New character, no name yet;
In other news, Painter's Digital Watercolour tool is neat, and I will be using it more.
Trying to work out the overall look of the Moonface tribe.
The map of a wild imagination - in sketches, WIPs and rambles
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
Sketchdump/Fathoms-worldbuilding
Hey, long time no see! I've been busy working on Fathoms and running around in panicked circles as Christmas bore down on me. But I'm better now.
New character, no name yet;
In other news, Painter's Digital Watercolour tool is neat, and I will be using it more.
Trying to work out the overall look of the Moonface tribe.
New character, no name yet;
In other news, Painter's Digital Watercolour tool is neat, and I will be using it more.
Trying to work out the overall look of the Moonface tribe.
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Ink warm-ups/sketchdump/worldbuilding
Pretty disparate post today - sketches and ink-practise and a bit of Fathom-worldbuilding (because worldbuilding is the most fun you can have with your pants on, honestly).
Costume-ideas (i.e: visual identity) for the Whalerider-people. The one on the far left is Khazri, the one next to him is a tentative design for a standard soldier's uniform; the next is a random woman's outfit, and the one on the far right is probably a cloth-merchant. As a nomadic people, the Whaleriders tend towards becoming itinerant traders.
They also make a big deal out of concealing their faces (both genders); they think of faces as an important expression of identity - the shape of their soul, if you will - and it is therefore considered intensely private.
Ink-warmups;
A variation on the theme of my most recent digital painting; this one focused more on feelings of protectiveness.
Gesture-practise! (Photo-referenced)
Costume-ideas (i.e: visual identity) for the Whalerider-people. The one on the far left is Khazri, the one next to him is a tentative design for a standard soldier's uniform; the next is a random woman's outfit, and the one on the far right is probably a cloth-merchant. As a nomadic people, the Whaleriders tend towards becoming itinerant traders.
They also make a big deal out of concealing their faces (both genders); they think of faces as an important expression of identity - the shape of their soul, if you will - and it is therefore considered intensely private.
Ink-warmups;
A variation on the theme of my most recent digital painting; this one focused more on feelings of protectiveness.
Gesture-practise! (Photo-referenced)
Saturday, 3 December 2011
Ink warm-ups, take 2.
More ink-warmups. They're a good habit, since they keep me drawing almost every day (and to be honest, the days when I'm not working on Fathoms, I'm drawing other things).
... Perhaps I ought to clean some of these up and colour them. For practise, or something.
... Perhaps I ought to clean some of these up and colour them. For practise, or something.
Monday, 28 November 2011
Intermission
Hi! For once, this is an entry without any pictures in it - though one of those will be along within the next few days.
This is just to say I've started a second blog - which has nothing to do with art. It's got to do with baking. Because everyone has to have a hobby, right?.
In other, slightly more relevant news; 16/24 pages of Fathoms are inked (minus spotting the blacks). Serious progress is being made!
This is just to say I've started a second blog - which has nothing to do with art. It's got to do with baking. Because everyone has to have a hobby, right?.
In other, slightly more relevant news; 16/24 pages of Fathoms are inked (minus spotting the blacks). Serious progress is being made!
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Ink warm-ups
I'm currently working on Fathoms pt. 2 - the sketches are all finished, so I'm inking them now - but since I haven't inked anything seriously for months, I've decided to do these ink warm-ups before I start every day, just to get into the flow of things.
Some of them have turned out pretty nice, others unremarkable. But still - it's good practise.
Some of them have turned out pretty nice, others unremarkable. But still - it's good practise.
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Mini-sketchdump
For reasons of NaNoWriMo, there hasn't been a whole lot of art done these last few weeks. But I'm nearly finished (35352 words!), so hopefully I'll be back with a vengeance.
In the meantime, sketches:
Nila and Blackbird (who can't seem to decide which way that white part of her hair is going - it changes from picture to picture).
Blackbird again, this time to test out Paint Tool Sai's lineart tools. They're pretty neat.
Habashiri Kenji, bit-part character in the mobster-universe.
In the meantime, sketches:
Nila and Blackbird (who can't seem to decide which way that white part of her hair is going - it changes from picture to picture).
Blackbird again, this time to test out Paint Tool Sai's lineart tools. They're pretty neat.
Habashiri Kenji, bit-part character in the mobster-universe.
Monday, 31 October 2011
Watercolour
I was watching the BBC's Human Planet, because it's such a fascinating and inspiring show, and saw these people in India who make bridges out of the roots of living trees.
This is in no way a fair representation of what those beautiful things look like (I'm not happy at all with it, actually), but it was a watercolour sketch I thought was worth posting.
This is in no way a fair representation of what those beautiful things look like (I'm not happy at all with it, actually), but it was a watercolour sketch I thought was worth posting.
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