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.

Watercolour dump

Been playing with my watercolours today, because I just finished inking a page of Fathoms, and needed to play with colours, and didn't want to get distracted by the internet.

So I fired up the fantastic audiobook version of Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot. Which is mindblowing, but that's not what this post is about.


Since I've been sort of absentmindedly brainstorming (while at the same time focusing on other projects - yay for multitasking!), I decided to work out a design for Owlsong's main character as a child. This is it. Some parts of the comic are going to take place in her childhood, so I need to know what she looks like.



Carl Sagan is squarely to blame for this one - well, him, and the fact that I've been thinking about these characters lately. One day, I'm going to actually draw the golem-comic for real. For now, this will have to suffice - a messy, off-colour watercolour study of what is one day going to be an acrylic painting. ... Which will probably not look anything like this.

Dump

Stuff other than Fathoms of the Sky-WIPs:


Sketch for one of the pages of a Bonebird comic that I'm doing for the small Swedish anthology Comic Royale #5.


WIP of a fanart-piece for one of the greatest game series in existence - Professor Layton. Closely competing with Phoenix Wright for my favourite DS-series.

Fathoms

I realised while inking the pages of Fathoms of the Sky (which is going rather well) that my main character spends all twenty-four pages looking either confused, scared or really pissed off - so here's a picture of her looking happy.

Comic WIPS

Here's a work-in-progress image of one of the pages I'm currently working on:

Last panel is obviously unfinished, and there's some details missing in the other panels (as well as some digital editing needed in the first panel; I'm not entirely happy with the cross-hatching).

Brush-pens are fun.