The festival - WIP 1

Gonna see how much I can get done over the weekend.  It's been a while since I tried to do an environment painting.  All the fear about bad perspective need to go away.

Gothic exercise - day 4

Architectural + perspective practice.  Still painful to do this :\  Need to do more.

Pattern exercise - day 3

A speed painting of a Gothic architecture, study from photo.  It's fascinating how Gothic architectures put all the intricate elements together.

Pattern exercise - day 2

Columns for today.

Pattern exercise - day 1

Going to try to get back into the habit of doing one-hour daily studies.  Goal is a month's worth of pattern/architectural studies.  Kicking off with some patterns.

Lord Remix Final

Spent too much of today enjoying the last Sunday of Starcraft II beta... and having Hulu on as the "background noise" proved to be pretty distracting :P

I'm pretty happy with how this turned out though - it could use more refinement, but in general I think I was able to say what I wanted to say without losing too much energy from the raw sketch.  Maybe it's just late and I'm more happy with my art than usual, heheh.

Lord Remix WIP

Going to try to finish it tonight.Having a lot of fun with this one.

Lord Remix Sketch 2

What's a better time to work on a contest than 2 days away from the deadline? :P

Character designed by Shwann, original character design art is here.  It's liberating to do other people's characters - gets me out of my little circle of comfort.

rhino lion

1-hr lunch doodle for daily sketch group on conceptart.org, the subject being "Creature • IMPRESSIVE ALIEN BEAST BLENDS QUALITIES OF BOTH RHINO & LION".

kekai brushes

Thanks to Jeff, I am now a proud owner of Kekai brushes :)  I've always been a huge fan of Kekai, and hopefully with his photoshop brushes I can steal a little bit of the liveliness that's present in all of his paintings.

Quick lunch study of... another face, heheh.  I changed her expression up subtly from the original photo.

Ravenous Peacekeeper and Samurai Chef...

...walked into a bar...  ok, this is terrible.

The past 2 sketch groups had pretty crazy topics, seen at the title of this blog entry.

p.s. the Samurai Chef has a bonus topic, which is the kangaroo.

Moar face

This is more of a mark-making practice.  I'm getting pretty tired of the precise manner default round brushes work, so I'm trying something else.  Wanted to keep the brush strokes large but I'm having a hard time stopping myself from going into smaller brushes... was fun though.

Used photoshop default chalk brush with opacity - pen pressure.

Face Study 2

Had more trouble with this one, probably due to the shot being straight-on.  The skintone is also trickier.

Face study take off

At one point I could draw nothing other than faces, and I vowed to steer my focus away from them.  However, I think now it's time for me to get back onto the obvious focal point of the image again, and maybe actually try to learn some stereotype faces.

I think my sense of beauty differs from many guys I know, which is kind of unfortunate - but hopefully the faces I like best are still seen as somewhat pretty in the minds of general public.

Lunch study.  More to come, seriously.

Lord Remix Sketch

Starting a new contest piece of Shwann's character (http://shwann.deviantart.com/art/Lord-Remix-160001154).  I guess I'm a sucker for big robotic arms.

Planning to use this piece to learn to paint skin tones, but I'm already veering off in the simplified cartoony direction, so who knows...

Sergeant Dan and the Bat-Men of Thorium: final

Yet another piece rushed... no more starcraft.  This evil game has eaten my high school lunch time + lunch money, and is now killing my weekly challenges.

On a quite unrelated note, if you are in SCII beta, add my msn email address :P

Sergeant Dan and The Bat-Men of Thorium - genre change

Thanks to Peet (The artist who actually reads,) I've just realized that there is no particular genre requirement for this forum activity.  So no more scifi for Mr. Sergeant.

Sergeant Dan and The Bat-Men of Thorium - color & light block in

Pretty rough color/light studies.  Don't like how the face is coming along, so I did some facial studies afterward.  Men's faces are hard... actually men are harder to draw for me in general.  Need to look up some anatomy reference for his pose later as well.

Sergeant Dan and The Bat-Men of Thorium

For character of the week challenge on conceptart.org.  Quick lunch sketch, drawing inspiration from the image of the epic struggle between men and the turtle-kind.

Pirate Dirigible - Final

This is as far as I can take this piece before hitting the sack tonight + hopping on 7am flight tomorrow.  Not finished, but learned things, and had fun :)  I guess that's what matters most at this point.