updateyness

I need to think of better blog post titles. Just a couple more sketches, one traditional of my novel characters, Jay and Nick, the other another one of these colour-intensive ladies, with a few steps. She seems to have unintentionally morphed into and Angelina lookalikey on the way, which is weird given this is off the top of the head stuff!

There's something quite relaxing about these kind of non-commital paintings. Also bought James Guerney's Colour and Light book, and am putting some of the wealth of new-found knowledge to use in this latest piece, by using a gamut mask on this colour wheel. An amazing little trick to keep my palette under a stricter control, and I'm really like the results. Might have to try painting a wheel like this in watercolour for reference too. I cannot recommend the book enough though, a real eye opener and probably the msot thorough look at light and colour alongside Jason Manley's lecture I've come across. The two as companions will stand anyone in a good mental state of knowledge that they will then have to practice like mad to perfect. Great stuff. here's a link to the book.

lunchtime doodle

Nothing terribly exciting, just relaxing on a lunch break. So tired of doing environment stuff. Want to do characters :( Somewhat inspired by Bao Pham's gorgeous work: Bao Pham's sketchblog

And some more wips

And here's the rest of my hotch potch work. Some doodles, some wips that I managed to salvage from work lunchtimes.












A wip and thumbnails for the CGHub miyazaki challenge. Not sure if I'll finish in time tho :(



My first attempt at 3D modelling - in Sculptris. Given me the bug to want to try it in Zbrush now too :D

Finally Finished!

First off. This piece is 3 years in the making and is finally finished. Good grief. I love my lovely commissionee for being so utterly patient and understanding that artwork is a bitch sometimes, and that when an artist wants something to work, it takes time. This piece gets its own post :D

Characters of all kinds!

Here's an update with the wow character, fleshed him out a little more and decided on a change of armor from tank to dps.


And a couple of character design sketches for my own long standing character, Kana. Trying to give him more of a real-world feel, and make him feel more like the tribal-style royalty he is while giving myself a decent portfolio piece in the process, as this is the kind of work I'd love to be doing. The first sketch there is unfinished as far as linework goes, and shows the rougher stage i tend to do before I neaten up the lines for colour.





Also adding a wip shot of a sketch I finished a while back of one of my main novel character's Jay with some start of a splash of colour, after the vein of work I did for Bizarre's Bond title, Bloodstone.



And finally some of the life drawing sketches I did a while back through work. Really enjoy this kind of thing when I get chance to do it. Sketching in watercolour is damned hard when you've only 20 mins max to do it










The last there is one of my favourites of all the life drawing I've done. The tutor even took a photo to use it as class material!

Pin ups galore

Here's the final Drow Pin up, and the beginnings of a gift for my significant other. We're both big WoW players, and this guy's his main, Mikhail, Blood Elf paladin. Thinking of doing a matching piece of my belf hunter, Arython. All good fun though, really enjoying my digital stuff again. (psst, Samwise, yes I would like a job full time).

Drow Pin up

Spent all of today inspired by the latest CHoW activity - High Fantasy Pin up. Such an awesome topic, I was sad that I missed when it ran on Art Order, so jumped at the chance to have a go again now I have a bit of spare time (read: lull before Cataclysm). So here's a few wip shots of what I've been up to today - spent a total of around 12 hours on it so far. Kinda wish i'd not followed the ref for the pose *quite* so closely, as I think I could have got more looseness into her shape if I'd not stuck as close to it, but I'll let it go in favour of finishing it. Feels good to be kept up by the personal art urge!