Practise-dump

Someone (rightly) pointed out that I need to work on how I draw faces. So I cracked open my big folder of photo-references of people's faces and got to work.



Music: Midnight Special - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Project-dump

Stuff. It's happening, I promise.


WIP Acrylic painting, along with the sketch for it.


Random marker sketches.


Shaun Tan is awesome (don't believe me? - Check him out!), and he's ridiculously inspiring, so I sat down the other day and let my pencil run away with me. This is what came out. A girl, who is a crow - and a king, and the beginnings of a very weird picture-book. All I've got thus far is this sketch, and this layout-idea-thing;


... I'm also working on that mahjong-tile-set-project I showed in my last post, but things are going kind of slowly. It's tricky to saw tiny bits of wood straight, so I've got a pile of unusable crooked bits and a lot of experimenting with colour and lacquer going on.

Happy Easter, everyone!

April 12th - new project in progress

First, fanart of the excellent Mike Mignola's Abe Sapien - not quite the right colours, because I didn't have them.

Markers and some white acrylics.

Aaaaaand (drum-roll please) - my new, somewhat crackpot summer project!

(apologies for blurry photo - my camera is shit at closeups)
I'm making a 144-piece set of mahjong tiles - from scratch! - because I can. This is a picture of the test-tile; I needed to test whether painting it in acrylics would work, whether the scale was good enough, and after I took this picture, I tested the lacquer which I'll be coating them all with. And I have to say that thus far, things are going well, except for a few very minor setbacks.

Fun with colours

Playing around with colours in Painter, putting a bit more into the skin tones than usual. I'm still a bit too cowardly, though - I'll have to push myself more next time.

Robots and speedpaints

As part of my "practise stuff I'm kind of weak at"-routine, I decided to draw some space-opera-ish (like science fiction, but with less science and more space-adventure) character designs the other day. It was fun, even though out of the ones I drew, only one really appealed to me - this one robot design.

But then I couldn't make up my mind which colour-scheme I should use (I like both, but one looks more clichéd-scifi-colours, and the other one looks like steampunk-in-SPACE!-woot .... Which now that I think about it sounds drop-dead awesome) - so I made two examples. I might do others in the future.



... All robots should wear stylish scarves. :P


And to finish up; speedpaint-environment dump - each one took between 10-30 minutes. The bedroom-one has a replica of one of my own posters - drawn by the excellent and very nice Kim W Andersson.

Speedpaint dump

Exercise is good for you, or so I hear - and I've been frightfully lazy about bettering my weak areas in art. One of those areas is environments/backgrounds/all those fiddly bits that aren't characters.

So in a sudden surge of self-improvement (and because I figure knowing these things might be good if I ever want to work as a concept artist somewhere), I've started a new regimen - one speedpaint a day, with focus on environments. It doesn't have to be neat, it doesn't have to be finished - it just has to be done. I've spent between 30 and 45 minutes on each of these, so it's not a lot of time.

So here's the first four:

Barton

... Because Barton is the most wonderfully adorable character in a cast full of equally charming characters in Professor Layton.