Gladiator Goddess

More messing around with textured brushes.  Just pushing around shapes and textures for fun.  I should be practicing more seriously... well, sometimes I wonder if I'm trying too hard to be serious.

Blonde in Red

Trying to loosen up.  Used some brushes I would normally never use, plopped down rather random shapes, and reigned it in a little with air brush.  Completely blotched those hands.  I'll need a hand model to hold a pistol for me.  The trigger finger kind of blew my late-night mind...

Warrior - Line

To me, drawing seems to be a more serious process since everything is out there in the open, without fancy brush strokes to cover up the mistakes.  Maybe if I do it more it will become less painful?  I sure hope so :P

Warrior - sketches

Going to try to ink this one, and bring back some of the flow I lost when I added armor to the sketch.

I repeatedly muttered to myself "Everything is an artistic choice" as I was doing this.

What's a "paper"

A couple of traditional stuff from this month and last.  Thanks a ton to Oliver for letting me hog the white chalk after stealing a sheet of brown paper in last night's life drawing session.

Midnight Doodle (cont'ed)

Trying to make the doodle into an actual painting of sort.  Hating the composition... I still have no logical work process whatsoever.

Midnight doodle

Doodle before bed.  This doodle is based on a character I made up in high school, when I used to write for fun.  Maybe I should put some real efforts in learning to write in English, as I sure as hell cannot write in Chinese the way I used to anymore.

WoW TCGs thus far

These are the ones that have been printed and pulished to-date.  They are a ton of fun to do and I think they are helping my artistic skills tremendously.

Warrior Doodle

I still remember a time where I felt a lot more comfortable drawing than painting.  Now I can't stand my own drawings and can't wait to cover them up with digital paint... which is not a smart way to work at all.  I need to do more doodles.

Freedom speedies

Now that I'm free from the dominance war stuff, the freelance stuff, and the WoW card, I can celebrate my new-found freedom by cranking out a couple of hourly speedies.

DWV - God of Oblivion - Final

Kind of rushed, last-minute as usual.  But I might even have time to do a model sheet and actually submit a completed entry... hmm.  Decisions...

DWV - God of Oblivion - Color rough

Finally largely free to work on this.  I want to try to learn how to paint a translucent skin tone, and we'll see where I get to tonight.

Edit: Here's the result of tonight's experiment.  I'm not quite getting the effect I want, but it's getting closer.

DWV - God of Oblivion - WIP

Painting in process.  Have not done straight-up painting without color overlays for a while, and it feels strangely refreshing.

DWV - God of Oblivion - Reboot

Reboot.  Trying to unify the design, clarify the idea and choose an easier/more majestic pose to do.

DWV - God of oblivion - WIP2

Wow, I actually feel a bit rusty.  Gotta get back to painting more.

DWV - God of oblivion

I got peer-pressured into joining the actual DWV, after miserably failing to finish my pre DWV challenge entry... I guess that's what makes working with like-minded, motivated artists so great.

Early rough, meeting sketch and lunch paint block-in.

The Valkyrie - WIP

Had some great art discussions with mom in Dallas this past weekend, and actually felt like sketching on the plane ride back.  Here's a sketch inspired by a magazine photo of a girl curling up in an armchair.

I want to finish this painting.  Maybe I should play less minecraft/battlefield/wow this week...

Gonthur Loves You

This is Gonthur the Dwarf, from one of my student projects. He loves putting on the hurt with his axe, collecting roses, and he also loves you.

Highlands

I really like going up a mountain in a freshly generated map in Minecraft and seeing the lands nobody has explored stretching out below me, so here's me trying to capture that sense of wonder and spirit of exploration.

Guardian of the Shrine

Fantasy mech doodle while watching some creepy stuff about people moving into bug- or snake- infected houses unknowingly on Animal Planet.  I need this guy to guard me from the scary TV.