. So yeah, in game, this wouldn't make any sense but I thought it looked cool, so it stays. There's gonna be a lot of fire too, because this would be a moment after the Warlock here has cast Radiance, so there's bound to be flames everywhere, such as the that composing wings that I've lightly sketched out or fire coming from the hand in the foreground, which I have not yet drawn in.

So yeah, that's all for today. Be back tomorrow!

5/4/15 - Olivia Finished!

It's done!

Not much else to say. I'd like to sharpen up the image a bit more, but I've grown a bit tired of this piece and feel like I could be more productive practicing a sharper brush on a new piece, so that's what I'll do. Also, I think I'd like to lean a little closer to realism - right now it looks like I'm on the fence. I haven't yet fully figured out how to do stylized figures really well. Maybe next time!

So yeah, that's it for today; I'll be back again tomorrow!

5/3/15 - Olivia, Part Three

So I'm very, very close to finishing this piece but again, I can't take an up to date screenshot. I do have one that's much further along than the last one though:

So tomorrow, I should be able to post the completed one! Till then!

5/2/15 - Some small studies

I've had to devote a lot of my time to final projects recently, so that's why the big updates on major paintings have practically come to a halt. After Wednesday next week I'll be done, so then the painting will be back in full swing!

Till then, I'll post what I can. Like this study of dice and the Inception totem:

I guess I messed up the date on the totem. Oops.

Anyway, be back again tomorrow!

5/1/15 - Olivia Progress

Hey! I figure it's been a few days since I did a daily on Olivia, so I'll post a quick update on that. I'm actually a couple hours further into this piece than the picture shows, but I don't have that file available at the moment. I fixed up colors and began polishing it. But here's what I've got to show:

Yeah. So that's all for today; I'll be back again tomorrow!