Sketchbook Splurge

I need to come up with better titles...this is what happens when I forget to upload for a week or so.

I decided to try and figure out horse anatomy recently, so apologies for the excess amount of studies in these pages...those back legs are tricky to me to get right.

Also started to do a few portraits in photoshop during lunch, just to cut my teeth on some things I've picked up recently.

Acrylic studies and Dungeon Delve progress

Some photoshop doodling, progress on my reworking of my old Dungeon Delve piece, and some acrylic studies.

I didn't really like my old Dungeon Delve piece I did for the ArtOrder challenge.  It, frankly, was awful: weak composition, weak rendering, weak acting...there just wasn't anything that was particularly strong about it.  So I've decided that the only way to be happy with it is to go back and fix it, make it better.  I'm really looking forward how it progresses, since so far it's been smooth.
I've recently been dabbling in Golden Open Acrylics out of a desire to learn some traditional painting.  I hate normal acrylics, mostly because everything on the palette dries too quickly to be of any use, and I'm usually not wary enough to remember to keep misting the area with water.

The only major two drawbacks I've been having is not making enough paint to spread well enough (something that may be more my fault than the paint itself,) and the paint applies thinly enough to paper that there really isn't a lot of working time available once the paint is laid down.

Sketches of February

I lost a lot of time pursuing some failed ends on the ArtOrder Lyssa challenge, so unfortunately my free sketching hasn't been as active as I would have liked it.  Still though, here are some of the betters ones from February.

More AO Lyssa exploration

Continuing my sketches for the ArtOrder challenge...one of the members suggested exploring a multi-arm theme, and I'm glad I took the advice -- it's taking it in a new direction.

Doodles and other shit

I've finished my Levi Challenge over at ArtOrder!  I really enjoyed this one, gave me a chance to really push some color knowledge I've picked up.

I've also started on the next ArtOrder challenge, which you can make out in some of the doodles above...

Sketches and sketches

More graphite scrawlings and painter mud...currently working on the ArtOrder Levi Challenge, you can see the other submissions here: https://artorder.wipnation.com/index.jsp

New year post!

Hey hey, first post of the new year!  Not much to show at the moment, some sketchbook pages and an illustration I'm working on for a challenge over at ArtOrder.

More Life Drawing...

2nd batch of cherry-picked sketches...

Life drawing scribbles

A break from the usual norm, some life drawing stuff from the past couple of months.

John Carter of Mars

*click the picture for a BIG version.*
And it's done. I'm fairly happy with how it came out, with the exception of John Carter - no matter what I tried, I couldn't find a pose that seemed like a clear cut solution. I think next time I come across a problem like that I'll find the solution, it's just this time it eluded me.

Done mostly in Painter, with some Photoshop tweaks.

Where my time has been going lately...

This, pretty much. I'll be posting the final a little after Thanksgiving, and hopefully some life drawing stuff before that.

Lost in the Woods...

Here's an illustration I just finished earlier this week. Ancient hunters always had to contend with traipsing into some lesser deity's forest, accidentally killing their sacred animals...

Done in photoshop and Painter. If you want to see the Step by Step of it, then head on over to Deviantart, where I've posted it up. Here, I'll even provide a handy dandy link for you!

"Lost In The Woods Step By Step" - Deviantart