6/29/15 - Breaking the Slump

I've been in a bit of a slump recently (and feeling rather sick), so I doodled a couple of smaller things to try to get back to a good state of mind to draw. I can't really say it was all that successful but I got a couple of little sketches out of it.

Here's one:

Until tomorrow!

6/28/15 - Basic Colors In

Sorry, I missed yesterday again! I sounds like a broken record but my summer is far more hectic than my school season so I apologize if I miss days without warning now and again. Usually its social or family obligations or spur of the moment things.

Anyway, I got around to starting color on the Peg Knight piece, so I'll show that off:

I don't know if I want to keep this color scheme for the background or not...hm...

I'll probably be trying a couple alternatives tomorrow. I do need to figure out the ambient color first as the rest of the palette depends on the ambient light, so that's next I suppose.

Well, I'll be back tomorrow!

6/26/15 - Post Mentorship Update

So I got some sound advice from my mentor (his dA can be found here: http://knockwurst.deviantart.com/) about the piece I was working on in addition to a bit of paintover. I took his advice and paintover, spent about an hour and a half on it and arrived here:

I'm looking forward to how this piece will turn out. Both the advice and paintover were very helpful and I will hopefully take this to completion within the next week or two. I should be done with value in a day or so, and then I can move on to color!

Till tomorrow,

6/23/15 - Family Break

I've got family visiting from we'll out of state and it is my brother's birthday tomorrow, so I've been kept away from as much art. I will return to normal update scedhule (which is to say an art update with pictures every day) on Friday. Sorry!

6/22/15 - Some Actual Progress

I made progress!

Almost done with the line/value stuff! I just gotta finish the hand/lance, work on the pegasus a bit then give it a quick polish coat and I'll move on to bigger and more colorful steps!

The rest of this should come relatively quickly as I don't foresee as many changes and iterations once I've gotten out of this value step.

So I'll be back tomorrow, hopefully with even more progress!

6/21/15 - Fathers Day Mini-Update

As it was Father's Day, I spent the day working and hanging out with my dad, so I didn't really do any arting, nor do I have any reserves to show at the moment. Since the last picture I put up of the Peg Knight, I changed the face AGAIN and then actually moved on to the rest of the drawing, so that's a good sign. I should have significant progress by tomorrow!

So I hope Father's Day was good, and I'll be back tomorrow!

6/20/15 - More Flier Progress

This is a slow slog. My time off really did a number on my arting, even if it was a few days. Either that, or I'm just not happy with my current ability and as such I keep attempting to redo it better.

Whatever the case, I'm somewhat locked in on this right now:

I think I need to reorient the features a bit, but this works, and is a bit more anatomically sound. I just need to get a head that I like, and the rest should come pretty quickly.

Well, that's it for now. I'll be back tomorrow!