Day 23

A handful of items from today.  Trying to get back into figure warmups (60 second and 5 minute poses here).  Also a sketch from a few days ago of some kind of dark skeleton rider guy.  Lastly, my daily study - didn't time cap this one.  Just wanted to get all of those textures and surfaces as realistic as possible.

Day 22

I had lofty goals for today but ended up tangled in a typography job that is ruining my life right now.  So all I have to show is my daily study which is aimed at my Bloodsports entry which is what I wanted to be working on all day today originally.

This was a fairly quick study.  I'm happy that I'm actually completing my studies (albeit with varied degrees of success) within the time limits I've been setting for the

Day 21

Quick-ish hand study.

Day 20

Still pushing on.  Working on skin tone mainly.   Having trouble with photobucket at the moment so I'll host here on the blog for the time being.

Day 19

Another day, another study.  Actually this is the first time I'm seeing that self portrait speed paint since I posted yesterday.  It's taking every ounce of will I have to not delete that thing.

So today we have a grayscale portrait study and some progress on my Bloodsports VI character.  I've never done character or armor design outside of doodling in sketch books without the thought that I was actually designing anything, so this is a new (and awesome) experience!

Day 18

Kind of a weird day for me... I think I'm kind of burnt out a little bit just from staying up waaaay (4 - 5AM) too late routinely and still waking up in the AM and working.  Pity me.

So I did a study that I'm not going to post because I didn't finish it and I won't be finishing it.  It's terrible and really not worth posting.  So here are other sketches and doodles from today.  The character sketches are for Bloodsports 6.  I was working on trying to figure out what directions and influences to take with my character's armor.  Also did a speed self-portrait while staring at myself in a mirror.  I want to get into doing this routinely so I'm drawing portraits from life and not just doing digital photo studies.  The disconnect from drawing while looking at myself in a mirror, through my eyes, mind, and out my arm and hand and onto a tablet, then onto the computer screen, was weeeeird.  The results? Not so good.  I hope I don't look like this.  In fact I know I don't because this face doesn't look human!

Day 17

Everything was going well... then I got to the wrinkles in the thumb.  Time capped study.  Make it and move on.

And some digital doodles.

Day 16

Daily study for Day 16.  Those antlers were way harder than I thought they'd be.