Photo paintover

I've been doing a few 1-hour portraits for a friend's project.  Kinda like how this one turned out.

Did cheat and painted over a photo though :P  For speed's sake.  Altered lighting, colors, and some facial features.  Added uniform from a separate photo ref.

Blue Warrior WIP

lunch doodle.

Yup, I'm a lot more comfortable with photoshop than pencil at the moment... Not sure what happened along the line, it used to be the exact opposite.

portrait study

been a while since I last did a study...

From photo.  Source: http://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/sage-sohier-about-face-021.jpg

Dreamscape WIP

working on a new piece for game artisan's 2D mini contest.

I took the topic "dreamscape" quite literally :)  Once in a while I dream of trains.

Hordak Final

  Calling it done.

Hordak -wip

WIP for game artisan challenge - redesigning a Saturday Morning Cartoon.

He-man and She-Ra look cheesy as hell nowadays, but I have fond memories of watching it growing up.  I wonder if that's where my love of fantasy themes and shiny things came from.

charcoal heads

Once again, I find myself in an incredibly lucky situation.

I've been feeling stuck when it comes to drawing.  I hate my drawings for being safe/stale, yet shy away from pushing it so far into stylization that it would become cartoony.  It's more of a mental block than anything.

Right at this time, they got a kick-butt instructor for our usual wednesday night life drawing session.  The instructor is an old-school commercial artists who stresses the needs to make people look attractive.  Having my head firmly stuck into the realms of realism, I disagreed inwardly but decided to give it a try.

Then it finally clicked.  Knowing what the ideal would look like does not take realism away from me.  It gives me more freedom to push things one way or another from the idealism, and allows me to capture the essence of people.  Pushing shape design is the only way I can break out of my current stalemate against myself.

Glen Orbik, you are such a badass.  Thank you.

Girl with Gun Final

calling it done :)

Girl with Gun wip

gonna catch some dinner and continue... trying to push my stuff in a different direction than usual.

girl with gun sketch

what's a pencil sketch

pencils.. they are like photoshop paintbrush tools, except with more pressure sensitivity levels :|

Building study

  Ref:  http://penandink.homestead.com/files/OldForge.jpg

quick study before bed.  sloppier than usual...

Building study

Ref: http://penandink.homestead.com/files/cathedralarch.JPG

there we go again, learn to draw hard surface stuff attempt #... I have no clue how many!

Word Sketch 5

"fervid".

Word sketches 1-4

 " Discombobulated Cookies"

 Danger

"Hope"

 "Kickassness"


(All words are provided by people on the interwebs.)

Character doodle: Lamia

Meet Lamia, the scout for clan Regus.

Got lazy tonight... didn't finish the doodle.  I blame League of Legends.

Twisted Xmasssss

Don't lie... some of you guys must have gotten worse gifts for Xmas :)

For a drawing jam, roughly 3 hours.

robot studies

Yesterday's and today's.

Robot studies

Robot studies today.  Pretty sleepy so it's all sloppy...

Annnnd doodle.

Lunch study

As I was getting started on this, a non-dev non-artist tour group walked by my desk.  I had fun imagining what must have been going through their mind when they saw the ref photo of half-naked dude on my screen.